SoundCloud 101

Before You Start

So, you’re all set and ready with the audio you want to share, but before uploading your track, don’t forget to let people know more about yourself. Here are 4 essential profile elements to enable other SoundClouders to easily find you and learn all they need to know about you and your audio.

Username

If other users are searching for you on SoundCloud, make locating your profile as easy as possible for them by making your Username clear, correct and concise. You can edit this in your settings.

When it comes to your Username be sure to display it as you would anywhere else, include spaces and capital letters and ensure. It looks better in your audio embeds, helps you to stand out when using your audio in third party apps and enables other users find you in Search and Explore.

E.g. 'Snoop Dogg' not 'Snoop_Dogg' or 'Sn00p-Dog'

Profile Artwork

How else can you spot the SoundCloud user you're looking for? One visual key is their Profile artwork. By heading to your settings you can upload the image you want to showcase on your SoundCloud profile.

Tip: SoundCloud works best with 200 x 200 square images.

Social Links

There is so much value exchange connected with social networking, hence our focus on the social links you can add to your profile - why not pad out your SoundCloud profile with links to your website, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.

Simply click on ‘Settings’ then click on the ‘Advanced Profile’ tab on the right hand side and connect the relevant accounts.

Spotlight

One of the top requests we receive is to find a better way to control which of your sounds or sets should be displayed when people visit your SoundCloud profile. That’s why we've introduced Spotlight.

Spotlight comes with all Premium accounts and lets you pin up to five tracks or sets to the top of your SoundCloud profile. Click here to learn how to set it up.