Using a SoundCloud Secret Link, you can send links to sounds that won’t show up in search results or on your profile, and unlike with normal private sharing, they don’t require a log-in to access.

Before you start

The Secret Link is available on all levels of account, so all you have to do is upload a private sound that you want to start sharing secretly! Only people with the secret link will be able to listen to or download the sounds, which makes them ideal for pre-release promos. You can even send secret links directly to sound downloads, instead of the SoundCloud sound page.

Additional secret options, like hiding sound stats and comments, require a Premium account. You can find more information about upgrading here.

Overview

You can enable the Secret Link during a new upload, or if you’ve already uploaded a sound, from the sound’s edit page. In either case, you just need to make sure the sound is private.

Once you’ve got a private sound saved, you can find the Secret Link by hitting the Share button on that player.

Copy the link, and now you can send it in promotional e-mails or even hide it somewhere secret on a concert poster. The link will never expire unless you change it, and can be used by anybody to access the sound.

You may also want to change the privacy options on the sound to make comments private or hide sound stats, in case you don’t want people to know how secret the secret link is.

If you ever want to disable that Secret Link, you can change it by clicking the icon right next to the secret link in the Share box. Keep in mind that people who have the old link will no longer be able to access the sound.

If you want to make the link point to a sound download instead of a sound page, just put /download/ between the sound title and the secret code in the URL. For example, if your sound’s Secret Link is: http://soundcloud.com/soundclouduser/secret-track/s-2wlsn changing it to http://soundcloud.com/soundclouduser/secret-track/download/s-2wlsn will make a download link.

More Info

• For more information on sharing in general, please check out our basic sharing 101 that can be found in The Basics section of our 101's.