How to download music on SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a music streaming platform with a lot of contents, for independent artists and not. It’s a really original project in the industry. For example, it allows emerging artists to improve their popularity. The contents you find within SoundCloud are varied and we talk about music, podcasts, albums and radio stations.

Our intent today is to let you discover how to download music on SoundCloud. Before getting to the heart of this guide you need to make a premise. From SoundCloud you can download music for free and this is legal. This music service allows users who upload their music to activate the option to allow downloading. So if a song is available for download (free), then you can download it on your computer. The only important thing is to have a SoundCloud account.

As for the service app for Android mobile devices and iPhone or iPad you cannot download music, even if the song you want to download is available for download. The only solution is to subscribe to SoundCloud Go for $4.99 per month with 7 free trial days. This way you can download individual songs for offline listening within the app.

Well, now you are ready to discover all the steps that allow you to download music on SoundCloud.

How to download music on SoundCloud from PC:

The first thing you need to do is to log into the SoundCloud main page and access your account. If you don’t have an account yet, tap on the Create an account option, enter your email address in the field and create a secure password that you’ll need to use to access SoundCloud. Alternatively, you can register using your Facebook profile, a Google account or your Apple ID.

Then log in to SoundCloud, type in the search field (in the top menu) the title of the song you want to download and click on the magnifying glass icon (or press the Enter key).

Once you have found the song in the results, click on More and then on Download file from the menu, to start the download which is free. If you do not see this entry, it means that the author of the song has not made the song downloadable and so the download can not be made.

How to download music on SoundCloud from Android:

As I mentioned in the initial part of this guide, you can download music on SoundCloud with Android provided you have activated the subscription to SoundCloud Go, that allows you to listen to music without ads and to download songs and then listen to them even in offline mode. If you haven’t activated your subscription yet, you can easily do so from the SoundCloud app with payment via Google Play.

To download the songs for listening in offline mode, press on the magnifying glass icon in the bottom menu and look for the song of your interest. Then press the three-dot icon and tap Like from the menu. After that, in the item Library (the icon with the three dashes placed in the menu at the bottom, select the option Favorite tracks, tap on the arrow pointing down and click on Download, to download all the songs.

To view all the downloaded songs, go to the Library section of your account, click on the Download item and tap on the downloaded content you want to play, to listen to it even without an Internet connection.

How to download music to SoundCloud from iPhone:

Once you have activated the subscription to SoundCloud Go, as I told you before, you can download songs to listen offline with iPhone.

Then launch the SoundCloud app and search for a song of your choice by typing the title in the search field. Then you have to press on the three dots icon of the song you want to download and tap on Like from the menu that has opened. Alternatively, you can press the title of the song you have chosen to play it and then tap the heart icon. In both cases, the download of the song will start automatically.

To view all the content that you have downloaded and that you can also listen to offline, click on the three dashes icon located in the bottom menu and in the Library select the Download option.