SoundCloud Music Downloader for Songs, Playlists and Likes
Save SoundCloud tracks to your computer - one song, a whole playlist or album, a profile's tracks or its likes - in one run. No SoundCloud account is needed. Each track arrives as an audio file in the best quality SoundCloud streams, with its title, artist and album written inside.
SoundCloud Downloader App vs the Download Button and Online Tools
The Download button, Go+, an online tool
- SoundCloud's own Download button takes one track at a time, and never a whole playlist
- Go and Go+ keep tracks for offline listening inside the SoundCloud app
- An online converter or an extension works on the one link or tab in front of it
- New tracks on a profile or in its likes mean starting over
NeoDownloader
- A whole playlist, album or profile from one address, each track a file of its own
- Ordinary audio files in a folder on your computer
- Many addresses pasted together, one project for all
- A later run fetches the new tracks and leaves the rest
How to Download Songs from SoundCloud
SoundCloud's own Download button appears only on tracks whose uploader allowed it, for signed-in listeners, and never for a whole playlist; with Go or Go+, its app keeps tracks for offline listening inside itself. For a song, a playlist, an album or a profile's tracks, three steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
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Copy the SoundCloud Address
Open the track, the playlist or the profile on soundcloud.com and copy its address from the browser's address bar, or the link its Share button gives. For a profile's own tracks only, open its Tracks tab; for its likes, the full list of them - and copy the address it shows. More of them? Copy each address in turn.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/artemis-sample-library
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
Your copied address is waiting in the field when New project opens; any others go on the lines below. Next sends every SoundCloud address to Video Downloader. Then comes a quality question that does not matter for music: whatever you pick, you get the best sound SoundCloud has.
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Name and folder
Artemis Sample Library
Create projectSave the Tracks
Check where the files should go and click Create project. SoundCloud asks for no sign-in: each track arrives as an audio file with its title, artist and album written inside, and a playlist or a profile's tab makes a project named after it.
SoundCloud to MP3? The Format and Quality You Get
SoundCloud keeps each track in several versions for its player. NeoDownloader saves the best of them as it is, without converting anything - as a rule AAC sound in an .m4a file, which music players and phones play as they play an MP3.
The free version and Premium get the same file: the free version's limit on quality is about the size of a video's picture, and a song is not a video. The file the uploader put on SoundCloud - a WAV, for instance - comes from SoundCloud's own Download button, for signed-in listeners, where the uploader allowed downloads.
No tool gets more out of a track than SoundCloud streams: a 320 kbps MP3 made from it is bigger, not better.
SoundCloud Playlist Downloader: Playlists, Albums and Likes
SoundCloud never lets a playlist be downloaded as a whole, even where its tracks can be. Paste a playlist's or an album's address, and NeoDownloader takes every track on it into a project named after it. So do the tabs of a profile - Tracks, Albums, Playlists, Reposts - and the full list of its likes.
A profile's own address brings what its All tab lists - its tracks and the ones it reposted. For its own tracks only, take the address of its Tracks tab; for the songs it liked, of the full list of its likes.
A profile or its list of likes can hold a lot: on the free version a project stops at its limit on files, and Premium lifts it.
Which SoundCloud Addresses NeoDownloader Takes
- A track - soundcloud.com/, the artist's name and the track's, as in the address bar or typed without https://
- A playlist or an album - the same with /sets/ and its name
- A profile - soundcloud.com/ and its name - one of its tabs: /tracks, /albums, /sets, /reposts - or the full list of its likes, /likes
- A link from the Share button - on.soundcloud.com/ and a code, for a track, a playlist or a profile alike
- The mobile site's addresses - m.soundcloud.com and the rest the same
- A set of tracks and playlists - each address on a line of its own, all in a single project
SoundCloud Song Downloader: What You Get
Tracks a music player knows, and a way back to each one
Title and Artist Inside Every File
Each track carries its title, artist, album, genre and date as tags, with its description on SoundCloud, so a music player lists it by them rather than by its file name.
No Previews Passed Off as Tracks
Where SoundCloud plays a track only as a short preview, NeoDownloader leaves it out rather than save a fragment under the track's name, and the journal says which tracks those were.
Back to SoundCloud from Any File
“Found on” in a file's properties holds the track's page on SoundCloud, and “Open on the site” opens it there. The same address is in the file's comment tag.
Playlists That Keep Up
Run a playlist's or a profile's project again, and NeoDownloader fetches only the tracks added since the last run.
Questions About Downloading from SoundCloud
Is there a free SoundCloud downloader?
Yes. NeoDownloader costs nothing to put on your computer, and it saves SoundCloud songs, playlists, albums and likes as audio files. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
How do I download songs from SoundCloud?
Copy the address of the track, the playlist or the profile from your browser, click “New project” in NeoDownloader, paste it and click “Next”, then “Create project”. The tracks come down as audio files with their titles and artists inside.
Can you download songs from SoundCloud?
SoundCloud itself lets signed-in listeners download a track where its uploader allowed it - one track at a time, never a whole playlist - and with Go or Go+ its app keeps tracks for offline listening inside itself. NeoDownloader saves tracks, playlists and profiles to your computer as ordinary audio files.
How do I download a SoundCloud playlist?
Copy the playlist's address - soundcloud.com/, the name of whoever made it, /sets/ and the playlist's name - and paste it into “New project”. All its tracks download into one project named after the playlist. An album works the same way.
Can I download SoundCloud to MP3?
NeoDownloader does not convert: it saves the best version SoundCloud streams as it is, as a rule AAC sound in an .m4a file. Music players and phones play it as they play an MP3; where a device takes MP3 only, any audio converter turns one into the other.
Can I download SoundCloud in 320 kbps or WAV?
Not from what SoundCloud streams: NeoDownloader saves the best version SoundCloud has for its player, and a 320 kbps or WAV file made from it would be bigger without sounding better. The uploader's own file, which can be a WAV, comes from SoundCloud's Download button, where they allowed downloads.
Can I download my SoundCloud likes?
Yes. Open the full list of the profile's likes - soundcloud.com/, the profile's name and /likes - and paste that address into “New project”: the liked tracks download into one project. Run it again later to fetch only the tracks liked since.
Do I need a SoundCloud account?
No. Tracks, playlists and profiles that anybody can play on SoundCloud download without signing in.
Can I download SoundCloud Go+ songs?
SoundCloud plays some tracks of major labels to listeners without Go+ only as a short preview, and that preview is all it gives NeoDownloader too. Such a track is left out rather than saved as a fragment under its name, and the journal says which.
Is there a SoundCloud downloader app?
NeoDownloader is one: a desktop program rather than an online tool or a Chrome extension. It runs on your computer, takes a track, a playlist, a whole profile or a list of addresses in one go, and the tracks come from SoundCloud straight to your folder.
Can I use music downloaded from SoundCloud?
That depends on the licence its uploader chose. All rights reserved, SoundCloud's default, means asking its uploader before using a track anywhere; a Creative Commons licence says what is allowed and on what conditions. Downloading changes nothing about either.
Download SoundCloud Playlists in One Run
Make an offline copy of the playlist you play most. The free version has no time limit.
Available for Windows, Mac and Linux