SoundCloud: The Music You Love user reviews, decoded

High confidence · Latest 61 of 99 total reviews analyzed · Based on 99 reviews. Signal may be noisy.

Excited

Fresh user feedback skews excited. Users appreciate extensive music library and niche artist availability provide value for listeners seeking non-mainstream content and free tier functionality allows for background playback and manual track control without a subscription, but report aggressive ad frequency and duration disrupt the listening experience for users on the free tier.

Rating: 4.7

Reviews: 99

Confidence: high

The latest update failed to address user frustration regarding ad density and the removal of offline features, leading to a decline in sentiment among long-term free-tier users.

How did the latest release land?

Overall
4.7/ 5
(9.6M)
Current version
4.8/ 5
+0.1 vs overall
(2M)
Main signal post-update: extensive music library and niche artist availability provide value for listeners seeking non-mainstream content.

Sentiment over time

Weekly average rating and review volume across stores, last 90 days.

Not enough recent reviews to plot a sentiment trend.

How have ratings & review volume moved?

Rating, review sentiment, and total reviews over time, with release markers showing the post-launch impact.

Review sentiment over time

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Review themes

Praise

What users love

  • Extensive music library and niche artist availability provide value for listeners seeking non-mainstream content
  • Free tier functionality allows for background playback and manual track control without a subscription
  • Platform openness allows users to upload and share their own audio content with the community
Complaint

Common complaints

  • Aggressive ad frequency and duration disrupt the listening experience for users on the free tier
Request

Most requested

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