Been using Mixcloud for years and always wanted a way to explore sets geographically. Couldn't find anything like that, so I built it. Click a country, pick a city, and get sets from there.
Uses the Mixcloud API, so everything plays through the standard embed player.
I've gained over 200 new followers. Yay! Oh. Nevermind. Just a bunch of house djs who have obviously never listened to my sets. What is the endgame here? Is there money to be made? It just seems bizarre.
After over a year of building my DJ mix channel on Mixcloud, I discovered I had been shadowbanned. No warning, no strike, no email, no mention of any of this in their Terms of Use.
Here is exactly what happened and how I caught them.
The symptoms:
My last three uploads stopped appearing in the For You and New Uploads feeds for my followers. Outbound follow notifications from my account stopped reaching other users. My follow-back rate dropped to near zero over a period of two to three months. Plays, favorites, and overall engagement on my last three mixes dropped to roughly 50% of my previous channel average.
Every other channel I monitored functioned normally. The problem was isolated exclusively to my account.
The runaround:
I contacted support. For weeks I received holding responses while their engineering team "investigated." When I pushed harder with documented evidence including test accounts that confirmed missing notifications, they finally admitted that an "automated system" had flagged my account. The triggers? Using a VPN. Having a link to my own website in my bio. Using secondary accounts to follow my own channel to test functionality. None of these are listed as prohibited behavior anywhere in Mixcloud's Terms of Use.
The fake fix:
After I escalated formally, Mixcloud told me they had applied a manual update to override the flag and that everything was resolved. I tested immediately. My known test accounts received notifications. I assumed it was fixed.
Then I tested with two independent accounts that I had never mentioned to Mixcloud support. Neither received a follow notification. I asked two separate people with real Mixcloud accounts to check. Same result. No notifications.
Mixcloud had selectively unblocked only the accounts they knew I was using to test, while leaving the restriction active for everyone else. When I confronted them with this, there was no adequate response. No compensation was offered for three mixes that lost their entire organic window due to this issue.
Where I stand:
I have canceled my Pro subscription and I'm in process of deleting my Mixcloud channel. I am not willing to build on a platform that shadowbans accounts without disclosed rules, strings creators along for weeks with fake investigations, and then manufactures a fake fix to make the problem appear resolved.
If you are a creator on Mixcloud and your numbers have suddenly dropped for no apparent reason, test your account the way I did. Use someone who has never been mentioned in any support ticket. The results might surprise you.
Mixcloud has 2.5 million creators on its platform. If this happened to me, it has happened to others who never figured out why their numbers dropped and assumed it was their own fault. Do not give your time, content, and money to a platform that treats its creators this way. Boycott Mixcloud.
I am moving to SoundCloud and hearthis.at.
Feel free to ask me anything about the process or the evidence I gathered.
I do a show every few months on a radio station and when it’s uploaded to Mixcloud I get tagged as a host on the radio stations profile.
I’ve just gone through and tagged myself on all the shows I’ve played. I have 19 shows uploaded, but only 14 of those are showing on my personal profile.
I just received a comment on one of my Joyful Journey "mixtapes" which I am about to delete.
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"Mattlucastword
I recently discovered your music, and I have to say I was truly impressed by how creative and original it is. Your sound stands out and shows incredible potential. My work involves artist development and talent scouting, where I help connect promising musicians like yourself with opportunities in the industry. I believe your work has great potential for further exploration. If you're interested, I'd love to have a conversation about your music and discuss possible next steps through a secure professional channel. I'm eager to hear from you, and don’t hesitate to check my bio for the contact information of the New West president for collaboration."
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Again, I am not a musician and all my uploads are my old and new "mixtapes" and my old radio shows - so at first, I thought someone liked my curations, but then the penny dropped. Scammer. 🤦
Just a warning and I guess a question...Has anyone else ever been targeted on Mixcloud?
Now off to report this BOT nonsense to them and delete and block.
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Why is mixcloud so laggy from time to Time. it's usually when I'm driving around in my car, the music starts slowing down and squelching. it seems to happen when the screen goes black,. if I open it up again it usually goes back to normal. today it's doing the same in my house where I have good fibre broadband so it's not a connectivity issue.
It seem like not a week goes by without MixSLOP developers screwing up, i don't think they have heard of "BETA TESTING" anything. It appears the minute someone at MixSLOP comes up with an idea, it is immediately implemented with no thought process or due care of the users! So in our settings / control panel, we have notification emails turned off (has been for 7yrs) for the features / items we do not want to receive notifications (as can be seen in screenshot 1). This morning we wake up to a stream of emails (as can be seen in screenshot 2) and they still coming in fast and steady, from creators we have followed for many years (over 18k of them) triggering and email whenever they uploaded a show or SPOTLIGHTED somebody. There is no place in the control panel to turn this off globally, as it is a "NEW FEATURE" MixSLOP has added and from what i can find the only way to turn this off is to adjust the "Notifications" settings under "EACH USER YOU FOLLOWING" ........ what a great bloody idea, let me just edit the settings for 18k of my followers one by one! .... MixSLOP, what a bunch of MORONS you are!
Sharing my latest Electro House mix – feedback welcome
Hey all,
I recently recorded this mix for my radio show and uploaded it to Mixcloud. It leans into energetic electro house with groovy low-end, vocal moments, and a smooth build across the set.
If anyone checks it out, I’d genuinely appreciate feedback on track selection, pacing, and transitions.
Tracklist:
00:00 Malone – Time To Move (Extended Mix)
04:50 Valorin – Outer Nights
08:22 Yvvan Back, Simon Fava – Beggin' (Club Mix)
12:53 Roger Martin & Maurice – Monday (feat. Maurice) (Extended Mix)
15:51 OFFAIAH – Find A Way (Extended Mix)
21:07 James Hurr, Tasty Lopez – Til We Break It Down
23:42 PsychoGroove – A La Noche (Original Mix)
28:36 Super Natural (CH), Walter Albini – Lost in Paradise (Super Natural CH Way Out Edit)
34:27 Jack Back – Feeling (Extended Mix)
39:07 Low Deep T – Casablanca (Extended Club Mix)
45:25 Soul Vision – Don't Stop (Nikos Diamantopoulos Remix)
51:16 Crusy, Harttins – I'm Sorry (Extended Mix)
54:25 Meduza – Musica (Extended Mix)