I like to listen to music on SoundCloud. For one, I am the Chairman of the Company. For another, I love the unsigned artists, remixes, and mixed tapes that make up more than half of the catalog on the service and mostly don't exist anywhere else. The more I listen on SoundCloud, the better recommendations I get for emerging artists, mixes, and remixes. It's more fun for me than the other services. But most people listen on Spotify or Apple Music. And so when I get a playlist sent to me on Spotify or Apple Music, I have to listen there.

No more.

Last year SoundCloud launched Library Sync. When new users join SoundCloud, they can sync their Spotify or Apple Music library and playlists to SoundCloud. No more cold start problem.

SoundCloud also offers this service, powered by Free Your Music, to longstanding users like me.

I got some great playlists over the holidays, like my friend Steve's annual year-end playlist, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire (which we saw last week and loved), the soundtrack to Mark Ronson's book (which I read over the holidays), and some Radiohead (we all need Radiohead). So I sync'd them this morning to my SoundCloud.

Here's what that looked like:

You scroll down to the bottom of your library on the SoundCloud mobile app and select Import:

You choose what other service you want to import from:

You log into that service, I chose Spotify, and you choose the playlists you want to sync:

And they show up in your SoundCloud library in a few minutes:

Now I am off to listen to Steve's Best Tracks of 2025. You should too!!!!

I like to listen to music on SoundCloud. For one, I am the Chairman of the Company. For another, I love the unsigned artists, remixes, and mixed tapes that make up more than half of the catalog on the service and mostly don't exist anywhere else. The more I listen on SoundCloud, the better recommendations I get for emerging artists, mixes, and remixes. It's more fun for me than the other services. But most people listen on Spotify or Apple Music. And so when I get a playlist sent to me on Spotify or Apple Music, I have to listen there.

No more.

Last year SoundCloud launched Library Sync. When new users join SoundCloud, they can sync their Spotify or Apple Music library and playlists to SoundCloud. No more cold start problem.

SoundCloud also offers this service, powered by Free Your Music, to longstanding users like me.

I got some great playlists over the holidays, like my friend Steve's annual year-end playlist, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire (which we saw last week and loved), the soundtrack to Mark Ronson's book (which I read over the holidays), and some Radiohead (we all need Radiohead). So I sync'd them this morning to my SoundCloud.

Here's what that looked like:

You scroll down to the bottom of your library on the SoundCloud mobile app and select Import:

You choose what other service you want to import from:

You log into that service, I chose Spotify, and you choose the playlists you want to sync:

And they show up in your SoundCloud library in a few minutes:

Now I am off to listen to Steve's Best Tracks of 2025. You should too!!!!