Mixcloud
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Overview
Mixcloud is a platform for long audio: DJ sets, radio shows, podcasts. What sets it apart from music services is that the platform identifies the tracks played in a recording and pays their rights holders.
Who is here
The page gives no audience figures.
Getting started
The free account is limited by the number of uploads, not by time or volume: 10 show uploads and 10 track uploads. Audio quality on the free tier is 64 kbps AAC+.
This is a limit of a particular kind: it does not expire and does not depend on the length of the recordings. Ten shows, and that is that.
What you can publish
File requirements beyond free-tier audio quality the page does not describe.
How to grow
The page says nothing about how recordings are shown to listeners.
The road to monetisation
On the paid tier a creator has two routes: tips during live streams and listener subscriptions. Verbatim: «Fans can tip you during your livestreams or subscribe to give you a regular income».
The platform's share and the creator's share are not named on the page. It says only that the platform identifies the tracks played and pays their rights holders; how much is left for the creator, it does not say.
That is a substantive gap in the published terms themselves.
Limits and rules
The free-tier limits are listed above.
Who it suits
Mixcloud suits someone who posts long recordings containing other people's music and wants to do so lawfully: the payout mechanism for rights holders is built into the platform.
Anyone counting income will have to find the shares elsewhere: they are not on the page about the paid tier.
Tools for this platform
The list is built from the tools' own facts: every line is a tool's statement that it supports the platform, with the source named. A tool missing from the list only means we have no such statement.
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Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
How the money works here
on the paid plan the creator has tips during live streams and listener subscriptions
Verbatim: «Fans can tip you during your livestreams or subscribe to give you a regular income»
source, checked 2026-08-11
Pricing
free account: 10 show uploads and 10 track uploads, audio at 64 kbps AAC+
The limit is set by number of uploads, not by a deadline or a volume in megabytes
source, checked 2026-08-11
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