Mixcloud - Music, Mixes & Live Reviews

The same problems that have plagued Mixcloud continue to do so, despite the many developer responses of them being fixed or “we are aware and are working on it.” Pausing a mix will sometimes not lose your place, but most of the time it does. If I hit pause to pump gas, by the time I turn the car back on when I’m finished Mixcloud has completely forgotten what I was listening to. Requires a force close and reopening Mixcloud , and it might start on the next mix which requires you to start the previous (original) mix from the beginning. Do this two more times and boom, that’s your three ‘plays’ of a mix for this two week period. If you only got to listen to ten minutes of it then too bad.

A new problem that started after one of the recent updates has been the player on the lock screen and control center disappearing on iOS. This requires opening Mixcloud back up to pause and skip. Sometimes if you force close Mixcloud and open back up it will solve this, but then you get to deal with Mixcloud not remembering where you were or the correct mix. Sometimes force closing Mixcloud does not fix the disappearing play controls issue though.

It seems like every fix just creates new problems, while not even adequately fixing the original problem. Ugh!

Throughout the past year, users have reported how Mixcloud arbitrarily counts a mix as played even though you haven't heard all of it. If you get a phone call or just unplug your iPhone from CarPlay, your listening will get counted. Often times I'll only make it through 15 minutes before an interruption, which is then counted as one play. If I don't make it through a complete listen before an interruption, I'll get another count and before I know, I've reached the max count of three without ever having listened to the entire mix even once.

Worse than that is the bug introduced about 6 weeks ago where Mixcloud insists that I'm offline even though I have both a strong cell signal and a strong wifi signal. No matter what, I can't get it to recognize that I'm very much online. Mixcloud has been bricked. I've emailed the developer and got a reply asking for some info. I provided it over a week ago and it's been crickets from them since. Meanwhile Mixcloud is still useless going on its 2nd month now.

There were a ton of problems with Mixcloud —it wouldn’t save your place in a mix if you closed or paused for more than a minute, frequent errors loading mixes, album covers getting mismatched in feeds. I gave Mixcloud a 3-star review earlier this week, but nearly all the problems seem to have been fixed the very next day. There still can be issues with matching the cover albums to the right mixes when refreshing the feed, but it is not a major problem and gets resolved pretty quickly. People had been complaining about app bugs for a long time, and I’m very glad the developers put the time in to fix these problems, because it really made the user experience 100x better.

Update: Only cause hopefully the developers will listen to us (doubtful...😡)
The worst app out right now and getting worse all the time. I can’t even listen to an entire mix if my phone rings or I get out of my car. How in the hell can you tell me I can only listen to a mix three times in a matter of a couple weeks if I never get to hear the whole thing once. I listen 20mins into a mix for the first time and God Forbid my phone rings or I get out of my car then Mixcloud tells me the mix I was just listening to is unavailable due to rights restrictions. Get THIS FIXED or somebody develop an app where my favorite DJ’s can post live mixes and radio shows that is Not this app!!!!!

Some of the best DJ mixes from all the best DJ’s on the planet. But I hate that my feed is full of what other people I follow listened too. I want to see what people I follow upload. Also I don’t want automatic random suggested mixes in my query. Also this not available in your region problem where mixes you were just listening too are not available in your region anymore after you stop the mix is a real pain. Not happy at all but all the best DJ mixes are all housed here.....

I’ve used Mixcloud for many years and cant comprehend why they can’t get the basics right.
I follow a couple of dozen creators. You would think that if I search for one of those creators I Mixcloud that it would bring me to their profile. Not even close! I can even have a mix from a DJ I follow currently playing, search for that DJ and they are nowhere on the search results. I has been that way for YEARS.
Also you better just let the whole thing play because if you think of pausing and coming back later there’s a good chance Mixcloud is not going to play along and only way to fix is to restart. Again it has been that way for years and the only reason you put up with it is because there is fantastic content.
Keeping all that in mind, do they think I’m honestly going to want to upgrade and pay for premium? Hire some new people and get the basics sorted out, THEN come ask for money and I’ll be totally on board.

Great idea, poor execution. My feed is “empty,” yet when I go to search for artists or tags that I’m interested in, there’s no option in Mixcloud to follow them and get them added to my feed. So how do I populate my feed beyond choosing from the popular sets and creators listed? Is this a paid feature only? If so, that’s idiotic. If not, you need to work on your UI in a huge way.

In addition, half of the time when I click on a genre, it either goes to an endless loading screen or tells me something went wrong, try again. How can the basic functions of an app be so non-functional?

I’d really like to be able to use Mixcloud in-depth and even pay for it, but it’s so terribly designed and carried out that I will probably just use it to play sets linked from Reddit posts. It’s that useless in the state it’s in now. I have no problem with the play limit on the free version, btw, and actually think that’s a great thing for artists and content creators.

Quite a treat, even if the Beatles can do wrong on the show. She does such a soothing job of delivering the music, I barely notice the hypocrisy of Mr Lennon (which I would like to think he would have cleared up had he been allowed to “grow up”. What does he know of being a Working Class anything?!). She does a good job of attempting to smooth over a lot of JL’s dual entendres!
Love you, Anna, for playing excerpts from the new “Get Back”. I was surprised at the choice of the Let It Be version chosen for the the new album ( the same as the one chosen for the original Let It Be album). I expected them to pick the more polished version Sir George Martin produced for the single … whatever. Love what you do, Anna!

I downloaded thus app a wk ago and hv been so impressed I cane to issue a review which I’ve maybe done 3 times in the last decade. Was shocked to see so many low ratings clearly any problems that plagued Mixcloud a ur ago or so have been worked out. I hv the free account and hv listened to any and all records live sets sample library’s as I’ve wanted no add no interruptions in music just been able to discover some amazing djs & producers I otherwise never would’ve along with some of my faves. Much love and respect for this crew don’t listen to the ratings this is 5* all day everyday. Getting me through my quarantine with fresh sounds is a lifesaver

As someone stated before. “Good content, terrible app”. First off, A lot of the sets found don’t even play, showing an error message “due to licensing issues in your country content unable to play”. Fine I get that, but then why make it available in the search ? Also scrolling through the actual track is risky, sometimes app just closes and needs to be re-opened. Downloading completes less than 50% of the time. Here’s the worst part: it’s a PAID app to unlock all of the “features” that don’t even work MOST of the time. I’ve been a paid subscriber almost a year and it seems the quality of Mixcloud has gotten worse with no updates and seems the developers don’t care to update the basic issues. So I’ve just canceled my subscription and deleted app from my phone. Be weary of giving them your money. SoundCloud app is tons better and FREE...

this app is a great concept and to pay artists 1st. All of the mix shows here or most places are technically copy write infringement. But this app worked things out beforehand with record labels. That being said the popularity still hasn’t taken off and it seems all of the glitches and disappointing elements are a result of not enough members. Hopefully the site will pass the tipping point for cash flow and be able to make needed improvements.

Unfortunately in our society, people will pay more for ammeter porn on sites like Only Fans, than a service that showcases DJs while also promoting the music they’re using in their sets. It’s a true win win for the artists the DJs and the listeners. Hopefully that will be understood and catch on.

Let me fist say, I love love love this app! It’s a fantastic product overall, I love the community and the great access to music. Hats off on those aspects!

I have to say, Mixcloud for iOS needs work. Very frequently when I pause the track currently being played, and then resume playback, it starts playing from the beginning. And since free users are limited to playing any particular track 3 times in a 14 day period of time, you inadvertently use up one of those 3 plays. (I’m giving the benefit of the doubt that this happens accidentally and not as a hamfisted attempt to force users to subscribe.)

Sometimes this happens across user sessions, which is perhaps somewhat more forgivable (although not if you ask me) or across devices with Mixcloud installed and using the same user login. But man oh man when this happens on the same device, same user session - that is super frustrating.

I’m in product development myself and I know this kind of feedback is tough. If I didn’t care about Mixcloud and service I wouldn’t bother with the review. Looking forward to this fix and me upgrading Mixcloud review to the 5 star rating it deserves! Thanks for reading.

I want to love Mixcloud because it houses music from some of my favorite artists. But it is absolutely ridiculous how many times I have had to completely delete and re-download Mixcloud to get it to work. Now, after my most recent effort to fix Mixcloud by deleting/re-downloading, Mixcloud won’t even let me log in. All I see after I attempt to “Connect through Facebook” is a white screen that won’t go away unless I manually close Mixcloud . And when I restart Mixcloud , I am still not logged in. So I am now completely unable to access my music—and for who knows how long. I can’t express how frustrating it is to rely on Mixcloud to play music for an event or occasion only to find out it doesn’t work right when you need it. I hope they do better in the future.

I use this app to listen to Starstreams and Spacemusic. Both have been around on different platforms since the early 2000s. I believe both were originally hosted on iTunes Radio stations.

I begrudgingly downloaded this app after learning that my favorite Podcasts were migrated. While I am grateful that this app hosts them, the navigation is awkward. I often have to use the search function to find my favorites. The navigation pane appears confusing and counterintuitive. Overall, however, the format is generally useful and easy to use but could be better.

Love Mixcloud and the live stream which is my go to now that periscope is shutting down. I would like the ability to directly reply to others comments during live stream.
I have tried to subscribe to my favorite artist in “select” on my iphone app(unable) and online (pc). Part of the problem is no way to search or find my favorite artist in the select area online with a lack of a search tool. Unfortunate. Happy to spend 2.99 to subscribe to their content but hopefully that is being worked on.

Twice this has happened to me different artists. I listen to a mix, enjoy it enough to replay it, and then all of a sudden I get the notification “Sorry, this cannot be played in your region”. Well then why would this app allow me to listen to it front-to-back for over 90 minutes in the first place? Ridiculous.

Mixcloud also behaves laughably over Bluetooth. Won’t automatically restart playback after re-entering my vehicle, while both SoundCloud and Pandora have no problems whatsoever behaving with Audi’s MMI interface.

If Mixcloud didn’t have mixes from the mid-2010s that are impossible to find anywhere else, I would recommend everyone stray far away from it. It’s a dying platform.

I’ve been DJing on this app for a little over 7months. this app is working to bridge the divide between DJs and true lovers of music. Followers can support their favorite DJs with a small monthly fee for full uninterrupted access to their mixes. Music artists get paid as well as DJs using the monetization aspects of this app. A win win for all. Some areas for improvement are user friendliness of Mixcloud , also the free uploads can be interjected with ads so that the DJs can get more subscribers. Great job overall this app keep it up

Mixcloud is easy to use and does everything I need it to be as a listener of the site’s prolific & great EDM creaters. The only exception is no support of a dark mode setting or a default to iOS users preferred device mode of either light/dark. For a site/app with edgy EDM music on iOS I think this should be a mandatory no brainer.

Please this app support us darkies to save our eyes and allow us full immersion in our electronic listening enjoyment, Especially at night. Once you do I will become a paid subscriber and more active searcher for the genius music creators that prop Mixcloud.

1 Star for allowing us users listen to DJ mixes. Aside from that, Mixcloud should be a zero. There’s absolutely no measured reason as to why it all of a sudden does NOT allow you to listen to a mix - it limits the listener to allow only “X” number of listens per mix or DJ....and Mixcloud seems to arbitrarily just take away a certain mix. Mixcloud claims to have some sort of disclosure as to why - geographical limits or copyrights etc - but it’s never consistent. One day it’ll allow me to listen to a mix, and one day it won’t. It’ll remove recent played mixes from my queue/ playlist etc. It has a mind of its own. Oh, you also can’t rewind. That’s fun. Wish someone would engineer another mix app so DJs would have another platform aside from this and stupid SoundCloud. Bring back MIXCRATE!!!

I really do love all the different music I can find on here. I’m a big fan of Techno/House/Progressive and there is a great variety to be discovered on this app. Mixcloud however leaves much to be desired. The layout and choppy response when scrolling is not the best. The badges or alerts on the iPhone are near impossible to clear. They are not well indicated as to what they are or where you need to look to insure you’ve seen what they are intending you to be aware of. Improvements have been made to the playability of sets and Live which is appreciated. Overall I like Mixcloud , just could use a few tweaks to smooth it out.

I love and hate this app. I pay for select because I wanna support the site and my favorite DJs that have inspired me for so many years. But Mixcloud seems very unreliable. I can’t access my favorites or history, things time out and the site itself gives me errors. There’s also no dark mode so get ready to be blinded every time you check Mixcloud . Guys, please work on the UI, reliability and give us dark mode. Also a “package” subscription where I can support many DJs at once instead of paying $3-4 for each individual one would be great.

I’m rarely compelled to write a review for an app as I have too many choices to waste my time and effort. Unfortunately, considering the kind of music I like and the way I like to listen, this app is all that really fits my bill.

That is, in theory. In actuality, Mixcloud is a tire fire right now. I’m so tired of having to force close and restart Mixcloud every time I get out of my car. And to make it worse, each time it reopens it counts against one of my listens. So if I am 10 minutes into a set I started when I left home and stop two places, well that’s it for that set for the next two weeks.

What on earth do these developers do all day that this long time problem just keeps getting worse and all anyone can get is a canned response saying they’re working on it. Um, no. No you’re not working on it. I know this because it’s actually getting worse.

Either fix this issue or sell us a premium subscription that gets rid of the listen limits. There is a wealth of music on Mixcloud and there’s no reason the creators can’t get a cut and us customers get a music app that actually plays music. Stop being cheap and lazy this app and fix the one thing every review complains about. 1 well-deserved star until this is fixed.

I’ve been using Mixcloud regularly and until recently found that the responsiveness of Mixcloud has slowed down drastically. I’m not sure if there are bugs from a recent update, but I’m running it on an iPhone 8 with over 10Gb of space left on the device. The phone is fine and it doesn’t seem like a hardware issue. Ever since the push to get users to upgrade to the paid version, it seems as though the user experience has degraded. Not really enticing for me to want to pay for the service especially when it is super slow. I would rather download the mixes elsewhere and upload directly to my phone. At least that will always work.

Player control does not show up on lock screen or in control center on iPhone. This is really frustrating bc if using headphones the phone will not recognize anything playing and you can pause or play without unlocking phone. I LOVE Mixcloud my favorite ever but it really needs some major work. Please correct this with the new update. Ever since the last update it’s been doing this. It’s 2019 the technology should be there to fix Mixcloud. I want to continue to use and love Mixcloud so PLEASE ADDRESS THESE ISSUES.

Somehow this app pretends it’s not a music app - I can’t see controls in the Notifications screen nor in the Control Center. If it plays longer than 10 minutes or so, it shuts itself off - most likely because it’s not coded as a music app and unloads itself off RAM or something.

User Interface - not good either. What’s the difference between Feed and New Shows? Queue and Listen Later? How do I see a list of who I follow? Searching doesn’t prioritize people I’ve already followed, so I can’t find my friend except by going through the “Favorites” menu in my Profile.

Is Queue so important for 1-2 hour music formats? That’s a bold proposition for an app that wants to shut off after 10 minutes. Yet it is prominently displayed in the main control screen.

There’s stuff to work on in order to compete with the likes of SoundCloud. DJs love the web application, but the music will most likely be consumed via Mixcloud , which misses many marks of stability and usability.

For starters, this app on web is excellent, the UI works and is stable. Now let’s move to the iOS app and you have better luck playing the lottery than have a stable session at any given time. On the newest phones and devices, this app’s app will 100% freeze, crash and if you’re lucky, completely ruin your listening experience such that you cannot seek back in the mix that their app completely messed up. The specific app aside, their latest updates for “notifications and posts” are completely a nuisance whereby creators simply spam their followers asking them to check out their Instagram. Please don’t sell out focus on your core values. this app will get cancelled real soon, believe that.

App would be great if I could ever actually listen to any of the music. Shut the car off to pump gas...boom...there goes one of your 3 biweekly plays. Switch over to a text message, there goes another. Listen to a voicemail, congrats you’re now banned from listening to this set for the next 2 weeks. Never mind that you only heard 10 minutes of it to begin with. Unless you can sit down and do nothing else with your device for the next 60 minutes, Mixcloud is completely useless. Actually, it’s worse. It gives you the hope of good music and then bludgeons that hope with an 18oz hammer while making you and your family watch in horror.

this app frustrates me. First it delivers enjoyable music. Then the phone rings, I take a call, and the mix I was enjoying is gone. Not only does Mixcloud not go back to the music that was playing, I have now lost the music I was enjoying. this app is cheating the DJs that work so hard to put content up for users to enjoy. If I’ve heard 15 minutes of a mix and pause for any reason, this app decides its time for me to move on and disallows my finishing the podcast I was hearing. Don’t pause ever and you’ll be fine. Otherwise, I’m hoping this app will make Mixcloud as world class as the music that supports it. My generous two stars are for content only. #hopeful

I love your app but I have the same issue. I can only listen to something 3 times in two weeks. I was putting together a playlist for my Spinning class. I had timed it so that the exercise fit the part of the song. I had spent over an hour or more in just 15 min of the class. I got locked out. I am happy to pay as you have great playlists, exercise instructors playlists and dj’s. Better than in the states. Please let me know when this is fixed. Thank you! Again I do love your app just not the restrictions.

-Forceclosing again...
-App starts you on the mixtape you listened to, 2 mixes ago, and now deletes your past "listened to" mixes after the forceclose.
-Also, I'm glad they changed it so that I don't have to re-scroll down the long timeline to my original place, every single time I click a button, BUT pausing a mixtape only lasts about 30 seconds before you have to start it all over again. Shouldn't have to shut Mixcloud down and restart to get back to your last playing mix. About a 2+ min process now if I ever want to pause the mix.
I don't understand why it's so difficult to NOT restart our timelines and mixes so often and for every reason.