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Someone Asked Me: Can I Just Transfer My Catalog from Spotify to SoundCloud?

A genuinely good question — here's the full answer.

By Jianda Monique

Someone reached out recently asking a version of this question: "Can I just transfer my official catalog from Spotify over to SoundCloud, the way I'd move a playlist?" It's a genuinely good question, and one worth answering properly, because the answer surprises most people — no, not automatically, and it's worth understanding why before assuming a tool is missing or broken.

Two different things, wearing similar names

This is the real source of the mix-up, and it's worth being precise about it:

Your personal listening library

Liked songs, playlists you've built as a listener — genuinely portable. Tools like TuneMyMusic and Soundiiz move this kind of data between services reliably, because it's just references to existing tracks, not the tracks themselves.

Your official distributed artist releases

Your actual releases — the ones with real streaming stats, real master rights, real ISRCs tied to a distributor — aren't something any playlist tool touches. There's no "transfer" button for this on any platform, because that's not the job these tools were built to do.

So what's the real path if you want your music on SoundCloud too?

Two genuinely good options, depending on what you're trying to do:

Path 1 — Manual upload

  • Download your highest-quality audio files (WAV or FLAC, not the compressed version)
  • Upload them directly to your SoundCloud creator dashboard
  • Re-enter track titles, album art, descriptions, and social links yourself — per track, since none of this carries over automatically

This works well, it's just genuinely manual — every field, every track, by hand.

Path 2 — SoundCloud for Artists (their own distribution tier)

If you're releasing new music going forward and want it on SoundCloud alongside Spotify and Apple Music from the start, SoundCloud's own artist distribution service handles that — new releases go out through their pipeline directly, which is a genuinely solid option worth knowing about. Worth being clear-eyed about the scope, though: this covers new distributions, not a retroactive import of your existing catalog's history. Matching your existing Spotify-side stats and stream counts on SoundCloud isn't something this — or any — path does; each platform's numbers stay separate, which is just how the industry works right now.

The answer, in short

If the goal is backing up or moving a personal listening library, the existing tools already do that well. If the goal is getting real releases live on SoundCloud, that's manual work or a fresh distribution — not a transfer, and not automatic, no matter how the question gets phrased. A good, fair question, and hopefully a clear answer.