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Audio collaboration · Updated
SoundCloud hosts audio publicly or privately, and listeners can find, follow and comment on it. Aden is a workspace for artists, managers and labels. Both have song and file storage, a fan and contact CRM, and desktop and mobile apps. Aden also has team and roster management, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, and real-time collaboration, which SoundCloud doesn't list. In a more limited form, SoundCloud covers streaming analytics.
| Feature | Aden | SoundCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Team & roster management | Included | Not included |
| Song & file storage | Included | Included |
| Demo review & feedback | Included | Not included |
| Release planning | Included | Not included |
| Tours & events | Included | Not included |
| Fan & contact CRM | Included | Included |
| Streaming analytics | Included | Basic |
| Artist website & smart links | Included | Not included |
| Email campaigns | Included | Not included |
| Music distribution | Coming soon | Not included |
| Mastering / production tools | Coming soon | Not included |
| Web, desktop & mobile | Included | Included |
| Real-time collaboration | Included | Not included |
| Pricing model | Free plan + paid tiers | Free + paid tiers |
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Pin SoundCloud as a tab in the Aden desktop app. It keeps its sign-in and opens beside your Aden workspace, up to five side by side.
Get the desktop appConnect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP. Your assistant reads and updates Aden next to the other apps it is connected to.
Connect the Aden MCPPeople
Teams, members, and the business that holds them
Catalogue
Tracks, versions, albums, playlists
Audio and files
Version files and project files
Contacts and deals
Contacts and opportunities
Both have song and file storage, a fan and contact CRM, and desktop and mobile apps. Aden also has team and roster management, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, and real-time collaboration, which SoundCloud doesn't list. In a more limited form, SoundCloud covers streaming analytics.
Compared with SoundCloud, Aden fits if you need team and roster management, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, and real-time collaboration next to song and file storage, a fan and contact CRM, and desktop and mobile apps: it has all of these in one workspace.
Yes. Pin SoundCloud as a tab in the Aden desktop app: it keeps its sign-in and opens next to your Aden workspace. Connect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP, and your assistant works across Aden and the other apps it is connected to.
Bring people, catalogue, audio and files, and contacts and deals over from SoundCloud, in that order. The guide is at aden.space/migrate, and an AI agent can run the move from the brief at aden.space/migrate.md.
Aden has a free plan, and paid plans from €5 a month. SoundCloud's pricing, as listed in this comparison: Free + paid tiers.
Besides Aden, this comparison covers DISCO, Samply, and Untitled as alternatives to SoundCloud for audio collaboration.