SoundCloud DownloaderSave any SoundCloud track or entire set to MP3 at up to 320 kbps, with album art and ID3 tags already embedded. No signup. No ads. No watermark.
✓ Pre-configured for SoundCloud
From Share button to saved MP3 in under 15 seconds. No app, no account.
Open the track or set on SoundCloud. Click the Share button below the waveform and copy the link. On the mobile app, tap the three-dot menu on the track, then Share, then Copy Link.
Drop the URL into the input field at the top of this page. MediaFetcher detects a SoundCloud link automatically and unlocks the Download button. Track and set URLs both work.
Choose 320, 256, 192, or 128 kbps. The MP3 downloads directly to your device with ID3 tags and cover art already embedded. Set URLs queue every track in the playlist.
SoundCloud is audio-only, so there are no video resolutions — only MP3 bitrates. File sizes are for a 4-minute track. Longer tracks scale linearly.
| Bitrate | Quality tier | ~ Size (4 min) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 320 kbpsPick | Studio | ~9.6 MB | Music listening, DJ crates, hi-fi playback |
| 256 kbps | High | ~7.7 MB | Premium streaming parity, car audio |
| 192 kbps | Streaming | ~5.8 MB | Background listening, commutes, phones |
| 128 kbps | Voice | ~3.9 MB | Spoken word, podcasts, interviews |
MediaFetcher requests the highest variant SoundCloud actually serves — typically 320 kbps for music accounts. If the source upload was lower, that ceiling applies. See below.
SoundCloud organises audio into four object types, and not all of them are separate files. Here is what MediaFetcher can and cannot touch.
Any public track on SoundCloud with a direct URL. Paste the link, pick MP3 bitrate, save. Works for artist uploads, bootlegs, live sets uploaded as a single file, remixes, and DJ mixes.
SoundCloud calls playlists "Sets". Paste the set URL and MediaFetcher queues every track in the set for download. Each track saves as an individual MP3 with its own ID3 tags — no merged mega-file.
A repost is just a shared pointer to the original upload. It is not a separate file. Click the repost to open the track on the original uploader's page, then paste that URL. The track downloads the same way.
Your Likes page is a view, not a set. MediaFetcher cannot crawl it without your account. Open each liked track individually and paste its URL.
SoundCloud Go+ exclusives are gated behind authentication and DRM. MediaFetcher does not bypass paywalls. If a track is Go+ only, you cannot download it — buy it on Bandcamp, Beatport, or the artist's own store instead.
Private tracks require the uploader's secret share link to play. If you have the secret URL the track is accessible and MediaFetcher can handle it; without the link, no third-party tool can reach it.
Every SoundCloud downloader promises "enhance to 320 kbps". That is a lie. Here is what actually happens to audio on its way from the artist to your phone.
When an artist uploads a track to SoundCloud, the platform stores the original file and then transcodes it into several delivery qualities. Free SoundCloud accounts are capped at a lower source quality than Pro accounts — which is why a bedroom producer using the free tier often uploads at 128 kbps, while a label release on a Pro Unlimited account arrives as a 320 kbps MP3 or a 24-bit FLAC. SoundCloud then re-encodes everything down for playback, and the highest variant available on the public stream is 320 kbps. That is SoundCloud's ceiling, not MediaFetcher's limitation.
MediaFetcher always asks for the highest variant SoundCloud actually serves. If the artist uploaded a 24-bit master, you still get 320 kbps — because that is what the public endpoint exposes. Lossless pass-through is not a public feature of the SoundCloud streaming API. If you need FLAC from your favourite artist, buy it on Bandcamp. If you need WAV, buy it on Beatport. MediaFetcher is honest about what a downloader can and cannot do.
Here is the harder truth about bitrates in general. MP3 is a lossy compression format: encoding an audio stream at a lower bitrate discards information, and that information cannot be recovered. If an artist uploads a 128 kbps MP3 that they originally made from a CD rip, the information budget is 128 kbps of data forever. Transcoding that file to 320 kbps does not restore quality — it just wraps the same 128 kbps worth of information in a larger file. You cannot enhance audio that was never there.
This is why two tracks at the same 320 kbps can sound dramatically different. Bitrate is a budget, not a guarantee. A 320 kbps MP3 encoded from a 24-bit master will sound audibly cleaner than a 320 kbps MP3 encoded from a 128 kbps source, even though the file sizes are identical. Any downloader claiming to "upscale" low-bitrate SoundCloud uploads to studio quality is either misinformed or lying to you. MediaFetcher is neither. We preserve whatever the artist actually uploaded.
The second half of the audio story is metadata. Raw MP3 files are just audio — they do not know what track they are or who made them. The fix is ID3 metadata, a small tag block appended to each MP3 that carries title, artist, album, genre, year, and an image. MediaFetcher writes ID3v2 tags into every SoundCloud download, pulling the track title, uploader name, genre (if the artist set one), and the full-resolution cover art straight from the SoundCloud track page. The result is that your downloads arrive pre-tagged: iTunes, Apple Music, VLC, Serato, Rekordbox, Winamp, foobar2000, and modern car audio systems all read ID3v2 and display the metadata correctly the moment the file appears in the library.
If you have spent any time building a DJ crate or a personal music library, you know how much friction untagged MP3s create. You rename files by hand. You paste in cover art. You delete the duplicate from two months ago. MediaFetcher removes most of that friction because the tags are already there when the file lands. That is the second reason MediaFetcher is not just another SoundCloud scraper: it understands that a music file without metadata is barely usable.
Search for "SoundCloud downloader" today and the first page of Google is a graveyard of hostile websites. The top-ranking tools bury a working MP3 button under popup ads, fake download links that launch cryptominer interstitials, and tracking scripts that sell your click history to ad networks. Several cap free output at 128 kbps and gate 320 kbps behind a paid subscription. A few install browser extensions that quietly persist after you have forgotten about them.
MediaFetcher is the opposite of that. The page weighs under 80 KB of JavaScript because there are no ad scripts. Nothing tracks you because we do not run analytics or set cookies. There is no paid tier, no "sign up to unlock 320 kbps" friction, and no daily download limit. If you have been conditioned by the rest of this category to expect a fight, the silence on MediaFetcher can feel suspicious. It is not. It is just what a downloader should have always been.
The audio handling is the differentiator. MediaFetcher requests the highest variant SoundCloud actually exposes on its public stream (typically 320 kbps for music accounts) and saves it bit-for-bit with no re-encoding penalty. Then it writes ID3v2 metadata — title, artist, genre, cover art — so the track imports cleanly into every library manager you care about. No post-download tagging step, no hunting down artwork by hand, no filename cleanup.
And because MediaFetcher covers thirteen platforms on the same tool, the workflow for pulling a reference track from YouTube, a clean audio bed from a Vimeo film, and a live-set clip from a Twitch stream is identical. One tool, one URL bar, one workflow.
Not pirates. Mostly people whose entire craft depends on having audio files they can touch, cut, and keep.
Bedroom producers drop unreleased edits on SoundCloud constantly — some for weeks, some for days, some until the label sends a takedown. Pulling the 320 kbps MP3 with ID3 tags intact means the track lands in Rekordbox or Serato already labelled, already ready to mix. Losing a track you built a set around because the SoundCloud upload got deleted is a lesson every working DJ learns exactly once.
Twitch for live streams →Reverse-engineering a mix starts with having the file in your DAW. Producers pull stems and full tracks into Ableton or Logic to study arrangement decisions, drum programming, EQ curves, and reverb tails. You cannot study a 30-second preview — you need the full file on a local drive where you can slow it down, loop it, and render it through a spectrum analyser.
Podcasters and journalists archive interviews, lectures, and panel discussions uploaded to SoundCloud as backup against the inevitable day the account disappears. A 128 kbps MP3 is plenty for spoken word — MediaFetcher gives you that option specifically to save space on long-form archives. ID3 tags mean the episode title survives even if the SoundCloud link does not.
Independent artists use SoundCloud as a promotional channel and then yank tracks after a few weeks when the official release drops on Spotify or Bandcamp. Collectors who care about a scene save the SoundCloud cuts first, knowing the alternate mix or demo version may never appear on the official release. MediaFetcher makes archiving fast enough that you can snapshot a whole artist in one sitting.
YouTube for music videos →An honest comparison of the four tools most people land on when they search "SoundCloud downloader". Features, not opinions.
| Feature | MediaFetcher | KlickAud | DownCloudMe | Musicverter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero ads, zero popups | ||||
| No signup | ||||
| 320 kbps MP3 output | 128 only | 128 only | ||
| Full set (playlist) support | Limited | |||
| ID3 tags + album art | Partial | |||
| Zero third-party trackers | ||||
| Runs on iPhone Safari | Partial | Partial | Partial | |
| Fake download buttons | ||||
| 13-platform catalogue | ||||
| No daily limit |
Comparison reflects the free tier of each tool as observed in early 2026. Paid tiers of some competitors remove certain limitations. MediaFetcher has no paid tier.
Short answer: usually yes, for personal listening. The longer answer involves a three-way relationship between artist, label, and platform.
Music is more tangled than video because a single track is usually owned by several parties at once. The artist wrote and recorded it. The label (or the publisher, or the distributor) often owns the master recording and the mechanical rights. And SoundCloudhas a licence from whichever of those parties uploaded the file to serve it through their platform. A "SoundCloud track" is never just one object — it is a file sitting on top of a stack of overlapping rights.
The good news is that a large fraction of the SoundCloud catalogue was uploaded specifically because the artist wanted it heard. Bedroom producers, unsigned rappers, bootleg remixers, live DJs, and indie labels use SoundCloud as a promotional surface — the platform's whole cultural position is that it is the place to give music away in exchange for attention. Many tracks are explicitly released under Creative Commons licences, and many more are effectively free-to-share even without a formal licence. For the majority of SoundCloud uploads, downloading a copy for personal listening is exactly what the artist was hoping you would do.
Under fair use (United States) and fair dealing (UK, Canada, Australia) doctrines, making a personal copy of a work you have legitimate access to — for listening, time-shifting, study, criticism, or research — is generally lawful. The same legal framework that protected home taping in the 1980s still covers the MediaFetcher use case today. Downloading a track to listen on a flight is fair use. Downloading it, burning it onto a CD, and selling that CD at a market stall is not.
Where it gets murkier is around unreleased or demo tracks. If an artist posts a demo of a song that will later become an official single, and then deletes the upload, you are in an ethical grey zone: the file was public when you pulled it, but the artist has since changed their mind. The honest move is to respect an artist's deletion. Do not re-upload deleted demos. Do not redistribute them. Keep your personal copy if you want it, but understand the difference between archiving a thing you love and undermining the artist who made it.
There is also the "buy the thing you love" principle, which is both the most ethical and the most practical approach. If you download a track on SoundCloud and listen to it more than five times, buy it. Buy it on Bandcamp (the artist gets ~80%). Buy it on Beatport (the artist gets ~50%). Buy a t-shirt. See them live. Streaming pays fractions of a cent per play, and that is assuming the track is even on a paid platform. A single Bandcamp purchase funds an indie artist more than a year of Spotify streams. Downloading is for listening; paying is for existing.
What is unambiguously not allowed, in any jurisdiction, is redistributing or monetising a copyrighted track you do not own. Do not upload downloaded tracks to your own channel for ad revenue. Do not release them on a compilation without a licence. Do not rip Go+ exclusives — they are paywalled for a reason and MediaFetcher does not bypass that paywall.
This is general information, not legal advice. If you have a specific commercial use case — a DJ mix for sale, a sync licence, a compilation release — talk to an actual music lawyer in your jurisdiction.
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