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Deej,

To be honest, I don't listen a whole lot on my laptop, really only when I follow a link here or at another forum I belong to to comment on someone's song. I rarely click from that song to another. If I listened more on my laptop, maybe I would get the ads. Apart from the convenience, I prefer the sound I get through my phone.

Are you able to listen to SoundClick on your phone? I can't find an app in the iPhone app store. In fact, when I search for SoundClick, what comes up as the nearest suggestion is SoundCloud Maybe there is one for Android phones? If there is no phone app, then that is a major disadvantage and will simply exclude a lot of listeners.

Another advantage of SoundCloud is that it is easily embedded in websites, so that it can be played right there without following a link. The other forum I belong to supports SoundCloud in this way but not SoundClick. This advantage has lessened somewhat since Facebook stopped allowing embedding of this kind. Now, if you post a link to a song on Facebook, it takes you to SoundCloud itself. This is already a pity, because people are more likely to listen within Facebook, but it's even more of a problem because if you are on your phone and don't already have the SoundCloud app, you will need to download it to listen. Nobody is going to do that. In future, I have my songs hosted at my website, so in future I'll post that link in Facebook rather than SoundCloud.

Eddie,

I can hear the difference between songs posted as mp3 or .wav files at SoundCloud. The .wav files seem to me to have slightly better quality. Paradoxically, this doesn't help me a whole lot as my songs probably sound better if you can't hear them quite as well