I use Soundcloud for hours every day, and would GLADLY pay a Spotify type premium for it. As others have noted, it has an incredible amount of music that exists nowhere else (including a lot of non-EDM), but it is a great listening platform for many other reasons. The biggest, for me, is that SoundCloud has far and away the best discovery mechanisms. The &#x27;play related tracks&#x27; feature is the most effective radio I&#x27;ve found (better than Pandora, light years better than Spotify) and my feed is always full of new songs that I enjoy.<p>But SoundCloud has one big problem holding it back, in my opinion:<p>Getting a great SoundCloud experience requires a lot of upfront work. To have a good feed, you need to find and follow a bunch of artists and&#x2F;or &#x27;like&#x27; a bunch of tracks (from when I first started: the default feed, or low-data feed, gets stale quickly, and had many songs that did not align with my preferences). This sounds simple, but it&#x27;s not, as SoundCloud is designed for discovery rather than building&#x2F;organizing your music library. For example, there is no library-like simple list view, and you can&#x27;t filter&#x2F;sort your &#x27;likes&#x27; as you can in Spotify&#x2F;iTunes. Also, the radio-like features are not immediately apparent, making it hard to bootstrap your SoundCloud preferences by passively listening&#x2F;liking tracks as you go.<p>Looking to the alluded future monetization: The ads are infrequent, and not at all annoying. Unless they ramp up the ads, it will not be a big incentive to pay for premium.<p>There is really nothing like SoundCloud if you like EDM or EDM-influenced indie music (think Miike Snow).