My biggest gripe with SoundCloud Go is how it still relies on a single-track approach to listening. Unless you have some knowledge of the musician, there's not any way to tell which songs are which. The difference is, when you search for an artist or song title, the results now include songs from the paid subscription mixed in with any free tracks. The streaming service was added on top of SoundCloud's existing mobile apps and website, so the interface is the same. Let's talk about how you use SoundCloud Go. This would leave SoundCloud Go with 15 million tracks, or about half of what Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and others each offer. SoundCloud says its library includes 125 million songs, but as The Verge notes, around 110 million of those are remixes and other user-uploaded tracks that were already there. You can't listen to album tracks from any of those well-known artists.

Names like Katy Perry, Rihanna and Jack White are either completely absent or the artist page only lists a handful of remixes. A search for Lady Gaga turned up a single song snippet that Interscope Records posted to its account some time ago. Since Thrice is only moderately popular, I tried some bigger names to see if they were available. That doesn't bode well if SoundCloud hopes to lure customers from another service. Since this particular band has 12 albums to its name, this means Go has about a quarter of its catalog. What's more, of those 37 songs, 5 are the kind of one-offs SoundCloud is known for while the rest come from two albums and an EP. Hop over to Spotify and there are a dozen albums to choose from and various singles. When I searched for the band Thrice, for example, SoundCloud only offered 37 tracks. From there, unfortunately, SoundCloud Go's flaws start to surface. Start searching for an artist or song that you want to listen to, like on any other service. Once you've handed over all of your details, you're good to go. If you're an iPhone owner, you'll want to enter your payment info on the website to avoid paying an extra $3 for Apple's transaction fee on in-app purchases.

To start the 30-day free trial of SoundCloud Go, just fire up the regular SoundCloud app on iOS, Android or in your browser.

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