4 Ways to Mass Download SoundCloud Playlist to MP3 Quickly (Incl. Free and Online)

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Emily Zeng
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SoundCloud is the world's largest music streaming service, offering a vast array of playlists showcasing an individual artists' portfolio, a common theme, and tracks for a particular occasion or event. Musicians and enthusiasts can easily upload/share songs and create playlists, but downloading them can be tricky.

Hence, to help you download SoundCloud playlists or albums to MP3 for offline enjoyment at will, we are here to show you 4 different yet effective ways to download the entire SoundCloud playlist on your local devices quickly.

 

Can I Download Playlist from SoundCloud Directly for Free?

Unfortunately, no. SoundCloud offers both free and paid version for users to choose. Below are the 4 subscription plans.

Subscription Type Plan Price/month Downloadable content Playlist download support
Listener sub (ad-free & offline listening) SoundCloud Go $4.99 Unlimited tracks Yes
SoundCloud Go+ $9.99 Unlimited tracks with high quality Yes
Creator sub (Track uploads) Next Free Public tracks No
Next Pro $8.25 Public tracks No

Get started with Next and create an account. When the holder grants download permission, you can download SoundCloud songs for free officially. Open a track, go to “More”, then check in the expanded options to see if there is “Download file”. But the cruel fact is:

  • You can’t download full SoundCloud playlists. Merely individual songs are available.
  • Most creators disable the download option.
  • It only lets you download single songs for listening on the SoundCloud app. You are unable to transfer them to USB, SD card, or otherwise.

 

How to Download SoundCloud Playlist to MP3 at Once on Mac and Windows PC

There are many desktop programs available for downloading SoundCloud songs, album, and playlists to MP3. Still, if you are looking for dedicated software that is fast, straightforward, feature-packed, and offers lossless quality audio files, Cisdem Video Converter comes highly recommended.

In addition to downloading from SoundCloud without limitations, it also supports downloads from YouTube, Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter, and over 1000 other media websites. It's safe and won't leak your personal information.

As a powerful SoundCloud playlist downloader, it allows you to convert downloaded music to tons of different formats, such as M4A, OGG, AIFF, FLAC, etc. With various customization features, you can also edit them based on your needs, for example, cutting the file length, merging them into one large file, and so forth.

Steps on how to download SoundCloud playlist to MP3 with Cisdem:

1. Download and Install Program.

It works on both Mac and Windows PC. Click the “Free Download” button below to get it on your computer.

Free Download macOS 10.13 or later Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7

After installing, launch it, click the third tab to move to the interface for downloading music.

switch to download interface
2. Copy the URL of a Playlist from SoundCloud

Visit SoundCloud website, go to the playlist section, select a desired playlist and click “Copy Link” at the bottom of the playlist.

choose a desired playlist to copy the URL

3. Paste the URL for Parsing

Go back to the software, paste the copied link at the bottom box and tap Enter. Then, wait patiently for parsing out it. You can also click "+" button at the bottom left corner to add URLs in batch.

paste the copied URL from SoundCloud 
4. Batch Download SoundCloud Playlist to MP3 on Mac/Windows

After parsing, directly hit on “Start” button to start the batch-downloading process.

download the entire soundcloud playlist at once with cisdem

Q: How to convert SoundCloud playlist to WAV or other desired format?

In general, Cisdem Video Converter will download SoundCloud songs to MP3 or Opus by default. Thanks to the conversion function it provides, it lets you to download and convert SoundCound playlist to WAV or any other formats easily and quickly.

To do so, drag and drop the downloaded files to the converting interface, choose a preferred output format, and finally initiating the converting process to accomplish your goal.

convert to wav or any audio format

 

How to Download Entire SoundCloud Playlists on Android and iPhone

On Android

If you long for downloading SoundCloud on Android, you are supposed to try to use the Xposed Installer app. It is a lightweight framework that allows you to install diverse apps/modules to perform various functions on your Android.

The process of installing the Xpose framework is cumbersome and might also lead to data loss. Ensure that you have backed up your phone and rooted it via Magisk. Click here to check the instructions to install Xpose framework on Android, then use it to download playlist from SoundCloud.

  1. Open the downloaded Xposed Installer app on your Android.
  2. Move to the part of “Download” section, hit on the search icon and fill in “SoundCloud Downloader” to look for it.
  3. Enter “SoundCloud Downloader” from the searched data and tap on “Install”.
    install soundcloud downloader as module on android
  4. Next, follow the prompted message to activate the module and reboot your device to complete the installation process.
  5. Launch SoundCloud Downloader.
  6. Switch to the site of SoundCloud, open a playlist you like.
  7. Tap on the three-dot icon at the bottom right corner.
  8. Touch on “Download” button.
    download soundcloud playlist to mp3 on android

On iPhone

For iPhone users, it is recommended to use Shourtcut app for iOS. It can help you download SoundCloud playlist for free. However, it may be a little bit difficult for users to master in the operating process in a short time. Thus, the specific steps are displayed in the below to help the public download Soundcloud MP3 on iPhone easily.

  1. Download and install Shortcut app on your iPhone.
  2. Open it, on your library page, tap on “create shourcut” button to search and add“SoundCloud Music Downloader” as your Shortcut
  3. Go to SoundCloud app, open a playlist that you want to save.
  4. Tap on “...” button and then tap on the “More” option from its extending list.
    click more to find download sheet
  5. Select “Share” button, scroll down to choose the “Soundcloud Music Downloader” from the Share sheet.
    choose downloader
  6. Then, it pops up a notice that requires you to build a connection between Shourtcut and SoundCloud. Click “OK".
  7. After a few minutes, a Files window will pop up, allowing you to select a suitable output location.
  8. Once done, tap on “Save” to to start the downloading process.

 

How to Download Playlist from SoundCloud Using Browser Plugins

1. Addoncrop Soundcloud Music Downloader

Applies to: Chrome, Opera, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, and Yandex

SoundCloud Music Downloader, created by Addoncrop, is a superior web-based extension to download SoundCloud songs to MP3 for free. It is easy to master and able to batch download SoundCloud albums with cover art. It may collect your private information, though.

It's an addon specifically designed for Opera. To ensure compatibility with different web browsers, you need to install a third-party extension called Grosspilot. The official Addoncrop website has considerate prompts to help you get started.

Let's take the Chrome browser as an example to show the steps.

  1. Open Google Chrome, search and find Addonrop. After entering it, tap on “Soundcloud Music Downloader” section and click the “Add to Chrome” button.
    add chrome extension
  2. Follow the instruction “Let’s go > Add to Chrome > Add extension > Allow Permissions > Allow” to add Grosspilot as extension.
  3. Then, open SoundCloud and move to the part of playlist. You will see a download button show up at the bottom of every playlist.
  4. Choose any playlist you want, click the “download” button to start the download task.
    click download
  5. All videos will be added to queue for downloading. A windows will pop up in the right side of the page, allowing you to see the downloading process and remaining videos.
    download process

2. Mp3 Downloader for SoundCloud™

Applies to: Mozilla Firefox

To compensate for Addoncrop Soundcloud Music Downloader's incompatibility with Firefox, we prepared another Firefox add-on. It is MP3 Downloader for SoundCloud provided by tlintspr, which works perfectly on Firefox and can download SoundCloud playlists free online. It does not ask for the installation of any third-party tools.

It detects all tracks in a playlist, however, you can't download the whole SoundCloud playlist at once. Each track needs to be downloaded separately.

  1. Open Firefox, visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/soundcloud-mp3-downloader/ and add it as add-on.
  2. Come to the part of SoundCloud playlist, a “Prepare” button with download icon appears in the bottom of each playlist.
  3. Choose a playlist you want and click the “Prepare” button.
    click prepare button
  4. All of the songs contained in the playlist will be displayed in the interface with download icon. You can hit your mouse on the song to download them one by one.
    download soundcloud songs on iphone

 

How to Download SoundCloud Playlist with Online Tool

1. Downloadsound.cloud

Downloadsound.cloud is a preeminent web-based tool to download Soundcloud songs to MP3 for free. Unlike other online SoundCloud downloaders, it can download the whole playlist to a ZIP. It makes a quick responding to analyze the pasted URL and also download it quickly. Plus, this simple tool has no limit on the song number and size, so that you can feel free to download all playlists.

  1. Go to https://downloadsound.cloud/.
  2. Copy the URL of a SoundCloud playlist.
  3. Paste the URL into the corresponding box, click “Download”.
  4. It will begin to recognize the pasted URL. Once done, the basic information will be showed in the below.
    analyze the paste url
  5. Tap on “Download” button to save the playlist as a ZIP on your device at once.

2. Soundcloudme.com

Soundcloudme.com is another trustworthy, free SoundCloud playlist downloader online. Unlike Downloadsound.cloud, it requires you to manually download SoundCloud MP3 one by one after parsing. It offers a simple interface to operate it easily too. A slight shortcoming of it is that it contains ads on the primary interface.

  1. Open https://www.soundcloudme.com/ with your browser.
  2. Copy a playlist link from SoundCloud and paste it to Soundcloudme.
  3. Tap on “Download”.
    click download to parse out the pasted url
  4. After analyzing, all songs from the playlist will show up.
    all songs from the playlist
  5. Hit on the “Download Song” button of the according song to save them one by one.

 

More questions

1. How do I add all my “likes” in SoundCloud to a playlist and download the whole SoundCloud likes plalylist?

If you have relevant demanding, there is an extension called “SoundCloud Likes to Playlist” that will solve your needs effortlessly. After adding it to your chrome, it will appear in the lower left part of the interface for SoundCloud. As soon as you asks it to work, it will automatically add all songs in the “Likes” to a playlist immediately.

Then, you can utilize the ways mentioned above to download SoundCloud Likes to playlist with ease.

2. Is it possible to download a playlist from SoundCloud in 320kbps?

Strictly speaking, the answer is no. There are two main reason. One is that SoundCloud only offers audios in 128kbps for streaming. The other is that the right to download depends on the uploader.

Although SoundCloud states that the high-quality streaming format it offered is encoded in 256kbps AAC, which equals to MP3 format in 320kbps. But, only SoundCloudGo+ subscribers can enjoy high-quality streaming. Therefore, if you want to download SoundCloud to 320kbps, you have to be a SoundCloud Go+ member and the video you want must be downloadable.

3. How do I import the SoundCloud playlists into Spotify?

TuneMyMusic is an online service that enables you to transfer and sync playlists between different music streaming platforms. It supports transferring SoundCloud playlists, album, your uploads & likes to Spotify library. Besides, you can use it to transfer SoundCloud playlists to YouTube, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, name to a few.

 

Conclusive Words

Sincerely hope that after reading this article, you can clear all of your confusion and reach a desired SoundCloud downloader from it. Personally, I think the desktop software downloader is the best option to download SoundCloud playlist at once because it works faster and more stable than web-based tools, and also offers you with more available output formats.

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Emily is a girl who loves to review various multimedia software. She enjoys exploring cutting edge technology and writing how-to guides. Hopefully her articles will help you solve your audio, video, DVD and Blu-ray issues.

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