If you want the best place to post DJ mixes built from other people’s tracks, start with Mixcloud, whose own pages say it handles the licensing and pays royalties to the artists you play.

Upload the same two-hour set elsewhere and one song can block it on YouTube, hold it for a hand check on hearthis.at or get it removed from SoundCloud.

Match the site to the job the mix has to do, and it stays up, reaches the right people and keeps working as a link.

First comes a rules check of seven sites, with their upload limits and what you and your listeners get from each one.

Then the guide sorts them by goal, from a public archive to a private link for a booker, a podcast feed or a live stream, so you can pick one home and one backup.

What Is the Best Place to Post DJ Mixes?

That rules check settles most of it, since a mix is mostly other people’s recordings. The best place to post DJ mixes is Mixcloud for a public archive, hearthis.at for a podcast feed and downloads, YouTube when the set has video, and Twitch’s DJ Program for a live set.

SoundCloud, Audiomack and Bandcamp suit music you own or have cleared, because their terms make you promise that you hold the rights. The table puts the main sites to upload DJ mixes side by side, in each site’s own terms.

Site What it says about other people’s tracks Free upload limit Best fit
Mixcloud “Everything is copyright cleared” and royalties go to artists on every plan, within programming limits 10 shows and 10 tracks published, 4 GB a file Public archive, private links
hearthis.at You need the licenses, and an automatic check can hold an upload for a hand review 30 sounds, 400 MB a week, 5 GB in all, 90 minutes each Podcast feed, downloads
YouTube Content ID scans every upload, and owners choose to block, monetize or track 15 minutes until you verify, then 12 hours or 256 GB A filmed set
SoundCloud You must hold every right, and content can be blocked or removed Terms cap 4 GB a file and 20 hours a month; Basic’s own limit is on its plan page Your own tracks and cleared edits
Audiomack You must own or license it, and it says it monitors uploads Its About page promises free hosting and names no cap Your own releases
Bandcamp Content must not infringe anyone’s copyright Its acceptable use policy names none Selling music you own
Twitch DJ Program catalog tracks only, live with video, no recordings Live only A live set

Read the second column first, because it decides whether a mix stays up. If the file doesn’t exist yet, recording a DJ mix in software, on a mixer or by phone comes first, and the sections below take each site in the order that matters once it does.

Why Does Mixcloud Come First for a Full Mix?

That top row is the reason, and Mixcloud says it in plain words. Mixcloud comes first because its About page says “Everything is copyright cleared and artists get paid when their music is played,” and its plan table marks “Royalties paid out to artists” as included on the free Basic plan and on Pro.

Its guide to uploads repeats the promise: “Mixcloud handles the licensing.” That sets it apart from a site that only stores your file, though it comes with rules.

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The Mixcloud user agreement sets programming limits in clause 6.4, and breaking them can take an upload out of public view or start its repeat infringer steps:

  • No more than 3 songs from one album, and no more than 2 in a row.
  • No more than 4 songs from one recording artist, and no more than 3 in a row.
  • No more than 4 songs from one compilation, and no more than 3 in a row.
  • Accurate track names, with no song titles in the title or description.

Those counts catch the sets DJs love making. A one-artist tribute mix fails at the fourth song in a row, and an album played straight through fails at its third track.

The agreement also limits what can go in. Only recordings already released with the owners’ permission qualify, and clause 8.2 rules out bootlegs and unauthorized remixes, so unreleased promos and unofficial edits sit outside the promise.

That same clause has you warrant that you hold the necessary licenses, rights and permissions for what you upload. Read “handles the licensing” alongside those limits, not instead of them.

How Far Does a Free Mixcloud Account Go?

Those rules apply on every plan, but the free one is where the numbers bite. Mixcloud’s plan table gives Basic 10 show uploads and 10 track uploads, and a show is anything over 15 minutes, so a full mix always counts as a show.

At 10 uploads, publishing a new one means moving an older one to your drafts. Its stats, comments and chart positions stay with it, but it leaves your public profile.

A weekly show fills that cap in under three months, Mixcloud’s own guide points out. Pro removes the cap, adds scheduling and listener insights, and moves your audio from 64 kbps AAC+ to 160 kbps Opus in the plan table, while Mixcloud’s HQ audio guide says 192 kbps.

Cancel Pro and your shows drop back to standard quality. File size is rarely the problem, because Mixcloud accepts uploads up to 4 GB, and a two-hour stereo WAV at CD quality runs about 1.3 GB.

What Does SoundCloud Do With a Mix of Other People’s Tracks?

Unlike Mixcloud, SoundCloud makes no licensing promise in its terms. A mix of other people’s tracks is yours to clear, because the terms have you warrant that your upload is original or that you hold every right, license and permission in it.

SoundCloud’s Community Guidelines then say anyone uploading another person’s content without the necessary permissions is “liable to have that content removed and/or their account terminated.”

The guidelines name remixes “or other similar work,” and they put the job of clearing them on you. A mix reads the same way.

SoundCloud’s copyright page is blunter still. Its checklist asks whether a track contains “the entirety or any part of someone else’s song(s),” and the answer it wants is no, though it adds that the page isn’t legal advice.

Removal can go further than one upload. The terms let SoundCloud block, remove, delete, limit or restrict content, and they let it suspend or end an account for repeated breaches.

SoundCloud’s terms don’t describe how it matches audio or what a match does to one song inside a long file. Check its help center on that point before you build an archive there.

Upload room is the easy part. The Artist Terms cap one upload at 4 GB and upload time at 20 hours a month, and they count the free Basic plan among those Artist plans, with the exact Basic limit left to SoundCloud’s plan page.

Drop from a paid plan and anything over the new plan’s limit is hidden, though you can still reach it to delete it.

Should You Pick Mixcloud or SoundCloud?

That contrast makes this a short decision. Pick Mixcloud for full mixes of other people’s released tracks, and SoundCloud for your own productions and anything you’ve cleared.

The plans pull the same way. Mixcloud’s Basic plan shows 10 mixes at a time with the royalties handled, while SoundCloud’s terms set a ceiling of 20 hours of uploads a month with the rights left to you.

SoundCloud wins on downloads, because the uploader decides whether listeners can download a track or keep it offline, while Mixcloud’s offline listening belongs to its paid Premium plan for listeners. Short edits are the other split, since Mixcloud’s tracks are original productions between 30 seconds and 15 minutes, so a 12-minute edit of someone else’s song doesn’t qualify.

Using both is fine: productions on SoundCloud, mixes on Mixcloud and each profile pointing to the other. Mixcloud’s own to-do list tells you to keep clear links on your profile, and SoundCloud’s terms allow its embeddable player on your own site.

What Happens When YouTube’s Content ID Finds a Song in Your Mix?

Unlike SoundCloud’s terms, YouTube’s help pages spell this part out. Every upload is scanned by Content ID, and a match puts a claim on the video that blocks it, runs ads on it or tracks its viewers, depending on what that copyright owner chose.

Those actions can differ by country, so a mix can play in one place and be blocked in another. How Content ID works is the page to read, because a mix gives that system far more chances than a normal video does.

Twenty songs can mean twenty owners’ settings, and one owner choosing to block is enough to stop the video where that block applies. When a claimed video over three minutes is tracked or monetized, it stays up with the claim on it, and YouTube calls monetize the most common policy on music claims.

A claim isn’t a strike, YouTube says, since strikes come from valid copyright removal requests. You also get three ways to clear a claim without a dispute:

  • Erase song mutes the claimed audio, or all the audio in the video.
  • Trim out segment cuts the claimed part out of the video.
  • Replace song swaps in audio from the YouTube Audio Library.

None of those is kind to a continuous mix, because each one leaves a hole in the blend. Dispute only if you hold the rights, since a dispute without a valid reason can lead to a removal request and a strike.

Paying for the track doesn’t change this. YouTube’s copyright myths page says purchased content doesn’t give you the right to upload it, and neither does crediting the owner or adding a line such as “no infringement intended.”

The upload rules are simple by comparison. Accounts start at 15 minutes, verified accounts go up to 12 hours or 256 GB, whichever is less, and YouTube won’t take an audio file, so a mix needs an image or video added first.

How Does hearthis.at Check a Mix?

Like YouTube, hearthis.at puts a machine check in front of every upload, but a person makes the call. A possible match with a protected work keeps the sound private until the site’s team decides by hand.

The hearthis.at FAQ asks you to help by sending your license, the rights holder’s permission or links to your releases. If the team releases the sound, it goes public, and if it blocks the sound, it stays hidden and you get an email.

The home page invites you to “Listen to DJ Sets, Mixes and Sounds,” yet the FAQ still tells you to hold the proper licenses and to avoid uploading copyrighted content without explicit permission. Its terms add that tracks taken down after a copyright notice are fingerprinted with ACRCloud, so the same file can’t simply go back up.

A free account has four limits:

  • 30 sounds in total.
  • 400 MB a week, reset every Sunday at 7:00 pm CET.
  • 5,000 MB of storage.
  • 90 minutes a sound, with WAV, FLAC and AIFF left to Premium.

A 90-minute MP3 at 320 kbps comes to about 216 MB, so the weekly limit covers one full mix and most of a second. Uploads then play at 192 kbit/s, three times the 64 kbps Mixcloud lists for Basic on paper, though Mixcloud points out that its AAC+ is built for low bitrates.

Premium opens lossless streaming, Track ID and automatic tracklists for your own mixes between 15 minutes and 12 hours. If a Premium account ends, though, uploads in formats other than MP3 or M4A are hidden and deleted after some time, so keep your master file.

Does Audiomack Work for DJ Mixes?

That hand check is more than Audiomack’s pages offer a mix, since they talk about music and podcasts instead. Audiomack will host your uploads free, but its terms have you warrant that you own or hold the necessary licenses for all of it, and its Terms of Service and About page never mention DJ mixes.

Its DMCA page is the sharpest line here: “We monitor file uploads to make sure that copyrighted material is not uploaded and proactively ban any users that do not adhere to our terms of service.” So a mix of other people’s tracks puts the account at risk, not only the upload.

For a mix you’ve cleared, or a set of your own productions, the deal is friendlier. The About page promises free hosting whether you have 1 song or 1,000, free Artist Dashboard stats and free iOS and Android apps.

Can You Sell a DJ Mix on Bandcamp or Anywhere Else?

That account risk gets sharper once money changes hands. No platform here clears a mix for sale, and Bandcamp’s acceptable use policy bars content that infringes anyone’s copyright, so a store listing needs every rights holder’s permission first.

Bandcamp’s help center describes a store for artists and labels, which is why it suits music you own and not a mix of other people’s records. The other documents point the same way:

  • Mixcloud’s license to users is personal and non-commercial.
  • Twitch says its DJ catalog hasn’t been “cleared for use outside the Twitch Services.”
  • YouTube says buying a song doesn’t give you the right to upload or distribute it there.
  • SoundCloud’s terms bar selling access to content on the platform, apart from linking to a store for your own work.

Tips, fan subscriptions and ad shares are a different thing. Mixcloud Pro and hearthis.at let fans support you, and a monetized YouTube claim sometimes shares revenue with the uploader, but none of that is a license to sell the recording.

Can You Stream a DJ Set on Twitch?

That catalog line is also Twitch’s way in for live sets. You can stream a DJ set on Twitch if you opt into its DJ Program and play only tracks in its DJ Catalog, or if you own the recordings or have the rights holders’ permission.

Twitch’s Music Guidelines list a DJ set among the things you may not stream outside those cases. The Twitch DJ Program Terms, last modified 31 August 2026, then add four working rules:

  • Live only, with no VODs, Clips or other recordings containing Catalog Tracks.
  • A live video performance, with no audio-only or automated broadcasts.
  • No full album in one stream, and no stream of Catalog Tracks from only one artist.
  • No setlists shared ahead of the show.

The catalog changes too, so a track you checked last month needs checking again. If you earn on Twitch, a Music Costs deduction applies while you’re in the program, and the program isn’t offered in Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, South Korea or Syria.

That makes Twitch a stage and not an archive. Once the stream ends, nothing from it can stay on Twitch with those tracks in it.

What Do You and Your Listeners Get on Each Site?

Those rules decide whether a mix stays up, and the practical side splits what’s left. All five upload sites give you stats and a player or link to share, but Mixcloud keeps its listener insights and website player for Pro, while hearthis.at’s Embed tab sits outside its Premium list.

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Site Your stats Player for your site Private link What listeners need
Mixcloud Listener insights on Pro Show player on Pro Free for all users Free listening has ads; Premium adds offline, unlimited replays and upfront tracklists
hearthis.at Plays, downloads and likes; more on Premium Embed tab Secret link on a private sound A browser, app or podcast app; downloads only if you allow them
YouTube YouTube Analytics Share, then Embed Unlisted video, no Google Account needed to watch Ads unless they have Premium, which adds offline
SoundCloud Fan Insights for plays, likes, reposts and downloads Embeddable player Terms don’t say Downloads and offline only if you allow them
Audiomack Artist Dashboard, free Embed button on its player Terms don’t say Free iOS and Android apps

Read the last column as your listener would. A booker clicking a Mixcloud private link needs nothing but the link, while a fan who wants the mix on a flight needs Premium or your download switch.

hearthis.at has the most direct download control, with a per-sound switch and a Repost to Download option that unlocks the file after a repost. Mixcloud lists upfront tracklists as a Premium perk, so a free listener may not see your full tracklist from the start.

Which Site Fits Your Goal?

That table gets more useful once you know the job the mix has to do. Use Mixcloud for a public archive, a private link for bookings, hearthis.at for a podcast feed, and Twitch’s DJ Program, Mixcloud Pro or hearthis.at for a live stream, depending on what you play.

Where Should a Public Archive Live?

Mixcloud Pro is the natural home, since its guide calls your archive your portfolio and Pro keeps every show published. On Basic, keep your 10 best public and let the rest sit in drafts.

hearthis.at makes a good free second home, with its 30 sounds on top of those 10 shows. Keep your own copy either way, since Mixcloud’s agreement says not to rely on it as primary storage.

What Should You Send a Booker?

Send a private link, because it’s free on Mixcloud and “only people with the link can listen.” The link stays the same if you make the show public later, though setting one up needs a desktop browser.

hearthis.at gives a private sound a secret link, and YouTube’s Unlisted setting keeps a video out of search while anyone with the link can watch. Mixcloud’s agreement bars its widgets from commercial use without written consent, so ask before you put a Mixcloud player on a paid booking page.

Which Site Gives You a Podcast Feed?

hearthis.at does, from the Podcast tab of your profile or the settings of one set. Copy the feed address and submit it once to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Deezer, and hearthis.at notes that each service decides whether and when it lists your podcast.

Mixcloud runs the other way, importing an existing RSS feed, and on Basic only the 10 most recent shows display. A feed changes where the file goes, not who owns the songs in it.

Which Site Handles a Live Stream?

Twitch fits a video set built from its catalog, and Mixcloud Live, which needs Pro, fits a set built from your own music library. Mixcloud calls itself “the only streaming platform that handles music copyright for you” and says it identifies the tunes you play and pays royalties.

Treat “without takedowns” as Mixcloud’s own promise, since its agreement keeps the right to remove any submission for any reason. YouTube scans every live stream, and third-party content can bring a placeholder image, a warning and then an interrupted or ended stream.

A license alone may not stop that, since YouTube says the owner has to add your channel to their allowlist through Content ID. hearthis.at takes video through OBS or audio only through butt and other radio software, and its FAQ says it records only if you switch that on.

If you’re adding a microphone, an audio interface with loopback for DJs lets streaming software capture the DJ app’s mix alongside your voice.

Which File Should You Upload to Each Site?

Those four jobs start from the same recording, but each site wants a different file. Send Mixcloud a WAV or FLAC, a free hearthis.at account an MP3, and YouTube a video file.

Mixcloud’s HQ audio guide gives the reason for lossless: a WAV or FLAC is “only compressed once,” by Mixcloud. hearthis.at transcodes everything as well, but a free account stops short of WAV and FLAC, so export the highest-bitrate MP3 your software offers.

YouTube’s recommended settings start with an MP4 container and AAC-LC or Opus audio. Its help page says to turn an audio file into a video by adding an image, and it points you to other video editing software for that.

rekordbox’s Share Mix window is a shortcut for two of these, uploading a recording to Mixcloud as M4A and to YouTube as MP4, both at 192 kbps. If you want Mixcloud’s compressed-once route, export the file and upload it by hand, since the mixing software you already use decides how you export.

What Should You Check Before You Upload?

Once the file is ready, a short check keeps the mix from coming back. Check the tracklist first, the track sources second and the visibility last, in this order:

  1. Write out every artist and title, since Mixcloud’s agreement requires accurate names and hearthis.at imports lines such as “00:00 – Artist – Title.”
  2. Count songs per artist, album and compilation if the mix is going to Mixcloud.
  3. Pull unreleased promos and unofficial remixes, which Mixcloud’s agreement excludes and Twitch can act on in a stream.
  4. Keep song titles out of the Mixcloud title and description.
  5. Publish privately first, listen through the link, then go public.
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Step two gets easier if you plan for it, and Burton Acoustix’s walk-through for creating a DJ mix builds the song limits into the track order.

Mixcloud’s own to-do list adds one habit worth keeping: record slightly quieter than too loud, because clipped audio can’t be undone. Check the artwork at phone size too, since most people see it there first.

What Should You Do If a Mix Gets Claimed or Removed?

Even a careful upload can come back flagged, and each site has its own way back. Read the notice first, answer it where that site tells you to, and don’t push the same file up again, since hearthis.at won’t accept a file that’s blocked or still waiting for its check.

  • YouTube: Use one of those three edits, or dispute only if you hold the rights.
  • hearthis.at: Choose “write us to discuss this case” under the note, or reply to the email.
  • SoundCloud: Appeal through the process in its Moderation and Enforcement Policy.
  • Twitch: Use its help article on appealing muted audio.

Mixcloud’s agreement describes removal from public view but no appeal route, so start with its support team and fix whatever broke the limits. Bandcamp’s policy promises a Statement of Reasons if it removes your content.

Repeats are what end accounts. hearthis.at blocks uploads after repeated copyright takedown notices, SoundCloud can suspend or end repeat infringers, and three YouTube copyright strikes in 90 days put a channel up for termination.

How Do People Find a Mix Once It’s Up?

Once a mix is live, the tracklist and tags do the early work. Mixcloud says tracklists help mixes surface in searches and genre pages, and its charts rank shows on plays and listening in the first week after they’re posted.

So plan your push for that first week, and write a few lines on the mood or setting, which Mixcloud says helps in search too. hearthis.at’s weekly charts work the same way, ranking each genre’s uploads from the current week on plays and engagement.

Short clips reach people who haven’t heard of you. Mixcloud suggests a 30 to 60 second moment that captures the mix, and hearthis.at’s Share dialog downloads a short clip with your cover and sound for Instagram stories, reels or TikTok.

The Bottom Line

Those clips only help if the mix has a safe home, and the choice comes down to the job. Put full mixes on Mixcloud, add hearthis.at when you want a feed or downloads, use YouTube for filmed sets you’re ready to see claimed, and take live sets to Twitch’s DJ Program or Mixcloud Pro.

Keep SoundCloud, Audiomack and Bandcamp for music you own or have cleared, and keep your master file, because no site here is a backup. Terms change, so reread them before you commit an archive to one site.

The descriptions come from the platforms’ own terms, help pages and plan pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where should I post my DJ mixes?

Post them on Mixcloud first if they’re built from other people’s released tracks, because its pages say it handles the licensing and pays royalties, and stay inside its limit of 4 songs from one artist. Add hearthis.at if you want a podcast feed or downloads, and YouTube if you have video and can live with Content ID claims.

What website can I upload my mixtapes to?

The same sites take a mixtape. If you own or have cleared everything on it, SoundCloud, Audiomack and Bandcamp are open to you too, and Bandcamp lets you sell it. A mixtape built on other people’s records follows the same rules as a DJ mix, so Mixcloud’s song limits and the copyright checks on YouTube and hearthis.at all apply.

Where can I post my DJ mixes without copyright trouble?

No site removes the question completely. Mixcloud comes closest for released music inside its programming limits, and Twitch’s DJ Program does the same for catalog tracks played live. Anything you own outright, or have written permission to use, can go anywhere. Buying a track or crediting the artist doesn’t count as permission on YouTube, and SoundCloud’s checklist asks you to clear every part of someone else’s song.

Can I upload DJ mixes for free?

Yes. Mixcloud’s free Basic plan publishes 10 shows at a time, hearthis.at’s free account holds 30 sounds of up to 90 minutes, and SoundCloud’s Basic plan and Audiomack also take uploads at no charge. Free plans come with trade-offs, such as a 64 kbps stream on Mixcloud or a 400 MB weekly limit on hearthis.at, so check the limit that matters for your mix before you start.

Should I post the same mix on more than one site?

One home and one backup is enough for most DJs. Mixcloud plus hearthis.at covers an archive and a podcast feed, and either one can send a private link. Post to YouTube as well only if you have video, and remember each site applies its own rules to the same file, so a mix that’s fine on Mixcloud can still draw claims there.