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Need the app itself? Which file to download
  • Track: click Save offline on the track page or in the track row.
  • Playlist or album: on its page click Download -> Save for offline.
Saved items show up in the left menu under Offline.
To listen: left menu Offline (the Local library page), tabs Likes, Playlists, Cache, My files. You do not need to turn the internet off.
Open Settings -> Storage -> Cache location -> Open folder. By default it is:Cache files have no titles, only track numbers. For a file with a title use Download (the As a file tab above).
  1. Open Settings -> Storage -> Cache location and click Change folder…
  2. Pick a folder on the drive you want.
  3. Click Move and restart.
A SoundCloud Desktop folder appears inside the folder you picked. The app restarts.To make the cache smaller, set Settings -> Storage -> Cache -> Audio cache limit. Off deletes a track right after it plays.In Flatpak only /media, /run/media, /mnt and the Music and Downloads folders are available.
Open Offline -> My files and click Add files or Add folder. You can also drag files into the app window. mp3, m4a, flac, ogg, opus and wav work.The files stay where they are. You cannot like them or send them to SoundCloud.
The app downloads the whole track and only then plays it, so the sound does not break up. The percent on the cover is the download. Stuck at 1%: what to do.
A single track saves only as M4A. MP3 exists only for a playlist or album: Download -> Download to a folder.To save a file the app needs ffmpeg: it downloads it by itself, once. Open Settings -> Storage -> Transcode Forge: Engine should say Ready. Preparing - wait, the one-time download is running. Unavailable - write to us and attach desktop.log: how to write.The message Cannot export to m4a: audio transcoder is still preparing or unavailable means the same: wait until the track is processed (in Offline it has the FORGING stamp) and try again.
Open Settings -> Storage -> Cache and click Clear on the row you need. Audio does not touch likes and offline playlists.The row Likes, offline playlists and saved tracks (protected cache) deletes their files: you will have to download them again.