Considering SoundCloud - good move? Things to watch out for?

Been thinking of signing up for a SoundCloud account to post some of my productions but have been a bit leary.
Probably would need to be a free account for now, my work is slow during the holiday season and my wife just got laid off her job.
 
It's been several years since I sat down and thoroughly read their EULA and at the time I recall reading something about that the free accounts didn't allow you to delete/remove materials once posted.  Don't know if that's still true or if that was a mis-read.
 
Anyway I would appreciate some direction/feedback, etc.
 
Thanks
...Steven
 
 
 

Also, Sonar's integration with it is very handy.
 

The smartphone app is really handy. I upload work in progress mixes to Soundcloud as a matter of routine, which is all really simple from within Sonar. Then I have them ready to stream on headphones when I'm out doing the grocery shopping or whatever.
 
The free account limits how many minutes you can store, so you have to manage that. The paid account is unlimited. Usefully, though, the limit goes on time, not file size, so you can upload as high quality as you like.

PS YouTube is 100% free and there are no limits.

Or use Gobbler and send 24 bit wavs. :-)
They say I've sent close to 40gb this month. Wahoo!

Bah - The sound quality of SoundCloud, I'm not sure of what it is, but for me, it's just simply a non-issue. It sounds fine to me. If you tag a file as downloadable and the user goes for it - and your original upload file was a *.flac, that's exactly what they'll get. They can encode the damn thing any way they please. 

Checking out SoundClick - not exactly lovin' it.
 
While SoundClick has some decent options - you can sell your tunes directly on SoundClick, for paid accounts you can create a custom your home page, etc..
The other factors I'm running into are just pushing it out of my comfort zone...
 
There's a 10k limit on size of uploaded song files, they re-rendered my uploaded MP3 to ***160kbps (their info) and the stereo is now weird (the I don't want people to hear this mix kind of weird), and their privacy options are wonky - too global, no detail control. Out of the 8 SoundClick artists I randomly checked, the profile page on 3 said they were 8 years old (one 8 year old had a white beard and another had cleavage that you could could loose a wallet in) - once you touch the birthday setting you can't turn it off and 2005 is the latest choice available.  
***Maybe I should consider myself lucky SoundClick's documentation says that free accounts are limited to 128kbps, with paid it can go upto 320.
 
And lastly, at least to me, SoundClick's web interface feels way dated.  Even their player reminds me of RealAudio stuff from XP days.
 
 
If I was starting out with a paid account SoundClick's high fidelity and other options might be a deciding factor, but for the free accounts SoundCloud is so much more positive an experience and much less of a hassle.
 
..Steven 
 

I switched from Soundcloud to Bandcamp. Way better streaming quality and it was easy to set up. Mobile support is pretty good as well, much better than Soundclick, though I still use that as well.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Bandcamp is great. Stereokiller streams at 320 too. http://www.stereokiller.com/