Where do people upload their songs to now ?

I used to use "ultimate guitar"and upload over there , People could listen ,Rate and leave comments on your songs and i enjoyed it al lot .
They stopped all that though , And i was forced to download all my work again .
Was just curious if there are other community sites like that where you can upload your songs and get feedback  ?
 
Oh and of course , It must be free 
 
Dan

I noticed a while back that somewhere along the line SoundClick quietly raised its playback quality from 128 kb/s to 160 kb/s for free accounts. Of course, if you want to pay for the privilege you can store your files at any bitrate you like.

I use reverbnation works very well for me.

Soundcloud for me.  It seems to be the most widely used platform besides YouTube.

I've been using YouTube. We live in an all digital, short-attention-span world. People won't sit still for an audio playback of a three-minute song. It's pretty easy to generate a slide show to go (vaguely) with a song. My friends will then listen to the whole song, thinking they are watching a movie. Otherwise they'd be clicking around the internet while my song plays, basically just waiting for it to be over. It would be better, of course, if my songs were more compelling, but until then, smoke and mirrors.

Youtube all the way for me.  It's completely free, no limit on how much you can put up and you can monetize your tracks (even covers).  Of course, with the amount of content on Youtube it's easy to get lost in the shuffle.  But it's the highest potential audience at the same time.

I have been in this hunt for the last few days. I really like soundcloud but my account is a bit messed up and I have not received any email support as of yet to fix it. They do not have phone support. It is free and the free account will serve most peoples needs. They have two pro plans, one at $55 per year and one at around $140 a year. I don't mind paying the $140 a year but I am not happy with the lack of support when issues happen.
 
I also have a youtube channel but also feel pressed to do video which I am not very good at. I also had issues with posting copyrighted songs that I am the owner of.
 
I signed up on Bandcamp a few days back and it seems to work fine and is free. But I have no long term experience with Bandcamp.
 
Also this may be true or not true, but for me, I had more issues with my free soundcloud account than I did after I got a pro account. I have no real way to know if that was because I got a pro plan or it just happened that way.
 
If I were going to test out something free, soundcloud would my first choice. What the hell...it's free so what have you got to lose by posting a few tunes there. Just sayin
 
Best of luck and if you find the super cool site that no one knows about I for one would like to hear about it.

I also don't know how wide the audience is at bandcamp.
 
I did a short test looking for Blues and then old school blues. There is a ton of stuff that came up, but....it was everything from rock to rap and some stuff I would consider blues.
 
My point is that uploading a song to any of these sites may not expose your songs to much of anyone because there is no way for someone to find you.
 
After four years of being on soundcloud with about 100 songs under my name the results has been that people who know me found me because I contacted them directly and directed them to my account. The ones who wanted to keep up with what I do started to follow me.
 
People who I don't know from a few countries around the world said things like "stumbled across you and I like your stuff" and started following me.
 
If I upload a song to soundcloud and tag it as rock you can go there knowing I exist but do not know how I am listed and you will search for the next hundred years looking and most likely not find me.
 
Every song on a internet site is like a grain of sand on a very large beach and unless your grain of sand is next to "the Girl with the big blue eyes...lol" you may never get noticed.
 
There are ways to get around these issues but they cost time, money, lots of money. Go check out what labels actually do to get their artist found on the internet.
 
 

synkrotron
I started a reverbnation page yesterday. But I went to upload my latest toon to that site and they have a limit of 8gb per song, so now I have to either make shorter tracks or convert to a lower bitrate. Not impressed...

8GB or 8MG? I'm assuming that was a typo and you meant MegaByte... otherwise I gotta wonder what kind of epic tunes you are writing. lol
 
8megs should be okay I think if you do export it to fit. There is a chart of how much music you can cram into a MB per minute based on bit depth and samplerates in the Sonar Ref guide (remember that a stereo file doubles that but that is also included in the chart). I don't use reverbnation but I'm assuming they also allow mp3 uploads as well which are obviously much smaller and can have really high quality anyway (but you can't export directly out of SOnar without the Lame encoder or the Cakewalk mp3 thingie installed which is why I have Pyro which does that stuff if I need).
 
So far I've been using soundcloud and when I first signed up it was great and it still serves its purpose BUT shortly after I signed up they did a redesign and now it pulls this autoplay stuff which kind of annoys me and has all sorts of weird script based silliness going on. I've been meaning to check out some of the other players to avoid this but haven't been uploading much anyway so whatever.
 
Some of the online file storage/sharing sites seem to be including "players" as well. Not sure how that works but I've been able to actually play tunes in dropbox and I thing onedrive recently. This could be part of the whole HTML5 revolution going on that allows browsers to play vids and audio without flash thingies or special server crap going on. But I don't know a whole heckuva a lot about that stuff.
 
HOWEVER if one were so inclined they could bypass those audio player sites altogether now by just creating their own webpage, storing the audio on their little hunk of server space then using HTML5 coding to serve up the audio. The downside is this could max out your bandwidth/storage limits for a cheap web hosting account and people who's browsers don't support such HTML5 features (older browsers) would be out of luck.