When artists distribute a song to SoundCloud through Rapchat Distro, it creates an automatic audio fingerprint—similar to YouTube’s Content ID system. This fingerprint is used to detect and manage rights across the platform but sometimes mistakes can occur:
1. Artists: Your release flagged a song you already uploaded
If you're an artist and you manually uploaded a song to your personal SoundCloud account that was also distributed through Rapchat Distro, SoundCloud may flag your upload as copyright infringement. This is because the Distro version has an audio fingerprint that gets priority and is treated as the “original” version.
How to Fix It:
Reach out to Rapchat Support.
We can link your existing SoundCloud profile to your Distro account.
Once linked, we can either:
Takedown the older distributed version and re-send it to your official SoundCloud account.
Or resend all future releases directly to your connected SoundCloud account.
2. Producers: Your Beats Are Getting Claimed by Artists
If you're a beat producer and your beats are getting copyright claims because artists released songs using them via Rapchat Distro, here's what's happening:
SoundCloud gives priority to distributed versions of a song over direct uploads. So even if you created and uploaded the beat manually, SoundCloud might assume the artist’s distributed version is the original.
How to Fix It:
Contact Rapchat Support and we can whitelist your SoundCloud account, so future Rapchat Distro songs won’t claim your beats.
For long-term protection, we recommend distributing your beats through a platform like Rapchat Distro. That way, SoundCloud will recognize you as the original owner, and future songs that use your beat won't trigger claims.
Dispute a Copyright Claim Directly with SoundCloud
After taking the steps above, you can also file a dispute directly with SoundCloud if your content is still being flagged. Just head to:
👉 https://copyright.soundcloud.com/disputes#