Install

Download SoundBat from the Download page and unzip it anywhere. Run SoundBat.exe — there's no installer. On first launch you'll be asked for a license key.

Activate your key

Your key arrives by email right after you buy, and looks like this:

Paste it into the activation screen and click Activate. The key locks to that computer and unlocks the app — you won't be asked again on that machine.

Move to a new PC

Each key works on one computer at a time. New PC or reinstalled Windows? Email support@soundbat.app and we'll free your key for the new machine.

Download modes

Four modes, picked from the MODE dropdown:

• Profile — an account's avatar and banner.
• Single Track — one track's MP3 and/or artwork.
• Playlist / Album — every track (albums numbered 01 - Title.mp3).
• Likes — an account's entire liked collection.

For every mode except Profile, two checkboxes let you save MP3, artwork, or both.

What downloads

SoundBat saves each track as an MP3 — the progressive MP3 SoundCloud serves for public tracks (128 kbps). When a track has no progressive MP3 but a genuine unencrypted HLS stream, a bundled ffmpeg converts it to MP3. Tracks that still can't be saved are skipped cleanly (never counted as failures) and listed in a skipped.txt:

• Go+ / preview-only tracks (30-second snippets)
• DRM-protected tracks (Apple FairPlay — undecryptable by any tool)
• Unavailable / phantom streams that don't resolve

Artwork still downloads for those if you asked for it.

Where files go

Downloads go under a folder named after the account or artist, inside your Documents by default (change it with the ⚙ button in the app). Audio and artwork are always kept in separate folders, never mixed.

Batch engine

Playlist and Likes jobs stream through a batch engine — a producer feeds two small worker pools through bounded queues, so even a 5,000-track Likes list downloads with flat memory instead of loading everything at once. A Cancel button stops a job cleanly; in-flight files finish, nothing is left half-written.

Resilient downloads

• Stream URLs are short-lived — resolved at download time and re-resolved once if they expire mid-batch.
• Each download retries with backoff on transient errors.
• Files write to a temporary .part and only rename once complete, so a half-file is never mistaken for done.
• Already-downloaded files are skipped — safe to re-run a job to pick up anything that failed.

Full pagination

SoundCloud returns likes one page at a time. The Likes downloader follows every page until there are none left, so a 5,000-likes account is fully covered rather than truncated. A safety cap plus cursor-cycle detection prevent any infinite loop.

Stress test

A real Likes run against a public profile with several thousand liked tracks — the exact code path the app uses:

Every requested track was accounted for; the only 6 misses were genuine dead links on SoundCloud's own CDN. Verified by walking the output folder, not trusting an in-memory count.

Performance

Throughput is bandwidth-bound, not worker-bound — a single stream already pulls ~5 MB/s and four saturate the ceiling near 8 MB/s:

At ~8 MB/s, a 4,000-track (~8.6 GB) collection takes about 18 minutes — only a faster connection changes that.

Safety & privacy

SoundBat uses no official API key and no yt-dlp. It reads only what's publicly visible on a SoundCloud page. The update check is a single read of the public releases list — no personal data is ever sent. It only downloads public content you point it at.

Read the source on GitHub or scan the download on VirusTotal.

FAQ

Subscription or one-time? — Both: $5/month, or $10 once for lifetime.

Does it work offline? — Yes; it checks your license on launch and keeps working during short offline spells.

Which operating systems? — Windows 10 and 11.

Refunds? — Email support and we'll sort you out.

Support

Questions, bugs, or key issues? Email support@soundbat.app or open an issue on GitHub.