# How LFG Alarm works with SoundCloud

Fans and creators · https://lfg.gm/lfg-alarm-with-soundcloud · Updated 2026-11-09

You follow an artist on SoundCloud for months. They finally drop the track you've been waiting for, and you find out three days later, from a friend's story. SoundCloud did tell you, in a notification that landed between forty others. LFG Alarm, a social alarm clock for iPhone, Android and lfg.gm in a browser, turns that moment into an alarm: your phone rings the minute it's out, and so do your friends' phones. This page shows every way the two work together, for fans and for artists. LFG Alarm is not affiliated with SoundCloud.

## What SoundCloud already does

SoundCloud's help pages say:

- New tracks from people you follow show up in the Following tab of your feed, newest first.
- The bell on an artist's profile picks your alerts for them: **All New Releases**, **Personalized** (weighted by how much you listen to them) or **No Notifications**.
- Alerts come by push or email, depending on your notification settings, and email can arrive hours late.
- Artists can upload a track as private and share it with a secret link, and Artist Pro accounts can schedule a private track to go public at a set time.

That works when you check your feed. It doesn't help when you're asleep, at work, or one of a hundred people who all want to hear it the same minute.

## What LFG Alarm adds

- **A ring, not a notification.** A drop alarm rings out loud the moment the new track is public. You pick how loud for yourself: **Horn on** rings, **Notify** sends a quiet notification, **Quiet** saves it in your Daily drop for later.
- **Everyone at once.** Share one alarm link, and everyone who joins rings in the same minute. Group chats light up while the track is still new.
- **The track right there.** **Play the drop** plays it in the app, credited to the artist and linked to the track on SoundCloud.
- **Nothing to set up on SoundCloud.** Rocco, the cat who does the watching in LFG Alarm, reads the artist's profile about once a minute. Artists upload as they always do.
- **No credits.** A drop alarm doesn't count against your plan.

## For fans

- **Your favourite artist drops.** Tell Rocco the artist, or paste their SoundCloud link, and he rings you when a new track goes up. Choose any track, or only an album or EP. See [how to get an alarm when an artist drops new music](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-new-release-alarm).
- **You and your friends, together.** One drop alarm in the group chat, and everyone hears it in the same moment. See [ringing your friends together when an artist drops](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-drop-alarm-with-friends).
- **A song as your alarm sound.** Wake up to any SoundCloud song that plays in full, picked from a shelf or a search, with no SoundCloud account. See [how to wake up to a SoundCloud song](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-alarm-sound).

## For artists

- **Ring every fan on release day.** Make a public drop alarm on your own profile, put its link in your bio, and every fan who joins rings when the track goes live, with your note on it. See [ringing every fan when your track drops](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-artist-drop-alarm).
- **Get fans to your show or listening party.** An alarm made from your event page rings everyone before doors, and a **Set an LFG alarm** button can sit on your own site beside the ticket link. See [getting fans to your listening party or show](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-listening-party-alarm).
- **A mystery drop.** Your closest fans join an alarm without knowing what it is. When it rings, the curtain opens on the new track, or a secret link to an early listen. See [how to make a mystery drop for your fans](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-mystery-drop).

## Ask your AI to set it up

If you use an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT with the LFG Alarm connector, it can find the artist and make the alarm for you.

**Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone.

> Set me a drop alarm for [artist] on SoundCloud, so my phone rings the minute they post a new track. Show me which profile you found before you make it.

Why it works: It names the artist and asks to see the profile first, so the alarm watches the right one. Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app first: see [AI agents](https://lfg.gm/agents).

## Questions

### Do I need a SoundCloud account?
No. Rocco watches the artist's public profile, and **Play the drop** streams the track without signing in.

### Will the new track be the ring?
No. LFG's sound rings, so it's loud on every phone. The track plays when you tap **Play the drop**.

### How fast does it ring?
Within about a minute of the track going public on the artist's profile.

### What about a private track or a scheduled release?
The alarm rings when a track becomes public, so it rings for a scheduled release at its time, and when an artist switches a private track to public. It never rings for a private track nobody can play yet.

## Sources and further reading

- [SoundCloud Help: Your Feed and how it works](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003568208-Your-Feed-and-how-it-works)
- [SoundCloud Help: I'm not getting notifications from artists I follow](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/29280989378971-I-m-Not-Getting-Notifications-from-Artists-I-Follow)
- [SoundCloud Help: Sharing a private track or playlist](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003450427-Sharing-a-private-track-or-playlist-within-SoundCloud)
- [SoundCloud Help: Schedule a release date](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055603414-Schedule-a-Release-Date)
- [Sharing and reach: private, friends and public alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach)

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with SoundCloud.

## Keep exploring

- [KST to your time: convert a Seoul drop and set the alarm](https://lfg.gm/kst-to-my-time.md): Convert any Seoul drop time to yours and ring the whole fan chat at once.
- [How to get an alarm when someone posts on X](https://lfg.gm/alarm-when-someone-posts.md): Describe the post you are waiting for; Rocco rings you when it lands.
- [Ticket drop alerts, sneaker drop alerts and restock alerts that ring](https://lfg.gm/drop-and-restock-alerts.md): Ring your phone, and your whole group’s, before a ticket on-sale or sneaker release, when a brand posts the announcement, or when your restock monitor fires.
- [How creators can catch a trend before it peaks](https://lfg.gm/creator-trend-alarms.md): Rocco watches X, YouTube and Twitch, and Zapier or Make rings you only when a topic shows up across several sources, so you make the reaction video first.
- [How to get an alarm when an artist drops new music on SoundCloud](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-new-release-alarm.md): Tell Rocco the artist or paste their SoundCloud link, and he rings you the minute a new track or album goes up, ready to play right away, credited to the artist.
- [For artists: ring every fan the moment your SoundCloud track drops](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-artist-drop-alarm.md): Make a public drop alarm on your own SoundCloud profile, put its link in your bio, and every fan who joins rings together when the track goes live, with your note on it.

## About LFG Alarm

LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, keeps watch and wakes you up.

- Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app
- Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085
- Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words.
- Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt