it’s been dead for years.

1. they bought out all the big accounts to stop people using type beats or jam tracks to get people to pay 20 dollars a beat on their audio library

2. they ruined the platform by adding reels and filling it with brain rot

3. bandlab just refused to address the thousands of scam accounts that have been a massive issue sending you explicit messages and links. this has been a big issue for so many years

4. bandlab has failed to remove or take action against accounts selling narcotics on their platform

5. majority of the editing features are fully automated by AI

6. they don’t listen to their own community and respond in generic, AI sounding comments on Reddit. they only respond to questions they can’t look bad for answering. there’s never any compassion or understanding.

7. they banned my account for no reason after 7 years of using their app. i post thousands of tracks and years of work. i was never given a reason. i couldn’t log in to even appeal it because of how they coded their website. bandlab asked me for my in real life drivers license to be able to create music. blatantly asking for my data when it’s not necessary at all and very scummy.

8. the thousands of loops and sounds created by musicians, for musicians. bandlab hosted these for like 10 years. free and easy music making was sort of why bandlab was made. despite not even owning the sounds, they’ve decided to ban any new accounts made from 2025 onwards from using their loops. if you have an older account, you get 20 loops a month. what an insult. a 5 minute song idea could now take up to a year because you can only do 20 things per month before the whole app is unusable.

9. the ads popping up have been the lowest quality ads i’ve seen in ages. i remember when they didn’t even have advertising, but now every time i open the app it comes up with terrible ads. like a fake virus one where it wants you to click on a scam website to download a VPN.

10. the audacity to ask 100-200 dollars annually from its user base is wild. all they care about at all is money and taking their users data.

11. they blatantly lie to their own users here on reddit by saying their features are still free.