No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is audio.com legit or a scam?
Established audio hosting platform by Muse Group with 31-year history, clean security profile, and active Cyprus business registration; privacy concerns noted but no fraud indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Audio.com is a legitimate, long-established platform operated by MuseCY SM Ltd, a registered Cyprus limited company incorporated in August 2020. The domain itself dates back to 1994 and ranks in the top 50 globally by traffic, indicating substantial user adoption and operational maturity. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 91 engines, SSL is valid, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. The platform is officially integrated with Audacity and MuseScore, both widely-used creative tools. Independent review aggregators rate it as safe and legitimate. User feedback on independent review aggregator (3.6/5 stars from ~70 reviews) shows mixed but non-fraudulent sentiment — complaints centre on billing practices and interface usability rather than scam tactics. One forum discussion raised privacy concerns about data sharing with Google and Yandex, a legitimate consumer-protection issue but not indicative of fraud. No major scam reports, malware associations, or credential-harvesting indicators were found.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
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What our vision model saw
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for audio.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered ~31 years ago (1994) with high traffic rank (Tranco 50); Scamadviser rates it 'Very Likely Safe' with valid SSL.
- Operated by MuseCY SM Ltd, active Cyprus limited company (HE 411908) incorporated August 2020, registered at Spyrou Kyprianou 84, Limassol.
- Official free audio hosting/sharing platform from Muse Group (creators of Audacity, MuseScore); direct integration from Audacity app and MuseScore.
- Trustpilot shows mixed feedback (3.6/5 from ~70 reviews): positive on customer service response; complaints center on billing/unauthorized charges after cancellation and clunky interface.
- Forum discussions (vi-control, Reddit r/audiocom) note privacy concerns over data sharing with Google/Yandex advertisers and past Muse Group controversies regarding Russian ties/telemetry.
- No major scam reports, fraud alerts, or malware associations found; described as creator-focused platform with millions of tracks and users.
- vi-control.net forumopen
"Audio.com is a privacy nightmare as it shares data with advertisers like Google or Yandex... It's a product by Muse Group (devs of MuseScore and Audacity) who have backpedalled a number of times from converting those products into Russian s"
MuseCY SM Ltd. (HE 411908), private limited company, incorporated 10/08/2020, registered office Spyrou Kyprianou 84, 4004 Limassol; director AGP Directors Ltd, secretary AGP Secretaries Ltd
Our research found one privacy-focused discussion on a professional audio forum (vi-control) criticizing audio.com's data-sharing practices with Google and Yandex, and referencing past Muse Group controversies regarding Russian ties and telemetry. Two positive reviews on independent aggregators confirmed audio.com as legitimate and safe for consumers. independent review aggregator shows mixed but non-fraudulent feedback (3.6/5 stars, ~70 reviews), with complaints centring on billing disputes and interface usability rather than scam tactics. No major scam reports, fraud alerts, or malware associations were found. The platform is confirmed as an official audio hosting service operated by Muse Group, creators of Audacity and MuseScore.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://audio.com/
- 2403https://audio.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on audio.com and not a lookalike like a-udio.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on audio.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- audio.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. audio.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 55 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- audio.com is 31.8 years old, registered on 9/7/1994 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report audio.com as clean.
- No. audio.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- audio.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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