Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

The limit is for the mobile app only, no?

oh, that would make sense.

is there a good "beginner's guide to using bandcamp" tutorial out there for first-time users from the artist side? i have used bandcamp plenty as a consumer/listener but i don't know anything from the other side and i need to get the ball rolling.

it's super easy, you just upload wav files and artwork and type words. they walk you through it.

they have to be wav files? see i didn't know that.
i don't know anything!

any lossless format - wav, aif, flac. then they automatically encode the compression versions (mp3s etc).

their Help section seems comprehensive enough
https://bandcamp.com/help/

oh ok, i didn't realize that you can control/remove the streaming limit:

By default, fans can play tracks on Bandcamp only a few times in full, after which they get a dialog prompting them to buy. As the artist, you can up this limit, or remove it entirely, from your Profile page (you of course always get unlimited plays of your own tracks, but for the curious, here’s what the purchase prompt looks like). When a fan makes a purchase, they get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app for Android, iOS and Sonos, an optional download in a variety of high-quality formats including lossless, and of course the satisfaction of directly supporting an artist they love.

i'll gather my materials and see what i can get done by myself. ty!

The new Kult of the Wizard is out today. Really good retro stoner rock:

https://kultofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-wizard

Full disclosure: my noise theremin squawks are the soundbed for track 3, "Plasma Pool"

I play in a band and while it's not free yet, all day tomorrow (3/17) can get our first record for free from Bandcamp cuz it's ten yrs old

http://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/dignified-sissy-2

hey i've heard stnnng before - good stuff!

Ok now it's up and free for today

Just made this. Pretty psychedelic dudes.

https://thedustbunnies.bandcamp.com/track/food-for-the-moon

From March to December this year a new release each month and each is F/PWYW . Electronics, synths and things: templo.bandcamp.com

Swivs "Free Period Blood Money"
http://swivs.bandcamp.com/releases
catchy bedroom rock music with electronic flourishes

also has a pretty great cover

https://polvodisco.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-oceania

I enjoyed this – more so the second half – though I've not heard much indie-pop since the Mystery Jets went mediocre. Light-as-air sounds en español just in time for the southern summer [/reviewer]
(From Amplifier: "Polvo Disco is Alexander Longstaff's solo project. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he became involved at young age in the local rock music scene, touring Chile and Argentina as a former member of pop band Alai. In 2007 he moved to New Zealand and started his solo music career")

here goes nothing

https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/why-pay-more

My hero 😍

yessssss

“Why Pay More?” was originally created for a performance at Whartscape in 2009 in which audience members had to guess the track’s bpm in order to win a prize (a life size bust of Master Chief from the video game Halo)

https://miscellaneousfrankums.bandcamp.com/album/loose-forms

collage in the vein of mick turner, >bridge & nut< raketown, and no-input feedback

i have a track on this, but there are 38 other ones, so far they're all great (still working my way through!)
https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/presents-vol-2

https://thetissues.bandcamp.com/releases

4-track ep from LA band The Tissues, reminds me of a lot of female-fronted bands I was into in the 90s where the singer sang LOUD.

http://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/monad

this is dope, def in the ash ra, early oneohtrix, hella synthed up zone

Not really a bandcamp thing but I don't know where else to ask this so

Since when do you have to have a soundcloud account to download downloadable tracks posted on soundcloud?!?

New lamniformes

#metal

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/thresher

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

I feel $4 and have no idea why

$6.66 hail satan

I usually go with $5.

$10 fugazi style

The question was prompted by some "name your price" Ian William Craig downloads that I'd buy if they came out on CD.

$4 or £3.00 doesn't seem too shoddy.

If you're gonna spend money on Bandcamp this week, consider doing it this Friday: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/07/31/this-friday-stand-with-bandcamp-in-support-of-trans-rights/

All the Shinkoyo label back catalogue is NYP right now, including those brilliant Skeletons records.

https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/

A friend of friends of mine just passed away. His stuff is good:
https://vows1.bandcamp.com/album/vows-2

mentioned on the post-fahey thread, but this is great: https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/fayet

the excellent "weird times" by matt jencik is free/name your price today only for halloween: https://mattjencik.bandcamp.com/. highly recommended if you're interested in drone music at all.

One thing I don't understand about Bandcamp. Why does anyone pay for any of the music if everything - I ever saw on there - was streamable for free? Just to download the mp3 and have a file on the computer?

to download the MP3 in case it ever goes away, and/or to support the artist

at least once I've streamed something on BC a couple of times and then been informed I couldn't anymore without purchasing the album--not sure how standard that is though

The artist/label can set that, I'm pretty sure.

Also DJs still need downloads, which is why I really like Bandcamp for dance music.

Ok then but what I don't like is that you cannot download single songs (or can you?). On the other hand I like the album approach (in theory). I am torn in between the past and present.

You can! Just click on the track and it should open its own page, with a track-level price.

Although I have seen some jazz artists in particular making power moves where only a couple of the tracks are streaming, and so you have to buy the album to hear the rest.

Why does anyone pay for any of the music if everything - I ever saw on there - was streamable for free?

because they care about the artist

i mean why leave money in the hat of a street performer? you could use that money to pay your comcast bill. im sure they will appreciate it just as much.

BC has lossless album downloads (my preferred listening). I buy an album and support an artist I like rather than giving money to marketers.

I wish Bandcamp would offer Chromecast support. They claimed it was in the offing a couple of years ago but still nothing.

Shameless self-promo here: buy our album for free. Wherein our hero finally accepts that he only always wanted to be Glenn Mercer anyway. https://salthorse.bandcamp.com