Kickstarter / Bandcamp / etc - C or D?

so for anyone curious, i made a playlist of some of my own music and in the tracklist it puts a nice "buy" link next to each song, which takes you directly to the song's page on bandcamp. here's what it looks like..

(sorry to link to my own, but i haven't seen any others yet)

Also how is this different from https://buymusic.club/?

The front end is nicer, admittedly (choosing your own colors is nice). I made one for a recent radio mix.

Damn:

Bandcamp is now blocked in China. The reason will be bureaucratic, routine. The effect will be subtle tragedy- a slow-burn drift to an insular music scene that has to rely on volunteer content smuggling and context translation. Skills this resilient scene knows all too well. 😭😭

— Krish Raghav (@krishraghav) February 17, 2021

the replies on that tweet are not encouraging, people are just wanting a way to have bandcamp be spotify

Not really into bndcmpr, the need to build up a library there has driven a fair amount of purchasing - trying to reach critical mass where my Bandcamp library has enough variety to replace other services as the default when I turn on my truck.

Bandcamp blocked in China, https://t.co/UPX1g0C4Q2

— joris gillet (@stereo) February 23, 2021

Gotta say, Bandcamp Fridays are starting to be a bummer. It's warping the whole release schedule...you're either part of a huge glut on first Fridays, or worried that people will only buy/check for music on those days. Also feels a little weird to jump the line and release something a few days before a BC Friday. Not to mention making artists feel like they are now on a schedule to put something out once a month.

I wish they would just reduce their revenue share overall for the next X number of months, it would really smooth things out. Someone tell Robert Bandcamp.

Anyone know if there's a way to make a playlist for my Bandcamp purchases a la Spotify? I have quite a decent collection and a lot of it isn't available on Spotify. I'd like to be able to put these into a playlist so I can have these playing as I work or on my phone, but it seems that's not really a thing Bandcamp offers, which seems like a real shame

playlists suck. Bandcamp is for album listening.

Bandcamp itself doesn't allow that but there is some kind of third-party app that does it. I don't remember the name right now.

xp, not if you've got lots of single track purchases

Try this:
https://bndcmpr.co/

xp

good point

Do a lot of people only listen to BC purchases on BC? It has never really occurred to me to use it as a platform like that (I always download and import to itunes)

I assume they use the bandcamp app to stream on their phones

ah right. Honestly apple's "music" app is so shitty I might end up doing that too soon enough

Yeah I download everything to my music drive for local play and if I stream just stream off the app when I'm not at home. Very very occasionally I'll stream via my desktop setup.

My hatred of iTunes is well documented. Also, I tend to move from device to device

thanks for the link Jordan!!

It's wild that I can be logged into Bandcamp on my phone, laptop and iPad and have different shopping carts for each one.

I don't use wishlists, I just add things to my shopping cart when I know I want to buy them and then wait to check out until I'm at my laptop.

Bandcamp I just want to give you money, please take it.

use the wishlist. it's great. it does what you want to do.

FINE

Yah, why would you not want to use it? Wishlist works great.

I guess the new player interface on iOS is cool but I am wary of further feature creep

now I'm using the wishlist feature and it's working great and I have a new problem

Huh.

Apparently Bandcamp got bought by is joining Epic Games (Fortnite)?

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

Wondering what this means for the payment system.

Well I'm not seeing any NFT mentions so that's a good sign.

is this an acquisition or just a partnership? it's really vague about that and it's the part that matters most which makes me assume its the worse case

Yeah, it's the vagueness that unsettles me, plus the bit about "push(ing) development forward" on the payment system. Having seen how Fortnite does it's payment system, this could be an adjustment.

I was trying to figure that out too, it's very odd. I assume that it's a euphemism for an acquisition, from the "we're joining them" language.

And while over the years we’ve heard from other companies who wanted us to join them...

Not the other way around, or "wanted to work together", etc.

Best case scenario is Epic just wants to use Bandcamps model/software/payment system for selling games, and leaves Bandcamp the hell alone?

There's absolutely no way, if the payment system or software changes, that it doesn't go the other direction.

Epic's game store is huge, although Steam is still considerably larger. I think the monthly user numbers are something like 50 million, and they've dropped millions of dollars on time-limited giveaways of games just to lure people into their ecosystem.

I think the big play here is that Epic can use music as another wedge against Apple not allowing in-app purchases that aren't funneled through Apple's payment system or allowing apps that aren't through the App Store.

Yeah the whole Epic/Apple thing is what I’ve been thinking about here.

https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
someone might find this useful, it's a way to download your entire collection
because the individual album method takes forEVAH

Ned to thread!

Fuck yes, hate buying a label discography and then needing to wait and press DOWNLOAD on 75 different items.

doesn't really seem like the epic acquisition changed anything, as far as i've seen

Yeah, I'm glad there's been no major enshittification so far.

Just wait

They're still letting me write for them, clearly a disaster wait hold on.

Deeply concerned about Bandcamp, Patreon and Mixcloud, thankfully all three are still ok, but this can't last forever.

Why Patreon?

Because it seems like any of these companies are liable to be bought out & ruined by a venture capitalist. They have made the right calls so far, on the whole.

patreon succeeds despite itself and its ownership imo

Only problem with Bandcamp I have had recently is really slow downloads every now and then, which is annoying when you’re trying to download 50 albums on a Bandcamp Friday.

Bandcamp unionized:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bandcamp-union-1234695308/

Nice!

Initial petition delivered, public campaign call on Monday:

https://bit.ly/bcu-update

Love BC
Use it all day
Just stop adding shit
Not going to end well