Bandcamp blocked in China, https://t.co/UPX1g0C4Q2— joris gillet (@stereo) February 23, 2021
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
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
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 12 March 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
playlists suck. Bandcamp is for album listening.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 12 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
xp, not if you've got lots of single track purchases
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 12 March 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
Try this:https://bndcmpr.co/
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 12 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
xp
good point
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
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)
― rob, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
I assume they use the bandcamp app to stream on their phones
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
ah right. Honestly apple's "music" app is so shitty I might end up doing that too soon enough
― rob, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
My hatred of iTunes is well documented. Also, I tend to move from device to device
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 12 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
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.
― lukas, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
use the wishlist. it's great. it does what you want to do.
― alpine static, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
FINE
― lukas, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Yah, why would you not want to use it? Wishlist works great.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
I guess the new player interface on iOS is cool but I am wary of further feature creep
― ncxkd, Sunday, 6 February 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
now I'm using the wishlist feature and it's working great and I have a new problem
― brisk money (lukas), Monday, 7 February 2022 03:49 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
Well I'm not seeing any NFT mentions so that's a good sign.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
Best case scenario is Epic just wants to use Bandcamps model/software/payment system for selling games, and leaves Bandcamp the hell alone?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
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.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah the whole Epic/Apple thing is what I’ve been thinking about here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloadersomeone might find this useful, it's a way to download your entire collectionbecause the individual album method takes forEVAH
― calstars, Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
Ned to thread!
― doug watson, Saturday, 15 October 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Fuck yes, hate buying a label discography and then needing to wait and press DOWNLOAD on 75 different items.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 16 October 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
doesn't really seem like the epic acquisition changed anything, as far as i've seen
― na (NA), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I'm glad there's been no major enshittification so far.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Just wait
― calstars, Friday, 3 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
They're still letting me write for them, clearly a disaster wait hold on.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
Deeply concerned about Bandcamp, Patreon and Mixcloud, thankfully all three are still ok, but this can't last forever.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
Why Patreon?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
patreon succeeds despite itself and its ownership imo
― mh, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
Bandcamp unionized:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bandcamp-union-1234695308/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
Nice!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
Initial petition delivered, public campaign call on Monday:
https://bit.ly/bcu-update
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
Love BC Use it all dayJust stop adding shit Not going to end well
― calstars, Thursday, 30 March 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
otm
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
adding what?
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
needless "functionality" and bloatware (guessing at what calstars meant here but that's my take)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
Ned's link is to register for a Zoom webinar FYI
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
yeah IDGI
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
doh
― calstars, Friday, 31 March 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link