Kickstarter / Bandcamp / etc - C or D?

No it shouldn't affect prices for US buyers as far as I know. Some other non-EU countries are part of the scheme though I think

It's pretty confusing and most of the relevant bodies seem to be under/misinformed and offering poor information.

I know a lot of small UK ebook publishers are freaking out/giving up because of the rules.

This is a good article about Kickstarter: www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/zpm-espresso-and-the-rage-of-the-jilted-crowdfunder.html

Also my sister's husband has a Kickstarter going right now for a prospective business and it's stressing me out. They've raised a lot of money but still have a big chunk to go in the next couple of days.

I'm seeing something weird in my Bandcamp stats. I haven't really been very active (I put up an EP a week or two ago but didn't really promote it much) but this is my "Buzz" chart for the past two months:
http://imgur.com/I8RSsLY
The spikes around June 22 are when I put up the EP. But the other spikes all have either 65 or 66 direct visits, and they're exactly two weeks apart. They don't correspond to any actual listens to my music.

bandcamp question -- how to delete a tag on a track? a friend was trying to help me get my shit together on bc and she put a nonsense word there (no idea why) and now i can't get rid of it

Edit > Tags in the lower right

Thaaaank u

i still can't find the spot to delete tag -- i can add them in the edit screen but i can't get to this one nonsense tag to get rid of it
everything else has made sense and been more or less easy, but this is driving me nuts!

oh i guess you can set tags at artist, album, and track level. so try editing at each of those.

i did! i still can't get rid of it.
so irritating.

i got rid of it!

urgent question for bandcamp users: i know that i can upload as .wav, .flac, or .aif but the files i have are .aiff

1) i think i can convert via audacity but i don't know which one to convert to, if any
2) is there a format that people like better where the cover image is attached to the songs and everything is tagged correctly?

i have never done this before, excuse my noob questions

.aif and .aiff are the same.

ok
is that the one i should upload as then? is that a file type that people will not complain about?

I do FLAC cause it is smaller than WAV size-wise (and so loads faster plus I do looooonnng tracks and if they go over a certain size they won't load at all). That is all I have figured out though, i.e., FLACs make sense for me cause of the file size.

I have never had anyone complain, and I think they can request an MP3 if they want one too (i.e., don't want a large file on their hard drive or whatever).

there are a couple of long ones (8 and 12 min) so maybe i should try those first and then see
i don't have the pro account either so this may take a while?

Well, for me long means like 30 minutes or more (I post a number of live sets), so you should be A-OK with most formats, but the smaller the file the faster it loads of course.

ok that's good! i'll just leave them as is then

i forget, isn't there a track length limit for bandcamp?

Honestly, in terms of which one you use as source for bandcamp doesn't really matter, unless you have super high quality recordings, as people can choose what format they want to download, and the on-site player is independent of that.

http://amazon.bandcamp.com/

what the fuck?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1793481042/star-wars-open-world-rpg/description

already up to $15,000, unsurprisingly.

Pre Intro: This whole project was created solely by me, Devin Tripp. I do not have permission from Disney to create this game as of now. Disney has no part of this as of now. I have received a reply from Disney telling me to ask Lucas Films.

Like many of us when we were kids, we wanted to be like Luke Skywalker or obi juan Kinobi, but like all of us, we do not live in a galaxy far far away. There might be another way though. With all the open world RPGs out there how is there not a good one for Star Wars? I have decided to take matters into my own hands and write a story in the star wars universe that will fit inside a RPG video game that I have not created. I am currently looking into talking with Disney if I am able to do this. If not then there might have to be a compromise on the name or some other parts. I need your help. I am not a very good programmer, and I'm an even worst artist. I want to put this project into the hands of professionals, but in order to do that I need money to hire them. This was my dream as a kid I hope you can share my same compassion, thank you.

There are many people out there that have the wrong image when they think about this game so I will go into deep detail as much as i can to get people more excited about this. As I know there are other "very good" games over Star Wars, but within the bounds of good taste, I believe that these RPG's over Star Wars have not reached their full potential. I do not feel immersed in these games. I am not talking about a 1995/2005 game that could be created in a month or two. I am talking about a Star Wars RPG that will completely blow people away; like "Fallout 4", or "The Witcher 3" did. These RPG's set the benchmark of how the future of RPG's should look, and they are a good blueprint to go on. I want to make something that is like this in some respects, but goes even further. It will have the graphics of "Battlefront" or better with the feel of "The Witcher 3".

The game and story will also have a lot of choice. You will be able to choose which side you would like to be on. You can be evil and reside on the Darkside and rule the galaxy as you wish, or you could also bring peace about the galaxy. Both in their own respects have their perks. Speaking of perks: Like "Fallout 4" there might or might not be perks in the game. At least not the same as they are in "Fallout". I do not want to give away much about the story, but I will give away that you do not start out as a Jedi, but later become one. As you progress your skills get better as your ability to use the force. It is very exciting that I have already gotten backers. I will be providing updates every couple of days, and answering any questions that you might have. I am still answering others so please be patient.

- Thank you, Devin Tripp

there is no video, no interview, and no art past a poorly cropped Star Wars logo

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/292521457/i-want-to-put-punk-stuff-on-pogs-and-maybe-bart-si?ref=home_recs

Stupid.

still only at 1% funding :-/

http://i.imgur.com/ayWvFM3.png

http://www.rockfeed.net/2016/11/03/people-pissed-allegaeon/

something very insignificant i've noticed about bandcamp and what happens if you hit << while you're in the middle of a song: a lot of online services replicate what would happen if you were in the middle of a song and hit << on a CD player, i.e., they return to the beginning of the song you are currently listening to. bandcamp, instead, jumps to the song prior to the one you're currently listening to.

Pricing peeves:

1) Asking less for all tracks individually than for the album as a whole. Why u do that? Are we paying a premium for a neater looking collection and easier streaming or is it just sloppy arithmetic.

2) Asking more for the DL only than for a cassette (+DL). I've come across this quite a bit. It's nice for local buyers (while stocks last), but why ask overseas fans to pay more if they don't want to stump up the postage or care about physical? In addition there's VAT (~20%) on digital only for EU customers but NOT if it comes with a physical copy!

Do us a favour!

based on my experience as someone familiar with the pricing process, the answer to #1 is sloppy arithmetic -- they ask you to set an album price first, then they give you the option of selling the tracks individually. It would probably help with many people's arithmetic if they reversed the steps

Can anyone tell me if tracks put up on Bandcamp are licensed for radio broadcast? In other words, can I play them on the radio, as opposed to Spotify which is specifically NOT licensed for broadcast?

Is there any reason not to set up a Bandcamp page for a band?

not that i know of -- bandcamp is great

unless you don't want people to be able to listen to your music, then you should put your band's music somewhere else

nope

i mean it's a separate hassle from having your music auto-distributed to the traditional stores, but also it's fun, and it's responsible for by far the largest share of purchases of my band's music

I think the only limiting factor would be if you're a band with some sort of contract that denies you from doing so, but that's probably not a concern for very many people

Thanks - appreciated.

bandcamp app is almost unusable. does anyone here work for them, or know someone who does? if so tell em to get on that. the search function is insanely bad

bandcamp q for people who have multiple pages they manage:

i need to start a new one for a project that is not associated with any of my other projects. do you still need to have a separate email and login and all that if you want to start a new project (and don't have a personal page from which to branch things)?

halp
thank you in advance

I don't think you can have multiple bands with the same account. if you have gmail you can do the trick where you create a new account and for your email just put a period anywhere in the email address (ie John.smith@gmail instead of johnsmith@gmail). It'll treat it like a new email but the emails will come to your regular address.

I believe you need separate addresses to sign up but than can authorize your main account email to manage everything.

so confusing
i think i've got it under control now but my file is too big and the error message told me explicitly to "cut my ambient drone jam into smaller pieces"
lol!

"pay what you can" gives me existential dread for... well, several minutes but it's always tricky.

"pay what you can" gives me existential dread for... well, several minutes but it's always tricky.

― Funky Isolations (jed_), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:35 (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Coincidentally I just found an article about this very subject, pretty good I think.

https://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/name-your-price-value-underground-in-the-age-of-bandcamp/

thanks!

i keep going back and forth with the arguments the writer is making in that article ... starting with the overly simplistic take on the "DIY scene" ... maybe this is another case of America vs. Europe idk

I have spoken before about the true currency circulating being goodwill and it is more analogous to lifeblood oxygenating the scene than actual cash changing hands.

mostly true, but also no, and also it relates to a problem with the DIY scene ... because cash does change hands ... I think it's more accurate to say that the ever-circulating $20 is that "oxygenating lifeblood" and it also signifies goodwill, but it is still the $20 that goes from audience to artist to artist to audience member in the form of tips at the local where they are bartender, etc.. That's not the problem, the problem is "sustainability" or "continuity" because the "scene" is not completely outside the "system" and the goodwill will need to be converted into capitalist currency

otm sarahell - i found that article incredibly frustrating in ways that i could only draw out if i went through the article again, which i refuse to do.

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