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― just sayin, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.rockfeed.net/2016/11/03/people-pissed-allegaeon/
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 24 June 2017 07:42 (six years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Monday, 10 July 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
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?
― sleeve, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
Is there any reason not to set up a Bandcamp page for a band?
― djh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
not that i know of -- bandcamp is great
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
unless you don't want people to be able to listen to your music, then you should put your band's music somewhere else
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
Thanks - appreciated.
― djh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
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
― flopson, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
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)?
halpthank you in advance
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
I believe you need separate addresses to sign up but than can authorize your main account email to manage everything.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
so confusingi 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!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
"pay what you can" gives me existential dread for... well, several minutes but it's always tricky.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
"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
― 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/
― mirostones, Saturday, 31 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
thanks!
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Sunday, 1 September 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in Eight Days
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― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
question: in my bandcamp collection, if something doesn't have the "appears in x other collections" thing underneath it, does it mean I'm the only person who has purchased it?
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 22 September 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
It could have been purchased by people without a profile/account, but otherwise yeah I think
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 22 September 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
Thanks, that makes sense. I'll imagine these artist's friends & family purchased w/o an account so I don't have to feel bad for them.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 22 September 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Yknow I don’t use push notifications for anything but I would actually like them for Bandcamp for when somebody I follow releases something new.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
they send me email notifications of new releases for like every artist I've ever purchased anything by on there ever.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
yeah I just signed up for that, guess that pretty much accomplishes the same thing lol
― brimstead, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
Yep and I get push notifications through the app for exactly that
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
Push notifications on a Bandcamp Friday can be.... a bit much lol.
otoh, I never would have scored my lovely blue first-run of the latest Mountain Goats tape if I had disabled them 🤷
― Selfie Stick Stickly (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
Absolutely insane! I came here to post about this :)
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
Deeply insane; also when they started they had an issue where messages weren’t being sent as they should, clearly because those days were so popular. Thankfully that was cleared up and it’s been smooth sailing (if heavy emailing) since.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
one could imagine a single push notification in digest format compiling announcements from every artist you're interested in.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
The Friday emails are a bit crazy, I'm ok with it but it does became sort of a worklist. I just open up a bunch of tabs and listen to at least a track from everything, and usually end up finding some gems.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Hey so I've been working on a little something that allows people to make, play & share playlists using the Bandcamp platform that I've been calling BNDCMPR (Bandcamper).Decided to put it into an open beta today at https://t.co/P93ziPghSy. Any feedback would be sick (:— ☕️ (@lonbeshiri) February 8, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
O_O
i haven't tried it yet, but uhh. . . fuck yeah?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
do the artists get paid?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 February 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
They don't but it would still be beneficial I think. Personally I would be happy to be on one of these playlists knowing that a single Bandcamp sale pays the same as thousands of streams.
― mirostones, Friday, 12 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
not wanting to be a dick about it -- like, presumably at this stage it wouldn't be feasible, but it would be cool if there were a model where y'know, artists got paid better
― sarahell, Friday, 12 February 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
small steps, i'm afraid.
but yes, i absolutely agree.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 12 February 2021 05:00 (three years ago) link
if they let people make and share mixes of Bandcamp works and you could buy the mixes, with money going to the respective artists featured... lovely
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 12 February 2021 06:17 (three years ago) link
It's cool to be able to share music in the form of, like, a periodic round-up of recommended releases. But not so much if the idea is just to use Bandcamp as a streaming service, even if I'm as guilty as anyone of listening to certain things multiple times without buying. Although the artists do have that function to prevent streaming after a certain number of listens, which I assume would still work through this service? If it circumvents that, that would be shady.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 12 February 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
Doesn't the limit on stream plays depend on the user being logged in? But that's the way it's set up so I don't think it's especially exploitative if there are easy links to buy tracks.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 12 February 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
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)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 12 February 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Also how is this different from https://buymusic.club/?
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
The front end is nicer, admittedly (choosing your own colors is nice). I made one for a recent radio mix.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 February 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
the replies on that tweet are not encouraging, people are just wanting a way to have bandcamp be spotify
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link