Kickstarter / Bandcamp / etc - C or D?

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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

one year passes...

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

Push notifications on a Bandcamp Friday can be.... a bit much lol.

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

one month passes...

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

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

two weeks pass...

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!!

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 12 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link

eight months pass...

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

two months pass...

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

three weeks pass...

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


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