Re:SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors
by xnzakg on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:17PM
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See Bandcamp. The main thing that it doesn't have that SC does is a feed, but otherwise, they do have a Patreon-esque system - you can listen to the music on the website for free, but you can either buy the albums you like (and download them) or subscribe to users you like (and get subscriber-exclusive releases, which may include earlier versions of songs, stems etc)
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Re:SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors
by munchhausen on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:54PM
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Bandcamp does have a feed.
It is also not particularly Patreon-esque. You don't pay the artist a recurring fee. You can listen to the music for free only a handful of times, then you need to buy it, in a one-time transaction.
Bandcamp is really a place to discover music, buy it and download it. It's not similar to Soundcloud, or Spotify, which focus on streaming. A more apt comparison would be Beatport.
The target audience of Bandcamp are DJs and music connoisseurs, who want to own the music they like, in high-quality formats.
Bandcamp does a really good job of staying focused on these core user groups, and apparently is also doing rather well, financially:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific...
I guess they're something of a reverse Soundcloud.