Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by Modified3019 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:19PM (#37697754)

For me it’s not about somehow hearing a difference (at least, anymore, I do remember the days when mp3s had a good chance of sounding tinny from bad encoding, even when done by myself from a CD). Honestly, I probably have a nonzero amount of bandcamp flac files that are actually just mp3’s that were converted, but I’m unlikely to ever know unless I analyze the waveform.

For me it’s about having a reference/master copy to archive and then modify, cutting parts away I don’t like, applying equalization, etc and compressing for streaming/loading on a device. I am not going to compound losses on a file if I can help it.

Storage space is trivial these days, so just grabbing a flac file and declaring that it’s perfectly as the artist intended removes any potential cognitive load of trying to evaluate audio quality or “which of these mp3 files is the best one to archive” anxiety.

Basically: Start clean, stay clean, and move on.

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by deadbunny on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:01AM (#37701463)

This is what I do as well. I prefer to have the FLAC files for local playback and archiving then have a script which watches the FLAC folder, converts to v0 MP3 which then gets synced to my phone using Syncthing (because phones have such limited storage these days without Micro SD).

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