Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
by freeone3000 on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:25PM
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Bandcamp let me pay a musician for a song, regardless of how unknown or unpopular a band was. You’re three dudes in your mid-thirties playing open mic night and passing a hat around, and definitely cannot afford to get on Spotify or Youtube Music, but you can get on bandcamp and a few people can pay $5 for a song they liked when they were tipsy.
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
by petre on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:28PM
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Also YT Music quality is shit. I bought a new pair of headphones and though they were defective until I played some songs encoded by yours truly as opus files.
Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
by JohnFen on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:19PM
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> Bandcamp let me pay a musician for a song, regardless of how unknown or unpopular a band was.
This is what made me love Bandcamp. I get to pay the artists more-or-less directly, and as a person who tends not to be into the Big Music Names, Bandcamp is utterly amazing, chock full of smaller artists doing wonderful things.
Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
by Snild on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:42AM
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> definitely cannot afford to get on Spotify
How so? There aren't necessarily any upfront costs for getting on Spotify; several aggregators offer a "we take a cut of your earnings" model.
Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
by srg0 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:08PM
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Even without a cut, there are several virtual distribution services like DistroKid and TuneCore which for a flat fee will take care of submitting whatever WAV one created to all streaming platforms. Getting it noticed is a whole other story.