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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by brian626 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:15AM (#37943234)
Another factor to consider is that BC makes files available to download in a variety of formats (MP3, FLAC, AAC, etc.) Presumably they're transcoding on the fly from a lossless format and not storing all those extra files...
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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by crtasm on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:08PM (#37946340)
Yes, there's often a wait on the download page while the transcoding is done.
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