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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:17AM (#45846022)
That may be true for bigger artists on major labels, but for smaller independent bands it’s not always the case. I am a heavy user and fan of Bandcamp for listening to and purchasing music but I use Spotify for listening in the car and sharing playlists. I often find albums that are only available on either Spotify or Bandcamp but not both.

The ones that aren’t available on Spotify tend to be self-released but otherwise there isn’t much of a pattern. Albums not on Bandcamp, though, tend to be mediocre at best.

And that’s not even mentioning bands that are pulling their music from Spotify in protest…

Re:Free software scares normal people on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:49PM (#45763752)
Someone once told me “every setting you expose to your users is a decision you were too scared to make.”
Re:GPT-5 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:03PM (#44830940)
Math pun… 6! = Factorial(6) = 720
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Re:Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:09PM (#38034279)
I think you’re getting your 90s rock goddess Kims confused, though it would be cool to hear a Breeders/SY combination!
Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:18AM (#37943267)
One solution to this, albeit a fairly technical one, can be found here: https://github.com/Ezwen/bandcamp-collection-downloader . I've been using it for years to download my library in FLAC format.

There are also a bunch of GUI tools that claim to download libraries (search for "bandcamp downloader") but I haven't used any of them.

Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off 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...