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"The artist gets 85 percent. Always, the artist gets to know who’s buying, without a third party in the way." This quote sums up why Bandcamp makes sense to ar

"The artist gets 85 percent. Always, the artist gets to know who’s buying, without a third party in the way." This quote sums up why Bandcamp makes sense to artists. Listening now to music off Bandcamp. Buy Vinyl also get .flac an the artist gets the dollars and data. How good is that.

bisby 10y ago
DRM free flac is one of the main reasons I go bandcamp when available. I have my own in home media server, so being able to actually have the songs is important.
- dzhiurgis 10y ago
  What I would like to know is whether it is actual flac or if Bancamp just converts artist supplied mp3s.
  - astronautjones 10y ago
    Artists are required to upload WAV, AIF, or FLAC.
  - pmh 10y ago
    Bandcamp requires lossless audio formats (https://bandcamp.com/help/uploading#aiffwavuploadrequirement https://bandcamp.com/help/uploading#aiffwavuploadrequirement), so it's up to the artist/album whether it's a transcode.
    - dzhiurgis 10y ago
      Ok going deeper into the rabbit hole: you never know what did the artist sampled it from :-)
      - mynewtb 10y ago
        If the artist made their music as Mp3 then you should accept that as the way they intended it to sound.
- orblivion 10y ago
  > I have my own in home media server Me too. Funny how that seems quaint these days. I hope owning music (or God forbid, lossless) never goes away entirely.
  - bisby 10y ago
    I had inherited a dual xeon 64gb ram server and I started tinkering with home server stuff. But its loud and hot and very much meant for a datacenter and not a basement. So I'm working on migrating the server to raspberry pi's and AWS, depending on power needed and ARM availability. My only issue is that a dual xeon with that much ram can run a LOT of stuff at once. and I have a lot of minor things packed into it. I think almost all the stuff will run on raspberry pi's, but I might wind up needing 20 of them at this point. But yes. I think a small NAS and a raspberry pi running a media server should basically be a given for people these days. It's an amazing concept to actually own and control data.
throwawaylalala 10y ago
Do they know email andaddress and name? Exactly what data fo they get? If they get name and email , there could be tons of money there for artists.
- spbaar 10y ago
  They do. Every once and a while you'll get a nice thank you, especially if you leave a note with your purchase
  - VelNZ 10y ago
    I've received several thank you's from musicians after purchasing their discography for like $15. It really feels like you're directly supporting them and is one of the main reasons I love Bandcamp!
- spike021 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure in most cases you get subscribed to an artist's mailing list for getting their music.
- astronautjones 10y ago
  You can choose to require an e-mail address when people download your free music, but it's not the default setting. I'm not sure about paid downloads, though.
shoover 10y ago
+1. Bandcamp is the way to support artists, besides being imminently usable for the customer. I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent and in some cases don't even include the Bandcamp link despite having the record listed there.
- bootload 10y ago
  "I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent..." Bigger market and money. There are more phones than PC's.

bisby 10y ago

DRM free flac is one of the main reasons I go bandcamp when available. I have my own in home media server, so being able to actually have the songs is important.

dzhiurgis 10y ago
What I would like to know is whether it is actual flac or if Bancamp just converts artist supplied mp3s.
- astronautjones 10y ago
  Artists are required to upload WAV, AIF, or FLAC.
- pmh 10y ago
  Bandcamp requires lossless audio formats (https://bandcamp.com/help/uploading#aiffwavuploadrequirement https://bandcamp.com/help/uploading#aiffwavuploadrequirement), so it's up to the artist/album whether it's a transcode.
  - dzhiurgis 10y ago
    Ok going deeper into the rabbit hole: you never know what did the artist sampled it from :-)
    - mynewtb 10y ago
      If the artist made their music as Mp3 then you should accept that as the way they intended it to sound.
orblivion 10y ago
> I have my own in home media server Me too. Funny how that seems quaint these days. I hope owning music (or God forbid, lossless) never goes away entirely.
- bisby 10y ago
  I had inherited a dual xeon 64gb ram server and I started tinkering with home server stuff. But its loud and hot and very much meant for a datacenter and not a basement. So I'm working on migrating the server to raspberry pi's and AWS, depending on power needed and ARM availability. My only issue is that a dual xeon with that much ram can run a LOT of stuff at once. and I have a lot of minor things packed into it. I think almost all the stuff will run on raspberry pi's, but I might wind up needing 20 of them at this point. But yes. I think a small NAS and a raspberry pi running a media server should basically be a given for people these days. It's an amazing concept to actually own and control data.

throwawaylalala 10y ago

Do they know email andaddress and name? Exactly what data fo they get? If they get name and email , there could be tons of money there for artists.

spbaar 10y ago
They do. Every once and a while you'll get a nice thank you, especially if you leave a note with your purchase
- VelNZ 10y ago
  I've received several thank you's from musicians after purchasing their discography for like $15. It really feels like you're directly supporting them and is one of the main reasons I love Bandcamp!
spike021 10y ago
I'm pretty sure in most cases you get subscribed to an artist's mailing list for getting their music.
astronautjones 10y ago
You can choose to require an e-mail address when people download your free music, but it's not the default setting. I'm not sure about paid downloads, though.

shoover 10y ago

+1. Bandcamp is the way to support artists, besides being imminently usable for the customer. I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent and in some cases don't even include the Bandcamp link despite having the record listed there.

bootload 10y ago
"I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent..." Bigger market and money. There are more phones than PC's.