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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.