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I love bandcamp. Partly because they just give you the music as a single zip full of audio files. No shitty downloader utility or anything. I tried to buy a di
by AgentME 10y ago
I love bandcamp. Partly because they just give you the music as a single zip full of audio files. No shitty downloader utility or anything.
I tried to buy a digital album on Amazon once. They offered digital downloads of MP3 files, so I figured it couldn't be so bad. It was. I bought the Interstellar soundtrack. It was 20 to 30 tracks in it. I went to download it ... Amazon told me I could use some Amazon MP3 downloader to download the album, but it wasn't available for my platform. Instead, I get brought to some music browser of the tracks I've bought. There's checkboxes next to each of the tracks, a download button, and no "select all" button, so I check each track and click download. Amazon then tells me that downloading multiple tracks at once is only supported if I use their Amazon MP3 downloader (still not available for my platform). I have to check one track at a time, and then click download. I then have to uncheck that track, then check the next track, then click download again. In what universe is that a good experience? Who the hell envisioned that as even a good backup method for obtaining whole albums? I'm lucky I only bought one album.
I just gave up and acquired the soundtrack through other means which didn't involve ridiculous rote checkbox dickery or proprietary downloader plugin nonsense. I'm pretty sure I finished before I would have finished downloading each individual track from Amazon.
- james4k 10y agoFWIW, you can now just download a .zip of MP3s from Amazon.
- AgentME 10y agoThat's great to hear! They're off my avoid list then. Still not as great as Bandcamp's options but sounds usable.
- r00fus 10y agoI wonder how many potential customers they lost with their downloader bullshit though. While my OS at the time did support it I couldn't be bothered to install a random binary just for a different music store. Even if the album/single was $0.
- beachstartup 10y agoprobably not many. have you noticed how people love amazon no matter how shitty they are?
- reitanqild 10y agoBooks are delivered reasonably fast and at reasonable or great prices. AWS is mostly easy and great. And they seem to take security seriously. A few annoyances here and there and weird naming, but bad? Furthermore they have been driving the ebookmarket, both pricing and technology.
- Retric 10y agoI don't know anyone that buys computer components there, so people do have minimum standards. They are simply ok for a wide range of products.
- davidgerard 10y agoThey're great for physical goods. My wife's disabled and I have a day job, so we work our Amazon Prime hard. I disapprove of their tax shenanigans in the UK, but frankly we'd be fucked without Amazon or something like it.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoThey lost quite a few sales to me due to their ministrations. And I literally just made my latest music purchase 2 days ago on Bandcamp. First time buying on their site. Easy, quick, got exactly the formats I wanted. I kind of wish every artist was on Bandcamp.
- conradfr 10y agoBought an album that was only available there at the time. Suffered like the previous poster with their ui flow. Never went back. However I love buying on Bandcamp.
- ionised 10y agoWhat about FLACs?