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I love Bandcamp, but man do they need to improve their app and website. It's been pretty much stagnant for a long time and there's just so much potential. Handl
by deng 5y ago
I love Bandcamp, but man do they need to improve their app and website. It's been pretty much stagnant for a long time and there's just so much potential. Handling of collections is just terrible. You cannot sort or group your collection in any way. You cannot even easily distinguish between single tracks and albums! You cannot create playlists. You cannot download several things at once. And most egregiously: Bandcamp must sit on a ton of data to make good suggestions to what other music I'd probably like, and they do pretty much nothing with it. The only thing I could find is when you click on an album, you see a few suggestions at the bottom, that's it. Such a shame.
Again: I love Bandcamp and regularly buy stuff there, but it could be SO much better!
- hobs 5y agoI did reach out about the multi-buy situation - apparently BC doesn't have a useful way to say "this part of my collection sell for a price and this other stuff exclude it" because almost no one sells a discog and when I emailed them the responses I got were generally "we sell vinyl and other stuff in our store and selling it in one big bundle doesnt make sense"
- deng 5y agoIt's actually not about buying but downloading. I regularly buy single tracks and downloading them one by one is very tedious: You have to click on "download", you get to a new site to download this single track, then you have to wait up to 10 seconds for the on-the-fly encoding, and finally you can download it. It's so bad I pretty much stopped "impulse purchases" of single tracks.
- hobs 5y agoGotcha yeah - that is annoying AF which is why I wanted to buy the discog because it has a "download all the things" button (or so bandcamp claims.) Realistically if they had a "sync my library" or w/e button then I wouldnt have even cared about that at all.
- rchaud 5y agoI specifically like the fact that Bandcamp feels more like a record store than a Spotify. The Bandcamp Daily series goes in depth on several genres of music. It feels like a magazine, which is subtantively different from Spotify and Apple's approach, which is to throw playlists with pithy titles at the user, without any context. IMO, that creates a situation where you don't really explore new music, but just continue listening to stuff you're already familiar with.
- deng 5y agoYou know, I'm pretty old, and back in the day, the owner of the local record store knew my taste and introduced me to stuff he'd think I might like. And I created my own mixtapes with tracks from different albums and gave them to friends. So I don't see how Bandcamp would become "just another Spotify" if it introduced playlists and proper recommendations.
- rchaud 5y agoThe local store owner did a bit more than slap a bunch of records on the counter and say "Liked that? Then you'll like this!" That's what algo-generated playlists feel like to me: A dispassionate list of songs, without any explanation for why I would like them. Even your average RateYourMusic list writer attempts to write 2 lines for each song or record on the list. I'm more inclined to try something out when there is at least some human input about why I might like it. For example, I have been exploring the music of Ministry, and this RYM list provides the kind of human touch I'm looking for to keep my interest. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/suburbanschizo/dont-let-al-jourgensen-fool-you-ministry-loved-to-dance-too/ https://rateyourmusic.com/list/suburbanschizo/dont-let-al-jo...
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- runarberg 5y agoI might be mis-remembering, but wasn’t Bandcamp recently looking for a front-end developer? Perhaps some changes are coming.
- crtasm 5y agoI don't know about that, but they are currently hiring a user experience designer: https://bandcamp.com/jobs https://bandcamp.com/jobs