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No so young anymore, but I listen to SoundCloud at least 50 hours per week (after heavily curating who I follow and writing my own SoundCloud frontend to make t
by hobo_mark 4y ago
No so young anymore, but I listen to SoundCloud at least 50 hours per week (after heavily curating who I follow and writing my own SoundCloud frontend to make the site usable, fwiw).
In fact most artists I follow do not publish anywhere else, except maybe Bandcamp (whose usability is even worse).
ps: to any SoundCloud pm listening, I would have gladly paid for a purely linear timeline of my follows that remembers its position across devices, but no I had to build it myself.
- elevaet 4y ago> Bandcamp (whose usability is even worse). I guess this is a matter of taste. Personally I find Bandcamp super usable. It's one of the gems of the internet if you ask me, up there with HN. There's so much amazing independent music on BC and the revenue cut for artists is extremely fair. Money spent there is well spent.
- hobo_mark 4y agoAll extremely true, but the damn friction when buying tracks there... (jwz put it best [1]) > If I put 6 albums in my cart and check out, you make me enter my credit card info SIX TIMES. This is insane. You realize this is insane, don't you? > You have used Amazon, right? Click once, receive candy. You need to be like that. (Maybe they fixed it? Haven't bought multiple items at once in a while) Also I would gladly pay for SoundCloud if most of the money actually went to the artists (if any SC pm is still listening). [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/shouting-into-the-void-this-time-bandcamp/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/shouting-into-the-void-this... (you will have to copy and paste the link manually because he loves to block HN referrals for self-amusement)
- tux3 4y agoThey must have fixed it, I buy a lot of stuff on bandcamp and I've only entered my card once. The only friction is waiting a few second per track for them to prepare my 12 flac downloads, clicking through payment only takes a second or so.
- alisonatwork 4y agoI had the payment problem the other day and it's because I wanted to pay with PayPal. It seems if you use a card they can roll together all the items, but PayPal can't. My biggest frustration is not being able to download a zip file of all the tracks I just bought. Going one by one is tedious, especially because I tend to download both a FLAC for backup and 320 for everyday listening.
- Robotbeat 4y agoI also love bandcamp! Very simple design, very mid-to-late 00s but without clutter. I want it to last forever.