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oh No, they sold Bandcamp... According to Jason Schreier https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1707416234461909487 https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1

• 1123581321 3y ago
  That's a bit disappointing. As a user I just want Bandcamp to be owned by someone who gets it and leaves it alone. As far as I could tell, Epic barely touched Bandcamp. I'm unfamiliar with Songtradr but they have more incentive to integrate the core product into their services as they're in the industry and a smaller company (more need to make the acquisition work for them.) I hope it goes well.
  • btown 3y ago
    I'm somewhat hopeful about the synergies here. Giving musicians an easy path to monetize their catalog, as well as market their availability to be commissioned by brands, is a good thing... especially when artists are being dually hammered by Spotify's deci-cents-per-stream industry baseline and live music promoters' anticompetitive behavior. That said, there are ways Songtradr could abuse their new position of trust. I hope they're smart enough not to do that, but I also hope that an archival project for free downloads on long-inactive Bandcamp accounts is underway...
    • btown 3y ago
      Self-reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696171 makes me less hopeful that they're operating in good faith...
      • 1123581321 3y ago
        Interesting. I didn’t know about the union aspect and regardless, not retaining staff is a great way to stop understanding what’s important to preserve.
• Kye 3y ago
  I always advise people to at least have a backup spot to send people to even if they don't maintain their own website, and I take my own advice. I expected something like this, so I've been dropping every album into an item in my Ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/7e9f22c63b https://ko-fi.com/s/7e9f22c63b Ko-fi is 25GB for free and 200GB for paid accounts, so most things will fit. I'll probably cross-post it to Patreon's new shop feature in the near future just to be safe. edit: and confirmation https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acqu...
• wwarner 3y ago
  yep https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acqu...
• myaccountonhn 3y ago
  Hopefully they don't mess it up too badly. Bandcamp is the only way for a Linux user not in the US to get non-DRM music these days :(.
  • crtasm 3y ago
    Are Junodownload, Boomkat, Bleep, Qobuz, etc. available in your country?
    • myaccountonhn 3y ago
      Some of them seem to be, so that is one alternative (though they don’t have the genres I listen to). Qobuz is only available for streaming