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Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by ggurface »

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #13
staplers wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever? X isn't a brand, it's a foundation of our alphabet and used for many different things in society. So yes, we will do this likely until it's no longer used. Thank elon for that.

When someone types "posted on X" in no way does anyone think someone posted something to a letter. They know it means X the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. So, really, there's no need to keep doing this parenthetical.

I didn't know there was a rename. Hopefully they can keep up calling out the old name to let people know!

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by Guvante »

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #13
staplers wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever? X isn't a brand, it's a foundation of our alphabet and used for many different things in society. So yes, we will do this likely until it's no longer used. Thank elon for that.

When someone types "posted on X" in no way does anyone think someone posted something to a letter. They know it means X the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. So, really, there's no need to keep doing this parenthetical.

That isn't necessarily true, it takes a long time for everyone to know something.

It doesn't cost you much to glaze over the parenthetical but helps a lot for the couple of readers who won't understand.

Especially since Googling still doesn't work, here are the results in order: the Twitter handle, the film, the app (The X app is the trusted global digital town square for everyone. With X, you can: - Post content for the world to see and join public conversation), the movie a few times, the band, a bunch of pictures and finally Twitter is rebranding.

Note the handle and app don't mention Twitter except in an unhelpful way.

Pretty sure the actual one is the last link on the first page.

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by emmanueloga_ »

Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide?

As far as I can tell, it has music file storage gated behind a paywall (or not, plenty of music is offered for free), a few very basic functionalities like liking/wishlisting albums, and “following” musicians (fwiw… not sure what’s the value of that… a personalized feed?) and… that’s pretty much it? I guess the front page, which I assume boost sales a little bit for the included musicians?

What am I missing?

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by notsurenymore »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #25

Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? As far as I can tell, it has music file storage gated behind a paywall (or not, plenty of music is offered for free), a few very basic functionalities like liking/wishlisting albums, and “following” musicians (fwiw… not sure what’s the value of that… a personalized feed?) and… that’s pretty much it? I guess the front page, which I assume boost sales a little bit for the in…

Discovery… at least to an extent

While you can find a some of the big names in specific genres on bandcamp, it’s always struck me as more of a place for underground and tiny artists. The genre breakdown categories tend to be pretty good, and you can find some interesting stuff that’s not easily found elsewhere. Sometimes I’d just go into a specific genre and start listening to anything that caught my eye. I usually found it much better than streaming platforms, that just continuously recommend the same stuff I’ve heard time and time again, but just didn’t have in a playlist. I do have a problem with their mobile app though: It doesn’t allow you to change the sort method, so you end up seeing a lot of stuff you’ve already seen before.

To be honest, I don’t use it as much as I used to. Nowadays, I’ve mostly found YouTube channels that upload and curate various rare and underground content for specific genres and that’s how I do most of my new (and new old) music discovery.

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by RodgerTheGreat »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #25

Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? As far as I can tell, it has music file storage gated behind a paywall (or not, plenty of music is offered for free), a few very basic functionalities like liking/wishlisting albums, and “following” musicians (fwiw… not sure what’s the value of that… a personalized feed?) and… that’s pretty much it? I guess the front page, which I assume boost sales a little bit for the in…

It's not Spotify, it's not a social media site, it's a simple no-frills store where you can just buy music with no dark patterns or manipulative bullshit. The simplicity is the value proposition.

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by mjr00 »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #25

Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? As far as I can tell, it has music file storage gated behind a paywall (or not, plenty of music is offered for free), a few very basic functionalities like liking/wishlisting albums, and “following” musicians (fwiw… not sure what’s the value of that… a personalized feed?) and… that’s pretty much it? I guess the front page, which I assume boost sales a little bit for the in…

> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide?

A place to purchase and download music legally, in lossless formats, mostly from smaller artists. In some ways it's closer to Patreon than iTunes.

Most people don't buy music anyway so it's a niche product, and a niche even within that as Apple Music/Amazon Music etc have a larger selection.

No clue what Epic was doing with this purchase. My best guess is big plans to make it the next Spotify that got derailed by ZIRP ending.

Re: Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo

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Post by cma »

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #13
staplers wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever? X isn't a brand, it's a foundation of our alphabet and used for many different things in society. So yes, we will do this likely until it's no longer used. Thank elon for that.

When someone types "posted on X" in no way does anyone think someone posted something to a letter. They know it means X the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. So, really, there's no need to keep doing this parenthetical.

With the common usage of the letter X as a generic stand-in, it's like naming your company "anything", "*", or "_".
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