Saw this coming from a mile away when they were first acquired. I legitimately can't remember the last time a megacorporation's acquisition of a smaller company ended well.
Its a feature. Big corps buy to kill.
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
#32Honest 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 ma…
IMO, Epic's grand vision is to be an all-in-one solution for any sort of media, from video games to complete CG movies. It's seems straight forward to see how a audio related business fits into this, and also straight forward to see how it ultimately wasn't really the right fit.
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#33> “Based on its current financials, Bandcamp requires some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy company that can serve its community of artists and fans long into the future,”
This is interesting. Bandcamp's website says they've been profitable since 2012.[0] If that's still true what other adjustments might be needed?
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#34We need an alternative from Bandcamp that is a co-op fediverse kind of system.
I know there is people working on making alternatives like ninaprotocol.com but it's tainted by web3/crypto selling the songs as collectibles NFTs. Not even lossless.
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#35Another victim of modern tech acquisitions. I hate it. I hate seeing another service potentially dying because it was bought out by a big tech company that actually didn't give a rat's ass about the service. Google has done it to so many great services, some of which that I really loved. The worst thing about Bandcamp is that it's a platform for smaller artists to sell their music, which affects them in a way other tech acquisitions don't.
Also, what?
> “Based on its current financials, Bandcamp requires some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy company that can serve its community of artists and fans long into the future,” says a statement provided by Songtradr chief marketing officer Lindsay Nahmiache. It says the company will be extending job offers to Bandcamp staff over the next few weeks as the sale is finalized.
Since when does Bandcamp have financial issues? Or is it just not profitable enough and now Songtradr wants to squeeze it for all they can?
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#36Honest 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…
> music file storage gated behind a paywall
This is what streaming services have done to artists - the idea of "paying an artist for their music" is such an alien idea to some people that it ends up phrased like this.
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#37I will never give Epic a penny. Their purchase of Bandcamp was such a scumbag move.
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#38Waiting for Discogs to die soon (as it has slowly been for a few years).
I haven't checked in on it in ages, I thought it was doing what it always did, I really wish a service would just stick to what it's good at. Catalogue my vinyl and give me the opportunity to interact with fellow enthusiast
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#39Honest 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…
> music file storage gated behind a paywall This is what streaming services have done to artists - the idea of "paying an artist for their music" is such an alien idea to some people that it ends up phrased like this.
It's damn weird. I get that most people just want a radio, but it's getting harder to just buy music, to keep.
Apple music is slowly erasing iTunes, the media management aspect of it seems to be slowly breaking down, currently all my album art is completely messed up on my iPhone.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> music file storage gated behind a paywall This is what streaming services have done to artists - the idea of "paying an artist for their music" is such an alien idea to some people that it ends up phrased like this.
It's damn weird. I get that most people just want a radio, but it's getting harder to just buy music, to keep. Apple music is slowly erasing iTunes, the media management aspect of it seems to be slowly breaking down, currently all my album art is completely messed up on my iPhone.
> currently all my album art is completely messed up on my iPhone
That's not normal. Maybe just sync your library again.