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oh duh!I totally forget, you know that new thing where people give out the download cards with the vinyl or cd or whatever?They do that too.I think you get like... 200 free?And after that you have to pay for them.You have to print them yourselves since their 3rd party partner that did that shut down their api, but it's still a nice system.Personally, I think it's easier to just give it away, but I've almost completely given up any hope on making money off people buying music these days. I'd rather they just hear it, and hope to hell that they don't devalue it by it being free.Your mileage may vary.

evanrowe wrote:Conan, you neglected to mention that you can view your statistics in Defender View. You can then play Defender in your statistics. This is key. Are you trying to sell this thing or not?I cannot believe that I was remiss in my mention of Defender View.Sorry, I tried to get a screen shot when I was blasting the alien, but I wasn't quick enough on the Apple + Shift + 4.dayz wrote:The people behind bandcamp really seem to know what they re doing, and I don t mean just from a technical point of view, like how they encode your uploads into various audio formats, tagging them with all the metadata, including ISRC numbers. I like how they propagate common sense practices for modern day music distribution. I like how they do not force their ideals on you, leaving all the choices regarding pricing and licensing up to you. I like how they respond quickly to your inquiries and show you that you matter to them. I like how they do not clutter your site or the interface with useless crap. There s so much to like about bandcamp.And, of course, they have Space Defender.seriously!I keep waiting for the catch and there just isn't one.They are awesome.

Model Citizen wrote:mattgringo wrote:bandcamp is bloody great+1yeah, I guess I could have just said that too.hah!

Let me preface this by saying that I neither work for bandcamp, have sex with anybody that works for bandcamp or am I getting any kind of unsolicited kickback or reward from them at any kind. This is merely a community bulletin over something I find badass.Much like a lot of you, I've been playing in bands for awhile, and for most of us that means a whole lot of grunt/crap work in the background that has very little to do with the actual playing of music. Therefore when a tool comes around that actually makes some of that grunt work easier, I get excited. When it turns out that it is a damn useful tool that is run by great and responsive people, well... I want to spread the word as best I can.Bandcamp is one of those.I guess the nutshell explanation is that it's a free third party site where you upload high quality .wav or .aiffs of your music, you set up a page with all of the information and either set it up for paid, sliding scale payment or free download in any form anybody could want. .aac, high quality mp3, .wav, Ogg Vorbis. FLAC... whatever!There's also a really easy link to setup stuff for people to buy physical products that is one of the more elegant payment processes I've yet seen (warning: paypal required). I'm not kidding folks, Bandcamp has cdbaby licked in that regard.From their own site:Bandcamp isn t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. Rather, we power a site that s yours. So instead of ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff.Being one of the people that ALWAYS found myspace abhorrent, and really have gone to any level possible to avoid putting people at Murdoch's site, I have to say... bandcamp fucking rules.To say nothing of the super easy flash players that they allow you to download and embed in blogs, websites or really anywhere with custom code. They give you analytics data, they let you set creative commons rightsI had a few minor issues of craziness to deal with, all on my side I might add, and not only was their customer service fast... they literally changed things up for me for the better without asking just to be helpful.They are setting up a sort of directory thing, ala mp3.com but not retarded. No idea if that will catch on, but as a digital file delivery service, it's god damn holy shit hell fuck bonkers crazy.If they can somehow manage getting into the itunes store and physical distribution they'll have discmakers/cdbaby/super D licked in no time at all.Again, from their site:We provide fast, dependable streaming and downloads of your entire catalog, adorn your tracks with all the metadata they need to sail into iTunes with artwork, titles, and so on intact, and mutter the various incantations necessary to get your site top-ranked in Google. All things we know you could do, but we suspect you d rather focus on your music. Well, think of us as your invisible bandmate who loves that other stuff. And we won't even ask to play tambourine.I don't know man, maybe it's that I'm getting older and cranky, but I feel like shaking my fist at the various web 2.0 options for music these days, while bandcamp never ceases to actually amaze me and surprise me by it's goodness.A cursory search shows that some PRF'ers (besides me) already use it.Post HoneymoonUnited Sons of ToilMaple SteveDiamond CultVictory and Associates (me)Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence (me)update: Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends now!Dudes, do this.Please don't make have to go to myspace to hear your musics anymore.Thanks in advance.

I agree. Space Defender needs to be mentioned.The people behind bandcamp really seem to know what they re doing, and I don t mean just from a technical point of view, like how they encode your uploads into various audio formats, tagging them with all the metadata, including ISRC numbers. I like how they propagate common sense practices for modern day music distribution. I like how they do not force their ideals on you, leaving all the choices regarding pricing and licensing up to you. I like how they respond quickly to your inquiries and show you that you matter to them. I like how they do not clutter your site or the interface with useless crap. There s so much to like about bandcamp.And, of course, they have Space Defender.

I was pretty excited to discover Bandcamp through a few friends and used it to post my otherwise out of print debut record a few months ago. I had no idea about the Defender thing until just now. Wow.

Maple Stave has been using this for a good while now. It is a great, great, great thing so far as we can tell. Clean, simple, fast, and flexible. Geeks like the fact that there are many formats available in one place. Gets large files off your site. Is just plain awesome.Someone's tried to change our password before [why? fuck if I know. maybe they want a piece of the sweet $12 we make quarterly] and it sends you an email that lets you know ...someone's been dicking with your account. Conan, you neglected to mention that you can view your statistics in Defender View. You can then play Defender in your statistics. This is key. Are you trying to sell this thing or not?NC, no waffles.The disaster that is MySpace cannot die soon enough.

mattgringo wrote:bandcamp is bloody great+1

Bandcamp has long been my favourite music hosting-type service. It does lack the social aspects of MySpace/Facebook/etc. pages; on the other hand, in a lot of ways that's a great thing.Salut! the Bandcamp.