…or whatever the hell its called. If you’ve bought music on the site, I’d say download a copy now before you get cut off.
The only reason I buy stuff on Bandcamp is so I can download it immediately and put it in Plex
That’s the point though. It’s really good to have a website selling DRM-free FLAC music instead of “streaming” it to you for a subscription fee. If “Songtrdr” fucks up bandcamp I’m going back to pirating indie releases which sucks but if they aren’t gonna sell me DRM free uncompressed files…
The only alternative I know is 7digital. Their Dutch store doesn’t always have the latest albums, but they do offer some in a higher quality than Bandcamp (not like I can tell the difference though)
Nvm I just found out 7digital was bought by the same company, ffs
I’m here to learn. What’s Plex? Is it a media player?
DIY Netflix and Spotify in one. You need hardware to run it on. So a computer and storage for the media. You could try it on any computer. For real use, a dedicated machine (doesn’t have to be expensive) is ideal. For example, I have a ThinkCentre 715q with 4 disks attached to it in a cardboard box running it. You can watch and listen to your stuff from anywhere. Your phone, laptop, desktop, smart TV, Chromecast, etc.
I run it on a Synology Diskstation for plenty of storage and enough “oomph” for transcoding all in one gizmo. That also paired up nicely with an HD Homerun network TV tuner running up to an attic antenna to add local broadcast channels. It does a great job wrapping that with a cable-style menu and DVR.
Plex is an inferior and ad-filled version of the free software Jellyfin, which I can recommend much more :)
OK, thanks for the reply.
Ahh, that’s why I keep hearing all the proprietary idiots mentioning it!
Lol, makes so much sense now.
And server, yes.
It can run on a Raspberry Pi 2. It’s not going to transcode, mind you, but works great - though I’d recommend a real drive, I was using one and it wore out its boot card.
I used to run it on a pi4, and pi2 before that. Something broke somewhere in my my install outside of Plex, I plan to get the project back up once and try jellyfin is a little more supported than it currently is.
It only makes sense to buy music someone else hasn’t already so you can seed it for everyone else.
Well fuck. :(
Sucks. Sucks donkey balls, is how much this sucks. 🤬
Why exactly does this suck? It’s not like Epic Games was that great of a company. Idk about this company; got any links?
Epic had been mostly hands off with Bandcamp. Songtradr is a licensing company in the run up to an IPO, they are very likely to hit Bandcamp with the enshittification hammer hard.
Ah shit. That blows.
I run a small vaporwave cassette label as a hobby, and that was my fear. I just hadn’t ever heard of that company before.
Do you sell directly from your own store?
We sell some tapes off our Bandcamp page, and have free digital downloads there.
https://mysticspools.bandcamp.com
Depending on what changes occur, it could really fuck with the vaporwave & barber beats genres, given they uses a lot of samples. We might have to change to using a Shopify or Bigcartel storefront. Hoping we don’t, but seeing that Songtradr wants to IPO makes me think enshittification is at hand.
An understandable reply tbh. Mostly small labels complaining on twitter tbh is what I’ve seen. I’ve left twitter so its hard to get those tweets now.
You sure better download it. You own nothing in terms of media anymore unless you make sure you have a personal copy that can’t be altered or deleted.
Past few years I’ve trawled charity shops here for music, then put it in an archival box. 600 CDs in one case alone.
If they’re hard to find, you should rip them and put them on archive.org.
Especially cause CDs will stop working eventually and that’s an accident or fire away from being lost.
Are we seriously going to lose access cause if so someone needs to crack the acquiring company in half.
I was wondering when things would go belly-up for bandcamp.
Things have been far too good for far too long there. Almost like a remnant of the past.
I didn’t even realize they owned BandCamp. I wonder what the profit margins are for the app as it is now.
IIRC Bandcamp was one of the few music sites to pay out to artists. Never used their app beyond the original pre-Epic one, and that was shit tbh.
This name doesn’t inspire confidence.
