cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33818262
Today is Bandcamp Friday
From now until 12 a.m. PST, Bandcamp will pass 100% of revenue directly to artists. From its website:
Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities.
I love Bandcamp Fridays, I save up for them, always a good time
Hey, maybe someone will buy my album!
That is a decent advertising model. Feels like it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of those
I went looking today to see if I could transfer Spotify or Deezer playlists and how much it would cost to buy all the tracks but the first few I checked were unavailable 😔
If you ever find that an artist on other platforms isn’t on Bandcamp, you’ll usually find them on Qobuz’s Download Store since that’s a common place that they also tend to publish.
It’s a little less convenient than Bandcamp, and is often a little more randomly priced across artists and even individual songs from an artist, but if your goal is to compensate them and get a high quality audio download, it’ll be another option.
They also have a streaming offering with way better payout rates for artists at what tends to be around $0.01873 per stream as of last year, in case you’re not ready to ditch streaming, though I can’t speak to how good it is as I haven’t tried it myself.
Bigger acts are less likely to be on it but any smaller artists will likely be there.
It’s a lot more indie, honestly
There’s software that let’s you easily download your music/playlists to your hard drive. I forget what it’s called tho
I could but I would also like to pay the artists (if it’s not gonna bankrupt me)
Absolutely, same here, but if there’s music that I simply couldn’t find and pay for then I would just use that
Actual downloadable software or just a website?
I’ve heard of Soundiiz before for migrating playlists to something like YouTube, though it’s paid for larger playlists, and after that yt-dlp will work well for the now non-DRM protected playlists on sites like YouTube Music, but not on DRM-protected ones like Spotify, or ones that only show samples by default like Deezer.
Also worth mentioning, this happens every Friday
edit: no it doesn’t
Not every Friday:
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
- September 5th
- October 3rd
- December 5th
Is that still true? This announcement states:
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
September 5th
October 3rd
December 5thFirst Friday of the month, but not every month. They announce the next ones a few months in advance.
Today was the day I bought into band camp! Thanks to all of you for sharing this info!
I get a lot of music from Bandcamp. Unfortunately while unemployed I’m not spending much money on fun
