Hi

Does anyone know how long a Bandcamp gift voucher is valid for? The FAQ on the website doesn't mention it.

Many thanks!

My brain is no longer satisfied by normal music but I'm not a music connoisseur and I don't know how to find the weird stuff! Please help me find weird music so my brain can finally be happy 😭 I will listen to any kind of music that is unusual and atmospheric and sounds like nothing I've heard before, thank youu!

I paid for this music, let me have a big ole playlist!

Hallo!!!

Like a lot of people, I got really tired of the standard Bandcamp UI and how the audio stops every time you click a new page. I wanted a dedicated music player, but one that didn't completely hide Bandcamp's discovery and collection features

I ended up building my own desktop app. It is basically a native app with an indestructible audio player and its own custom collection page! (Huge thanks to Bandcamp Deck for the code that helped accelerate this)

The app intercepts the audio stream the second you hit play and routes it to a persistent player anchored at the bottom of the window. You can browse the entire site and click whatever links you want and your music will never stop playing ^__^

I also added a few extra features that were really important to me:

• Collection queueing: Stream straight through your personal collection seamlessly without having to manually open up each individual release page
• Easy downloader: Go straight to the download page of any release in your collection with a single click
• Discord Rich Presence: Automatically show off what you are currently listening to on your Discord status
• Last.FM Scrobbling: Log all of your plays natively
• Built-in Dark Mode: Automatically applies a dark theme bcuz ... you know

It is completely open source and I just pushed out the first version (after many minor iterations). If you want a better way to listen to your collection while browsing for new music, please check it out :D

💿 Free Album Codes Promotion Thread 💿

This is a weekly thread dedicated for artists or labels wishing to promote their music by sharing free album codes so listeners may add them to their collections for free.

General guidelines:

• Posts must include a direct link to a page where listeners may preview the album before claiming a code.
• Codes should be for an album with a duration of at least 10 minutes.
• Include a brief write-up about your album or yourself, don't forget to mention what are the main genres.
• Help your comment stand out more by including an image with the album artwork.
• Links to code sharing sites likes band.codes or getmusic.fm are preferred so its easier for listeners to claim them.
• Don't make more than on top-level post per thread, if you have several albums that you wish to promote put them all under the same post.

Everyone is welcome to use this thread to promote their music, but submissions that don't meet the guidelines above may be removed.

You can redeem album codes on this page:
➡️ https://bandcamp.com/yum

Anyone else feel like buying physical product via Bandcamp is basically the same risk level as Kickstarter now? I used to trust that Bandcamp customer service was adequate to intervene when an artist/label just didn't deliver (or respond to inquiries), now it's basically buyer beware. You're purchasing the *possibility* of getting that vinyl/CD/etc.

Skrawek is a talented musical artist who should be no stranger to anyone who’s followed r/bandcamp for the last two years. 100% talent, 100% mystery and 800% Canadian. Yes he is 1000% of a human being. He’s a phenomenon.

You can search his name on bandcamp and find a fine offering of his back catalogue for free or you can listen now to his all hardware recording album made for walks in your neighborhood.

Skrawek runs the Electric Exchange Bandcamp page, appears under numinous aliases on Notoriously Ambiguous and has a number of Splits with Starry Eyed Night and a really good one with DJ Metamodern too.

Go do some research, if you like electronic genres of any kind, this guy should be in your music library. Correct that.

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This is my first full horror soundtrack and my first time selling my music after 10 years of composing.

I'd like for anyone kind enough to take the time to take a listen to my album and let me know how I did, what could be improved musically and in the presentation, if you like it, if you don't like it (especially if you don't like it) and tell me why.

I'll be honest, my intention at first was to let people here know that I released my first album, but I honestly don't think anyone here is going to buy it so, I thought it would be more useful for me to get perspective and hear what people have to say instead if they can lend me their ear. Please be 100% honest.

I want to connect with people, discuss music and grow above all, I'm tired of indifference, I would prefer it if you tell me you don't like it than not say anything.

Here it is:

https://bahren.bandcamp.com/album/jack-street-original-soundtrack

Thank you for your attention 😄

It makes you stop and think, and realize that Spotify is sort of losing its point, of course for me, not for everybody. We’re paying to rent music, sure, the recommendation algorithm is good, but then again...

I have four main playlists there: Dance, Trance, Oldies, and Rock + some full albums.. About 550 songs in total. I only really cycle through half of them.

Partly thanks to discussions on Reddit, I decided to switch to make make my own legit library in quality at least 320kpbs or FLAC. A long time ago, I used to have everything under the sun loaded onto my player, like almost everybody, but now I’m going down the path of actually buying the music. II´ve already started with new very good bluetooth speaker still for great price, "learning" in Poweramp player and buying some music from BandCamp and Beatport.

Next reason is.. I add about 15-20 songs to the playlist, since I still enjoy the older stuff. This should be maybe 30-40 eur for the new music / year. But forever and in better quality. And can listen everywhere. Even with some more supporting for the creators.

It’s actually fun digging through it all, and even though it’ll take some time, it’s probably the right decision, isn't it ? I am also almost sure, that many people chose similar path.. :P

As a dj i, along with many others, find bandcamps UI to be an extremely slow process of clicking in and out of album after album…

When on a specific artists music page, it would be AMAZING if the skip or next song button when playing the last track in a release automatically brought you to the first track of the next release.

Thats it… not asking to reinvent the wheel here, just to make it a faster process for users to find the music they want to buy without nonstop “menu diving” in and out of albums.

I understand that people treating it as a streaming service would abuse it… (i wouldnt mind if bandcamp only posted 1min samples to discourage this) but as an artist and a customer i find the current process to be prohibitively slow… and many times i shop elsewhere to save hours of time when trying to buy a lot of music

Edit: djs that know what sounds they like and dont like are listening to tracks for no more than 5 seconds… this is not about streaming music for free… its about bandcamp being tedious and time consuming for professional djs to purchase from.