YSK: It's Bandcamp Friday, 100% of proceeds go to artists today (until 12 a.m. PT)

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It’s a good day to buy some music and directly support artists.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32580759

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Good to know that it’s not every friday but specific days of year. So today and next one is in december.

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I always thought it was the first Friday of every month. I was wrong.

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Oh, Il he playing King Gizzard nd the Lizard Wizard all day since I noticed they dropped everything off streaming services and the new album (like their 27th now?) is only in BC 👍

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Just incase it’s helpful to anyone this is also on qobuz for streaming .

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It is also on Tidal too.

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And that makes The Protomen releasing Act 3 today make even more sense.

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Wait fr? Like Act 3 of their Mega Man story?

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Evan Greer has a new album coming soon you can pre-order

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I love Bandcamp Fridays, I save up for them, always a good time

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That is a decent advertising model. Feels like it's been a while since I've seen one of those

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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 😔

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It's a lot more indie, honestly

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Bigger acts are less likely to be on it but any smaller artists will likely be there.

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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.

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There's software that let's you easily download your music/playlists to your hard drive. I forget what it's called tho

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I could but I would also like to pay the artists (if it's not gonna bankrupt me)

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Absolutely, same here, but if there's music that I simply couldn't find and pay for then I would just use that

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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.

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Today was the day I bought into band camp! Thanks to all of you for sharing this info!

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I get a lot of music from Bandcamp. Unfortunately while unemployed I'm not spending much money on fun

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Also worth mentioning, this happens every Friday

edit: no it doesn’t

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Not every Friday:

Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:

  • September 5th
  • October 3rd
  • December 5th
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Is that still true? This announcement states:

Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:

September 5th
October 3rd
December 5th

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First Friday of the month, but not every month. They announce the next ones a few months in advance.

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Hey, maybe someone will buy my album!

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