bandcamp
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VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
It's probably the recordings or the fact that you're just previewing streams
Bandcamp allows logged-in users to download music that they've added to their library in a number of formats, including lossless FLAC. Streaming probably downsamples to mp3 or something equivalent, but your fans can get a version with the exact quality you uploaded.
Other pros of bandcamp include:
it's the industry standard for offering digital music along with analog physical media.
It's free to you as a musician to use the platform; they take their 15% when people buy downloads.
About once a month, they will waive their cut and either let the bands keep 100% of the purchase price or donate that 15% to a worthy cause.
It's a good platform for streaming an entire album to preview it or after you've purchased it
They accept Paypal, so it's not a difficult threshold to get people to buy
Cons of bandcamp include:
Not a great day-to-day streaming service.
They are actively fighting their own employees unionization efforts.
Bandcamp allows logged-in users to download music that they've added to their library in a number of formats, including lossless FLAC. Streaming probably downsamples to mp3 or something equivalent, but your fans can get a version with the exact quality you uploaded.
Other pros of bandcamp include:
it's the industry standard for offering digital music along with analog physical media.
It's free to you as a musician to use the platform; they take their 15% when people buy downloads.
About once a month, they will waive their cut and either let the bands keep 100% of the purchase price or donate that 15% to a worthy cause.
It's a good platform for streaming an entire album to preview it or after you've purchased it
They accept Paypal, so it's not a difficult threshold to get people to buy
Cons of bandcamp include:
Not a great day-to-day streaming service.
They are actively fighting their own employees unionization efforts.
Pinky
and The Brain...
Upload WAV files and let Bandcamp compress them for streaming. Based on my ears, the streaming quality is about 128Kbps. Uploading a MP3 to only have them recompress it will result in diminished quality. 128Kbps is the bare minimum, they're probably keeping the streaming quality low to save costs/bandwidth. Soundcloud also sounds poor to my ears. But that's what we get for 'free'.
If you end up selling on the platform, you'll always want to upload in WAV so the buyer can choose WAV, FLAC, or MP3 downloads.
bouldersoundguy
Well-known member
It would help if you gave some indication that you read the advice and followed it, and that you're not judging by the stream quality but the .flac download quality (which should be identical to the file you uploaded).
bouldersoundguy
Well-known member
Just start with the basics. You can come back to it later to add clever tricks.