Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

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  • bandcamp-downloader

    Download your bandcamp collection using this python script.

  • Make sure to archive your bandcamp collection, which you can do with the following script: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

    I have a straightforward guide on how to get up and running on windows here: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader/issues/21

    You should always archive your collection anyways. One negative thing about bandcamp is that artists/labels/bandcamp can remove anything at anytime for any reason, so things you paid for can straight up disappear. This was very disappointing to discover. Note that sometimes things are set as hidden, rather than outright removed. This info may be outdated, as the relevant support page seems to gave changed from the last time I looked at it.

    Because of their no DRM policy and full on downloads, not just streaming, Bandcamp has basically become the only place I’ll buy music outside of CDs.

    I’m happy enough to hand artists money if it’s easy and I can archive a lossless copy, but if they start fucking around with things, I’ll go right back to doing what I was before. That said, if they fix the outright removal of paid things problem, and start treating “artist” as first class instead of “label” in searches and links, I’ll be singing their praises.

  • me-want-cookies

    :rocket: Chrome Extension to export all accessible cookies of the current Tab

  • In case you have troubles exporting cookies, I made a simple extension for that:

    https://github.com/cookiengineer/me-want-cookies

    (Uses Netscape cookie format)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • bandcampsync

    Downloads your Bandcamp purchases automatically

  • Of a similar nature, my weekend project last week:

    https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

    Does much the same thing, but it unpacks the zips and tracks the directories. It can run as a docker container which syncs your collection on a daily timer. The use case is to download your purchases to local directories for use with Jellyfin/Plex/etc. You can just buy music and it'll appear on your local media server automatically within a day.

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