The digital music universe has come a long way since the Napster era, and these days, that means a good number of paid subscription services are angling to serve all the music you could imagine in a legally acceptable package. But getting music-subscription dollars into your favorite musicians' hands remains a sticking point.

As far as musicians are concerned, Apple Music is still one of the better payout services, with the company officially estimating as much as one penny paid per streamed song, while Spotify maxes out at less than half a penny per stream—and those payouts can drop based on whatever wacky spreadsheet-calculus each service runs in the background. Either way, that math checks out; your $10 or $15 per month can only be divided so far between hundreds of song streams.

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If you're willing to open your wallet a little wider for downloaded music, today's return of the Bandcamp Fridays promotion is a massive counterbalance to underpaying subscription services. And it's a good excuse to point to Bandcamp as a feature-rich, mobile-friendly option for buying music online.

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Bandcamp Fridays launched in early 2020 as a way to drive more money into bands' and artists' pockets, especially after so many COVID-19 tour cancellations. Buy any digital-only content via Bandcamp on the first Friday of a month when the promotion is active, and the service waives its normal cut of artist revenue (which is 15 percent by default and 10 percent once a user exceeds $5,000 USD in revenue over the past 12 months). The promotion stuck to its every-first-Friday cadence for nearly a year before skipping some months in seemingly unpredictable fashion. This week, Bandcamp has confirmed that the Bandcamp Friday promotion will resume for the rest of 2021.

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From a digital-rights perspective, it's easy to recommend Bandcamp as a storefront, since any purchase includes unlimited downloads of DRM-free audio files—and you can choose between lossless FLAC, uncompressed WAV, and a variety of other lossy and lossless formats. If you're not ready to buy, Bandcamp also makes it easy for artists to enable uninterrupted preview listens of their songs and albums, along with an optional 'you've listened enough, maybe buy it' nag after a single machine uses the preview feature a few times. And once you buy anything via Bandcamp, you can use the service's mobile app on Android and iOS to download offline copies, see news updates from artists you've bought from previously, and access Bandcamp-curated playlists. This app, in particular, has matured greatly over the past year on both feature and stability fronts.

Bandcamp's normal 15 percent revenue cut is certainly competitive compared to other popular digital storefronts, including gaming services like Steam and Epic Games Store. That's made me more likely to buy on days other than the first Friday of a month, though I'll admit that Bandcamp Fridays drove me to the service as a way to pay my favorite artists when I can't see them in concert. Since then, Bandcamp has won me over as a preferred music service and app for daily use. (And if you're an international user, you can shop at Bandcamp using a wide range of compatible currencies, whether using its built-in payment processing or Paypal, which I appreciate.) You have until midnight Pacific Time today to take advantage of this month's waived-fee promotion.

Jul 16, 2021 Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love. The Bandcamp app lets you explore a vast catalog of music by artists from every corner of the globe, allows you to directly support the artists you love by buying their music and merch, and lets you instantly listen to the music you've purchased, whether you're.

• Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love. The Bandcamp app lets fans explore a vast catalog of music by artists from every corner of the globe, allows them to directly support artists by buying their merch (and wishlisting albums & tracks for purchase at a later time), and lets them instantly listen to.
• Aug 06, 2021 This app, in particular, has matured greatly over the past year on both feature and stability fronts. Further Reading Car Seat Headrest is an ideal product of the Bandcamp generation.
• Bandcamp Desktop. Bandcamp Desktop is a crossplatform desktop application which allows you to use bandcamp.com in an easy and quick way. Note that Bandcamp Desktop is not affiliated with Bandcamp, it is only a fan-made, free and Open-Source project.
• Oct 25, 2013 The Bandcamp app for iOS and Android has arrived. This first version gives anyone with a fan account instant, unlimited mobile access to their Bandcamp music collection. No more download-and-sync two-step to get tunes onto the iPhone, and no more advanced fiddling on Android. Just make a purchase, and it immediately appears in the app.

I realize the Bandcamp App came out all the way back in October (remember 2013?) but, up until a couple of weeks ago, I was just another unlucky victim of planned obsolescence.

My previous phone —the Samsung Galaxy Ace (aka the poor man's iPhone)— was stuck with an Android operating system that could no longer be upgraded to the version needed to use most modern apps. So I had a phone that 'worked' but didn't really work.

So I was Bandcamp App-less all the way until Jesus's birthday, when a hand me down iPhone 3GS was bestowed upon me. I suppose that iPhone 3GS could also be considered a poor man's iPhone, as it probably only has about a year left before it too is no longer smart enough for the latest apps. To quote a tweet from Gorgeous Bully on this topic: “the futures bright, the futures broken”.

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Since I could not use the app myself, but was hella curious, I ended up on iTunes & Google Play reading what other people were saying… which caught me a bit by surprise. I mean, the overall rating on Google Play is a solid 4 stars (and on Apple it has a 4+ rating), but there were quite a few very low ratings and some pretty shitty reviews. I wasn’t expecting that.