In fact, the focus here is precisely on the playback license, as was once the case with records and CDs, but with the advantage that it is not tied to the fragile materiality of the sound carrier. With Bandcamp, however, the on-demand service is only a feature and not the central aspect of the business model. No matter how often a song is listened to, the license to play it is always only rented. If this account is deleted, the access right also expires. After all, access to Spotify is linked to a subscription or at least an account with advertising. Also in different file formats.īandcamp is often described as a better streaming platform or anti-Spotify. Once purchased, the music can be streamed permanently on Bandcamp and downloaded as often as needed. There, the music can be streamed to a limited extent via a player and then purchased and downloaded and that either as mp3 or lossless file format such as flac or wav. Every release gets a micropage on Bandcamp that is linked to the artist and/or label. There, downloading music files should work more easily.
He was reluctant to accept the complications and promptly left Yahoo, his employer at the time, to become an entrepreneur himself and found Bandcamp. It was 2007 when Bandcamp founder Ethan Diamond was desperately trying to download a band’s album that was offered for free download.
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