Post #1943675
2026-05-02 13:42 UTC
Replies (7)
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@onezero@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 13:57
@CheapPontoon I use it and publish music there with reservations. They laid off staff who organized, for example. I’d definitely recommend downloading and saving files to a device you control.
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@angelastella@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-02 13:59
@CheapPontoon I'd follow the guidance of the union: https://www.bandcampunited.org/ Otherwise, I'm as poor as a church mouse, so if I like something I just rip it using yt-dlp or NewPipe. Sorry.
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@j_feral@digipres.club 2026-05-02 14:06
@CheapPontoon Bandcamp good. I recommend downloading everything you buy bc you can and do own it, and what a privilege that is these days. But i have over 1000 albums owned and i have not followed my own advice to back them up anywhere. 😬 I've been using it since 2011 and have no complaints. I guess maybe playlists are more onerous than like spotify? But i never used spotify before so this is not a thing i ever got used to or expected from a music app.
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@jmopp@masto.ai 2026-05-02 14:25
@CheapPontoon One of the albums I had bought vanished after the record label it was hosted on disappeared. The album only recently resurfaced under the artist's name. I'm glad I had downloaded it. Always download
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@sb@metroholografix.ca 2026-05-02 14:44
@CheapPontoon Hello - musician with about 12 project on bandcamp, going back to 2009 here. IMO, it cannot be trusted. Like so many of the brands we knew & loved, bandcamp has been slurped up by venture capitalists. The majority of the original core team was let go. I cancelled my pro subscription the last time the company was sold. However, with all that said, it is still a platform that is (IMO) fair to artists - at least for now. They have recently begun cutting over their payment system to Stripe, which doesn't bode well. As others have said, download your purchased albums, just in case.
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@xinit@mastodon.coffee 2026-05-02 15:38
@CheapPontoon No, their app is horrible, just like all apps that could just be web pages. Use their web site and download. Use the app to stream, but definitely download. @sb
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@ojrask@piipitin.fi 2026-05-02 21:58
@CheapPontoon @dreamofomni has a neat list of alternatives to check out