BandcampReviews 36

BandCamp service can be a great option especially if one prefers downloads to physical media. Hat said it can be a rather poor option for physical media as many musicians shift to a pre-order model. Significant delays do occur, damaged media is provided, or none at all. BandCamp does not resolve issues but refers you to the musician's label. For the most part requests to resolve problems are met with total silence. Another side to this is it is rather difficult to contact the record label or musician through the BandCamp website or app. As they say Caveat Emptor. I no longer use or support their service.

Bandcamp has a lot going for it - pays out a reasonable share of the profits to the artists and offers a reasonably fast platform that is easy on the eyes.

But there are things that I'm somewhat sure haven't always been this bad:
- Instead of being able to easily browse one's library, they use one of those idiotic neverending lists. Really great if you've purchased hundreds of things and are looking for something that you bought a few years ago and can't remember its precise name.
- No ability to download albums straight from the album page. Instead, you have to go to your library and use the tiny "download" link. They obviously want people to stream more. Why is beyond me, since they don't even offer a player that can repeat or queue things.
- No way to contact customer support.
- Bad discoverability - there should be a "radio" feature but there isn't one.

A friend posted on Facebook that her father released an album on Bandcamp. I had never used the service before but I wanted to support my friend and her father. From my Apple iPhone I went to the website and made the purchase. Only AFTER the purchase went through did the site inform me that downloads were not available for Apple iPhone. WTH! That is useful information BEFORE I make the purchase. It really pisses me off when business purposefully deceive or withhold information just to make a sale. It is complete BS. I had to then set up an account, which means they are no doubt selling my personal information to third party vendors. I then went to the "Help Center" in order to write an email to the company. Of course, they do not list any email addresses, nor phone numbers, no any other way to contact the company directly. Just another online company that does NOTHING in the form of customer support. Absolutely the LAST TIME I WILL EVER USE THIS COMPANY.

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This website seems to be more oriented towards and filled with indie artists. Electronic/rap seems to garnish more attention on Soundcloud.
Cool that you can set your own pricing, which a site like soundcloud doesn't allow for. So it does have it's pros.

I've been a long time user of Bandcamp. It has been a great website for me to find artists I wouldn't have heard of through other means. The service they offer is great for music lovers since they provide their releases in a variety of formats including FLAC, meaning audiophiles are certainly going to take advantage of the lossless format for their music. There is a wide variety of genres represented on the website and a lot of independent artists are putting their music up on the platform. It is easy to navigate, making a payment is pretty easy, and you can download all of the music you purchase indefinitely. I've had a few artists pull their music from the website for one reason or another, but Bandcamp still gives you the ability to download that music since you paid for.

Their fees are not super cheap but it's still a very good platform for most aspiring musicians along with Soundcould.

Bandcamp let's composers and musicians get to a lot of audience and give them good money for every payment.