Post 3048751 by keithzg@mastodon.club
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(DIR) Post #3048749 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-16T23:15:11Z
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I'm listening to a lot of future funk this week and its absolutely because of @eightbitsamurai
(DIR) Post #3048750 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-16T23:31:24Z
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it would be pretty cool if Bandcamp let you make shareable playlists so that I can share them with folkbut I don't know if that would confuse the UX of the site or what 🤔
(DIR) Post #3048751 by keithzg@mastodon.club
2019-01-16T23:37:50Z
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@staticsafe Yeah there's definitely some UX concerns, but I figure the bigger concern is that Bandcamp fundamentally isn't a streaming service in the sense we normally mean it these days (ie. subscription-for-full-catalog).
(DIR) Post #3048752 by keithzg@mastodon.club
2019-01-16T23:37:55Z
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@staticsafe They *don't* necessarily want people just streaming random tracks from random different albums; they want people to be buying albums. And currently the way they do that is by an escalating cutoff, where they start nagging a bit then eventually force a purchase. (In fact, drunkenly listening to my own music the other night I was forced to pay myself to stream it, hah!)
(DIR) Post #3048753 by nightpool@cybre.space
2019-01-16T23:42:30Z
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@keithzg @staticsafe i dunno, it feels like it would be kind of a cool discovery mechanism though. viral sharing is powerful!
(DIR) Post #3048755 by nightpool@cybre.space
2019-01-16T23:42:48Z
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@keithzg @staticsafe and "limited to only what you can find on bandcamp" is a really fun restriction to play with
(DIR) Post #3048756 by nightpool@cybre.space
2019-01-16T23:43:11Z
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@keithzg @staticsafe maybe you can only make playlists out of things you already own, but anybody can listen to the playlists you make?
(DIR) Post #3048796 by nightpool@cybre.space
2019-01-16T23:45:15Z
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@keithzg @staticsafe bandcamp product engineers please return my calls
(DIR) Post #3048859 by keithzg@mastodon.club
2019-01-16T23:45:47Z
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@nightpool @staticsafe Hmm, that's an interesting riff on it, although that still causes complications for how Bandcamp handles the listeners. But yeah in a general sense I don't disagree with you at all---it'd be great if Bandcamp supported playlists, and I'd definitely use such a feature! But I also understand why they haven't implemented it yet, since it's kindof a can of worms for them with how they currently try to politely steer people towards purchases.
(DIR) Post #3048860 by nightpool@cybre.space
2019-01-16T23:48:02Z
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@keithzg @staticsafe oh, sure i get it! but i think this has a huge potential to add to the viral/social affordances of the platform. for example if I link to a bandcamp album here, it shows up in an easily listenable format:https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/album/inside-outside-friends-at-the-table-soundtrack-season-threethat's a feature bandcamp built! and artists use it *all the time* to share and promote their work. this would be something in the same vein.