Not sure if this is exactly good news, but Epic Games doesn’t own it anymore, it was sold to Songtradr.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months agoAs a musician and composer it really took the life out of me as a musician was seeing an alternative to bandcamp never really form and then one day waking up to it bought by Epic.
I didn’t cry that day, but I might as well have, it made me extraordinarily sad to see that headline and I imagine there are actually countless talented musicians out there who will never actuate on their creative vision because the environment for music production is at this point, downright hostile towards artists and musicians.
It takes an obscene amount of work to take a song from something that has promise to being as polished as listeners demand nowadays, and they won’t even give your song a change on actual speakers. You have to twist and warp your music so it sounds good on essentially monophonic phone speakers with shitty frequency coverage or otherwise nobody will give it a try on speakers for actually listening to music.
🙃
deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
can@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
the largest music licensing platform in the world
Doesn’t sound too good to me. Bandcamp used to be where I could get music from smaller artists who couldn’t afford clearing samples (as they weren’t making money) and I worry a lot of that will be lost.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Still is, for now. I run a small vaporwave tape label via Bandcamp. No significant changes under Epic Games or Songtradr that I’ve noticed. That could change, though.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
It will change, I promise you. I am so confident I will literally bet my girlfriend’s chihuahua on it.
can@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That’s how it always begins.
But on a more positive note, care to share the label or more about your experience about it? With regards to Bandcamp and more generally.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
🤷♂️ not really, none of these corporations are real in any sense that matters other than sucking up actual companies that actually make the world a better place and mining the goodwill out of them until they are cynical, worthless husks that corporations to bamboozle consumers into buying products from before they get the memo and realize their favorite company/brand is dead now.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As bad as Epic is, probably worse…
Even though Bandcamp was profitable the new CEO said this after buying it
the financial state of Bandcamp has not been healthy
So they’re probably looking for any way to cut costs. They fired half of the staff on day 1, including anyone who tried to unionize
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You can’t use Qobuz if you’re behind a VPN. It makes me sad because I wanted to try this.
kiku123@feddit.de 6 months ago
It seems that ampwall.com may come sometime as an alternative to Bandcamp? Time will tell…
LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Ah yes, and unsanctioned art will be classified as a form of terrorism.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And most people will be perfectly happy to consume that and nothing else ever.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
100% where we are headed with this backwards capitalist approach to ai. Make bots churn out art, films, music, anything creative really, so the proles have more time for mindless manual labor