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Amazing... but one minor thing
Frankly Bandcamp has changed my life in a non cliche way. It has allowed me to find music I enjoy and has allowed me to find my tastes outside of the mainstream. It’s also allowed me to appreciate older technologies and has given me huge admiration for the artists that make music on Bandcamp. The UI on my laptop is amazing and I love using it. But on the phone it’s a bit of a problem for me. Personally I wish there was a way to organize all of my music on my phone similar to how it can be organized on the computer. Because while it is only minor, scrolling through all of the music I have can be rather tedious and the filter options provided only do so much. But other than that small issue that is really minor, I love Bandcamp and can’t wait to see what other music I find.Show lessA music enjoyer
Doesn’t support playlists
As much as I love Bandcamp as a service, I must note that the app is quite underwhelming. Purchased a large collection of music? Listen to it only by release - no playlists, no genre grouping, no track ratings and “party shuffle” by high rated tracks, no nothing. As a music player this app is SEVERELY limited, and UI is not convenient at all for navigating large music collection (for example, sorting alphabetically doesn’t allow then to skip to particular letter, the only view mode for your collection is “cover” mode with 3 releases in a row - no “list” mode etc). Bandcamp, please fix this!Show lessM.V.M-n.
Can’t purchase within the app 👎🏾
I love the premise of this app. Giving independent musicians a platform to sell and promote their music is amazing. What’s even better is for every first Friday of every month, they give 100% revenue to the artists! The big issue I have with this app is that you can’t purchase music within the app. It’s ridiculous. Imagine not being able to purchase music on the iTunes app, but just being able to see what’s available, then having to open your internet browser and go to the iTunes website to purchase the music...? Imagine how much money they’d lose doing that. I would personally purchase so much more music on bandcamp if I could buy it within the appShow lessSoundingon
Love Bandcamp. Don’t love the app
First, big up Bandcamp for providing a platform for artist to get properly paid for their work. But the APP.
1. Can’t purchase through the app on iOS because Apple don’t want to promote music consumption via anything which isn’t in-house. Fair enough Bandcamp can’t really help that but PLEASE could we see some info about the cost or if it’s free, or if it will be pressed to vinyl/cassette etc.
2. The search bar engine is painful to use.Show lessms42069
Missing features
I’m a proud supporter of artists through Bandcamp, and really appreciate their activism on social matters - more businesses should follow their lead.
However, I find that some missing features make me less likely to use it. The three main ones for me:
- no ListenBrainz scrobbling
- no filtering by license (e.g. search for CC-BY releases)
- the app doesn’t allow searching your collection by genreShow lessPhilémon Gaubardier
Awesome, could use some polishing
I love this app because it allows me to support obscure artists, and allows me to broaden my collection and understanding of music. Aside from this, I feel like a few improvements could be done. The UI is a bit clunky, sometimes it scrolls all the way back to the top of the music feed, also I think accessing genres/sub-genres should be easier, maybe you could go to your profile and select the genre from your following list, or could have a separate icon for it. When you follow a lot of different genres your music feed tends to get a bit cluttered and it’s harder to seamlessly select what you feel like listening to, I feel like a grid system might be better? Overall happy with the app though I love using it.Show lessmjmakilla
Inconsistent and not-so-user-friendly
When I signed up I had a specific band in mind that I was going to subscribe to. It took me actually going to the bands website to find the link to pay for my subscription. I added my cc info on the app and then had to re-enter it when signing up thru the bands website, which raises the question: Why does the app need my cc info? And why not have the subscription link on the bands page with the “follow” button? It seems to me that this would actually deter subscribers without an easier access to the service.
I have seen and am very familiar with a friends account to reference my next two claims: the catalog listing is ridiculously inconsistent. The shows that are in my current catalog are in completely different order than my friends, leaving me searching for a needle in a haystack searching for the newest additions. It also looks like they are some missing. So where are they?
The particular band that I subscribe to has 22 years of soundboards and they have been uploading one (sometimes two at a time) every few days since the pandemic started. That’s almost a year of older soundboards being uploaded- all from different time periods- every few days. Now, it’s all a mess. Even recent soundboards from 2019 of multiple-night runs are out of order and not placed together. It’s like someone just threw them all in a bag, shook it up, dumped it out and walked away.Show lessStellanovella
Needs some changes
Though I love the gems I find on there, I wish tracks would be compiled in one big library so I wouldn’t have to leave the app I’m using to select a song from a different artist. Even multiple tracks from one album are scattered if paid for separately. Another inconvenience is that you have to be redirected to the album’s webpage to make a purchase AND you’re unable to scrub along the timeline of a track unless you’re in the app. One request- pleeease give us a dark mode I’m sure I’m not the only one who would like that.Show lessKaledēkla
The cream of the crop
Top of the range in terms of digital music distribution services. Fantastic sound quality streaming, higher pay per stream for artists and direct links to the stores from which you can buy their music. One of the best places to be for any lover of music.jnenrnnrbn
It’s okay...
I wish there was a way to purchase through the app, but it sounds like that’s an iProblem, not Bandcamp.
But why on earth is there not a repeat option?! So far I have only one album and it’s great to sleep to but it won’t repeat! Imagine my frustration when trying to drive one day and I kept having to pull over to make it play again. (Just telling Sync to play automatically starts iTunes, even if bandcamp was the only music app open and the previous play came from it.)
Maybe docking it by a whole two stars is a bit extreme for simply not having a repeat option, but it’s such a basic option in music, you’d think it’d be automatic.Show lessWhiteKatsu
