source tweet https://twitter.com/ShiinaBR/status/1707419347549896905
a year and a half after buying bandcamp, epic is selling bandcamp to a the largest music licensing company in the world known as SongTradr...
surely shoving one of the platforms that gives musicians the best terms being shoved under a b2b company that has a large amount of leverage over the industry and no prior interest in selling music to people will be fine, right? there's no way they decide to do anything harmful to either bandcamp, musicians, or listeners with this deal
It's not perfect or a long term 'replacement' (definitely doesn't have the built-in music buying audience that bandcamp does) but it does support selling music, and with this pretty rad tool from Torcado, you can easily create a bandcamp-like media player for your stuff, complete with album art, lyric pages, credits, etc.
I've had it set up for a while, you can see it in action here:
https://curiousquail.itch.io/twelvemonths
If you're a musician interesting in setting this up and need some help, let me know - I'm happy to!
oh hey, that's me!
The news about Epic is disheartening, and incidentally the reason I made Scritch in the first place was also because of news about Epic a couple years ago, when they first bought Bandcamp. I'm very glad people are finding use in it!
I also recently (last night) added a feature for per-track album art. It's available in the Scritch Player, it'll be added to the Editor soon.
(if anyone has suggestions or features they feel are missing, feel free to let me know!)
