yeah or just invite that person to download from you on soundcloud.
either way its possible and has been something i have been thinking about for a while now. some people get 100's of comments on their tracks so if they offered it for say £1 im sure enough people would buy it to make it worthwhile.
Bandcamp
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fairly sure that soundcloud would stop people doing that as soon as they noticed and implement some kind of similar feature where they take a cut of the profit. it would be irrational for them to do anything else.
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the soundcloud idea also requires more time to process orders. i wouldn't mind the bandcamp fees. it seems fair compared to this ridiculous model of having a distributer supply a shop with virtual products.
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So I guess the ideal combination would be the bandcamp payment system and soundcloud's intuitive interface!
I'm starting my 2nd label in a couple of months... Would be cool to have vinyl + digital bandcamp only!
Is there a label already doing it?
I'm starting my 2nd label in a couple of months... Would be cool to have vinyl + digital bandcamp only!
Is there a label already doing it?
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IMO, It could be quite profitable for them to just let people sell their tracks without taking a cut.resolved wrote:fairly sure that soundcloud would stop people doing that as soon as they noticed and implement some kind of similar feature where they take a cut of the profit. it would be irrational for them to do anything else.
The reason behind this, is that with a free account you can show eg. 5 tracks for sale, whereas with a Pro account you could have many more tracks available for sale, so if soundcloud became a popular free marketplace for music, they would sell more Pro accounts.
I suppose with a Pro account maybe you could offer FLAC and mp3 as well, with the streamable file being a lower quality mp3 encoded from the original WAV (instead of the annoying current system, where if you want the downloadable version to be mp3, then the streamable file must be a low quality transcode of that mp3).
Having multiple file formats available for download seems like something they could implement very easily.
They have already implemented a feature where a track is downloadable only for certain members, and only a certain number of times, so I don't see what's stopping this from taking off big-time. Down with beatport!
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::BLM:: wrote:I think Further Records might just do vinyl only and bandcamp.
http://furtherrecords.org/
Looks like they sell their vinyls and cassettes (!) on Bandcamp, but not their digital versions?
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hairblz wrote: The reason behind this, is that with a free account you can show eg. 5 tracks for sale, whereas with a Pro account you could have many more tracks available for sale, so if soundcloud became a popular free marketplace for music, they would sell more Pro accounts.
Exactly, they would do their cash that way. So 100% of the sales to the label, that way the artist would REALLY get paid, not like in this hypocrite system we are... were the artists are not paid at all.