Author Archives: Ethan Diamond

If you’ve got a fan account on Bandcamp, we’ve got a great new way for you to discover music. Your music feed shows you the activity of all the fans and artists you follow, and lets you listen to their picks and new releases instantly. You’ll see when someone you follow buys an album, andContinue reading “Strap on Your Feed Bag!”

You can now easily switch between all your artists on Bandcamp without the hassle of repeatedly logging in and out. First, make sure you’re in whichever account you plan on logging in with from now on. Then open up your artist menu and select  “add more artists”:   Enter the name and password of theContinue reading “Manage Multiple Artists from a Single Account”

You can now share Bandcamp players directly to Tumblr, and they’ll look great on both your blog and the Tumblr dashboard. Just head over to any album or track page, click Share/Embed, click the Tumblr button, et voilà: The far less important detail: if you prefer our standard or small layout player over the horizontalContinue reading “Share Bandcamp Players Directly to Tumblr”

If you’re selling merch on Bandcamp, and good gracious are there ever some excellent reasons you should be, you can now print out mailing labels and packing slips right from your orders page. Just go over to Tools, and click the link to manage your physical orders:   Then, on your orders page, you’ll seeContinue reading “Shipping labels and packing slips”

We’ve just made a few improvements to how tickets are listed on Bandcamp. You can now set the shipping for a ticket to be will-call/door list, and we’ll update all the fan-facing language on your site pages and receipts accordingly. We also now generate a live list of each show’s attendees, which you can printContinue reading “Ticketing improvements: will-call, door list”

We’ve just launched a bunch of beautiful new players for you, your fans and the press to embed across the web. They’re simple, customizable, free, and completely focused on your music. First up is a large player, shown here without a tracklist: with a tracklist: and in a minimal, cover-art-only version: The large player alsoContinue reading “All New Players Up! Twitter Too!”

Today we’re launching a brand new home page that’s focused on promoting all the incredible music on Bandcamp. The centerpiece is the Bandcamp Weekly show, hosted by Andrew Jervis. Andrew joins us from the renowned Ubiquity Records, where he headed up A&R for 14 years, and the Friday Night Session, which he hosted and producedContinue reading “The New Bandcamp.com”

Once more unto the mailbag: “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve randomly found new artists that I like but wasn’t ready to make a music purchase. If I had a fan account it would make it a heck of a lot easier for me to go back and revisit those artists and buyContinue reading “Bandcamp for Fans”

All artist sites on Bandcamp now work and look great on mobile. We’ve optimized everything for the smaller screen and touch interface, so your albums look fantastic, fans can browse through your merch store with ease, and the checkout flow is fast and intuitive: Does this mean you expect my fans to launch their mobileContinue reading “Every Bandcamp site is now an awesome mobile site”

One of our most frequent feature requests is for a standalone merch section, so you can list t-shirts, posters and so on, independently of albums. Plenty of you have done clever things to work around this deficiency, creating, for example, one-track “albums” titled “t-shirt,” or painstakingly adding dozens of merch items to whatever is yourContinue reading “Merch!”