…and any other place that doesn’t have Flash, but does support HTML5: (Streaming has actually long worked on the iPad and iPhone, but clicking play launched QuickTime, which always felt clunky. iOS4 lets us do it right inline, like the good lord intended.) Bandcamp’s embedded players (the ones you generate from the Share menu) remainContinue reading “Now Streaming on the iPad, iPhone…”
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All-Time Stats Are Here
Not a whole lot more to say than that, except perhaps that it’s long been our most frequently requested enhancement, and it’s now available in your stats section:
Package Options, Multiple Packages Per Album
You can now present fans with a menu of options, such as t-shirt size or vinyl color, for any given physical package. So, rather than asking a buyer to email you their choice after their purchase, or click “leave note for seller” over on PayPal (both pretty clunky workarounds), the fan’s selection appears in yourContinue reading “Package Options, Multiple Packages Per Album”
Second Release from BCWax is Here!
A few months ago, we launched BCWax, an unlabel dedicated to the production of high-quality physical artifacts of some of the best independent music hosted on Bandcamp. You can read more about our motivations, but primary among them was to promote the creation of the kind of merch we ourselves would like to buy, andContinue reading “Second Release from BCWax is Here!”
Buttons Buttons Buttons
Our aspiration here at Bandcamp has always been to power the site that you consider yours. As such, we limit our branding to the small logo you see in the footer, and happily enable you to banish the “bandcamp” from your URL in favor of your own custom domain. But we do still frequently hearContinue reading “Buttons Buttons Buttons”
Name-Your-Price Physical
You can now let fans name their price for physical packages, but set the minimum to whatever you choose. Just go to your album page, click Edit, and in the package settings choose “let fan name price.” As we’ve mentioned before, name-your-price has proven very successful with digital, so we’re excited to see what happensContinue reading “Name-Your-Price Physical”
Label Integration Using the Index, Image Maps and Custom Artist Field
Update July 23rd, 2010: Another nice example from Gerry Loves Records: One of the cool things about the new index page and image map features is how they can be used in conjunction with one another to power a label’s music store. Icelandic record label Bedroom Community’s forthcoming site redesign does exactly that: They’ve customizedContinue reading “Label Integration Using the Index, Image Maps and Custom Artist Field”
The Index Page
…could not be a less enticing title, so let’s cut right to the awesome it enables: Those are all just standard Bandcamp-powered sites. The second two use the new image map feature to add site navigation to the custom header. But all three use the new index page feature to display a selection of releasesContinue reading “The Index Page”
Integrating Bandcamp into Your Existing Site (SPOILER ALERT: Image Maps)
Once again to the Bandcamp mailbag: “Is it possible to add html links to the custom header? Right now the whole thing links back to the home page, but wouldn’t it be cool if we could put a few tabs on that bad boy linking to say our blog, or our true home page? ThisContinue reading “Integrating Bandcamp into Your Existing Site (SPOILER ALERT: Image Maps)”
How to Make More Money from Bandcamp
We also considered The Dos and Don’ts of Selling from Bandcamp and Bandcamp Best Practices, but eventually settled on… (reveal, enjoy)