As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
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Long in the making, now it's official: #faircamp is an awardee in the latest @EC_NGI NGI0 Entrust program round! With their support, I'll be able to give a few months of full dedication to the project in 2024 to work on some really hard architectural and design problems. \o/
Here's the project scope in a nutshell: "The aims within [the Faircamp 1.0 project] are to address usability, accessibility and cultural concerns, to improve documentation, to implement missing core architecture components and complete the embedding functionality, as well as complementary bugfixing and smaller feature additions."
Featured image is today's latest addition to the faircamp universe, @mewsse's brand new site https://mewsse.io/ featuring Darksynth/Synthwave/Ambient and experimental tracks!
Notable changes¹: Introducing "Unlisted Releases"² (only visible to those given the private link), Polish translations (thanks Damian Szetela!), Option to disable waveforms³, Prevent almost all layout shifts during page load (thank you @fennifith!), Prevent search engine crawling of non-public pages (thanks @dried for the intel!), More efficient image resizing algorithm and ~25% faster pure-rust image processing, Text direction automatically set based on language
Debian/Arch packages are out already, macOS brew update as well!
In related news, since a few days it's possible to financially support my work on faircamp via Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/simonrepp) and Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/simonrepp), thanks to everyone who nudged this and those who already donated now and before - much appreciated!
The brew folks are on fire, as of one hour after release, #faircamp 0.14.0 seems to be available for macOS via brew as well! Kudos and thanks to FX Coudert for the approval!
The upcoming #faircamp release will feature "unlisted releases", that is, you can add the flag "unlisted" to the release manifest/section to hide it from all publicly accessible pages, while still being able to visit the page if you know the permalink.
There are some minor implications for label mode though, which I'd be happy to have double-checked - if you're a (current or potential) faircamp site operator, do you have any thoughts on this?
"An unlisted release is never visible on the home/index page.
In label mode there are some additional intricacies: An artist that has only unlisted releases is not visible on the home/index page, but in turn, all of these unlisted releases are visible on the artist page, as the artist page itself is implicitly unlisted then. If however, an artist has even just a single listed release, it becomes visible on the home/index page, and on the artist page itself all unlisted releases are not visible anymore."
I spent all day on the website¹ today, most notably adding adaptive dark/light theming, improving accessibility and responsive behavior, cleaning up the overall design, and changing the screenshots on the page, now featuring some of the beautiful sites you folks have made (instead of the previous, semi-fictional sites I used :)). Featured artist/label sites currently are @mxv, @DaforLynx, Bonk Knob Records, @johann, @controlfreak, DX Complex, @samae and @yonder - I included links to your pages with the screenshots - of course let me know if you'd rather not be featured. I'll occasionally replace the featured screenshots in the future so more sites can get into the spotlight (hint: I'd be especially happy to feature more pages with customized themes, especially light/contrasty/colorful ones :))
A new release is just around the corner which will feature polish translations contributed by Damian Szetela, the option to disable waveforms , a ~25% speedup for (pure-rust) image processing and some other smaller updates and fixes.
The stars seem to align for a very active summer of faircamp development, more on that potentially very soon. (for the next weeks I'm all-in on Hyper 8 development still though :))
What level of devs knowledge do I need to install faircamp? I use Windows, I installed Ubuntu, the terminal always gave an error, even following the guide. Do I need a lot of storage space to install Docker?
Hey @freebliss, is there a way to disable the waveforms on a #faircamp release page? I think they're really visually appealing but they can also "give away the ending" to a recording in a way that's not always desirable. (This might be a feature request if it's not currently an option.)
I'm getting an error with my catalog.eno file saying that my image (in line 9 that I'm getting the error for) "is not contained within a field" and I have no idea what that means when the example is stated so plainly in the tutorial.
I've also changed the filename to be as simple as it possibly can be without any capitalization, and 3 letters.
The only thing I'm wondering with this is if my home image NEEDS to be a png. or is a jpg okay?
My #faircamp , #owncast setup: A fanless industrial PC (Advantech ARK-2250) which also heats up (a small fraction) of this year's chilli and aubergine seedlings.
So every time I stream or you listen and download on faircamp the seedlings get a little bit of dissipated energy!
#faircamp musing on reducing server cost and resource usage: 1) Faircamp generates the site without any download files/archives at all (only streaming assets are written to the build directory). 2) Instead it generates an additional local/client-side directory - not to be deployed - that contains all releases for download with torrent files. 3) Visitors on the faircamp site can exclusively download releases via torrent/magnet links, and the artists seed the downloads from their own machine (whenever they're online).
Nothing about this is new (on the contrary - file sharing renaissance galore :)), but I really like the idea of mashing up a (cheaper and less resource-demanding) always-on streaming server with a P2P download delivery mechanism (which is entirely re-using existing computers and infrastructure, i.e. avoiding data center proliferation and idle infrastructure). Also fans are downloading music directly from the artist then - literally from their computer. ^^
(Thoughts anyone? Note that this would of course be an additional option, not a replacement of how faircamp handles downloads so far)
Check out the #Faircamp webring for 52 different #SelfHosted sites full of #FairtradeMusic - some free, some paid, some available elsewhere, some exclusive...
$2363 left to save Mom and I and my #Bunny from eviction
It's hard to stay present with my #EmotionalSupportBunny and Mom these days seeing them have no idea of the threat to our joy and warmth hurts me deeply
Mom always asks why I am sad
Clinging to hope
Please help by sharing or tipping or commissioning me
Okay so…. basically the question is… which one of you computer science genius wants to team up and create the new streaming app that doesn’t destroy musicians lives? Because we all know my shitty python coding will never get us there. lol.
Oh wait hold on. Where is #FairCamp at? Also, I still have to link up with @radiofreefedi, since this is also viable.
Am I going to have to start a record label?
It feels more and more like that everyday.
This is also why artists have been begging you to engage with them via Bandcamp, especially on #BandcampFriday, where they can make the most profit they will directly make with their own music.
It’s also why we are all holding our breath as Bandcamp changes owners… one of the last, real, viable ways of making money might disappear at any time.
GET OVER TO BANDCAMP AND SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE MUSICIAN NOW. PLEASE.