Is there a way to queue up listening to everything on #faircamp? Have been clicking on "random" on https://faircamp.webr.ing as a way to find new music lately and really liking it.
It's #BandcampFriday babies! As usual, I'm asking music fans to consider spending AT LEAST as much on independent artists today as they spend on their monthly music streaming subscriptions. Most of that money goes to Spotify (or whoever) and the top 1% of artists on the platforms, leaving the majority of artists fighting for scraps.
Spending $10-20 thru #Bandcamp, #Faircamp or simply sending them some money via #KoFi or #cashapp will have a FAR greater impact than giving it to Spotify.
You can buy my newest single for $1 which goes to me,
AND
You can buy the 7-song album "The No Spoons Sessions" for $7, which goes to the rainbow railroad (rainbowrailroad.org)
I haven't yet formally announced #faircamp 0.12.0, so here goes :)
A new theme option for making all waveforms full width is now public (disable_relative_waveforms, see https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/manual/theme.html), the underlying eno language and parser got an update (more on this elsewhere, no practical changes), an iOS background scaling problem was fixed (thanks to @fennifith who submitted this PR and did lots of testing), a critical issue that broke the player for some people who had certain browser extension(s) running was fixed, "name your price" now checks that the price entered conforms to what's asked and skips payment if 0 is entered, and finally, a lang attribute was added to each page's html tag, which helps automated translation and screenreaders (again thanks @fennifith, who btw. also provided a great deal of other input that will soon help aid some upcoming changes).
Debian and macOS/brew (thanks Clément if you read this) releases are already updated, thanks to @keefmarshall's research I can now also inform you that building from source on FreeBSD officially just works (TM), this has been documented in the manual too.
Apologies if I forgot anyone, and as always: Thanks everyone for your efforts! More faircamp related news are just around the corner, stay tuned. ( ^◡^)
Check out @keefmarshall great music. His groundbreaking #Image2BonkWave track & then just click next to discover an amazing musician that you've probably never heard.
Not your genre? Click Next. No harm no foul. I gurantee that you'll find some #music that you love.
Feeling cheeky? Click Random to a random spot on the webring.
Ok there's a good chance tomorrow is the last #bandcampfriday ever. I've gone a bit nuts. An 85% discount on my entire discography. You can own all my music for a mere €12.75 That's 13 releases! Also 1 Limited edition hipster #casettetape left of Thorium http://Limneticvillains.bandcamp.com Times are tough and not everyone digs #bandcamp, so I've also got a #Faircamp and if you like it and you're a struggling musician you can grab my music for free off that. Couldn't be anymore fair than that.
Quick note to say I've just posted another news digest to the Beyond Faircamp Matrix room.
Too much to repeat here (I only have 500 characters), but you can find out about an important bug fix in the latest Faircamp release, a template for adding new pages to your Faircamp website, a community calendar for live streaming events, and more!
Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
Are you thinking of self hosting, or signing up for a music service of some kind?
For self hosting there's #funkwhale, which has fediverse integration built in. I tried it myself and it didn't quite fit for me though.
A lot of musicians on here really like self hosting with #faircamp (and I use it myself and think it's great) but faircamp doesn't have activitypub, so there's no fediverse integration.