Wow someone found my ko-fi link :) thank you very much to "mysterious fedi user" for buying Solarpunk Grazers! What a nice surprise. First sale from my #Faircamp site.
Est-ce qu'une traduction du manuel ou d'un tutoriel pour #faircamp est quelque chose qu'il faudrait faire pour que ce petit bijou de logiciel soit utilisé dans la francophonie moyennement anglophone ?
#Faircamp c'est un logiciel libre qui permet de se faire un genre bandcamp auto-hébérgé, ça marche très bien et ça a de la gueule. Les seuls problèmes c'est que : c'est un peu technique, et il n'y a pas de ressources en français.
Hi! I’m trying to set up faircamp which is like a bandcamp alternative. If I’m understanding correctly it’s a self-hosted static site. I’m new to all this. I’m on a mac, so I’ve installed Brew and then installed Faircamp using Terminal. It’s currently pointing to “Audio Music Apps” folder which is full of audio...
That’s very weird! So you get the error message when you run faircamp --preview after editing your .eno?
And is there one .eno in your “Artist Name” folder, and another .eno in each “Release” folder?
If you’re on Mastodon or similar, I recommend the #faircamp tag, loads of us try to help out on that! There may be someone more familiar with faircamp on Mac & brew who can help…
What are people using for #SoundCloud alternatives? I don't need distro or anything else, just a place to host audio where people can easily stream it. I'm game to host my own, if setting it up isn't a huge pain.
More and more I'm finding SC to be a magnet for spammers and scammers, and I'm looking for an out.
@synkr3tyk for just hosting and streaming of course I'm going to recommend #Faircamp... But not sure if there are other features of SoundCloud that you'd be looking for?
I was horrified to discover that I had added trackers to my #faircamp. These were caused by the payment scripts from Stripe and Ko-fi. I can't control what these scripts do, so I have added load buttons with a warning. This way, there are no trackers when loading the download page, but they will load when you click the button. If anyone wants to do this on their own site, I can help.
Messing with Faircamp in a Docker image on Windows, and I'm actually managing to get a site built. This might be an easy way to get it running on Windows too.
Alright, here it is. A Docker container with the Faircamp app, and a small project with a Windows shell script to easily run it on your local machine, and build your music catalog.
You need to install Docker Desktop (or some other way to start Docker containers) to be able to use this, but that's probably easier than setting up WSL.
It's all in the readme. I hope it makes sense for non-techies. 😁
It contains a remix of ours we put together in December. A slightly intense jump up rendition with some semi pummeling drum layering including bits from out latest sample and loop release from further along this thread.
@mxtthxw Totally on board with what you're saying! My fightback consists of federated platforms and maintaining separate domain names so I have some control. And as a fellow music maker, I'm also interested in what a new music community would look like, given the doom around #bandcamp. #faircamp is a great option, but it does demand technical knowledge, which I lack in sufficient depth. Very keen to follow your thoughts on this.
Compiling Faircamp on a Windows machine apparently isn't that easy. I followed the guide, but the rust build broke at some point on a missing dependency. Tried some Stack Overflow suggestions, but that didn't fix it. Not going to go down that rabbit hole, not knowing a thing about how Rust works. So I'll just leave this for someone else. 😁
@owzim there are some folks here building #faircamp and its already quite popular amongst some fedi musicians but I don't think they are building in AP federation.
I've recently seen several people here saying that deploying #Faircamp is too hard. Would it be of any help if you only had to create the file structure, zip it, upload that zip file somewhere, and then it was deployed to the web? Or is the whole structuring and writing .eno files part of the problem?
My gut feeling is that the main hurdle (at least for Windows users) is installing WSL and then #Faircamp, so if there was a service that took care of that it might be a lot less daunting.
As far as generating .eno files goes- I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make a gui for that part, if that proves to be problematic.
Either way, I'd also love to hear what the main stumbling blocks are!
In case it's helpful to anyone, I've made this bare-bones list of #Faircamp resources, including the short instructions by @alisynthesis on how to install it on Windows.
People who are smart and know how to setup #Faircamp, does anyone of you want to help me figure out if I can deploy that to my current web hosting, and if so perhaps help with the how?
I currently have housing with Dreamhost. My site runs off WordPress. I can access ftp and all that if necessary. I don't want to take down my WordPress site tho. Can they run under the same domain/side by side?
Now, everyone's links are still pointing at the old URL, which is fine, that will continue to work forever, but if you get a chance (maybe when next adding new content) it would be nice to change to the new one, it doesn't have my name in it!
Finally, I'm leaving SoundCloud for something a bit more in line with my ethical perspectives. For a while, I was considering BandCamp heavily. Then, that went out the window, corporately speaking. Now, I see things like #FairCamp and others popping up. Are they any good? Can they be expected to go corporate in a month? I'm not trying to be cynical... I just want a place where I can park my music more seriously. As for the music, I've been working on it but not talking about it... At all. 🥸
@rythur#faircamp maintainer here, hey! o/ Good questions. I'll let others be the judge whether faircamp is any good :) but as far as going corporate goes ... not on my horizon. But to hypothesize for a moment: If I were to take down the repository today, remove any parts I haven't authored myself, and turn faircamp into a closed, VC-backed rental-only cloud service, there would be a good dozen of people who have the source code, the skills and by license (AGPL3+) the right to fork the project back into the hands of the public. The only parts currently solely in my hands are the website (excluding the manual, that's generated from source), the project hosting, and the packaging setup for debian (not out of secrecy, just for pragmatic reasons). So besides rolling your own, faircamp is, I'd say, among the most ethically resilient options right now, which on the flip side also makes it a bit less accessible and convenient compared to other projects (but luckily there's great alternatives covering the more accessible spectrum - jam, mirlo, rainfall, etc.).
Faircamp setup help
Hi! I’m trying to set up faircamp which is like a bandcamp alternative. If I’m understanding correctly it’s a self-hosted static site. I’m new to all this. I’m on a mac, so I’ve installed Brew and then installed Faircamp using Terminal. It’s currently pointing to “Audio Music Apps” folder which is full of audio...