Tags are set on the individual edit pages for both tracks and albums, here:Īnd finally those tags are displayed on your track and album pages, just below your cover art, here: So here you enter your city, state, province or country (even misspellings are AOK), and we map that to a discrete, browsable location. Stuff like “Mars,” “stepdad’s garage,” “back of beyond,” and “the ionosphere” is fun and all, but only puts you at a disadvantage in terms of fan discovery. Note that location is geocoded, meaning every artist on Bandcamp will have a real location. You set genre and location in the Account Details section of your Profile page, right here:
Starting today, you can specify your genre and location, and tag up your tracks and albums with relevant keywords, and fans can browse all the music on Bandcamp by those attributes. Could we somehow activate this large, dormant community while keeping the integrity of every Bandcamp site intact? We think the answer is an emphatic YES, but we’ll describe how it works, and then you can decide for yourself and let us know. So we sat down and pondered whether there was a way to seize that opportunity without completely screwing up the good thing we had going. When there were just a few hundred artists using the system, our answer was “Why on earth do you care?” When there were a few thousand, it was, “Uh, use Google?” But by the time there were tens of thousands, it was clear we were neglecting a big opportunity: the opportunity to leverage the power of every individual artist’s site to help fans discover new music - your music. But every Bandcamp-powered site is still an island, and not surprisingly, one of the most frequent questions we now get is “How do I find out about other artists on Bandcamp?” So we decided instead to focus on being the best possible home for that music, setting aside many of the social features that seemed mandatory for any consumer internet startup at the time.Īpparently a lot of you were also suffering from thanks-for-the-add fatigue, because over the past year and a half, artist signups have steadily accelerated, and today we host a large and diverse pool of music. Like many fans, we were turned off by the way the noise in those communities often drowned out the thing that matters most: the music. Back when we first started working on Bandcamp, we had no desire to create another online music community.
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