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It May Be Time to Backup Your Bandcamp Purchases

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Melody Bot, Nov 28, 2023.

  1. Melody Bot

    Your friendly little forum bot. Staff Member

    This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply.

    David Rutland:

    You can’t rely on other people or organisations to hold onto your media forever, and it’s a tired but true maxim that the cloud is just someone else’s machine.

    If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.

    And:

    While we’re not saying that Bandcamp is going to disappear into nothing (MySpace is still around after all), we think it’s perhaps prudent to download your albums from Bandcamp and store them offline. You never know – that’s all we’re saying.

    The Bandcamp UI isn’t really designed with massive downloads in mind, and there are a lot of boxes to tick.

    Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to download all of your Bandcamp music using the excellent Batchcamp extension which is available as both a FireFox addon, or as a Google Chrome extension.

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  2. theredline

    Trusted Supporter

    This is exactly why I’ve always stored my stuff (including Bandcamp purchases) on my har drive. I don’t trust any company to “hold” my stuff. It’s mine. I’ll handle it!
     
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  3. CyberInferno

    Line below my username Supporter

    MySpace is a pretty shitty example given that they lost almost all the music that they once had.