[orng]

Bandcamp is the only place I buy music online. They just seem so honest: Fair pay for musicians; free streaming prior to purchase; drm-free multiple formats, including FLAC. They don't even try to make it hard to rip mp3s from the streams, they have just focus on providing an amazing product which the consumers (hopefully) recognize as deserving of their money.

My only complaint is poor support for finding music by bands if they have released records with more than one publisher. For instance searching for my favorite band Shining returns a page[1] with 4 of their albums, but their best album: Halmstad is found is released by osmoseproductions and thus found on their page [2].

1: https://shiningsom.bandcamp.com/ 2: https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/v-halmstad

[astronautjones]

I've found a "site:bandcamp.com" google search to be much better than using their own tools. But I have to do this so often with other websites' poor navigational tools that it's a total afterthought. Not an excuse, though.

[Obi_Juan_Kenobi]

FYI

In chrome, go to settings > Search > Manage Search Engines

Add a new search engine, use this url:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:bandcamp.com %s

I have it set up so I can just type e.g. 'bc' and whatever I want to search for. You can obviously also use it for any other sites, just change what goes after the colon, but keep the %s.

[danvayn]

For sure. I love bandcamp but it's very hard to traverse

[csbubbles]

This is actually a very good observation. Bandcamp is great as a music store (for both fans and artists), but the discovery mechanism is rather non-existent. We believe in the overall model and are trying to fix it here - http://tuneself.com – essentially providing music streaming (for free, without ads and legally) but integrating the same core model as Bandcamp has, so the fans could pay for the music only when they think it's worth it.