Bandcamp is apparently the place to be. No, it isn’t a gathering of musicians in some remote mosquito-infested location. It is yet another music hosting site.
Bandcamp‘s success probably has to do with the fact that it is easy to sell your music on the site.
So I uploaded four songs to Bandcamp to try it out. And because their FAQ made me smile a lot.
The upshot for you crazy audiophiles out there is that I had to upload high-quality (ahem…) AIF files, which means that you can download the songs in a variety of high-def formats, FOR FREE, instead of settling for the crummy MP3s available on my regular music site.
Of course, in most blind audio tests, people actually prefer MP3s (probably because that’s what they’re used to). I can certainly relate to that. I still shudder when I think back to the first time I heard « Sergeant Pepper’s » on CD. Oh the horror!
But what if you’re not an audiophiliac and don’t know your FLAC from your AAC? You might still want to check out the cool hi-res images I was forced to create for the song pages.