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Download your Bandcamp Collection
That is a recommendation, not a directive. But with all the enshittification going on with digital services and social media recently, I thought it was prudent that I went through and grabbed all the stuff I previously paid for, for a number of reasons: OK, but how? Some folks have thousands of albums in their…
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A Faircamp Guide for Lazy People, by Lazy People
Or, how I learned to stop using Bandcamp and start embracing free and open music distribution tools. This post is going to serve as a somewhat quick and dirty guide for tech-literate music producers to spin up your own Faircamp site. For those of you not comfortable with the steps I’m about to outline, there…
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Faircamp revisited
I was finally motivated enough to check out Faircamp in a proper setting, and I loaded in all my music and built the site. Lo-and-behold, it turns out I think it rocks. I do think there are still some kinks to work out, and this is by no means an acceptable tool for the faint…
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About that Presonus 1824c
Turns out Presonus 1824c *does* work in Linux, just not intuitively. I knew something was up, because during my testing I was able to get it working in Alsa, specifically when using it with Bitwig. Not sure why Ableton didn’t see it, but probably had something to do with Ableton being a Wine application. Anyway,…