Bandcamp

For those of us with iPads and keyboards, this app is not very friendly because Bandcamp was not written/coded for Landscape. Otherwise, I love Bandcamp. And from what i understand, one cannot download an album one bought from Bandcamp, from yr iPhone nor iPad. PERIOD. Someone gave Bandcamp 2stars because they couldn’t download an album from their iPhone. Bandcamp offers way better audio quality format/s (plural) than MP3 anyway.!! Why on Earth, anyone would even want to download from an iPhone is beyond me.!! I’m an audiophile, tho, so I wouldn’t even deign to bother with MP3s. I always pay the artists more than asking price (normally double); why would I pay $20 for a bunch of MP3s?? But hey, you do you; and maybe learn a little bit about the audio quality of a popular Music app BEFORE leaving a comment/rating that shows your ig…...

I wanted to support my friends who just released an album. Today they are supposed to get the entire price of their album, so I bought here on Bandcamp instead of elsewhere, despite having never heard of this app or company. I pay, and then I find, I can’t download the music I just bought on my iPhone, so, following directions, I find I have to do the download on my laptop. So I open my MacBook only to find, there’s no app from the Mac store. So…you’ve got my money, and if I want to keep my music, I have to put up with an app that thinks it’s okay to scrap tons of private data off my phone. I didn’t realize the app had these permissions if I downloaded it, I was just on a mission to support my friends. So I’m out the cost of an album that I don’t own and if I want to listen to what I bought I have to give away my privacy to a company with practices that feels pretty sketchy. I should really have given this a single star. I’m trying to be patient in hopes you’ll make this right. And Apple, pay attention to this story please. It’s not a good business practice. There should at least be a privacy notice when an external link is used to access the App Store so that companies can’t do this to your customers! I’m very upset.

When I signed up I had a specific band in mind that I was going to subscribe to. It took me actually going to the bands website to find the link to pay for my subscription. I added my cc info on the app and then had to re-enter it when signing up thru the bands website, which raises the question: Why does the app need my cc info? And why not have the subscription link on the bands page with the “follow” button? It seems to me that this would actually deter subscribers without an easier access to the service. I have seen and am very familiar with a friends account to reference my next two claims: the catalog listing is ridiculously inconsistent. The shows that are in my current catalog are in completely different order than my friends, leaving me searching for a needle in a haystack searching for the newest additions. It also looks like they are some missing. So where are they? The particular band that I subscribe to has 22 years of soundboards and they have been uploading one (sometimes two at a time) every few days since the pandemic started. That’s almost a year of older soundboards being uploaded- all from different time periods- every few days. Now, it’s all a mess. Even recent soundboards from 2019 of multiple-night runs are out of order and not placed together. It’s like someone just threw them all in a bag, shook it up, dumped it out and walked away.