Bandcamp 12+

If you love music, get this app. There is an ocean of music to listen to. The Bandcamp weekly, including the metal show and the hip hop show, are the greatest shows ever. They are the most diverse collections of music, no matter what the genre you will find something new that is great. I’ve started listening to the log of the Weekly, beginning back in 2013. I can’t believe I’ve missed out on some much great stuff. I started listening in 2018 I think. I’m a huge music lover. This app also re kindled my love of vinyl, I can buy a release directly from the artist. I can’t express, in this review, how much Bandcamp means to me, I look forward to listening to new shows every week. So much great content, thousands upon thousands of hours of listening. Get it get it get it. You are guaranteed to find lots of music you will love! Thanks you Andrew Jervis, Stoney Creation and Brad Sanders! And anyone who contributes to this wonderful platform!

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.

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.