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1. bee_rider ◴[] No.41881890[source]
A successor to bandcamp would be really nice. I think it is hard to determine if a site will become one, because it is largely about network effect—Bandcamp had enough users (customers and artists) that it was, like, worthwhile to give them your credit card info…

Totally tangential and probably revealing that I have absolutely no understanding of the music creation ecosystem and process, but is there room for, like, an online collaboration system? Like a Unity asset store for samples or something? Allow people to remix and then handle the pay out automatically when songs get bought?

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2. colkassad ◴[] No.41881971[source]
There is this: https://www.kompoz.com/

It's geared more towards collaboration and there is some system to share any income that gets derived (not sure how it worked). You find someone's song page, download the existing tracks (stems) and work on your own, uploading to the collection when you are finished. I collaborated with some artists and it was fun and I met some folks. They set up payments but I never expected anything to come from that. I thought finding projects that are interesting to collaborate on was difficult. It's just a big pile of music of varying quality and genres.

3. pdntspa ◴[] No.41882296[source]
The "Unity Asset Store" is effectively Splice

But the licensing doesn't do pay outs, with sampling you pay once and its yours to use as you see fit. As it should be, we don't need anyone else sticking their hands out.

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4. bee_rider ◴[] No.41882627[source]
In general, imo, if somebody contributes usefully to a project they should get paid in line with their contribution.

The flat rate makes sense from an era when tracking that sort of stuff was difficult, but I dunno, it seems like it ought to be possible to track this sort of stuff automatically nowadays.

5. gradientsrneat ◴[] No.41889005[source]
> worthwhile to give them your credit card info

Bandcamp didn't even accept people's credit card info (maybe it's changed in recent years and they have more payment options now). They outsourced payment processing to PayPal.

Most small shopping sites in USA don't handle their own payments due to regulations.

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6. bee_rider ◴[] No.41890898[source]
I bought stuff from Bandcamp and I don’t have an active PayPal account, they must have added some options.