One thing that's always bothered me about the BandCamp interface is that there's no visual indication of which records are singles and which are multitrack recordings. I presume this is a Dark Pattern, intended to make people spend more time browsing the platform.

Side note: people have tried to rebrand these as 'Deceptive Patterns', but that's only one Dark Pattern type, and I like the subtle reference to the dark side of the force ; )

#MusicHosting #SocialMusic #BandCamp #DarkPatterns

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#TIL that #Mirlo has funding to add basic ActivityPub federation, so their artists can be found and followed in the fediverse;

"NLNet is awarding Mirlo €40,000 to help us fund our work on decentralization.

...

Integrating a very simple version of ActivityPub (the protocol that underpins Mastodon) into Mirlo. We're being mindful that this will not be people's primary ActivityPub service, so we'll keep things simple for now."

@mirlo, 2025

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/funding-federating-mirlo/

#ActivityPub #MusicHosting

Just checked out Qobuz. It offers me albums to buy. I try to listen to them, but it wants me to login. Nope. Moving on to one of the many places where I can listen without doing that.

Asking for a login before allowing preview of an album is like asking people for ID before they can access listening posts in a record store. Choosing stick over carrot implies the login is to improve *their* experience, not mine, by subjecting me to more DataFarming.

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#MusicHosting #DataFarming #Qobuz

Xin chào cộng đồng! Một nhóm biểu diễn mà bạn quan tâm đang tìm giải pháp để phát hiện âm nhạc, họ đã tìm thấy bluesbuero.at (host trên TrueNas Scale) như Funkwhale. Sites chỉ cho phép nghe nhạc. Có gợi ý nào? #Music #Funkwhale #TrueNas #Band #MusicHosting #Bluesbuero #HostingNhạc

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1o69cjp/music_collection_for_a_bands_homepage/

Tìm hệ thống tự host nhạc thay thế cho Lidarr: Người dùng đang tìm giải pháp tự host nhạc tương tự Jellyseerr cho phim. Lidarr hiện tại không có tính năng yêu cầu nhạc từ người dùng khác và tìm kiếm kém hiệu quả. Có đề xuất nào tốt hơn không? #Selfhosted #MusicHosting #TựHost #NhậtKý

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1nnm8c0/jellyseerr_for_music/

Love your work on FairCamp @negativevoid;

"Artists: Reach out if you would like to have a faircamp site built and/or hosted for your work. Larger catalogues are not trivial for build or storage. Still reach out if you would like to have a page setup even if you are unable to finacially chip in. We might be able to line up a sponsor to cover your setup/hosting."

https://faircamp.radiofreefedi.net/

#music #MusicHosting #FairCamp