I don't care a ton about Epic, but I love Bandcamp. It's my primary mechanism these days for discovering and acquiring music.
I was puzzled when Epic bought Bandcamp, apparently they were too. They're being kicked over to Songtradr -- I hope that's a neutral to good move, but I don't really know. Anybody know anything that could shed light on that?
The new company Songtradr focuses on licensing, it's a b2b, while Bandcamp is a b2c. So it can be easy to see how they'd want to make Bandcamp more like themselves. Of course I'm being negative and cynical, apologies. I share the same fondness for Bandcamp.
Edit: to clarify meant Songtradr.
Let alone Bandcamp is a good source for smaller DJs to acquire tracks, which isn't a long shot for Songtradr.
One of the suppositions people had about Epic buying Bandcamp was that maybe it would allow Epic to more easily license music for their games. From the press release[1] it seems like they did that. I have no idea how well that worked but here we are with Songtradr, "a music licensing platform and marketplace company," acquiring them.
On its own Bandcamp is (was?) a profitable enterprise.[2] I wish they'd go back to being on their own. That said, if Songtradr does nothing more but give artists more diverse ways to make money off their music I'm all for it.
That said multiple changes of ownership can play hell with continuity and morale. I'm worried about that.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/songtradr-acquires-bandcamp-e... [2] https://components.one/posts/bandcamp-the-chaos-bazaar
They added playlists, I think, this year but I have > 1200 albums on the service (I buy a lot of full discographies and subscriptions when labels have them) and it's so painful to try to go back past the first 100 or so.
Music discovery is OK through the site - their Bandcamp Daily and other content is great - but it could be so much better. And it's screaming for better social features. Sigh.