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Would you/your band be interested in trying out a pay-what-you-want system? I started the work to add crowdfunding support to communick (described on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39399121) and I'm looking now for musicians/artists/FOSS developers for some beta testing.

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it's already possible to do pay-what-you-want in Bandcamp

always good to have more options though!

But does it provide a way for them to stream all of the artists catalog?

Yeah, most artists let you listen to the whole album before you buy it. Sometimes there are songs that don't have previews, and I think there are sometimes hidden songs included with the album but not even listed, but in general you can stream a few times before buying, and then stream as much as you want afterwards.

> but in general you can stream a few times before buying, and then stream as much as you want afterwards.

Not exactly what I have in mind. I am working with the model where all songs are always available (like Spotify) and people simply choose how (a) how much they want to give per month and (b) how to split this amount among their preferred artists.

In effect, it's the same as a "pay as you want", but there is no overhead of thinking about which songs to "buy".

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