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26-571: Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California . Acquired by Epic Games in March 2022, the company was sold to Songtradr in 2023. Bandcamp was founded in 2007 by Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, headquartered in Oakland, California , US. In 2010,

52-535: A time offset of UTC−07:00 is used. In the United States and Canada, this time zone is generically called the Pacific Time Zone. Specifically, time in this zone is referred to as Pacific Standard Time (PST) when standard time is being observed (early November to mid-March), and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) when daylight saving time (mid-March to early November) is being observed. In Mexico ,

78-508: A 50-artist pilot in 2020, the company opened limited access to 10,000 artists in early 2021 with plans for further expansion. Their fans preorder the pressing rather than having the artist fund it upfront. Bandcamp lets artists set their own price. The company's two million vinyl sales in 2020 doubled that of 2019. Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games on March 2, 2022. Epic said the platform "will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out

104-586: A creator marketplace ecosystem...". Ethan Diamond said "Bandcamp will keep operating as a stand-alone marketplace and music community...". Bandcamp's employees voted to form a union via the Office and Professional Employees International Union in March 2023. On September 28, 2023, Epic Games announced that it was laying off 870 people, roughly 16% of its workforce. As part of this, Bandcamp was sold to Songtradr , another music platform. According to an Epic Games spokesperson, Songtradr incrementally offered employment to

130-511: Is based in New York. Its managing editor was jj skolnik, a writer for Pitchfork , BuzzFeed and The New York Times , as well as former author of punk zines . They were made redundant in October 2023. Among Bandcamp Daily 's columnists have been writers of Wired , Vice , NPR Music , Pitchfork and Paste . On August 4, 2017, the staff of Bandcamp Daily donated all of

156-582: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 , which moved the local time changes from PST to PDT to the second Sunday in March and the reversal from PDT to PST to the first Sunday in November. Like other Canadian provinces that observe daylight time , British Columbia adopted the same dates in April 2006, to take effect in March 2007 alongside the U.S. Several Mexican states, including Baja California, implemented

182-915: The Mountain Time Zone , two hours behind the Central Time Zone , three hours behind the Eastern Time Zone , and four hours behind the Atlantic Time Zone . One Canadian province is split between the Pacific Time Zone and the Mountain Time Zone: The border between time zones in British Columbia was decided in a 1972 plebiscite held in northeastern and southeastern electoral districts due to their ties to neighboring Alberta . As of September 24, 2020, Yukon officially switched from

208-584: The Mountain Time Zone : One state is split between the Pacific Time Zone (unofficially), the Alaska Time Zone , and the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone : Through 2006, the local time (PST, UTC−08:00) changed to daylight time (PDT, UTC−07:00) at 02:00 LST (local standard time) to 03:00 LDT (local daylight time) on the first Sunday in April, and returned at 02:00 LDT to 01:00 LST on the last Sunday in October. The United States Congress passed

234-581: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund . Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer , Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter for promotion. Will Toledo initially released his 2011 studio album Twin Fantasy on Bandcamp. Several indie game developers published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including

260-819: The Bandcamp application or website only once or, by preserving the purchase voucher, unlimited times. They can also send purchased music as a gift, view lyrics, and save individual songs or albums to a wish list. Uploading music to Bandcamp is free. The company takes a 15% commission on sales made from their website, which drops to 10% after an artist's sales surpass US$ 5,000, plus payment processing fees. Downloads are offered in lossy formats MP3 ( LAME , 320k or V0), AAC and Ogg Vorbis , and in lossless formats FLAC , ALAC , WAV and AIFF . In addition to digital downloads artists may offer to sell their music on physical media such as CD or vinyl . Bandcamp's website offers users access to an artist's page, with information on

286-579: The Bandcamp staff. However, several employees were locked out of their systems and faced uncertainty over their jobs. After the acquisition was completed on October 16, Songtradr stated that only 60 of Bandcamp's previously 118 workers had been offered a contract. Songtradr fired most of the staff involved in forming the unionization, as well as the ones that were helping to negotiate fair terms. In an internal email, Songtradr's CEO, Paul Wiltshire, said that Bandcamp's financial state had "not been healthy" due to increased operating costs over steady revenues, despite

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312-538: The Pacific Time Zone to a time zone "to be reckoned as seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−7)" after deciding to stop observing daylight saving time. In Mexico , the Zona Noroeste , which corresponds to Pacific Time in the United States and Canada, includes: Two states are fully contained in the Pacific Time Zone: Three states are split between the Pacific Time Zone and

338-524: The artist, social media links, merchandising links and listing their available music. Artists can change the look of their page and customize its features. During the COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 Bandcamp announced that they would be waiving their share of revenue and donating all sales to artists for 24 hours on March 20. They repeated the initiative in the following months and began calling these days "Bandcamp Fridays"; they are scheduled once every month and

364-404: The corresponding time zone is known as the Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone) and observes the same daylight saving schedule as the United States and Canada. The largest city in the Pacific Time Zone is Los Angeles , whose metropolitan area is also the largest in the time zone. The zone is two hours ahead of the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone , one hour ahead of the Alaska Time Zone , one hour behind

390-656: The creators of Aquaria , Bastion , Cuphead , Sanctum , Machinarium , Terraria , Plants vs. Zombies , Limbo , Super Meat Boy , To the Moon , YIIK: A Postmodern RPG , Fez , Minecraft , Undertale , Deltarune , and Stardew Valley . In December 2014, Bandcamp for Labels was launched. Popular independent labels such as Sub Pop , Fat Wreck Chords , Relapse Records and Epitaph Records launched their own Bandcamp pages. In November 2019, Peter Gabriel added his complete solo catalog to Bandcamp. On June 18, 2020, Björk published her discography on

416-528: The day's sales proceeds to the Transgender Law Center , a civil rights organization for transgender people. In February 2018, the audience of Bandcamp Daily had increased by 84% since the previous year. Oddpost Oddpost created an interface much like the traditional 3-pane view used by many desktop software applications (namely Microsoft Outlook, Apple's Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Mozilla Thunderbird, and others). Oddpost also had

442-536: The design philosophy of making the interface invisible, where unread message headers were bolded , so there was no need for an unread message icon next to each message; sub folders were indented under the parent, so there was no need for a little ant trail connecting each folder. This excerpt from a 2003 interview with Ethan Diamond, Oddpost's co-founder and then president, explained this minimalist approach: This data-centric approach may sound painfully obvious, but consider that at 1024×768 (the most common resolution on

468-555: The legislature to use year-round daylight time, pending Congressional approval. The Washington State Legislature passed a bill in May 2019 that would move the state to permanent daylight time, subject to Congressional approval; the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a similar bill a month later, while California's attempt failed. The provincial government of British Columbia announced in 2019 that they would follow

494-507: The new Yahoo! Mail web client. The original Oddpost servers have been shut down, however existing Oddpost customers were able to keep their Oddpost email addresses to be used with Yahoo!. Pacific Time Zone The Pacific Time Zone ( PT ) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00 ). During daylight saving time ,

520-548: The new dates for the daylight time changes in 2010, ending a three-year period where cities across the Mexico–United States border had a one-hour difference for two months a year. Proposals to abolish the bi-annual time change and adopt year-round standard time or daylight time gained popularity among U.S. states in the 2010s. 59 percent of voters in California approved a 2018 ballot proposition that authorizes

546-414: The platform. In December, UK label Warp joined Bandcamp; this made records by Hudson Mohawke , Aphex Twin , Kelela and other artists available on the platform. On October 21, 2021, Radiohead published their discography on the platform. In the summer of 2016, their editorial content was expanded by launching Bandcamp Daily , an online music publication about artists on the platform. The publication

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572-480: The site enabled embedding in other websites and shared links on social media sites. As of August 2020, half of Bandcamp's revenue was from sales for physical products. In November 2020, Bandcamp launched Bandcamp Live, a ticketed live-streaming service for artists. The service is an integrated feature of the Bandcamp website. Fees on tickets were waived until March 31, 2021, and became 10% from then. Bandcamp provides vinyl pressing services for artists. After

598-446: The site's continuous profitability. In response to the layoffs, users and artists of the platform expressed anxiety about its future. As of December 2023, Songtradr had not formally recognized the Bandcamp union. Artists and labels upload music to Bandcamp and control how they sell it, setting their own prices, offering users the option to pay more, and selling merchandise. Users can download their purchases or stream their music on

624-461: The web), only about 30% of Yahoo! Mail’s inbox screen is devoted to your mail. The remaining 70% is not, as you might expect, all devoted to advertising. In fact, ads only account for about 10% of the screen real estate, and the remaining 60% is consumed by navigation, dead space and administrative debris. Google made extensive use of these ideas in Gmail , which was launched two years later. Oddpost

650-584: The website Is It Bandcamp Friday? was established to provide timing clarity to those outside the Pacific Time Zone . After raising more than $ 40 million for its musicians in 2020 through Bandcamp Fridays, the platform extended the program to four additional dates in 2021. In response to the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans who had died from police violence, Bandcamp announced that for 24 hours on June 19, 2020 they would donate 100% of profits to

676-471: Was also known for its humorous blog entries about feature additions, bug fixes, and random musings about Oddpost. Some disadvantages of Oddpost were seen to be that it required Windows and Internet Explorer, and that it lacked mail filters and support for secure email. Oddpost was purchased by Yahoo! on July 9, 2004, and became the new version of their Yahoo! Mail service. On September 14, 2005, Yahoo! Mail started letting some users register to beta test

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