Beatport

Mad_Cyril

Amps
It’s fucking wank.

No carts, no list view, of anything.

As intuitive and user friendly as a coconut.

All for supporting people who make music, but not by wasting hours of my life using a website designed in 1987.

Have an ever growing wish list but fucked if I can be arsed hacking through it.

Thankfully 50% of the stuff I want is on Traxsource

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Will take a look tomorrow.

Desperate to find something less shit

Unbroken1

…down altogether now?

ScottBailey

Learned a valuable lesson with Beatport the other day. I recently got lazy not backing up my files onto another harddrive, so when I accidentally dropped and broke my USB stick, I lost 6 months of music and had to rebuy it all!
Not going to buy from Beatport/Juno/Traxsource again unless absolute necessary.
Bandcamp was a saviour for some of the music as I could redownload what I’d purchased from them.

Lesson learned.

SM001

ScottBailey Surely you can redownload purchases ypu’ve made?

Dan

SM001 no mate

ScottBailey

SM001 nope, you can only download once. You can email them to argue your case, but once you’ve downloaded it once, it just shows in your history as purchased. No function to redownload, unless that’s changed this week.

Mad_Cyril

You can, its all in your account history

Dan

Blimey….they must have changed it.

Cheers MC

Dan

Like Juno they give a days Grace to download the file again.

SM001

I’ve checked my account and of the few hundered tracks i’ve purchased I only have the option to redownload 3. Not good.

ScottBailey

SM001 defo learn from my mistake. If you do buy from them, make sure you duplicate onto another drive, incase one breaks.
Thankfully it was only 6 months worth I hadn’t backed up. Everything before that I had.

Mad_Cyril

Hmm.

Have never had a problem redownloading. Might have had to email (juno??), but never been an issue.

Obviously there’s different circumstances, but the backup advice is more than wise 👍

Homegrove

I do it monthly. Easy to remember when you do it on or around the first of month. With buying everything I can as lossless my music laptop is always full anyway, so need to make space.

Dan

Bandcamp is the way forward with its files all the same price, however some artists can sometimes remove a track at times….not often but overall it’s a better interface and better standard of music files.

Homegrove

Not the same price. Artists can name it. The Zeta Reticula-track on my new mix was 5 €. And only available in BC on digital.

Wasily

So… half my preorders e.g. Glowal EP that should have been available today and received emails saying they were available have not appeared in the downloads section. Suggest cross-checking any preorders you’ve made with what appears in the folder as you may be missing out on quite a bit of stuff.

Homegrove

You can’t trust Beatport with the exclusives anymore. They might say a track is available from there only for a week or two, but I’ve checked and half can be bought from Bandcamp too without waiting. For example the new Rumors and Permanent Vacation-releases today.

LT42

I dont know why but I always got the feeling that Beatport was run by choads like Matt Gaetz, coked up to the eyeballs backstage at Coachella and telling anyone who’ll listen how great the latest Endo mix is. Basically clueless parasitic wankers out for one thing only, bags of cash.

Amps

LT42 Well, it was owned by Hawtin originally, so not too far wide of the mark.

SM001

The website has gone to shit. I can’t trust it anymore.

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