Just downloaded “Status” by @meljoann from Faircamp! Some very cool electronic sounds, I like being able to get things directly from artists, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it's available in Opus format — I was just thinking about that format recently

https://faircamp.meljoann.com/status/

[Read in full on NHAM]

How to Install and Run Faircamp

Faircamp is a static site generator made by @freebliss, which enables any music producer to build a complete website to showcase their music.

Compatible with pretty much any web host Faircamp makes it easy to present your sounds to the world in minutes with no database, no programming and no maintenance required.

However, if you’ve never had experience running a shell command before it may seem a little daunting at first look. That’s where @meljoann’s article on How to Install and Run Faircamp comes in super-handy.

First written in 2023 she has kept the article updated for newer releases of Faircamp. Just read through and follow her guide as you go and you’ll be up and running in no time.

Apparently Faircamp 1.2 was released last month, with support for track level metadata!

https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md

That's my cue to start working on a version of Rainfall (https://rainfall.dev) that allows you to edit track metadata before generating your site.

Stay tuned!

cc: @freebliss

Y'all, I'm crying happy tears for once.

@MTP just made my day and week by sending me his newest CD all the way from Wales to the formerly USA! For free & with a beautiful handwritten note, all because I bought and loved his first album.

https://mtp-music.bandcamp.com/album/home

You are NOT alone and there are other good people out here. Find the others.

@limebar Do you think you might be able to help get him setup of #Faircamp and/or #TheIndieBeat

I installed matomo on https://rainfall.dev, and it looks like I'm getting about 1-3 website hits per week.

Surely there must be more artists, musicians and bands out there that want to create a Faircamp website?

Maybe there is some critical bug or problem that I don't know about? If you've tried the site, I appreciate any and all feedback.

I definitely had fun building it, but I also put an awful lot of work into making it professional, bug free, and easy to use. Would love for more people to check it out!

the other #rustlang thingy that's been cooking (and just passed a #ci run) is called #taggart.

it uses #tengri to pop up an interactive table to edit things, namely: the #id3 tags of music releases

its purpose? why, to make it easier to prepare a certain pile of content (that we've accumulated with a friend over the past, what, 6-7 years), for publication in a sovereign #faircamp instance! but none of it's well-tagged and existing interactive mediatag editors are ugh

https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/taggart

I'm toying with the idea of switching to #faircamp - but for now, all my music is available on #bandcamp for free - nada - zilch - bupkis.

https://timrowe.bandcamp.com/music

Here's a review from @CrowsLabyrinth :

"Tim has created a lot of fine ambient pieces in the past few years am delighted to see and hear of all these pieces in this huge Retrospective collection. That means over four-and-a-half hours of great ambient music. Highly recommended."