Saw announcement that Bandcamp is implementing the Subsonic API
Is this something fair music platforms should look into supporting? Mirlo, Jam.coop, etc.
I don’t fully understand what Subsonic enables or doesn’t but I did see Navidrome supports the API as well so I assume this allows purchases to be streamed alongside your self hosted media… or something?
Anyone using it and know more?
Can this be leveraged for the benefit of musicians (support and discovery and promotion of fair platforms)?
The announcement
Yeah, honestly, we didn’t know this API standard existed. It seems specifically for owned collections, which is definitely something we support.
We have been talking to the person who builds Radiccio and it sounds like they support SubSonic too.
While it only does collection, we’re definitely conscious that having a system in place that would allow to simultaneously listen to bandcamp and mirlo (and others !) collections alongside eachother would, in a way, be great for discovery by proxy because it would mean someone could feel “ok” buying things anywhere on any platform reassured they will still be able to access it anywhere from one single place, so it makes smaller platforms more enticing. In this spirit, it’s something we’re definitely going to give more thoughts to in the future.