About ten years ago, I wrote a super lightweight PHP script that let you upload your music online without relying on a corporate-owned platform. You don’t need a database either. I called it BondeCampe (I hope you get the joke).
It does, of course, require that you have a server.
Personally, my low-cost provider shut down my machine three times in ten years, and I had to reinstall everything each time, but that also proved that installation only takes ten minutes. Now I’ve switched to OVH, it feels much safer, and I hope I won’t have to reinstall anything for the next ten years. But to be honest, you’re always relying on a tech company at some level … unless you run your own server.
How does it work? You just create a folder with properly ordered MP3 files and a JPG for the cover. Upload it, and voilà, your album is online with a music player that lets anyone download it.
Maybe the one feature Bandcamp doesn’t have is that you can fully script your album pages, so if you want animations, this is a good way to do it.
All that to say that my personal music repository is back online. I just drop my demos there, everything I’m not selling on Bandcamp. That’s good electronic music ! 🤡
🎵 https://bondecampe.5tfu.org 🎵
💾 BondeCampe code is open source on Github.
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