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Beatport new site issues
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| A.B |
Just curious how many people are finding the new 'upgrade' troublesome?
My entire playlist of tracks I'm previewing vanishes if I navigate to a new artist / label / genre
Tried several browsers with the same issue and despite sending support with videos of the issue, there has been no substantial reply other than 'keep trying' and 'bear with us' |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Yeah, it's bollocksed. Luckily I do most of my music shopping on Bandcamp these days. |
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| SPANIARD |
| It's amazing how such a well established company can have such a low standard website. It's extremely user unfriendly and has a ton of errors. I wish they just went back to the classic site. At the very least it filtered things properly (which is shockingly bad now) and was easy to navigate. |
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| A.B |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yeah, it's bollocksed. Luckily I do most of my music shopping on Bandcamp these days. |
I'm way late to the party on the Bandcamp front. My naivety led me to believing that it was a platform for 'indie' artists that werepromoting their own material and selling directly to the consumer.
How do you find it in comparison to Beatport in terms if sourcing tracks?
I'm quite happy with the nest of labels and artists I follow on Beatport and the thought of essentially going back to scratch on a different site highlights the montonous laziness I would put nyself through. |
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| AlphaStarred |
| Any idea what happened to their 30% off sales? Haven't seen it in months. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by A.B
I'm way late to the party on the Bandcamp front. My naivety led me to believing that it was a platform for 'indie' artists that werepromoting their own material and selling directly to the consumer.
How do you find it in comparison to Beatport in terms if sourcing tracks?
I'm quite happy with the nest of labels and artists I follow on Beatport and the thought of essentially going back to scratch on a different site highlights the montonous laziness I would put nyself through. |
BC is pretty useless as a database you can explore. You very much have to know what you're looking for. Even going through a label's catalogue involves a lot of tedious clicking, going back, clicking. As a UI it's pretty useless.
However, once you have discovered something you can follow the artist/label and you will get emails whenever they release something new, so in that sense it's good because you never miss a new release. I follow 20-30 labels and I get constant pings that something new is being released. |
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| Trance-M |
| I first thought I entered Beatport at a different country before I noticed it got updated in a bad way. I can't understand that need to make things different and worse at the same time. |
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| Midlothian |
| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
Any idea what happened to their 30% off sales? Haven't seen it in months. |
I've been getting the (up to) 30% off e-mail announcements and endless reminders every month for a long time |
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| AlphaStarred |
| quote: | Originally posted by Midlothian
I've been getting the (up to) 30% off e-mail announcements and endless reminders every month for a long time |
I may have missed them since I opted out of all e-mails, but I thought it would show up on the site automatically. I've signed up for the special offers again, so we'll see. Thanks. |
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| OrangestO |
| I've always disliked Beatport. Not sure why. Something about the dark interface and random classifications. Started buying dance music on Juno on vinyl and that translated to downloading tracks on their digital platform. It's not the best, but it's bright, clean, easy to google and I get discounts regularly. Bandcamp is where you find the real gems though. It's tedious and you get spammed with random all the time from labels via labels but it's worth it if you enjoy that sort of thing. |
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