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Faircamp 2.0.0 is out

Today, Faircamp 2.0.0 was released. If you’re an independent musician and want to own your own web presence, Faircamp is an incredible way to do it, and 2.0 in particular adds a lot of cool stuff, particularly a desktop application which makes it much easier to set up and maintain your site. I don’t use Faircamp personally (since I already have my own tools for running my site) but it is an incredible piece of software that probably covers all of your needs and then some.

Also, with Faircamp you can integrate with Fairplayer, to take part in fully-independent, distributed/federated streaming; at some point I will also get around to writing a plugin for Faircamp to integrate directly with Chorus to enable even more opportunities.

In any case, many congratulations to Simon for this huge milestone! I hope you’ll take a well-deserved rest.

Subvert launched, yet another music sale platform

Hey y'all! Subvert officially launched today, and of course I have some of my music up on it. Having more options for independent-friendly music shops is generally a good thing, but I do have some thoughts about where things are going and how things could be a lot better.

Subvert is getting a lot of hype because it’s new but I don’t see it as my long-term solution for music sales. I’m not sure what I’d consider to be my primary platform right now (probably Mirlo), but in the long term I think the future is self-hosting and self-distributing.