Hallo Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Wieland Hoffmann > <themi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hallo Johannes Weißl: > >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:18:07PM +0100, Wieland Hoffmann wrote: > >> > > I see that people want to store information about the distributor (or > >> > > even distribution software here) for exclusive releases, but there are > >> > > other ways of doing it: tags, annotation and (if appropriate) release > >> > > comments. > >> > > >> > Again, I'm not talking about exclusives like some Best Buy edition or > >> > anything, I'm talking about releases where Bandcamp is the only one > >> > (except for the artist) involved in distributing the release. > >> > >> I still don't see at all why it should be used as label then. It even > >> makes it more strange: Why is Bandcamp suddenly the label of the release > >> if it is exclusively sold there, but not if it is also sold at CD Baby > >> or iTunes? Does the release loose it's label as soon as the artist > >> starts to sell it there? > > > > No, it's just that my focus was on Bandcamp exclusives, not releases > > like [0], [1] that are released on Bandcamp and some other digital label > > / distributor (although I'm interested in learning the difference > > between 8bp, Jamendo and Bandcamp :-) ). > > As I said before, a label curates its content. I don't know how > Jamendo works (and whether it is a label at all)
Probably not, if I get this discussion correctly ;) > but the 8bp website seems to indicate that you can send demos to them, > they'll evaluate them and decide if they want to put the music out in > their label. Huh - http://www.8bitpeoples.com/about/demo_policy ? > This is more clear in the case of *label* BandCamp pages, such as > http://tundradub.bandcamp.com/ (and at least for a while those were > all BandCamp exclusives - I think some of them can be downloaded from > iTunes now too). The label there is clearly Tundra, not BandCamp. It's not actually more clear - the *production* label is Tundra, the distributing one is Bandcamp because it is clearly "distributing other labels production" [0]. I'm getting the feeling that it's not entirely clear from our current documentation how an offline / analog / youknowwhatimean distributor is any different from an online / digital one. [0] http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Label/Type -- Wieland
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