ahh...I was going to rant...but what for, if even a few, no one is reading...Seems more like a ghost site than anything else!  What happened?

I was talking bout this with John swordie on skype the other day. It seems to have gone apart from outsiders listening and dwn loading . Dozens even hundred of hits  & no reviews which was primar reason for posting here.. Now with options for a miniscule of streaming revenue from several other sites with tracking & reports also where music comps encourage to post instead of sending files.We've pulled our songs here , very happy to send to members who have been so helpful with reviews ,but when there are songs with over 1000 hits &  4 reviews begs the question ...Why do it. I guess when bandamp started about the same time as youtube 2005 there were high hopes. but alas

Yes...I can see that. Always had fun coming by here. Good people and good times were a daily thing.
Lots of helping folks around, many so willing to give you a hand. Now we mostly shadow around the place like ghost.

Then again it may do a sit up like the Undertaker 

I hope and pray they dont take it down cause these people excepted me and my disability.  They encouraged me to brake the berrier between disabled  and non-disabled people.  With out bandamp i think i would have given up on my music..  And I owe a MAJOR thanks to you Ant and Lisa for Kick starting me and saying "you an do it' instead of you cant.  I miss you brother

Your friend forever

CP

I got busy, some things changed, I'm simplified now,  I'm up for putting a song together. I now have some free time. yeah.

I'm willing to hit this place daily, I hate to see it go away. anybody wants to do a song let do one.

well I confess I miss bandamp so I say it now I will be more active
It might be too late but just in case...

Other things happened .... for a change

As ghostly as it seems a lot of people are still around ...... it just takes 5 months for them to come together and make a half decent thread.

Yes ..... it all needs so much attention .....

recently I joined facebook   and now I notice how much time it consumes, surfing from link to link I find many things of interest,
So I thought it would be great to have a bandAmp fb account to attract some new ppl ?
I do not volunteer for managing it, but if necessary I will...

any opinions ? pro's and con's?

It and google +  seems to be where people are spending there time now. It could be a way to generate more interest.

I haven't logged in a long time. It's good to see all of you guys are still here though. I've just got busy with life, I don't even have a single social network - don't have time for those. I still write music, just haven't got around to recording it. I learned so much from everyone here, you guys helped me make my first album. and I'm so proud of it and want so badly to create another.

But I really love bandamp. Its an amazing place that few people know about, and that's special. There's a close community here of people who love music and people who want to help others and I think that's great. I don't think bandamp needs to be 'the new big thing'. Bandamp is the intimate place where the special few get to hear some of the most well-done pieces of music I've ever heard, and learn *so* much from these ones.

It's special. And I don't think it'll change. I don't think it's meant to. But I'm happy about that. and I hope that if I find more time I can continue to post more songs.

Bandamp is never forgotten, it's just as Kings says...its 5 months in between anything good. And that's to be expected right? We all have lives. But the special moments we can share on here are truly sweet.

But the specialness of the site is only present when the special people who are that specialness are present ..... being a part of bandAmp .... is a concious decision these days.

As for facebook, I have numerous accounts but take no part in it.
I've made a https://www.facebook.com/band.amp.7 account, but it hassled me for lots of information so now I just let it send me "You have more friends on facebook than you think" emails.

A good start would be to make more use of the Google+ button on each Audio Review page .....

wow kings, I never even noticed the google+ button. There's been a paradigm shift, and I've been blind to it. Still thinking in terms of the real deal being going out with a band, playing live onstage while nowadays it's all a social media thing, putting out an image and gaining interest on fluff and lies and things that hardly seem to matter unless you actively pay attention to it... because the trend of the moment tells you to do so.

back in the day we came to the amp because we wanted to showcase our stuff, we wanted to share our ideas and we knew that our audience here were likeminded people. now that the internet has matured (the paths have crystalized, I explictly won't mention the content) all the likemined people accept that we all will wander off, and we all experience melancholy. Yet we also understand that melancholy has a purpose - it points to meaning beyond the trend of the moment, and all the likeminded people here wanted to put meaning before trend, within the presentation of their creative efforts.

BandAmp still ebbs and flows ,although the dry spells become increasingly longer - I still think that likeminded people understand that what little "direct" communication there is nowadaysdoes not nullify our sense of community and mutual respect for one another.

We know we are "out there" and we know about our ideals. In this we support eachother, and we can find one another through email if we have to. There are, at most, only six degrees of separation, anyway. And until the end of my life I will never forget. I don't need facebook for that, or google+, but if there was a way to integrate contact in my present ways of creativity I would wholly embrace it. Seems this is not the time. Maybe soon?

at one point in time I used to get email notifications on post and things going on from band amp. I don't get them anymore. is there  a setting on threads to get email notifications ?.

Yes, yes and yes : yes we did get notifications about relevant posts, yes, I also dont get them and yes TK put in a settings bit in your home page ..... but it might not work because we still dont get notifications

But the BIG YES is that we need more notification emails for 'you have been quoted' and 'some one has posted to a thread you also posted to' .... it is how it works, gets people involved in the immediate conversation.

But at the moment we have no programmer. TK retired and Muds being god like ... aloof and indifferent

I regularly check in, just to find that nothing has happened on here in a long time.  I miss the creativity, it seems now that I get on here, just to remember and read my old lyrics. I started using this site when I was a freshman in high school, its crazy to think that it has turned into such a ghost town. I'm just as guilty for not logging in as often as I used to, but life came along with responsibilities and I find that I rarely get to do the things I love most, like setting down and hammering out a tune and some lyrics.

Over all I am thankful because this site did help me through a rough period in my life, I had a lot of family drama and a lot of pain in my younger days and this was always a place I could come, be myself write a song, chat with friends and feel normal for awhile, so for those of you who remember that, I thank you.

I think what happened is that as users we've moved forward with our smart phones, and other forms of digital media, when you think about it we all used to have to go home, dial up and sit in front of a computer. We never had a nice little shiny object in our hands to fully entertain ourselves. Now there are apps for everything. I can honestly say if bandamp had an app I would totally be on here more. As shallow as that sounds convenience is everything sometimes, especially when you are a parent or have a full time job or both. Hell even a easier to use mobile site would come in handy.


My husband is a web developer and loves taking on little projects that he can really try out new ideas with, if anyone wants to set something up let me know. He has amazing talent with stuff like this, he is currently working on a side project website http://latenightrecordpool.com/ he started it from the ground up and has been working on sites for well over 14 years. His personal website is http://www.stephenwalcher.com/

everything deserves a second chance.. especially our bandamp.

I'm working on this song for wisdom, I have been tracking several songs for Danny Wayman again. Ties up most of my free time.  I do drop by when I can.. My ears have been smashed by hours of tracking lately.

Shared sentiments. It's the times. Don't forget that between all the social media available to us these days, BandAMP, although barely, still lives... And there is a good reason for that. People have found something on this site that cannot be found anywhere else. It sticks, and the people still coming here have not forgotten. Our busy lives may prevent us from logging on all that often... That is a sad thing. And that, while networking is so very important as a musician! As a personal target I'm going to log on at least once a week, upload more often, and start/engage in more discussions aiming at constructively working on real-world goals. Right, well, I'm at the office now, so I got to get back to work. Cheers!

Hey!  Been awhile......sorry bout that.  I don't have facebook.....too many people wanting to be "friends" that I never wanted to be friends with lol.  Quite alot of "wow!!  Look at me and what I have, my vacations, my new car, my intelligent kids" blah blah blah......

I'd rather be playing guitar.  My new Taylor 12......she's so pretty!!!  Haven't logged in for a loooooooong time.....not for lack of thinking of this site.....just busy livin.

Marry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!!!

Xoxmb

Lets get it on........

make it right not wrong .......

Seen the light ?

Sing along .....

Come on in ... sit down ... tell us all about it ..... it's been way too long