Bandcamp Integration (or just their metadata scraping)

One of my albums has 61 tracks each with an own line-up. I assume I need more than 2 rainy days :-).

It depends on how much of that info is already in track-embedded metadata. But maybe start with some easier cases :wink:

Do you realize you can use a GreaseMonkey script on your browser so that when go to a Bandcamp album page you can click on a button to open the MusicBrainz release editor with the data prefilled, then you just need to do a quick check and submit the new release.

This makes adding a few albums pretty easy, the difficulty is it takes too much time if yo have many albums to add, what would be nice if would be if Bandcamp would provide their metadata as a data dump so it could then be added to MusicBrainz in a more automated fashion.

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First you need to install GreaseMonkey addon, I use Firefox but I expect it is also available for Chrome), after installation you’ll see a monkey icon in the top right

Then if you go to bandcamp and search for an album you get a new Import into MB button

Click on it and it will open MusicBrainz Confirm Form Submission page, click Continue

and it will open Add Release (you need to login with free account if not already logged in) with the data filled in for you

Check the details, for example I picked this album at random and it seems it is already in MusicBrainz

so I am not going to add it, but if I wanted to add it just select Enter edit on the Edit Note page

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More like “revenue opportunity” for both Bandcamp and Roon.

Yes, that’s the way to go! I always do that for all my Bandcamp purchases (and not only :wink: )

+1 for integration.

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+1 bandcamp intergration, would be awesome if it was possible to browse and buy music there and it just downloads and adds the flac to your local library.

Unfortunately, Bandcamp does not have album metadata except for what appears on album pages, and in fact many Bandcamp albums do not (or do not yet) have metadata on other repositories. I did ask Bandcamp about this some years ago and they did not show any interest.

+1 for bandcamp integration

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Bandcamp integration (streaming) is an absolute must have feature. Voted, so please add them… :slight_smile:

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+1 Bandcamp integration.

Devs might wanna check out the github repo for Bandcamp Enhancement Suite: [GitHub - sabjorn/BandcampEnhancementSuite: A Chrome Extension providing extra functionality for Bandcamp]

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Hi, wanted to let you know we have nearly finished adding support for tagging bandcamp albums to SongKong

This means, that you can get metadata for any bandcamp albums you have downloaded including the performer credits, and therefore when you add them to Roon you will see better metadata even if roon doesn’t have the album in their database.

You can run the task over your music colllection in one go, dont need to do album by album.

Comments on this welcome.

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Now released for those interested -

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Roon should create a ‘new feature request matrix’, allowing users to see the top say 15 requests, enabling users to tick the relevant matrix crosspoint to cast a vote.

You can always list the Feature Suggestions posts by number of votes cast by clicking on the “Votes” view in the category listing:

A big PLUS + for bandcamp integration.

Just the same a as Qobuz, Tidal and Co. Stream what one owns anyway (a lot in my case) with ARC. Bandcamp provides lossless formats, too, so why hold back such a really great source of music.

And if one company in the music industry is really caring for the musicians income, it is bandcamp.

+1 for bandcamp streaming integration - no need to repeat all those remarks made on bandcamp by earlier posts. Roon, show you care!