I’ve gone to band camp. Or, at least to bandcamp.

I’ve been searching for a while for an easy way to post my music to the internet. Mostly just to share with friends. I thought that I would hack the music into this blog but mostly that just ended with the failed music section containing scraps of lyrics and occasionally-functioning-but-mostly-broken links to mp3s.

My friends (and probably some hackers) know that I generally just upload files to a media sub-directory and then e-mail out links to people I think might be interested in the songs. Admittedly, not very high-tech and certainly not very effective for long-term sharing.

So ever since my friend Ben told me about bandcamp I’ve been intrigued. A website designed to allow easy uploading and downloading of music. Customizable enough to make it interesting but formulaic enough that it is intuitive to use.

I’ve been poking around over there on and off for a couple weeks but tonight I made it official. I redirected geoffcoats.com to band camp. So now I can just upload songs to that location and any interested parties can download mp3s for free. Or, if you feel like throwing me a bone, you can download high-quality versions for 99 cents. So head over and check it out. I have a couple songs there and will be adding some old ones as well as some new ones (as I write them).

The developers over at Bandcamp even provided an easy mechanism for embedding songs into other websites (like this one):

And if you are a musician, definitely check out bandcamp. The developers are doing some very interesting things over there.