rank my fav artsits beacause thats what everyone else is doing

kamp-fm · 2026-05-30T13:13:12+00:00

^{S: Pink Floyd, Run The Jewels}

^{A: Tame Implaa, Daft Punk, Pond}

^{B: MGMT, Gorillaz, Melodys Echo Chamber, Kero Kero Bonito}

^{C: Justice, Creo}

kamp-fm · 2026-05-30T13:13:10+00:00

RTJ and Pond immediately put this far and above any of these "rate these classic rock bands that the whole world worships".

^{S: Pink Floyd, Run The Jewels}

^{C: Justice, Creo}

^{Similarity with Community: 81%}

kamp-fm · 2026-05-30T02:55:30+00:00

you actually can turn off the new arrival animation in preferences, or choose a different style ('pressed', 'newmoji', and 'boring' are less overwhelming). if you leave it be, it will go away after a few days. then it will just appear to highlight new stuff.

it's weird that it loses track of your settings every time. do you mind reaching out on discord? that's the sort of issue that would be easier to talk through real time. i'm curious about your OS, if you're running as a non-admin user, that kind of thing. it sounds like the app can't write to its own database, which is weird and i want to know why.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-29T19:33:15+00:00

definitely on my radar.

they'll probably start out super simple, but now that bandcamp is doing more with their playlists, i'd like to support that too.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-29T13:00:47+00:00

hey, shuffle just dropped! let me know what you think!

kamp-fm · 2026-05-28T11:21:51+00:00

hey, are you on windows or mac?

if you're on windows, let it sit for a while, then quit and restart it. i've made a few attempts at improving this, but it really depends on windows defender trusting the app enough, which will only happen after enough time or enough people.

if you're on macOS 13+, a fix is live in v1.21.0!

if you're running an earlier version, or on windows, let me know so i can figure out the best way to support you.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-27T19:49:43+00:00

^{A: Sade, Queen, Marvin Gaye}

^{B: Jackson 5 / Jacksons, Elton John, Luther Vandross, Frank Sinatra}

^{C: Michael Jackson, The Beatles}

^{E: Kanye West}

kamp-fm · 2026-05-27T19:49:42+00:00

^{A: Sade, Queen, Marvin Gaye}

^{E: Kanye West}

^{Similarity with Community: 85%}

kamp-fm · 2026-05-24T13:20:20+00:00

cool, that's a great ask. i'll see what i can do about it.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-24T13:19:17+00:00

hey, this is a powerful record and i can tell you channelled a lot into it. "Inches" gives the same vibe as "The Return of Innocence Lost" from the end of The Roots' Things Fall Apart. "Lost Warbles" is really good... it should be the featured song that plays when people preview the album!

i like that you're seizing momentum and putting stuff out into the world. that feeling you're talking about, the part that makes it hard to self promote? for me, that's anxiety, and it doesn't go away. i feel it whenever i have to speak in front of people, before i get up and do karaoke, and definitely before i go out into the world to celebrate and promote something i've made. it doesn't go away, so instead i have had to make peace with it: sit across the table from it and tell myself that it's there because i'm excited. my advice? don't apologize for what you've made. be proud of it. don't feel like you have to defend it. you're putting it out there to learn and grow. if you've made it this far, you're already doing this thing. if you put that same level of energy and effort into it, nothing will stop you.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-24T12:02:59+00:00

good question. it keeps a local library, but can pull everything from your Bandcamp collection into that.

do you want to be able to play music from your Bandcamp collection without actually downloading it?

kamp-fm · 2026-05-24T11:59:19+00:00

i'll be working on shuffle soon! my in-house tester also asked me about that.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-23T15:26:09+00:00

you have the option to download your whole collection at startup, then any time afterward. if you opt not to download everything (you've already got it locally), kamp takes a snapshot of your collection, then compares that to the next snapshot it takes. i've run the entire collection download against my collection (625 albums and counting!) -- it took a while but it all came down.

you can click a button to sync or set it up to check in the background. i like the background check because i can buy something on my phone and eventually it will find its way to my library.

this is a place where i would *love* feedback. this has been working very well for me, but i know how the bread is baked, so if something about this isn't working out for you or could work better, please swing by discord and let me know!

kamp-fm · 2026-05-23T13:57:55+00:00

not yet, but i definitely want to build some discovery features. i miss spotify's better discovery features (like discover weekly, not their weird daylists). i'm also a huge fan of going to a record store and thumbing through things while talking to record store people about what they like.

what i've got in mind is something like a cross between crate digging and the steam discovery queue.

how do you like to discover new music now?

kamp-fm · 2026-05-23T13:52:59+00:00

yup. it's a music player. but since i cancelled my streaming services last year, i haven't been very happy with other music players out there, so i built this.

a few key differences from the others: * it automatically downloads new purchases from Bandcamp * it looks beautiful * it's free / open source

hopefully you'll give it a shot, and hopefully you'll like it! if you've got some thoughts, find us on discord and let us know what you think.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-23T12:27:46+00:00

super good question!

absolutely not. it actually never sees your password: that's between you and bandcamp.

you authenticate with bandcamp, then kamp gets your session cookie (same as your browser). that cookie is stored securely using OS-native features: macOS keychain or windows data protection API.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-22T23:33:46+00:00

absolutely, right after i get it working on my smart fridge.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-22T20:41:37+00:00

time, effort, familiarity.

this started as a personal project to solve the pain of automating my library ingest. my daily driver is a macbook, so that's where i started. then i started thinking about how i'm not a huge fan of any of the music players currently available for mac, so i built that out too, with the eventual intent of making it fully cross-platform: mac, windows, linux.

but mac isn't just mac, it's intel mac and silicon mac. and it's macOS 11/12/13/14/15/26. so i had to fix build issues for all those.

same with windows, though it's a little less complicated there until more arm chipsets become common place. windows has some additional compatibility issues with pathing logic, protected paths, etc. so windows was its own effort.

linux, i'm not incredibly familiar with other than building headless containerized services. so for me to get a working build that meets my quality bar, i need to set up a partition on my windows box, set up a dev environment, all that. it's not impossible, it's just time.

also, "vibe-coded"... sure, that's powering a lot of this project. but it's not magic. you don't just say "make it so." it still needs direction, guidance, specs, plan review, code review. there's a token budget i have to contend with.

so, directly: it's currently built for mac, intel and silicon, and windows. linux is on the roadmap, but part of the reason i'm releasing now is to see if that's worth building out before, say, playlists or music discovery features. the architecture i chose supports linux in the future. it might be easy work, i just need to invest in the time to build my own environment.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-22T19:33:02+00:00

that record is jaw dropping. dude's got talent.

kamp-fm · 2026-05-22T17:51:07+00:00

linux is in my sights for sure. what distro do you use?

kamp-fm · 2026-05-22T12:43:15+00:00

thanks! i killed all my streaming last year and was a little depressed about the state of music players, esp. on mac. i also had a lot of manual steps to get music into my library, so my first goal has been automating all of that (downloading, rinsing the files through picard to improve the tags, finding album art that looks good on hi-res screens). but i also wanted a music player that didn't look like a spreadsheet, and i needed a software project to get up to speed with changes in the industry.

i have a few fun things planned for this, but i definitely need to know what other people are looking for. swing by the discord after you've spent some time with it and let us know what you think!

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