Bandwagon and Indie Beat and Libre.FM

[andypiper]

So, the Fediverse is getting more indie music friendly!

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/01/25/the-indie-beat-on-your-linux-desktop/

Basically:

• Bandwagon (based on Emissary) is a Fediverse-enabled, Bandcamp alternative for independent musicians
• Musicians there can opt-in to have some of their tracks shared on The Indie Beat FM, a streaming station that runs on AzuraCast, where the music has links to their Bandwagon profiles for discovery.

It would be cool to be able to scrobble listens from The Indie Beat, or a Bandwagon embedded music player, to Libre.FM. My first step / interest is in adding Libre.FM support into the players I've built for The Indie Beat, but I can imagine Ben at Bandwagon might want to add this to the player widgets as well, for example.

Semi-relatedly, Faircamp (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/) is a static site generator for musicians, which I can see strong cross-pollination potential for here, too.

Lots of interesting stuff happening in the indieweb and indie music space. Let's grow this!

[mattl]

Interesting.

I spoke to someone else looking at this stuff the other day. As I understand it none of this stuff is limited only to freely licensed music? (CC BY, BY-SA)

I will look at the static site generator.

Lots of interesting things here for sure.

[andypiper]

No, I don't think it is limited in that way. Happy to connect you up with the relevant folks as needed.