facebook and bands

[Chovie D]

am I missing something or does it kinda suck that facebook has no music player?

if I am missing it, feel free to brootalize me for my newbish inquiry.


can you people post your bands facebooks so I can see whats possible?

[Mr. Foxen]

Can put video up. Think can put tracks on, but they appear in the about section that barely anyone looks at. Better hosting on soundcloud etc. and linking.

[mortlock]

I just post sound clips from all the other platforms and link them my wall. 

[mortlock]

facebook thread..
http://stonerrocklives.com/forum/index.php?topic=1430.msg28592#msg28592

[bbottom]

In my opinion myspace was light years better for bands than facebook.

[Mr. Foxen]

In my opinion myspace was light years better for bands than facebook.

It was at one point. Then they fucked it. Then they fucked it some more. Then they killed it. And fucked it's corpse.

[AgentofOblivion]

If you put a link to an mp3 file then the built-in facebook player will show up.  You can also embed SoundCloud players by giving the link to the file.  But yeah, it doesn't have the players/playlist pasted to the front page like MySpace did.  If you activate the BandCamp app then it will, but it's a tab they have to click and not the default landing spot. 

[Jake]

Not a user myself, but when I'm checking out bands, it seems like many have integrated Bandcamp pretty seamlessly into Facebook profiles.

[Chovie D]

thanks everyone...yeah how do they put that bandcamp thing in there? facebook needs to make it easier to post and check ut tunes dammit.

[AgentofOblivion]

If you're on your page as the admin then go down to the app boxes (photos, likes...etc) and click on the plus sign of a blank one and then "Find more apps".  You can search for bandcamp.  This assumes, of course, that you have a bandcamp account.

[Chovie D]

searched apps for bandcamp and band camp...no results is the app called something else?

[taylo)))r]

If you're on your page as the admin then go down to the app boxes (photos, likes...etc) and click on the plus sign of a blank one and then "Find more apps".  You can search for bandcamp.  This assumes, of course, that you have a bandcamp account.

Wait, what??? I can't find this.

[taylo)))r]

searched apps for bandcamp and band camp...no results is the app called something else?

same here.

[AgentofOblivion]

I guess my process doesn't work for bandcamp.  Here's a link from them that explains how they do it.  Sorry for the confusion.

http://bandcamp.com/facebook_app

[Chovie D]

thanks Agent o , that was really helpful

heres the facebook page in question with bandcamp installed.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dose-Amigos/760504427298222?sk=app_204974879526524#!/pages/Dose-Amigos/760504427298222

[moose23]

Yeah you need to link to your facebook from your bandcamp, works well for our bands.

Bandcamp music player is ten times what the myspace player ever was so it's win win.

[JemDooM]

Bandcamp is awesome, we hadnt thought of embedding music onto our facebook we just use it for news really, I know if people want to hear our stuff they'll just find us on bandcamp..

[frobbert]

https://www.facebook.com/HarbourOfSouls?fref=ts

[liquidsmoke]

Tried to 'boost' an Emerald Douglas FB post and the ad was 'disapproved' for no reason other than it 'doesn't comply with our Advertising Policies'. WTF? You message us for the paypal email address, you send us the money, we send you the record. What is the problem? How else am I supposed to word this?

[Danny G]

They didn't keep your money, did they?


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[nyarlathotep]

Usually they do a pretty good job of explaining why a post doesn't work. It says to click the ad name to see why it wasn't approved - that didn't have any more info?

If I had to guess I'd say you hit the 20% text rule with one of the close-up images in the album... according to their policies text on a product should be okay but perhaps the algo can't detect that the close-ups are a product.

@Danny - Fortunately FB advertising spend is a pay-as-you-go-up-to-a-budget kind of thing, so no boost = no cost.

[RacerX]

 I miss Chovie D.

[Submarine]

I miss Chovie D.

Agreed

[Danny G]

Hail Chovie


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[liquidsmoke]

Fuck, sorry guys.