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- Free allowance
- 291 MB per track to start ('It starts out at 291MB per track ...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 291 MB per track to start ('It starts out at 291MB per track ... Once you've made a few sales through Bandcamp (totaling $20 USD or more), we increase the max per-track upload size to 600 megs'), and crucially 'There is no limit on the size of albums' — so total capacity is unbounded at 291 MB x unlimited tracks. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Free streaming and free downloads to fans; Bandcamp takes 15% of sales (10% after $5k) but there is no storage or egress bill, and a $0-priced release generates none of that. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
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| Tooling | No public API, no bulk uploader. Web album editor only ('Click + add in the top toolbar'). This is the weakest tooling story in the slot. |
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| Composes with | Unlimited albums per artist account x unlimited tracks per album x 291 MB per track. The 291 MB cap is per track, and an album has no cap, so a 20-track album is ~5.8 GB before you need anything else. |
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| Reliability | Lossless masters are kept and fans who buy get the original format; streams are transcoded mp3. The lossless-only requirement is actually a positive for this use case (nothing is lossy-transcoded on the way in), but the 'no multi-channel / no mono' rule rejects perfectly good files, and a release is public the moment it's published — there is no private/unlisted storage mode. |
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Evidence 3
Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read