Time Keeps On Slippin' Slippin'...

I feel bad about leaving that previous post up for 5 days, especially since Matrixsynth just turned five (CONGRATS!) and he posts more in a week than I do in a year. In my personal opinion, though, he needs to be medicated. He’s making the rest of us look bad.

Anyhow, the Bandcamp experiment is a smashing success. I will say that we used to move a lot more units when we printed real CDs and stuff. On the other hand, it was a gigantic pain in the ass to pack and ship them all (Hello, four trips to the post office in one day) and it’s really, really nice to have making the album itself be the hard part of the operation. I’ll put up a numbers post as soon as I have a bigger pool of data, but suffice to say that my experience with Bandcamp is, on the whole, quite positive.

The album is also in iTunes now if that’s your thing. Since the audience here is largely musicians, a majority of whom have released music digitally, I won’t go in to the vagaries of why I’d rather have a Bandcamp purchase than an iTunes one, given the choice, but it should be fairly obvious even to run-of-the-mill consumers.

And our newest game show: Feature Or Bug? While we build these AD products, there are a lot of cases of Shit Just Not Working Right. I’m generally in favor of trying to harness the event for repeatability, and Adam is generally in favor of making everything so it doesn’t, like, crash and stuff. Somewhere in the middle is where our product line lives. Now, before all the “I’m with boobs” comments come, which will make Adam look bad and me look cool, it is worth mentioning that the bug that resulted in that particular audio file is absolutely not something that can be included in anything. It’s a seriously unstable situation, and making the customer’s system freeze up is generally accepted to be a Bad Thing.

But that said, it does sound kind of cool, doesn’t it?