Faircamp

A static site generator for audio producers

Point Faircamp to a folder hierarchy
on your disk which contains your audio files. Within minutes, Faircamp builds a complete, static website that presents your music to your audience. You can view the site on your computer or upload it to any webhost - no database, no php or such required.

Release Page

Cover. Tracks for streaming. Optional description and links to downloads and embeds.

Responsive Design

Fully functional down to the smallest screens.

Artists & Labels

Seamless support for single artist sites, collaborative projects, up to entire labels.

Manual > Catalog

Downloads

Automatically generated downloads in the formats you want. Single tracks and full release.

Manual > Downloads

Unlock Codes

Provide exclusive access to downloads (e.g. to patrons) by protecting them with unlock codes.

Manual > Downloads

Soft Paycurtain

Ask your audience to financially support you on third party platforms before they download.

Manual > Downloads

Generative Covers

Automatically generated covers lend visual elegance to your catalog when you don't get around to create visuals.

Localization

Reach your audience in your own language. Contribute translations to help the project.

Manual > Localization

Theming Widget

Interactively explore theme customizations.

Manual > Theme

Embeds

WORK IN PROGRESS

Allow your releases to be featured by your listeners in articles and posts.

Manual > Embedding

Fully documented

Faircamp is accompanied by a comprehensive, living manual, written alongside development since early on.

Manual

Independent & Free

Licensed under AGPLv3+. Code hosted on codeberg.org. Strictly DIY & Non-Profit.

Repository

Faircamp adheres to these principles:
Personal, plain, small, simple, light, fast, reduced, elegant, stable, low/no-maintenance, free, independent, privacy-respecting, standards-conforming, no-nonsense.

Community resources

Meljoann's extensive blog post walks you through getting started with faircamp on Windows, Mac and Linux
Un tutoriel en français, écrit par Johann Bourquenez
Docker Faircamp provides a preconfigured and documented setup to run faircamp in a docker container
Radio Free Fedi is currently kindly supporting artists to set up faircamp sites that don't have the means to do it themselves
Faircamp Webring allows discovering new faircamp sites through a link chain, and can be joined!
Simple RSS feed aggregator for Faircamp sites by Yonder (Live Example)
Using a separate storage domain with a faircamp site Yonder's notes on a custom split storage/server setup

Sites using faircamp

While it's still pragmatically possible we'll try to document as many faircamp sites as possible here. Feel free to directly point me to new sites on the fediverse or post them in this issue. I'll be adding them to the list periodically. Please don't let this stop you from creating your own community lists, aggregators, webrings - discoverability should be in the hands of us all, the more the merrier.

Alternatives to faircamp

blamscamp «Create a bandcamp-style audio player for selling albums on itch.io.»
CD-R 700mb «Static site generator for makingweb mixtapes in 2022.»
Funkwhale «Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network. »
jam.coop «We're a co-operative music platform, 100% run by and for the benefit of musicians, fans and the people who make it.»
Mirlo «Directly support musicians. Buy their music. Collectively owned and managed.»
Rauversion «Rauversion is an open source music sharing platform.»
Resonate «Resonate is the first community-owned music streaming service.»

Thanks everyone for your support

In a perfect world, this list would include all of you that shared faircamp on the fediverse, built faircamp sites, helped friends out to build them, and so on. If you're among them and not listed here, thank you so much as well - the above is really just an attempt to explicitly give credit to the extent that is pragmatically possible in a rushed world. If you notice someone missing that absolutely should be on the list, or if you would rather not be listed, please do let me know.