Click to enlarge - Bandcamp Pro

Yesterday I logged into a clients Bandcamp account to setup a EP and noticed a brand new user interface for creating a album and uploading tracks. But what also jumped right out to me was a bit of copy and a link promoting the new Bandcamp Pro.

What? Did I miss the announcement of all these changes? Apparently there has been no announcement. No mention on the Bandcamp blog or on their Twitter. It also seems this is not yet available to everyone, so you may not see it when you log in. I have no information on what the rollout plans are, sorry.

Click to enlarge - Bandcamp User Interface

The new interface is nice and clean, well designed. You can manage the album and all the tracks on a single screen. See screen capture for the new UI. You can mark the featured track you would like cued up when fans visit the page or embed the player. There is now a Draft mode which seems to just be for work in progress albums. You still have Private and Public modes. You get a little

Bandcamp Pro will cost you $5 a month and includes the following features (copy taken directly from Bandcamp).

Batch upload

Queue up an entire album’s worth of material and go make a sandwich, take a nap, practice, floss, sunbathe, or twirl your ’stache. Before you know it, your album will be uploaded, transcoded, and ready to unleash upon the internet.

Private streaming

Give the press and your mom exclusive streaming access to your private tracks and albums. Just enter the recipients’ email addresses, hit send, and you’re done. There’s no annoying listener registration process, no passwords to forget, and you can even monitor who’s listened, and who’s blowing you off.

Google Analytics

Bandcamp’s up-to-the-instant stats system reveals who’s linking to you, where your music is embedded, which tracks are most and least popular, and what’s being downloaded and when. But for the true stats junkie, Pro lets you integrate with Google Analytics for full-tilt information overload bliss.

Your own domain

While your inthego.bandcamp.com address undeniably portrays you as a brilliant forward-thinker, replacing your Bandcamp URL with music.inthego.com or even just inthego.com will not only increase the professionalism of your site, it will also improve your search engine ranking.

Optional streaming

For most bands, the best sales strategy is to let fans hear more of your music, not less. But for more established artists (or those who simply think we’re nuts), Pro lets you disable streaming on select tracks, but still have them show up in an album’s track list and included in its download.

I know the batch upload is probably my most desired enhancement, but I am not sure it is worth $5 a month. I mean once I upload a album I am not going to need it again.