{"id":124,"date":"2023-12-11T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:23:55","slug":"new-store-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/new-store-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"New store and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heyo, life has been stupid lately, but I thought I&#8217;d pop in and give a quick update on some things I&#8217;ve been up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, CD-Trip is now public on YouTube, so feel free to watch it (if you haven&#8217;t already)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CD-Trip | Short Film\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9zm1-hXbGn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other big thing I&#8217;m working on is a new and improved online store.  It&#8217;s not quite ready yet, but it&#8217;s going to have a whole bunch of new products like CDs, CD-Trip Bootleg VHS, and zines.  Most complicatedly I&#8217;m going to start offering digital downloads &#8211; of films and music.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"524\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_7077.jpg?resize=524%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_7077.jpg?w=524&amp;ssl=1 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_7077.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 85vw, 524px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about setting something like this up for a while, and all of the news surrounding Bandcamp&#8217;s various takeovers has only served to motivate me further.  Also while Bandcamp is pretty great for music, but I can&#8217;t find a suitable equivalent for film.  Vimeo offers the ability to offer rentals and downloads but it is prohibitively expensive.  For a small time indie like me, it would be ideal to pay for file hosting depending on how much things get downloaded, not a big flat monthly rate.  So after much research I think I&#8217;ve got it figured out.  I&#8217;m to host files on Google Cloud Storage &#8211; I&#8217;m not necessarily a fan of supporting the tech giants, but at least it&#8217;s not Amazon and it&#8217;s going to cost me next to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will these digital downloads be of interest to people?  Time will tell, but it seems irresponsible of me not to have them somewhere as an option.  I know most people stream music from Spotify and stream videos from Youtube, etc. but thinking long-term, I think it&#8217;s important that there&#8217;s an option to purchase directly from the artist and have the media to hoard forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My plan right now is to offer mp3 and flac audio, h264-encoded mp4 videos, and as much bonus material as I can come up with.  I might think about some sort of video rental system later, but video rentals for short films seems a bit ridiculous.  Anyway, should be ready soon, and we&#8217;ll see how it all goes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heyo, life has been stupid lately, but I thought I&#8217;d pop in and give a quick update on some things I&#8217;ve been up to. First of all, CD-Trip is now public on YouTube, so feel free to watch it (if you haven&#8217;t already)! The other big thing I&#8217;m working on is a new and improved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/new-store-and-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New store and stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbiggs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}