Private Streaming How-To
Private streaming (part of Bandcamp Pro) allows you to invite select people to listen to your private or draft tracks and albums on Bandcamp. For example, say you’re releasing an album next week, and want to invite a few music bloggers to have an early listen. Since it’s not out yet, you’ve got the album set to private. Just below the album name, you’ll see a link, “invite listeners”:
Clicking that link takes you to the private streaming section of your Tools page:
From there, you just enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite to listen to your track, customize the email if you like, and click “send invites.” Your recipients will then receive a message that looks like this:
Back in the private streaming section of your Tools page, you’ll see that there’s now a table showing you each invite you’ve sent out, when it was sent, and whether the link in that invite has been clicked. There are also controls that allow you to cancel or resend the invite:
Once the recipient clicks the link in their invite, they’re taken to a private page where they can stream the album or track in question. As soon as they do so, we notify you via email:
