That's because BC "won" and took over the indie market, so now they can afford to offer additional features and services. And, frankly, I'm not sure that this market is big enough to accommodate more players. Even BC is small compared to the likes of Spotify, Youtube or Apple.

But if you just need to easily sell your music in digital format (which is what Bandcamp started as), there are options.

> there are options.

There are, but very few of them seem to provide for downloading full albums in nonproprietary lossless formats.

Meanwhile any site with a functional search mechanism would be offering more than what Bandcamp offers.

>Meanwhile any site with a functional search mechanism would be offering more than what Bandcamp offers.

Not to the artists who put their music there.