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Artist site with free downloads

A fictional Metal band called Free Metal with two albums (Much Doublebass and Very Tapping), which on its faircamp site offers free downloads only.

This is how their site looks like:

Directory Free Metal Website/ Site directory
Manifest site.eno Site manifest
Directory Free Metal/ Artist directory
Manifest artist.eno Artist manifest
Image file home_image.jpg
Directory Albums/
Directory Much Doublebass/ Multitrack directory
Manifest multitrack.eno Multitrack manifest
Image file cover.jpg
Audio file 01 Tatatatatata.wav
Audio file 02 Badababadaba.wav
...
Directory Very Tapping/ Multitrack directory
Manifest multitrack.eno Multitrack manifest
Image file album.jpg
Audio file 01 Didididididi.aiff
Audio file 02 Dabadidabadi.aiff
...

Site manifest (Free Metal Website)

title: Free Metal
base_url: https://example.com/

multitrack.download_formats:
- opus
- mp3

This sets the site.title of the site, the site.base_url (which is not mandatory, but needed for some features to work), and specifies that downloads are served in the formats opus and mp3 for all multitrack releases (which is all you need to do to enable free downloads).

Artist manifest (Free Metal)

name: Free Metal

> Given that there is only one artist on this site, faircamp auto-determines this
> to be the homepage, but just to be explicit (and in case other artists are added
> later for collaborative releases) we can also specify this explicitly
homepage

image: home_image.jpg
image_description: The band, looking tough

-- synopsis
Hey Metalheads! Check our newest releases "Much Doublebass" and "Very Tapping" - we've
got them out for free download for you cuties! xoxo, Free Metal
-- synopsis

Multitrack manifest (Much Doublebass)

title: Much Doublebass (Deluxe Edition)
permalink: much-doublebass-album
released: 2023-10-13

cover: cover.jpg
cover_description: The band, looking tough (with yellow plush hats)

-- synopsis
We're so excited to share our latest release with you, enjoy!
-- synopsis

-- more
Mastered by our good friends at the Doom Dungeon.
-- more

Here the title of the release is explicitly set because the band forgot to include "(Deluxe Edition)" when they tagged the audio files - generally faircamp simply takes the title from the audio files, so there's normally no need to set it manually. The permalink ensures that the release is made available under the url https://example.com/much-doublebass-album/, so as you can see it simply gets added to the base url of the page (an in-depth explanation of permalinks can be found on the Concepts Explained page). The cover image would have been automatically picked by faircamp, but to describe the image for those who cannot see it, they included the description here, as should always be done. Again a short synopsis text is provided (this is shown on the top of the release page) as well as a production note in the more field, which however could also be used to include content of any length, and supports Markdown.

Multitrack manifest (Very Tapping)

permalink: very-tapping-album
released: 2022-07-01

cover: album.jpg
cover_description: The band, looking not so tough for a change