Platform comparison

A Bandcamp alternative built for streaming and direct sales.

If you sell music directly to fans and also want a real streaming experience — playlists, quality tiers, subscriptions and a royalty ledger — CanvaSonix does both on one catalog page.

Why artists look for an alternative

Direct sales are only half the job

Sales and streams in one place

Fans can stream a release and buy it from the same page, instead of you maintaining a store on one service and a listening presence on another.

Collaborators paid automatically

Set splits per release once. Producers and features accrue their own balance and request their own payouts — no manual spreadsheet settlements.

You keep your rights

CanvaSonix does not take ownership of your recordings, and publishing here does not stop you selling anywhere else.

Capabilities

What CanvaSonix does today

  • Direct album and track sales Available
  • Full streaming catalog with playback quality tiers Available
  • Listener subscriptions (free, lossless and hi-res tiers) Available
  • Paid artist memberships for fans Available
  • Pre-orders and timed drops Available
  • Per-release royalty splits with an auditable ledger Available
  • Payout accounts with W-9 / W-8BEN tax handling Available
  • Artist analytics for streams, listeners and sales Available
  • Synced listening rooms and an activity feed Available
  • Physical merchandise and vinyl fulfilment Not offered

This table describes CanvaSonix only. For another platform's current fees and features, check that platform's own documentation — terms change.

Questions

Switching, in practice

Is CanvaSonix a Bandcamp alternative?
It covers the same core need — selling music directly to fans — and adds full streaming, subscriptions, listening rooms and a royalty ledger with payouts for collaborators.
Can I move my catalog over?
Yes. You upload your masters and artwork yourself in the Artist Studio and publish each release with its own metadata, contributors and price. Nothing is imported automatically.
Do I have to leave other platforms?
No. You keep your rights, so you can publish on CanvaSonix alongside anywhere else you sell.

Try it with one release

Publish a single release, set a price and see how the ledger and payouts work before you move anything else.