Bandcamp wishlist for DJs: limits, exporting and a buy list
How Bandcamp's wishlist works, what its help pages say about limits and exporting, and how to keep Bandcamp finds in a buy list that covers every store.
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Bandcamp's wishlist is the heart icon below a release's cover art: click it and the release is saved to your wishlist, which Bandcamp counts as part of your collection. For DJs it's a handy holding pen for Bandcamp finds. Its limits are about scope more than size. Bandcamp's help pages that we checked don't describe a wishlist limit or an export option, and the wishlist only covers Bandcamp. If you also buy on Beatport, Traxsource or elsewhere, keep a separate buy list that covers every store, and treat the Bandcamp wishlist as one input to it.
How the Bandcamp wishlist works
From Bandcamp's help center:
- Adding. Your collection consists of what you've bought, codes you've redeemed, "plus the items on your wishlist." To add something, click the wishlist button on any artist's site; "it's the heart icon below the cover art."
- Removing. On your Fan page, hover over a wishlist item and click the small heart beneath the album, then refresh the page.
- Privacy. Open the wishlist tab and choose private from the drop-down next to "Your wishlist is:" if you want it visible only to you.
- Buying. Bandcamp says that when you buy an item, it's automatically added to your collection.
- Free downloads. If you get a release by entering $0, Bandcamp says it won't be added to your collection; you'll get a download link by email instead.
Limits and exporting
Both questions show up in search suggestions for the Bandcamp wishlist, and Bandcamp's help pages that we checked don't answer them directly. We didn't find a documented wishlist limit, and we didn't find a documented way to export the wishlist as a file.
In practice, that means:
- Don't treat the wishlist as your only record. If an item matters, write its artist and title somewhere you control.
- Copy as you go. Copying one line when you heart a release is easier than transcribing a long wishlist later.
- Prune regularly. A wishlist that only grows becomes hard to use, whatever its limit.
If Bandcamp adds an export or publishes a limit, its help center is the place to check.
Using the wishlist well as a DJ
The wishlist works best with a job description. A simple one: releases on Bandcamp that you want to hear properly before deciding.
- Heart freely while digging. On label pages, in fan collections and in Discover results, heart anything that might fit your sets. Bandcamp's July 2026 update, posted by Charlie Pastuszenski, added a Discover filter for artists you follow, which makes a good weekly starting point.
- Listen on a set day. Go through new wishlist items with good headphones and decide keep or reject for each.
- Remove the rejects. Click the heart again so the wishlist stays short.
- Buy the keepers in a batch. Check the formats you need. Bandcamp lists MP3 V0, MP3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WAV and AIFF among its download formats.
- Consider timing. On Bandcamp Fridays, Bandcamp waives its revenue share for artists and labels; transaction fees still apply. The remaining 2026 dates are 6 November and 4 December.
Why you still need a cross-store buy list
If you buy from more than one place, a week might bring a Bandcamp release from a small label, a few Beatport tracks from a chart, a Traxsource track from a DJ's Top 10 and a Shazam from a club. Each store's wishlist or cart only sees its own part of that.
The problems that follow are predictable:
- Duplicates. The same track sits on a Bandcamp wishlist and in a Beatport cart, and you buy it twice. How to avoid buying the same track twice covers this.
- Forgotten finds. Items in a store you visit less often never get heard.
- No overview. You can't see your whole week's shortlist, or set a budget across it.
A cross-store buy list fixes this. Keep one list, in a spreadsheet, notes app or dedicated tool, with a row per track:
| Artist | Title and version | Where you found it | Where to buy | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example artist | Track (Original Mix) | DJ mix, 2 October | Bandcamp | Pending |
Store wishlists and carts then become shortcuts for checkout rather than your system of record. Beatport users run into the same issue with carts; using the Beatport cart as a wishlist covers that side, and Beatport vs Bandcamp for DJs compares the two stores.
A weekly routine
- During the week: heart Bandcamp finds and copy each one into your buy list with its source.
- Set day: listen through the buy list, Bandcamp items included. Keep or reject.
- Checkout: buy the keepers store by store. Mark each as bought in your list.
- Clean-up: un-heart rejected and bought items on Bandcamp.
The pillar guide on where DJs buy music explains when Bandcamp is the right store.
After checkout: getting the files into your library
Buying on Bandcamp ends with a download, and a few choices there decide how smoothly the track reaches your DJ software.
- Where to download. Bandcamp's help center lists several places: the download link after checkout, the link in your receipt email, your Collection page on the web or Android, and your Purchases page on desktop. It points to its mobile app for offline listening; for DJ use, download the files on the computer that runs your DJ software.
- Which format. Choose from the format dropdown before you download. Pick what your DJ software and players support; Bandcamp's list includes WAV and AIFF as well as FLAC, ALAC and MP3 options.
- Where the files go. Move them out of Downloads into the one music folder your DJ software imports from, then add them to your library. A stray file in Downloads is how tracks go missing later.
- Re-downloads. Bandcamp's help center says a free Fan account gives you access to your purchases for redownloading, so a lost file doesn't mean paying again.
How to clean up a DJ library covers missing files and backups once the tracks are in rekordbox, and rekordbox playlists vs folders covers where new tracks can sit after import.
Doing this with CatchIt!
CatchIt! is a Mac app with a free iOS companion whose Wishlist is a cross-store buy list. It doesn't read your Bandcamp wishlist, so Bandcamp items need adding by hand, but everything else you find lands in the same place.
- One Inbox. Shazam captures, shared track links, tracklists, Beatport charts and imported playlists arrive together. Return keeps a track and Space rejects it.
- Search links per row. Kept tracks show links that search Bandcamp, Beatport, YouTube and Google for that artist and title, plus a copy button for a clean "Title Artist" line.
- Filters and status. Filter by source, mark tracks Done once bought, and switch between Pending and Done.
- Export. Export a selection as TXT or CSV if you want the list in a spreadsheet.
If you keep your own text or CSV list of titles and artists, CSV Import on the Mac reads title and artist rows into the Inbox. See Core concepts.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a limit to the Bandcamp wishlist?
- Bandcamp's help pages that we checked don't describe a wishlist limit. If you rely on a very long wishlist, keep your own copy of the important items elsewhere rather than assuming it will scale forever.
- Can I export my Bandcamp wishlist?
- The help pages we checked don't describe an export option for the wishlist. The practical route is to copy the artist and title of items you care about into your own list, ideally as you add them.
- Can other people see my Bandcamp wishlist?
- Your wishlist sits on your Fan page. Bandcamp's help center explains how to make it private: open the wishlist tab and choose private from the drop-down next to "Your wishlist is:".
- What happens to a wishlist item when I buy it?
- Bandcamp's help center says items you buy are automatically added to your collection. To remove something from the wishlist yourself, hover over it and click the small heart beneath the album.
Sources
- Bandcamp Help: How do I add music to my collection?
- Bandcamp Help: How do I edit my Fan Page?
- Bandcamp Help: In which formats can I download my purchases?
- Bandcamp Help: Where do I download my purchase?
- Bandcamp Help: Bandcamp Friday Help
- Bandcamp Updates (Charlie Pastuszenski): Discover Improvements and Subsonic Implementation