music hosting site in the making....

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TheLivingDead

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what sites do you frequent to download free albums from local / underground musicians?

Those that may not know me personally (which makes up 100% of you) I'm a graphic designer / musician / web developer, and I'm feeling ambitious--

I'm currently working on development for a site that offers free album download hosting for artists/bands that join as members-- concert promotion, album promotion and short artist bio info will also be provided as a free service.
I'm going for something simple and streamlined, without the bombardment of advertising, additional apps and extra bells and whistles of myspace, garageband, or reverbnation.

just a simple, functional site to host underground musicians' free releases, and promote upcoming releases and concerts.

I'm looking for reference material...

post or send me PM's with links, or suggestions! :D
 
notarypublic

notarypublic

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The only issue I can think of is how would you pay for it? A hosting site would go through a lot of bandwidth, and I'm curious how you could keep the site going without all the ads.
 
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TheLivingDead

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ads are a definite possibility... down the road-- honestly, there are several ways to monetize the site once it is crawling with users... charge for ads, charge membership for artists, set downloading and/or hosting limits, and charge only if exceeded... etc...

but, that is not a concern for the moment-- I am primarily concern with getting it populated with users...

as far as bandwidth, I have unlimited hosting space and bandwidth through business account at hostgator. A separate project is sustaining the cost, and I am simply looking to supply a free service for the music scene at the moment.
 
Phreaddee

Phreaddee

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bandcamp.com does it great, for free, no ads
you can upload full wave files and bandcamp encodes all the different versions for you for people to download.

check it out!
 
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aleks

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Sounds like a great idea and I deffinitly would like to see it soon. Regarding a video player I have a suggestion:
http://www.flashxml.net/youtube-vimeo-player.html

It support all major video/audio files and it's really easy to install.Playlist & Player are fully customizable and you can add videos or music from Vimeo or Youtube.

Best of luck,
 
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