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Music Community Script
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:04 pm
by derek barnstorm
Hi,
I am trying to set up a website so that bands and musicians can upload music and a profile, sort of like Myspace, Garage Bands or OverPlay. Does anyone know where I might be able to find such a script FREE. I have already checked out places like HotScripts but couldn't find the right sort of thing.
Thanks,
Des.
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:40 pm
by Burrito
if you've already looked at hotscripts and come up empty, I'd suggest just writing your own. It doens't sound like that huge of an endeavor (even if you're just beginning php).
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:32 pm
by derek barnstorm
Okay thanks. I am keen to learn php but am a total beginner, would you recommend any tutorials?
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:53 pm
by Burrito
I really don't know of any off hand. I know some people have suggested some books on this forum. You might try doing a search for 'good book' or something. You can always use this forum as a resource for help too.
I'd suggest you just get started on the project and when you run into an issue, come here and post it and we'll help you as best we can.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:43 am
by Luke
Yes... get a book... come here when things get hard or confusing... I read
PHP 5 and MySQL Bible. It was pretty good. I definately learned with it. I have been recommended
this one many times (When I was just learning), but can't comment because I never bought it.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:32 am
by daedalus__
just read the manual
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:53 am
by derek barnstorm
Thanks again, I have some Linda tutorials and and a few pdf copies of O'Reilly books somewhere, I'll see what they are like.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:01 am
by thiscatis
For the commercial part :
I think it will be very hard to compete with sites like myspace & purevolume

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:12 am
by Grim...
I'm doing better than myspace at the moment...
<span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, no I'm not, it's back up again

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:38 am
by RobertGonzalez
thiscatis wrote:For the commercial part :
I think it will be very hard to compete with sites like myspace & purevolume

Then don't compete with them. Instead, offer a service that they don't so you can enter their market but still be unique.
As for the original poster, I would look around google or other forums to see what others have come up with. I know this is something that comes up fairly regularly around here. Scottayy developed a similar site (
http://www.showmypro.com/) and evilmonkey did one also (
http://www.tmeet.com/).
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:57 am
by jamiel
On Last.FM people can upload their music and it actually streams it to people who it thinks will like it. Really amazing site.