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Do you want to create a platform such as Spotify?Hi guys I looking for ideas on how to build a music streaming website with an online store for advertising and selling music from various artists.
Do you want to create a platform such as Spotify?
I believe there are few script for Spotify-like application exist in CodeCanyon, maybe you can afford the script there so you can create it with ease, and they also provide support if I remembered
Hi guys I looking for ideas on how to build a music streaming website with an online store for advertising and selling music from various artists.
Thanks for the advice I will take that into consideration.Well, I don't seem to be in meaning with your statement , "selling music". That can be almost impossible as almost every song is freely available in YouTube, Vimeo etc. The only way to make money from it, ie selling your services, is through ads. A usual encouragement, If they made it( YouTube ), why can't you? Take heart, combine codes, you may come up with something greater than them.
Unless you have the infrastructure (EG bandwidth, storage and stuff like that) you would do better hosting a website, uploading medium quality audio to Youtube and offer a high quality version on your website.
This way you can easily reach your audience without worrying about costs that will spiral out of control.
If you allow users to upload audio to your website you need to monitor it 24/7 because copyrighted audio can get you in big trouble, forcing you to pay out of your pocket for lawsuits. If you want to avoid that you are forced to hire people that can check the content for you.
As added benefit you have to worry less about the costs of running the website, and you can focus on selling premium memberships/songs instead of focusing on ads to keep your site running on free members.
Unless you have a niche, which no one thought about first you are going to lose money.
Now to answer your question more specific, is it possible to build such a site?
Yes, but unless you do all the above, you are going to spend a lot of money. Few providers that could help you would be Contus.com and Muvi.com. Muvi is free as a trial but the costs go up to $399 a month for what you want to do and $3900 for everything unlimited. Those are some insane prices but you need the scanning, DRM and other features, otherwise your business is destined to doom.
You are also going to need a music attorney incase (and it will happen 100%) someone will sue you.
All in all, what you want will cost you a heavy bag of money and unless you find a good source of investors/funding you wont be able to keep your spotify-clone open.
you can't actually sell something you don't own , unless you are having contracts with those various artists which is hard to since you have to grow your platform up first, selling your own music ? that's possible
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