How to set up a music sharing website?

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If you are a musician or a music band owner, having a website for your music band/career is the best way to connect with your fans. Yes, of course there are many social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook ect are available today to connect with your fans. But setting up your own website will give you more control over things and more freedom to design the way you want.

First you need a domain name. Secondly, you need a reliable web hosting provider to place your web pages, images etc. Thirdly you need a Music Sharing Software to set up your site.(Alternately, you can use WordPress blog to create music sharing website.)
Is arvixe good for my music sharing website?
Arvixe has been providing quality web hosting since 2003. With arvixe hosting, you will get One FREE domain registration for life, 24 Hour Support, 60 Day Money Back Guarantee & 99.9% Site Uptime. Also there are many Music Sharing Software available to create your site.

• Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP. It supports media filetype (mp3, ogg, mpg, m4v, mov, pdf, etc). You can upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and it automatically creates podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. You can play mp3 files directly on the web pages.
• kPlaylist is a free PHP system that makes your music collection available via the Internet. kPlaylist is a music database that you manage via the web. With kPlaylist you can stream your music (ogg, mp3, wav, wma, etc.), you can upload, make playlists, share, search, download and a lot more.
• Impleo Music Manager – is a simple PHP-script for managing your record collection. It’s possible to add, edit and delete records. Each record contains the name of the artist, title of the record and year of release. In addition to this, it’s possible to add any kind of detail of your own choice.

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