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I'm looking into holding a song-writing contest and I need someplace to put MP3s online so people can hear the entries. I have no idea how many, if any, entries I'll get, but even a few would result in more bandwidth than I can afford. I know there are places to put 'em, but I know nothing about any of 'em. Here's what I'd need:
1. No restriction on number of songs. 2. No memberships required to listen. 3. No adult ads. 4. Ideally, some way to rate or review individual songs.
So far I'm looking at MP3.com, which offers the first three but not the fourth (I don't think, it looks like you can only review per album but I could be wrong). You get 100 megs and no other restrictions. Muisc.download.com offers ratings and reviews but limits you to 50 megs per artist. You can list as many artists as you want, but no easy way to present all of them on one page (again, I don't think).
What else is available? And what have I gotten wrong about these two?
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Amazon's S3 can handle the storage end of things, though not the rating or review parts. Files on S3 are just files, and if you make them public anyone can access them via URLs.
What I would do is install some sort of blogging software that allows for ratings/polls in entries (Drupal does, and I'm certain lots of others do as well; heck, Livejournal + free poll sites can do this), upload the mp3s to S3, then make a post regarding each entry with a link to the file.
Presumably you'd have well under a gigabyte of stuff, and the contest would be around a month. At one hundred gigabytes of downloads, you'd pay about $20.
If MP3.com uploads can be easily linked to, you could use a similar scheme with that as the storage location.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
wait... mp3.com is back?
*goes to look*
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
Chris, have people sign up on iCompositions.com and hold your contest there... it's got all you've indicated, except that people would have to register to vote (though not to listen).