SOCIAL PLATFORM FOR MUSIC SHARING AND PROMOTION FOR THE BAND NIGHT SKY AWE

Abstract

Night Sky Awe is a production oriented band that originated in Kandy. They are involved in electronic music production and making albums with signed record labels. Coordinating music production, music sharing and music promotion has been a major challenge for the band due to many reasons. The social platform for music sharing and music promotion is supposed to solve the music coordination problems and enhance music sharing and promotion by centralizing all the activities on one platform. The band expects to gain revenue and more advertising potential from the social platform in future. The main objective of this project therefore is to create a coordinating and promotion platform where its members could socialize and enhance their musical creativity by building an awareness of the trends and possibilities. The system is further going to enable user interaction, file sharing, music promoting and selling, event planning and fan information sampling. Also the band leaders will be considered as the admin for each band profile and they will have monitoring functions over audio processes and fan behaviors. There will also be security features to protect the project work, music sales and band information. The system is developed in PHP with MySQL database, so far the audio threading functions are being planned to be implemented using the features in HTML 5 and JavaScript, Dreamweaver is used for coding and development and Photoshop and Firebug, colourzilla are used to design the interfaces. Also JQuery and CSS used for the interface. The final system will be configured to run on a Windows based OS and an Apache server. The system is developed using object oriented techniques. UML was employed in the analysis and design phases. Rapid Application development (RAD) was chosen as the most suitable methodology for the development of this project. The final outcome of this project was successfully implemented and tested on the band s server space.