File sharing problem...

[aLeXc]

Hi!

I'm just starting up a site where basically, people upload music tracks that they have started to record, and then they upload them to the site, so someone else can add to them - a cyberjam if you will!

The system at the moment is that people could upload and download files on freedrive.com. However, you have to be a member of freedrive.com to upload/download, and one person's account who had a music file in exceeded their download limit (500MB/day), which is odd because there is no way they could have reached that. This meant you couldn't download any of the files from their account.

So anyway, I'm basically looking for some kind of "free" system, where I get a decent storage size (50MB+ if possible!) and where people can easily upload and download files without me having to do anything. I could just get it so I link the files to my website, and when people add any new ones, I just update the links, but it would be better if people could upload/download without me intervening.

What's the best way to do this....if you have any idea what I'm going on about that is! Would the best way in fact be to set up my webpage so people could upload using a simple form, which then updated a links page?....or is there another (and simpler!) way?

Thanks 4 any help!

Alex

[Nick]

About Freedrive.com, I thought their limit was 100MBs per day, and if it is, that's only 20 downloads of a 5mb song, so freedrive and any other storage site is out of the question for that kind of site.

In my opinion, this is the kind of site that will need a dedicated server. That way you could have the whole thing to yourself and plenty of space. When you're talking about mass transfer of semi-large music files, free is not the way to go.

Of course I could be wrong. This is coming across sounding like a mp3.com remake. So I might have missed the idea totally.

[aLeXc]

The files would be mps's of around 1MB...I'm not expecting a huge amount either. Maybe a few a week max. I can easily set up a page where people can upload tracks, it's just the problem of automatically having a link to the newly uploaded tracks so people can download them straight away. I'm looking at anonymous ftp sharing at the moment, but that's not really the solution I'm looking for.

You're probably right about the freedrive limit - still shouldn't have been exceeded, but then it's not my account so u never know!

It's not an mp3.com remake - people are uploading tracks with say....a minute of drums with a bass riff over the top. Other people then add to it, e.g. a guitar riff over the top of that - a virtual jam session. People could then upload them back to me, or just put them on their mp3.com site or their personal site. It happens on message boards - people just e-mail the files to each other. It would be cool to have a central resource for it though.

[Nick]

Originally posted by aLeXc
It's not an mp3.com remake - people are uploading tracks with say....a minute of drums with a bass riff over the top. Other people then add to it, e.g. a guitar riff over the top of that - a virtual jam session. People could then upload them back to me, or just put them on their mp3.com site or their personal site. It happens on message boards - people just e-mail the files to each other. It would be cool to have a central resource for it though.

I think I understand now. Maybe you should buy a 500MB hosting plan with mad bandwidth. You could have all files transfered out of a central directory via a file uploader or ftp and have a script that reads the dir hourly for the file names and prints them. Or maybe you could setup a script to submit the info the user inputs into a FFALP type system on a timed basis. For more ideas you can discuss this in the CGI/PHP/ASP forum...

[niv]

Originally posted by Nick

Originally posted by aLeXc
It's not an mp3.com remake - people are uploading tracks with say....a minute of drums with a bass riff over the top. Other people then add to it, e.g. a guitar riff over the top of that - a virtual jam session. People could then upload them back to me, or just put them on their mp3.com site or their personal site. It happens on message boards - people just e-mail the files to each other. It would be cool to have a central resource for it though.

I think I understand now. Maybe you should buy a 500MB hosting plan with mad bandwidth. You could have all files transfered out of a central directory via a file uploader or ftp and have a script that reads the dir hourly for the file names and prints them. Or maybe you could setup a script to submit the info the user inputs into a FFALP type system on a timed basis. For more ideas you can discuss this in the CGI/PHP/ASP forum...

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