I am definitely not promoting anything here, except for Pieter if he wants to privately see and play with what I have done with another CMS. That original post by Pieter gave me a challenge for my next project, and it took me a total of about 4 hours of work. I started without putting too much thought, that's why it took so song. If I had to do from scratch again, it would probably take less than half the time...

So these are the features:

1. Each band needs to apply for membership. The memberships can be free or for a fee, paid with PayPal, depending how the site Admin decides how to run things.

2. Once approved, a registration code will be send to the band, so with it, they can register to the site, with a custom user role as "Artist".

3. Once registered (allowed only once), they can create their custom:

a. Band/Artist page, and have their information set, location, website, email, images, music type, detail info about them, images, video, etc..., and

b. Submit their songs in mp3 format. It's up to the site Admin to determine how many songs a band can submit.

4. All the submissions (Band page, and Songs) are submitted from the front end, and only registered and logged in users can do so.

5. Since the people who submit anything to the site are already approved, the site Admin can setup if the submissions would be automatically published, or show up on the front end after approval. Each band/artist of course can only edit their own pages, and only see their own submitted songs, of course for security reasons.

6. The songs of all bands are automatically displayed using DataTables, and/or in a traditional blog archive way.

7. Finally, automatically each song is linked to the band's page, and in each band's page, automatically all the bands songs are displayed with a link for each song's detailed page, where an artist can include lyrics, any info about the productions process, images, videos, etc...

It's been a while since I created this, and I'm sure I am forgetting some details. The most important things are that the whole project is done with Security in mind, and professional looking website, with easy navigation and super easy for visitors and bands/artists to understand how everything works. It took me some years to create my workflow/framework, but now that's it's here, I can create anything I want, Real Estate sites, with third party Agents listing their properties, Auto Market sites, Software marketplaces, etc. And all with NO CODING.

I ran out of characters to type...

I no longer have access to Windows servers anymore, it would be great Pieter if you would maybe (please) create a short video.

Also, through third party plugins, I have automated backups either on localhost or on a number of cloud storages, like OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon, FTP, etc... and another for extra security. My hosting company provides me with free SSL, free emails, free firewall and free CDN, and free caching among other things. I have their Cloud hosting, and the speed is excellent, and their prices are more than fair.

hi Nick this sounds great. I didn't know you were busy doing that.

Can it manage playlists? Can the band have multiple playlists with their songs each time in a different sort order? I would love to see that in action actually. Please send me login via pm.

My script can easily be installed localy on any Windows with IIS installed.