I was thinking about starting a music site concerning techno, it would have beats, melodies, and etc to download freely for people's use. Thing is, I've never done a site like this before but I doubt it would be too hard to make. But, my question is... is there any good templates and/or CMS out there that's already made that could handle that type of thing? Edit: I'm not talking about filesharing, I'm talking about distributing my own beats, melodies, loops that *I* have created.
first of all you have to consider the copyright implications, make sure that the music you share is not copyrighted.... uless you have loads and loats of cash to payoff lawyers
I have a twin... wonder which one of us is the evil one though? There are significant issues on copyright with anything like this, they arent insumountable but require a lot of careful consideration. Your brief description suggests it isnt a sharing site (ie users can add music for others to download) which means you will be much more in control.... the trick will be finding a source for the music that you intend to share where copyright will not be an issue so either items where the owner has waived their rights to copyright (hard to find and often very hard to verify that they are the copyright owners to have the right to waive it) or where they give you the right to distribute - normally done by large payments but some will give it with conditions (eg unsigned artists give rights to distribute in return for having credits back to them). If you dont have a large budget then the last point is the most credible source of music but then this may very much change the purpose of the site from a purely music related to an unsigned artist community.
Maybe I should have explained a bit more. The beats, melodies, and all created music would be done by me. It's not a music/file sharing site. Therefore no copyright issues, nothing. It's just for people to download loops that I have created, it's all it basically is.