Loud Feed is seeking parties interested in contributing to their open source music content management system (CMS). The presentation provides annotated screenshots demonstrating the current functionality of the CMS for managing music-related data and metadata, promoting albums and shows, and selling music and merchandise online. The code base is currently available on GitHub and will soon be opened under a GPL open source license, allowing external parties to extend its capabilities.

1. Loud Feed
Music Business Content
Management System

2. Loud Feed, Inc. is seeking parties interested
in an Open Source Music CMS
The next slide shows a Use Case diagram, which highlights
possible extensions that could be written to expand the current
functionality.
The Loud Feed code base currently resides at GitHub and will
soon be opened up to public access under a GPL Open Source
license.
The remainder of the slides in this presentation are annotated
screen shots of the current application in use.

4. Manage data and
metadata for
labels, artists,
albums, songs,
shows and
merchandise.
Promote one or
more albums
together. Sell
your music and
merchandise
online.
Promote shows
and sell tickets.

5. Objects (e.g.
labels, artists,
albums, songs,
promotions) are
either:
Not Ready
Ready
or
Published
Certain data are
required to be
"ready."

6. Enter the data to
make a Label
"ready" and then
"publish" when
your ready for it
to be live on your
web site.

7. Search for artists
Filter by status
(ready, not ready
or published)
Get an RSS feed
of content for a
particular artist

8. Name is the only
required field that
must be entered
for an artist.

9. The more data
you enter for an
artist the better
your promotions
and sales will be.

10. Search for
albums
Filter by status
(ready, not ready
or published)
Get an RSS feed
of content for a
particular album.
Many different
websites can
display content
from these RSS
feeds.

11. Required data
fields for albums
are highlighted.
Partially
populated data
can be saved and
you'll see these
albums
highlighted as
"Not Ready" in
the initial view of
the albums tab.

12. Additional data
beyond what is
seen here can be
entered by
clicking
"advanced
options" - shown
in the next slide.

13. Album data entry
in "Advanced
options" - offer
optional ways to
add more value.

14. This dialog
appears after you
click "add a song"
from the album
page. Songs can
be uploaded
individually or in
batch mode.

15. If you click
"Advanced
Options" in this
song dialog box,
the screen shown
in the next slide
will appear.

16. Additional data
entered here can
be used when
making feeds
available for
multiple stores.

17. Loud Feed's
customer
Toolshed, doesn't
sell music. They
create electronic
press kits and do
promotions of
new album
releases for
labels, providing
digital assets for
the web and for
print.

18. Promotions have
start and end
dates during
which the
"published"
content is live in
RSS feeds.

19. Only a little
information is
required for a
promotion to be
"ready."

20. After adding a
title and
description, you
can select
albums from the
"available list"
and add them to
the "selected list."
Thus a promotion
might market 2
albums you've
"selected."

21. Like other objects
in the system,
shows also can
be "not ready,"
"ready" or
"published."

22. A show just
needs a few bits
of info to be
ready.

23. Not only can you
add multiple
performers you
can categorize
them as
headliner, etc.

24. Advanced info
even lets you add
the URL for the
web page where
tickets can be
purchased. Thus,
you can use
ticketing services
like Eventbrite
where you're only
fees are
equivalent to a
credit card
transaction.

25. Displays of
Albums can be
categorized into
front end display
lists such as:
- picks
- new
- popular

26. Just name a list
and then select
the albums you
want to include in
the list.

27. Get embeddable
widgets like this
"sales flow" that
will produce an
animated
carousel of album
cover art.

28. Thank You
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