Development of web based social media for local musician (ThunderMusic)

The objective of this study is to develop a Web-Based Social Media for Local Musician. The main purpose to develop the social media is to let the local musician promote their music in the portal, learn about music and also get musician friends and invite them for collaboration. The main purpose of the development is because the social media platform gave musicians more control over the distribution of musics. These artists can avoid competition with licensed artist if they upload their musics on social media rather than uploading on Spotify of Youtube. This social media focuses on marketing purposes where the user market their new music or songs in the portal. The methodology used for the development of the social media is by following the Web Development Life Cycle (WDLC). Firstly, the analysis phase was done, this is where the user requirement were gathered. Secondly, the design phase where there prototype and model of the social media is presented. Next, the development and testing will also be done in this phase to make sure every feature of the application is working without error. User testing was conducted to get the acceptance of the application from users. A repost of tesing is delivered and if accepted, the Implementation phase will be done. Lastly, the social media is developed with the main features of the it is where user can upload their musics, listen to other musician musics and post discussion topics. Moreover, a user can add other user within the social media as a friend and message them privately. It will real-time notify the user if he/she is added as a friend or messaged. The real time is handled using long-polling services. The social media will have other social media features such as posting, like, view other user profile, comment and also edit profile. The benefits of the Web-Based Social Media for Local Musician is that local musician can promote their music and songs with less competition. User can also learn about music in the portal from other musician with the website through newsfeed.