There are a lot of options for musicians these days on what path to follow to sell their music. Some are bold enough to just give their music away and hope those that enjoy their music will gladly pay. You are aware that ipods can store 40,000 songs and most songs cost around $.99 to $1.99? Think about that math for two seconds. 

You should protect your hard work and make sure those that are the most active and interested in your music purchases it. ODOMuse provides this marketing path to you.

Here is an article on why you shouldn't even be streaming your music    Full Article..

ODOWeb has finally been released! ODOWeb is available under several licensing packages found in our store located here. Some of ODOweb's features are listed below.

ODOWeb Encryption allows an application developer to use the ODOUser's IV to encrypt any number of additional fields. This means you do not have to maintain a separate table for IVs per user. Per record IVs is always more secure than relying on one IV for the entire table or just using the built in MySQL AES encryption routines. Of course it is always up to the developer to ensure the security of the system. ODOWeb simply provides an easier way to extend encryption to other tables you may want to create. ODOWeb uses standard mcrypt routines and the feature maybe enabled or turned off for the entire system or per user.

Hashing is also supported and uses SHA512, SHA256, or md5sum  Full Article..

I think the article speaks for itself.

It's unfortunate to see something like this. For those of you that don't know ASCAP is a performance rights organization that collects money for its members from establishments. From the wikipedia article linked to above:

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So there is this mindset by some that it doesn't make any sense to charge for music anymore. Well...honestly you deserve to be paid for your work. Selling your music is no different then selling anything else in this world. The simple fact is the majority of the people you run into simply will not have any interest in purchasing your music. This says nothing about your music or your quality of being an artist and everything about the simple fact of what every salesmen on the planet has to deal with. Meeting with that level of rejection would get anyone down...which is why most simply don't try. Besides it's a double rejection when you think about it...they aren't just dissing your product  Full Article..

The logging system of ODOWeb is fairly straight forward. On any page that you create you may log events through the ODOLogging object. In ODOWeb you may view your logs by user, by event type, by severity, or even by IP address. Several reports are provided to try and track down abuse and to clean up your logging table.

The most important aspect of ODOLogging is the severity level. You may set a severity level to e-mail the system administrator when an event occurs. This of course gives you time to track down the culprit and make a decision on what action to take next. Apache logs are simply not enough when it comes down to it. You can not honestly local all abuses on a heavily   Full Article..

The user registration module of ODOWeb is designed in a way to allow developers to both create their own registration types yet still use some of the existing ODOWeb registration code. The registration module of course will be packaged with the base ODOWeb distribution. If a developer is in need of creating their own table outside of the tables provided by ODOWeb or any add-on module, they may create a special registration type to assign groups and request user input.

There are several features you will be able to take advantage of in creating a Registration Type with ODOWeb. Registration Types have a guest flag you may set to allow anyone to register. Without this flag set a u  Full Article..

So the long road to finish ODOMuse is almost at an end. We are almost ready to release our first product/web service. ODOMuse Live Tagging is a service of linking live event songs to webstores using any cell phone with a text service. This product will be targeted at the US market only. Due to the INSANE fees for short codes in the US (at least $1,000 per month), we will be using a full 314 area code number for text messages being sent in from customers and artists.

While we are unsure how successful this product will be in the future, our hopes are rather simple. We hope to provide a new revenue stream to small time artists that allows them to compete with some of the mo  Full Article..

It was decided to add a few more features to ODOWeb before the release.

As some of you may have noticed our website is nearing its completion. A by-product of the development of this website is a Web Admin tool called ODOWeb. This is a type of Content Management System or CMS that provides a basic Access Control List for web pages and news postings. The ACL is group based, which means you can make a page readable for only one user or an entire group of users.

News postings use a different ACL system that assigns news categories to user groups. The resulting news module allows for dynamic news postings based on the user that is logged into the system. If any of the groups the user belongs to has access rights to the news category the posting is in,   Full Article..