Research

When thinking about the possibility of venues using small clips of the audio to promote the artists, Amazon came to mind. The online retailer uses short audio previews on the product pages to try and sell the album to more people. This seems to happen more on the Amazon.com website than the Amazon.co.uk site. It is available for quite a lot of the albums on sale, so Amazon must see it as a good way to intrigue people.

I also looked into whether people were uploading a lot of media that they recorded themselves, or whether it was just for personal use, using a gig that took place in the last week as an example. Looking around, there was a lot of media uploaded, but as I suspected, it was all over the internet.

Finally, I checked to see whether there were any solutions similar to mine on the internet already. The closest thing i could really find were groups on places like flickr where people were uploading photos of gigs by certain artists or in certain locations. These weren't very widely used either, as images from the gigs were also available elsewhere on the web.