I've been working on setting one up that has a downloads/store area, a wiki, some forums, a section for articles/news, an events calendar, and a radio. Would such a website be redundant or outright pointless? I mean, every furry site I know of that even supports audio uploads doesn't exactly get any honours in that regard.

My main concern is that I would be filling in a gap that doesn't exist in the first place. Not that it would be furry-exclusive or something crazy like that, but still.

Edit: I think I was too brief with the description.

• Downloads/Store: Consists of member-created storefronts containing products.
• Members can have multiple storefronts (e.g. one for their personal work, and another for a label they run).
• Products can be digital or analogue, free or paid, and so on.
• Aside from music, other product types include samples and patches for hardware and software synthesizers (provided they're created by the uploader and - if they're derivative - don't run afoul of any licenses and copyrights in effect), tickets for events (first-party only; can be synchronized with its associated event in the events section), and merchandise (first-party only).
• Wiki: Pretty much what you would expect, although it's part of the CMS rather than being a separate MediaWiki install.
• Open to information on labels, producers, music theory, software, hardware, genres, etc.
• Uses Twig (instead of the absolute clusterfuck that Wiki markup is) for templating and advanced formatting.
• Forums: I have a spare XenForo license, but I decided to try setting it up within the CMS (considering how flexible it is) instead. Seems fine so far, but if worse comes to worst, I'll install XF and set up a plugin for each that bridges user accounts between the two.
• Events: An calendar that members can add music-related events to (raves, parties, conventions, and so on). Has RSVP functionality.
• Radio: Split into different channels for different genres. Members can submit their works (songs, DJ mixes) for approval to be played on an appropriate channel.

There are also some other features I've been planning for (e.g. JS webchat with XMPP/ejabberd as the backend) that are low priority for now.

THIS IS A GREAT IDEA :D

I like this

...There's not really such a thing as "furry music".

I mean, even the big furry musicians like Renard Queenston don't have their own genre, per-say.

What would constitute furry music? Lyrics about furries? Furry album art? Furry-based aliases? Or does the musician just have to be a furry?

Moe_Biehl said:
The producers and listeners (hopefully) attracted to the site would already have a common interest, (hopefully) resulting in a more solid community.

The problem is that musical tastes are completely independent of interests like anthropomorphic animals. A furry-themed music community just seems unnecessary to me. Like a furry-themed cooking website.

Moe_Biehl said:
Oh great, now I'm imagining people who upload only whale vocalizations and wolf howls.

"Chihuahua dog bark vocalizations. For those occasions where you need a noisy yapping rat."

You've already got sites that do this, just aren't furry centralized.
You've got bandcamp and soundcloud that kinda do the thing you are talking about, and if you are looking for furry music it isn't all that hard to locate on said sites.
Although I like the samples/patches thingy, and the whole tickets thing is a pretty cool add-on.

When I saw the thread I imagined terrible covers of popular songs that replace every instance of hand with paw and sex with yiff.

Luckily, I'll not have to hear that.

But the idea sounds like it could work to me. Usually I'd agree with SirAntagonist's "The problem is that musical tastes are completely independent of interests like anthropomorphic animals" but I'd think furries would listen to them because of who made it rather than the actual genre.

SirAntagonist said:
...There's not really such a thing as "furry music".

I mean, even the big furry musicians like Renard Queenston don't have their own genre, per-say.

What would constitute furry music? Lyrics about furries? Furry album art? Furry-based aliases? Or does the musician just have to be a furry?

What Does the Fox Say.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
What Does the Fox Say.

Day made. Thank you.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
What Does the Fox Say.

That's electro dance.

And if your website is full of stuff like that, you have a problem.

I see were yer go'n with this and as much as I would like this to happ'n I just don't see it happing I mean the furry community doesn't revolve around anything that produces music like us bronys the most I can see is remixs of stuff like sonic and other "furry" cartoons maby some original stuff but its not likely

Saffron said:
When I saw the thread I imagined terrible covers of popular songs that replace every instance of hand with paw and sex with yiff.

I'm already ahead of you.

I'll Make Yiff to You - Cuntboyz II Men
A Horsecock with no Claim - Amurrica
Happiness in (Sexual) Slavery - Canine Inch Nails
Another one Sucks the Nuts - (Size)Queen
Red Knot Chibi Peckers - Cunt Stop

I'm sure there's more if you wanna add to it.

Moon_Moon said:
I'm already ahead of you.

I'll Make Yiff to You - Cuntboyz II Men
A Horsecock with no Claim - Amurrica
Happiness in (Sexual) Slavery - Canine Inch Nails
Another one Sucks the Nuts - (Size)Queen
Red Knot Chibi Peckers - Cunt Stop

I'm sure there's more if you wanna add to it.

Smells like boned Seasalt - Murrvana
Yiff by night - Plush
Purple Strays - Yiffy Hendicks
7 Member Dickgirl - The White Knights
Dramatrack - Raging at the screen

SirAntagonist said:
Smells like boned Seasalt - Murrvana

Snrk

Another one.

You Best Not Bee Ressetin' - The Mole and the Bees

Oh and also how far we've cum by catbox 20

furballs_dc said:
You Best Not Bee Ressetin' - The Mole and the Bees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYulcIalkQ

SirAntagonist said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYulcIalkQ

:3

SirAntagonist said:
Smells like boned Seasalt - Murrvana
Yiff by night - Plush
Purple Strays - Yiffy Hendicks
7 Member Dickgirl - The White Knights
Dramatrack - Raging at the screen

Semen in the Jar - Murrtallica
Cumming in the Mane of - Rage against the Murrchine
Harder, Longer, Faster, Deeper - Daft Spunk
Sex and Candyvag - Murrcy's Playground

SirAntagonist said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYulcIalkQ

Pitfall, Oh Pitfall! - DJ KK, Backup by the Bees.

Moon_Moon said:
Semen in the Jar - Murrtallica
Cumming in the Mane of - Rage against the Murrchine
Harder, Longer, Faster, Deeper - Daft Spunk
Sex and Candyvag - Murrcy's Playground

Semenace - Five Finger Donkey Punch
Don't yiff the reaper - Blue Wäffle Cult
Four reamed horses - Marilyn Maneson
Planet of vixen - PP Top

SirAntagonist said:
What would constitute furry music?

Moe_Biehl said:
...not "furries who make 'furry music' (whatever that is)".

Quarter notes with fur coats and waggly tails? Rests that purr? Connected eighth notes that walk across the keyboard, followed by a meowing slide? Sharp barks of half notes punctuated by trilling whole notes mounting an octave higher?

Music
"Peter and the Wolf" – Sergey Prokofieff
"The Narnia Suite" – Marisa Robles
"Carnival of the Animals" – Camille Saint-Saëns
"The Cunning Little Vixen" – Leos Janáček

SirAntagonist said:
Semenace - Five Finger Donkey Punch
Don't yiff the reaper - Blue Wäffle Cult
Four reamed horses - Marilyn Maneson
Planet of vixen - PP Top

Night of The Rusker - 30 Seconds To SARS
Cumming Undone - PoRn
Unbirthing Me - Fill It
Wait and Plead - Slip Knot

... Please excuse me whilst I tie my own noose.

N08L3553-5UPPL1C3 said:
Night of The Rusker - 30 Seconds To SARS
Cumming Undone - PoRn
Unbirthing Me - Fill It
Wait and Plead - Slip Knot

In The Court Of The Furry King - King Furry
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