This is all awesome stuff, Pete (Gotta love HN for this, getting instant feedback from someone whose work has influenced my own). The little things you pointed

This is all awesome stuff, Pete (Gotta love HN for this, getting instant feedback from someone whose work has influenced my own). The little things you pointed out are definitely on my todo list, and a demo video is in the pipelines. There certainly have been, and currently are, a number of people working to solve this problem. I think we can both agree though that it hasn't really been cracked yet. Interesting that you met so much resistance from venues. It may be just the size (small) of the places I've approached, but most have been very receptive. A lot of them currently rely on a mixture of myspace and email, so a streamlined system is right up their alley. In the near future I also want to tackle the whole choosing the right artist problem for venues. By integrating the echonest API (http://echonest.com http://echonest.com) I think we can provide far more detail about an artist than other services have in the past. Once again, thanks for all the encouragement and feedback. You've both renewed my faith in my limited abilities as well as provided great guidance for moving forward. If you wanted to talk more, my email is in my profile.