I started the Buzzsonic music industry directory about ten months ago after importing the database from an older music directory at my other blog at 99th Floor Elevators. The old script I was using there, PHP Links was getting a little dated and had these unwieldy session ids and a creaking admin area.

I upgraded to a much sleeker, streamlined script called Indexu which has proved to be much easier to look after, edit and customize. I was thinking that old school directories (including the granddaddy of them all DMOZ) are just that, old school. Well, you’d think. But even in the age of a million and one bookmark organizers, social networks and web 2.0 hype, I have still to find anything that has made the Buzzsonic music directory obsolete.

That would be backed up with the fact that the visitors have kept increasing month by month so there is certainly a demand. Its not millions, far from it, but the first months visitor count of just over 600 uniques is now closer to 5000 unique visitors a month and 50,000 page views.

So, I’m painstakingly updating the directory entries right now, but with 3000 entries in there already its going to take a while. Hopefully we’ll have things tidied up pretty soon. We’re also working on music industry specific RSS news aggregator, which has been heavily ‘influenced’ by the brilliant PopUrls. Watch out for that one as the early version (Beta?), should be around in a couple of weeks, its called MusicFizzlr.com.