Membership Access and Signup

The membership rebuild has two priorities: restore access for the 1,477 current members already tied to the 440Music archive, and then reopen signup for new artists, bands, stores, educators, and music professionals.

The legacy Jamroom system linked each account to both a user record and a band or profile record. That means the new signup flow needs to preserve identity, profile ownership, and access to archived songs, photos, videos, and account history as the rebuild continues.

Artists should be able to bring in songs that only survived on cassette, CD-R, DAT, MiniDisc, old hard drives, old computers, or inactive platforms. Lost uploads do not mean lost legacy.

• Existing members should be restored first through email, nickname, and profile matching
• Legacy passwords should not be reused as the new login system is rebuilt
• Recovered accounts need access to archived files while profiles, songs, and media are restored
• New signup should create both the member identity and the linked artist or business profile

Existing Member Access

Current members need an account recovery path before a brand new signup path becomes the default. The recovery flow should verify the member against the archived profile and then issue a fresh password reset or activation step.

If your songs disappeared from MySpace or another older platform, if your artist page vanished with an old service, or if your files are still sitting on backup media, 440Music should give you a path to restore them.

• Primary match fields: email address, nickname, full name, and band or profile name
• Secondary match fields: homepage, location, and archived profile ownership
• Recovered accounts should be marked for rebuild access even if every media item is not fully restored yet
• Access control should be built around restored ownership of files, not just public profile visibility

Signup Form Requirements

Based on the legacy Jamroom records, the first signup form should collect the fields needed to create a modern account without carrying forward insecure legacy authentication.

New membership should clearly support both fresh uploads and legacy catalog rebuilding, including older songs, alternate mixes, cover art, liner notes, lyrics, and band history.

• Required now: email address, nickname, full name, and password for the new system
• Required for linked profile creation: band or profile name and account type
• Optional carry-forward fields: homepage, location, occupation, interests, and contact preferences
• Admin review or controlled activation should remain available during the archive rebuild