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myPhpbb - Bridge Jamroom

One thing i have looked at to also investigate more for you is the persistant logins controlled on the phpbb side. log in to your ACP inside of Phpbb and on the [Genneral] tab go down to [security] tab then:


Set the session to stay active for 1 day and see if while jamroom is holding your cookies if the phpbb will also. They are two seperate cookies that are working in sync so your solution may be a configuration setting like i showed you above. Let me know if this helps.
updated by @developer-networks: 01/23/14 09:08:40PM

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myPhpbb - Bridge Jamroom

Ive tested it pretty thorough on my system and it works very well. The only thing I can think of with out having more details of whats going on at your end is that maby your users have checked keep me logged in on your Jamroom system and the way it logs them in is actually when they log in to your system. So if they dont physically log in it theres nothing telling phpbb that user is logged in.

You said users cant log in. and thats not very clear can you please explain more of whats going on with the log in process. Are they able to log in to Jamroom and then not automatically logged in to Phpbb?

Also incase you havent you should make sure youve disabled the registered users group from changing their password, names and email addresses inside of Phpbb. They have to be the same as their jamroom account and the module syncs all information from Jamroom to Phpbb for each user so they shouldent be able to change that inside their phpbb control panel.

Lastly disable 2 factor logins if you have that on.

Let me know more about whats going on. I hope i was able to help with the information you provided that i could work with.
updated by @developer-networks: 01/23/14 09:07:23PM

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Very cool, Thank you.

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Got it all fixed up if anyone else needs help with this let me know.

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I just learned the basics of it in 5 minuites. Its amazingly simple to add content. Looks like a very handy tool that will save time, one question that came to mind was can the changes I make to the system using the form designer commit and transfer with a module pack from the Developer tool.

updated by @developer-networks: 01/22/14 04:58:48PM

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I will learn about the forum designer it tonight Steve. I'm sure it will be a breeze. But this suggestion came up as I launched my site and have ran smack in this myself. Figured it would be good to suggest this so it was more inviting to the public and to those who have also never heard of a forum designer. I ment no disrespect here by posting this suggestion or to degrade your hard work on the Audio module.

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Its not that im unhappy at all. Its merely just suggesting a way to improve your product. I have not ever used the forum designer yet at all... Ive done everything from code.. but to go in to the code and change what I suggested above could take a few hours so its no big deal for me. You make it sound like im needing custom work done here, when to me this is a major design flaw that i was trying to help you with. But I've brought it up and it is what it is I guess. Thanks for your time.

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I understand the reason to have a sample. I think its a awesome feature.

The problem is... that the customers are not able to make a decision to purchase a song in that window and i loose the sale.

This is not a solo band website e commerce system that the customer just came from a show and knows all of the content.

They will try to shop my charts and get hit with snippets of a song they have never heard and instead of attaching themselves to the song and making a purchase they give up on buying from my charts, because its just a chart system of snippets which those are more likely to not grab the customer and sell.

I want Jamroom to be successful all around and its quite a challenge to use this system to get up and running with base functionality that seems missing. Im sure this is effecting others as well.

The functionality I suggest is to make it better for all as the system in place in most cases will not work in a real world marketplace. So i figured suggesting to you my reasons for changing this functionality here in effort to help you, other customers and your customers down the road.

Some of the system as designed out of the box just simply doesn't work in the e commerce music business. Jamrooms foundation is a music CMS system and this should be your strength above all. That is what your customers will come to you wanting when they choose to go with this product. Its great to see Jamroom evolve to other areas but I feel in my opinion more time was needed in the core of your audio system base functionality to really rock this out and not be just good but great at something.

Since the song the customer is listening to is 90% of the time going to be new to them and the customer has never heard the song.. Just a snippet wont sell the song. Have you ever in your life heard just 60 seconds of a song and reached in your wallet and bought it or the album?

so yes, I think this feature as it has been laid out is really more in the way then its worth. If it stops Jamroom sites from selling songs how good is it? How far will mine or other Jamroom websites go if they cant make sales this way? Majority of your customers have came to Jamroom for a way to sell music on their websites and use this music CMS system.


I have looked at other systems in place for audio protection on websites and i wanted to share how this was done on their end which seem to be the standard ways to do this on most websites these days.

- You let the person upload 2 files. the first one is a tagged or snippet sample of their choosing for protection of their song/upload and the 2nd file is the main one available after purchase.

- You provide an upload audio tag feature to each profile (or one for website) and they upload their audio tag that is always played on repeat over a full length sample of any song played there after.

But the system in place isn't going to work for the majority for a lot of reasons. I just wanted to try to let you know so you could make it better and look at it respectively from a different prospective.

Also as for the download feature you have in place this doesn't work right either if all the songs on the website become downloadable for free. Not everyone wants their song to be downloadable just because they haven't entered a price. If you shut this off then no one using your system can download a song.

They may have uploaded it to get a buzz going and create a market to showcase their work but are not ready to distribute their work. I would need to write a whole terms of service to counter getting sued if someone doesn't know their song is going to be distributed for free if they upload to my Jamroom website.

I have worked with a lot of artists and producers and these are things that are sure to come up over and over again with this system as is.

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to hear my suggestion, I hope this helps.


Im faced with the harsh reality that no one will ever want to sign up or put music on my Jamroom website until I can resolve these issues.

Thanks
updated by @developer-networks: 01/22/14 03:28:46PM

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I think this should be an update to the module to make it function better for everyone using Jamroom.

Others will face these challanges too and it would not help much if mine was the only version with these functions.


I believe this is messing up sales and my listeners ability to interact with my charts. They leave because the songs keep turning off on them after 60 seconds and also starting in the middle.

Since all the music for sale is new to many of them they don't really know what they are listening to for 60 seconds and after about their second or third song on the charts they give up and leave.

I feel if they were allowed to shop the songs on the charts with a normal preview this would help keep them listening and make more sales. They need to vibe the new tracks and see if this is something they want to buy or not. Chances are on a new song your not going to purchase it on a whim with a 60 second preview especially if this is the 1st time in your life you have heard the song.



The audio sample feature is really awesome but only will work if the listener has heard the song on the radio in full somewhere and knows they want to buy it. The charts displaying new tallent have a harder time making sales so this should be optional for the songs in my opinion.


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Instead of the script checking for a price, Just check to see if a the user has checked the box "Create Audio Sample" in the upload form and price is greater then 0. then create sample.

Many online stores for audio allow a second upload audio field just for the sample. This would be another great solution as well. If they want to tag the song or only have a 60 second preview they can upload this as the sample upload and the original song can be issued after purchase.


On a side note here I havent got to the part of the downloading music yet. But this should probably also be reviewed for updating this module to make it better for Jamroom. Many users will upload to a site and allow free downloads as a way to advertise themselves. The jrAudio module should have this covered out the box. By having a check box "Allow Free Download" if price is <0.

These are just my suggestions to cover what I am seeing as missing functionality that this module needs to succeed and function well on many websites.

Didn't want to create more work for you guys.. Your working very hard all around. Just wanted to share my suggestions in effort to make this module better for Jamroom and to make more of your customers happy.

Thanks.


updated by @developer-networks: 01/22/14 04:31:02AM

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Kind of a cool feature I thought of tonight also. Sometimes while working on multiple systems i have to go back and check all of the modules and see what has been configured to what quota. Something like this would be handy to have around.

updated by @developer-networks: 02/21/14 03:49:31PM