Forum Activity for @ken-rich

Song Slurper Lives Again?

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Hi Guys,

I am running a shoutcast server with searchable playlist here - http://indiegospel.org/RADIO/playlistA.html

The playlist is stored on my computer hard drive, accessed through Sam Broadcaster, which FTP's to the website automatically.

Currently, my network's members have to e-mail me their songs to make it into the playlist.

Would it be possible to "slurp" all of my Jamroom's 128 bit MP3's into a folder for download? I believe Jamroom 4 already had some such capacity, so perhaps it wouldn't be that hard to integrate with Jamroom 5?

In addition, can the title, artist's name, genre, album title, and pic be extracted from the JR5 database, and applied as tags, since most people don't properly tag their MP3's.

This would be a HUGE time saver and advancement for my operations. It would also be a selling point for potential Jamroom clients who are also broadcasters.


updated by @ken-rich: 01/28/16 02:10:34PM

Design Flaw

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So Gary - if you have an artist selling a CD (for example), why would he be inclined to advertise it through your site?

Why wouldn't he use his advertising time and money to promote a place that will show all of his saleable items at once instead?

If he's smart, he will, and that is exactly what I am seeing play out.

It's not to say those saleable items can't also be separate at the module level (for organizational and admin purposes), but sales have to be combined in one location for the profile visitor.

Design Flaw

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Hi Brian,

Design "flaw" might be too strong from the technical perspective. Perhaps better language would be: a design consideration that needs to be considered and perhaps implemented.

The client in question has an unparalleled education and experience in sales, "award winning" in fact.

In his mind (and I agree), it's a design flaw in the sense that it intuitively should exist, but it does not currently exist.

It's certainly not a design flaw in the sense that the system you have built is not capable or flexible enough to implement that design consideration.

I'm not suggesting that, I have full confidence it can be incorporated. I'm just not technically competent enough to do it myself.

Design Flaw

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Awesome - You da man!!!

Design Flaw

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Hi Paul,

That sounds like it might be a good solution.

Personally, I (and a lot of former Ningsters) would have no idea how to implement, so I am wondering if the staff might tackle it.

If the solution is "skin dependent" that would of course mean making it available to the Ningja skin.

Design Flaw

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I've been told that this should be put in as a feature request, but I view it as a more serious matter - a design flaw if you will.

The issue was brought to my attention by a client who has now promoting other sites (Jamroom competitors) to make sales, since our sales pages are not designed well.

These are his exact words and I agree with his assessment.

"It is not intuitive for the customer to know that they must buy a CD from the PRODUCT page, but go to the AUDIO page for a download. I certainly would not have assumed that as a customer.

Please re-assess this from a customer standpoint. I think all PRODUCT (physical products, downloads, bundles) from an artist should be accessible from one area or tab. Once a customer is buying something I think it's fair to assume that they would expect to be able to buy anything an artist has from that same page...."
updated by @ken-rich: 09/22/15 01:09:44PM

Feature Request - Widget Generator

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Hi Michael.

Reverbnation is so big and popular with artists, I thought everyone was familiar with it. For one thing, their integration with Facebook is top notch. They also have email advertising tools, automatically generated banners, viral HTML5 widgets, etc.

Jamroom would do well to provide similar artists services, since Jamroom music sites are in competition with Reverbnation, whether we like it or not.

What my client is asking is: "How do I make a hotlink to my products page from a picture" (he wants a linked banner).

Since he is a non coder, he likes the fact that places like CD Baby and Reverbnation provide banner links automatically, and he can just grab premade codes. He is looking for that functionality so he can promote, but we don't have it.

Banners - https://www.reverbnation.com/page_object/page_object_banners/artist_52352

Widgets - https://www.reverbnation.com/kenrich/widgets
updated by @ken-rich: 07/24/15 07:09:48AM

Feature Request - Widget Generator

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I've been asked for a ReverbNation style widget generator, so that a client's product pic and their product URL/metadata, can be used to make "Banner Links" for sales promotions.

If there any chance Jamroom will do anything like this in the near future.
updated by @ken-rich: 08/23/15 07:25:23PM

Code Question - Combined Audio

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Hi Michael,

Your first suggestion removes all the Soundclouds, along with the uploaded songs that are missing images.

Your second suggestions removes all songs.

I'm not sure what you mean with the item_list.tpl suggestion.

I was thinking of an if statement something like being integrated with the existing code.

I don't know how to do it though, since there is already an if and an elseif, and another if "layer" is too complex for me.

Code Question - Combined Audio

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In the Combined Audio index.tpl, how do I require that the displayed result have a picture.

I can't just say require_image="audio_image" because the Soundclouds would disappear.

So I believe I would need to add some kind of if/then statement that targets only uploaded songs and requires them to have a picture.

That would somehow have to be added to the module call but I don't know how to integrate it.


updated by @ken-rich: 08/09/15 04:45:05PM