the ability to attach a few pictures to the artist page would be nice
that way people have something to associate with the particular artists and thier music
just a thought...
Noted.
I am planning on doing something like this. I'm currently trying to work out the technical details of grouping files by type while searching for companies I could work for and sending off job applications. I'll be glad when I have a job to not have to spend so much time looking for one, but I'll have even less time once I do.
I think I've broken file uploads and metadata extraction, too. It works fine on my own testing machine but something is going wrong somewhere. Your mp3 files don't have lengths and bitrates stored in the database, for example.
Edit: No, maybe I shall just add this feature seperately from the usual file uploads. Give me a day or three.
take your time...... this sight has a great concept, so i'm not complaining
we just need to get a few more peoples in here
I've changed my mind again. I want to make a few cosmetic improvements to the artist profile page regarding file listings and using folders. I'm hoping then to add a kind of picture gallery thing, from which it'd be possible to choose a picture that'll show up as your artist profile picture, as you wanted.
That's the plan. If I can stop trying to play "She's Funny That Way" I might be able to get something done.
Edit: Well, I've been playing my guitar enough to get really sore fingers so have finally managed to get something done, though not a lot. Had it not been my sister's birthday I might've managed to get a lot more work done on this. However, the thing can now tell the difference between an image that can be shown in a gallery type situation and an ordinary file. Shouldn't be a great deal more work to get a kind of basic image viewing type page, then I'd just need to add an option to that to allow you to choose that picture as your basic artist 'avatar' type image. I'll need to dig out some old image resizing code I wrote for a picture gallery and improve on it slightly (it resized the image to a set of maximum dimensions, resizing to the largest it could without making either the height or width larger than the specified target height or width. For example, if you image was 800x600 pixels and the target size was 200x200, it'd resize to 200x150 pixels. It had this bug, though, where if the image was, say 50x50 it'd still resize to 200x200, which made it look odd.) I'll want to make that code store the result so it doesn't have to process it in future.
It's all fun.
Well, I've got my image resizing code done and all working well. Expect to see images uploaded by artists being future sometime in the near future (next hour if I can get my act together and get these files on the server). Next thing'll be making them selectable as your artist profile image.
Give me a couple of days. It'll happen
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Nearly there.
I seem to be working on this at a very slow pace indeed.
The image can now be displayed on your profile page but you can't currently select it. If you want to upload an image I can set that to be your profile image for you. It will automatically be resized so it doesn't matter about that.
Upload an image and then reply in this thread and I shall make it happen...
I'm about to work on allowing a hidden state for files/folders so they won't appear on your list. I'll do the profile image selection thing first, though.
TESTING TESTING
i uploaded a test image of myself with my wife (all i really have at the moment on my pc) i can find something else later
I ought to have tested my image resizing code with tall images... Thanks for exposing this bug.
I've set for your profile for now. Whenever you find another image I can change it.
Fixed the bug!
I still need to work on this...