Disc Shelf
category: general [glöplog]
last.fm is very good to discover music, since you can connect tracks by using tags and blog entries. Tracks with similar tags are played in the tag radio, so demoscene music can be mixed with commercial music.
Using the blog is even better because your blog entry appears on every track page that is linked from your blog text. By that it is easy to connect commercial tracks with demoscene tracks and enable music listeners of these commercial tracks to find out more about tracks from demoscene.
Using the blog is even better because your blog entry appears on every track page that is linked from your blog text. By that it is easy to connect commercial tracks with demoscene tracks and enable music listeners of these commercial tracks to find out more about tracks from demoscene.
Okie, guys, made a search by genre.
At the moment only few genres are actually available - electronic, pop, ambient, but the site offers 129 various possible genres. When most of them get filled up it will be quite a catalogue. ;)
At the moment only few genres are actually available - electronic, pop, ambient, but the site offers 129 various possible genres. When most of them get filled up it will be quite a catalogue. ;)
Yay, great news!
Now Disc Shelf will feature LibriVox! (http://librivox.org) That means lots of audio book releases.
If you like to listen to an audio book now and then, bookmark this page: http://www.disc-shelf.com/?artist=35
Now Disc Shelf will feature LibriVox! (http://librivox.org) That means lots of audio book releases.
If you like to listen to an audio book now and then, bookmark this page: http://www.disc-shelf.com/?artist=35
OKie! Several more albums released by various people. There are already some beautiful albums on the site.
Thanks to everybody's feedback, the pic script was written - from now on when you upload the pic it resizes it to 250x250 but saving quality - no more shrinking large pictures.
Also, a standard but absent before feature of password recovery added and genre search. Genres constantly added, 130 atm.
In other words, some general stuff, but wanted to deliver the info on the updates.
Thanks to everybody's feedback, the pic script was written - from now on when you upload the pic it resizes it to 250x250 but saving quality - no more shrinking large pictures.
Also, a standard but absent before feature of password recovery added and genre search. Genres constantly added, 130 atm.
In other words, some general stuff, but wanted to deliver the info on the updates.
I'm in need to love, I may someday upload something.
(Bybye my english => I'm in need of love.)
Do upload!
Actually, since it proved that usually the site is less responsive in USA, we are planning to get file servers in the States as well, so if anyone experiences lags and needs to pause and wait before the song will play normally, soon it will be resolved.
Actually, since it proved that usually the site is less responsive in USA, we are planning to get file servers in the States as well, so if anyone experiences lags and needs to pause and wait before the song will play normally, soon it will be resolved.
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Thanks to everybody's feedback, the pic script was written - from now on when you upload the pic it resizes it to 250x250 but saving quality - no more shrinking large pictures.
So.. your solution is to use HEIGHT="n", WIDTH="n" instead of creating proper thumbnails? Wow, that's lazy. :) There is nothing I love more than to watch 7 tiny, tiny images spend 50 seconds on loading, because the site admin actually downloads all the data but just displays a portion of it. Especially since the site is stuck slap bang in the middle of my widescreen monitor and only uses 1/3 of the available screen realestate. How extremely 2001 of you. :)
Indeed, those tiny images load for ages now.
@gloom: it's not 2001. In 2001, people were caring about filesizes on the internet :)
it's still not a good idea to create thumbnails with HTML. it's just very bad style.
And looks ugly in some browsers, not all do clever resizing like Firefox.
I liek it.
gloom - you did not get me right. no, the thumbnails are not shrinked with html - they are resized with a special GD library function. But the OLD pictures which were html shrinked I still did not fix since just haven't had time. The issue became severe when one guy uploaded 1500x1500 pics - it is those that are heavy loaders. I knew that one day I'd have to do this, but at that time there were more pressing issues.
so stressing this again - I do not use html width and height to shrink pictures -I resize them properly. You end up with a 250x250 pic.
I am now in Helsinki. Checking out Disc Shelf from here, mp3 streaming is good!
Saying this because due to problems with our provider (which we hope to solve in January) some people reported problems with online stream. I am planning to add a subtle link to download whole album for those who wish it.
Two guys from UK just tested DS and it seems okay.
Recent changes also include more recent albums on the main page.
Saying this because due to problems with our provider (which we hope to solve in January) some people reported problems with online stream. I am planning to add a subtle link to download whole album for those who wish it.
Two guys from UK just tested DS and it seems okay.
Recent changes also include more recent albums on the main page.
Hey guys!
It's been some time. Thanks for everybody's input. Fixed all of the stuff which were reported, hope nothing was missed. Soon we'll move out of beta phase.
The embedding works fine now, in all browsers. Since not all people understand all the possibilities of the service, it's goal, it's all about embedding albums into your personal sites.
See examples here: http://www.slowclub.org/?page=recordings
And here: http://www.disc-shelf.com/discovery/
Hope you find this application useful.
ps: since iframe is not generally accepted at sites like MySpace and various forums, Disc Shelf works better for personal sites or blogs like WordPress. In the future we hope to work it out at least with MySpace.
It's been some time. Thanks for everybody's input. Fixed all of the stuff which were reported, hope nothing was missed. Soon we'll move out of beta phase.
The embedding works fine now, in all browsers. Since not all people understand all the possibilities of the service, it's goal, it's all about embedding albums into your personal sites.
See examples here: http://www.slowclub.org/?page=recordings
And here: http://www.disc-shelf.com/discovery/
Hope you find this application useful.
ps: since iframe is not generally accepted at sites like MySpace and various forums, Disc Shelf works better for personal sites or blogs like WordPress. In the future we hope to work it out at least with MySpace.