Thank did the trick, thanks! :)

I cannot edit or delete a clip that I did not associate a category with initially. Can you please explain how I can get rid of those initial errors?

Thanks much, really like this mod.

Glad it works :)

I replied your last pm :rolleyes: , they are not errors but a sort of protection and notice for a stable environment of the musicbox. Anymore question just let me know.

Okay, now that I've managed to install this awesome mod and have a play with it, I have some requests/wish list for future versions (I haven't read through all the previous comments, so apologies if these have been requested before):

• Option to enable smilies in comments.
• Option to change the order of comments on media (oldest at top/newest at top).
• Hide the thumbs up/down icon on your own comments via the sue of some <if> conditional (like on the forums you can't add reputation to your own posts).
• Ability to edit comments (maybe based on usergroup permissions to edit own posts: ADMIN CP> Usergroups> Usergroup Manager > Post / Thread Permissions > Can Edit Own Posts).
• Option to remove "English Singer?" radio buttons from forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addartist (or replace with a "Nationality" free text box).
• Ability to have more than one sub category.
• Ability to have one entry belong to more than one category (e.g. "Indie" and "Bands beginning B", for example).
• When adding new media, only display albums belonging to the attributed artist (presumably this would need some sort of refresh if/when an artist is selected). At the moment, you can select an artist and then a different album that doesn't belong to that artist.
• forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addlogo "Website Logo URL" is currently limited to 50 characters, is there a way to increase this to allow for longer image urls?
• [S]If a user does not submit an artist/album/song thumbnail then a default one is used (I personally prefer the ability to have a different default image for each option).[/S]
• "New topics" to show what forum/category the topics are in. Also, if they could follow the forum's (cookie based?) system of being read or unread, displaying "there are no new threads since you last visit" if this is the case, rather than showing threads as new which the user may have already read.
• Disallow the same name artist to be entered more than once.
• Maybe enable some sort of tagging feature.
• Ability to end album/artist outside the admin cp.
• Ability to collapse "Newest Songs", "Singer Database" etc. modules like you can "Latest Comments".
• XHTML validity.

I also noticed a few minor bugs;

• forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addlogo. If you forget to enter "Website URL" then you are able submit the link, but this means you can't edit it in "Weblink Manager" (although you can delete without error).
• "Latest Comments" appears to display comments in random order and long comments don't get truncated:
  http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1658/testh.png
  Also, would it be possible to make it so the second quote in "Latest Comments" module so that it doesn't start a new line on it's own - i.e. always attached to the last word/character of the comment.
• ADMIN CP > DnP Musicbox Options> Album Manager > Add ALbum
• forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addnews > Add Nes
• Hovering over the icon:
  http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8061/testhvv.png
• Minor typo if you click "Listen To My Playlist" when you don't have one: PLaylist is empty, no song is found! (To be really pernickety, I think it should actually be "Playlist is empty, no songs found").

I think that's all for now. Sorry if some of the suggestions are repeated from others, or a setting error on my part.

Keep up the good work on this excellent mod :D.

A request as well...
I know I saw you said you were working on URL rewriting...
Would it be possible to have Artist Profiles urls?
similar to myspace pages http://www.myspace.com/teknosounds

some really good suggestions there :)
I recently coded a Media Manager for silveryhat to look at for possible inclusion.

That maybe a good idea. I'll try to see what I can do after v1.0.6 :)
DnP is checking out the media manager. Would you want it to be included for free or to be a paid plugin ? Credit will be shown on installation page :rolleyes:

Thanks for the ideas :up: , I'll be working on some of them pretty soon.

By all means, free! I'm just happy to be able to contribute :)

As far as I know it has been included in v1.0.6 ;) I'm waiting for confirmation from DnP. Thanks alot!

So far so good Silveryhat. The latest version installed and worked with no images problems at all. I never had a problem installing this on my host.

Great mod.

When going to my musicbox (using IE8), it autoplays the last added track.

If I click a category of music (rock) and then click an artist to play, it plays, but does NOT stop playing last song -- therefore two songs are playing over each other.

Other symptoms: There is no new broswer window or tab opening, but what appears to be a hidden process playing the other audio. The only way to stop this is to close your browser totally and after it is close, about 10-15 seconds later the audio stops.

Any ideas how to stop this from happening?

Thank you again, great mod.

Doc

I belive the logic between ENGLISH and NONENGLISH singers is reversed.

If you say a singer is ENGLISH, then on the page it lists them as FOREIGN and vice versa.

For example: James Taylor = English Singer. Shows up as FOREIGN. When I change from YES to NO under Singer Manager, now he shows up as ENGLISH.

Thanks!

Autoplay newest media is a feature, and it is optional. You can turn it off from autoload_a_media_id

The second symptom appears to be client side because so far I have not seen any one comes across the same problem. Maybe I need to take a look on your musicbox to verify if all settings are optimized. The player window is only one element and there is no duplicated player allowed.

I notice this incorrect phrase a while back then but DnP is the coder if AdminCP part, so pretty much I need to wait for him to fix it :)

Soon comes the next version :rolleyes:

Thanks. The autoplay loops continually. That might be another switch to turn repeat or random on or off.

Regarding the playback...

I am running 64 Bit Vista. I just had someone test it on a 32 bit IE8 browser.

My Vista IE8 version is 8.0.6001.18783. It does NOT work

The version 8.0.6001.18702 is the 32 bit version that DOES work.


Finally... when displaying a playlist... it shows it in FULL SCREEN mode and will not display background until you click on a track name... in 32Bit IE it begins to play. If you click on another track name it properly stops playing that track and starts playing the next.

In 64 bit, if you click on a different track name, it plays both songs simultaneously.

Any single track played ends up repeating continuously without end. Shouldnt it just stop?

I would really like to see the playlist show up in NOT Fullscreen mode.

Thank you again, I know I am being critical, but I really like this mod.

Doc
www.ddsog.com

;) have you checked the official demo site recently? The old playlist by DnP is going to be removed, to be replaced with my playlist system. So stay tune for the next one.

About Vista 64 bits, yes I'm running on it too and test with both 32-64 bits. To avoid the confusing , by autoplay you mean the media automatically starts or media automatically loads on pageload?

I have sifted through posts, but not all of them. Sorry About that.

I turned off autoplay, but any track you play loops and repeats when done. Any way of turning off track repeat when it is only track played?

Did you get two tracks that play simultaneously in 64 bit?

Thanks much again.

For convenience , I'll add two new options into v1.0.6 to set autoplay / loop for audio player :)

Thanks Silvery, really appreciate the time you have put into helping me out.

Did you notice when on my setup how "wide" the settings screen is? The fields seem to go on forever from left to right.. Is it possible to have them scroll from within the fields rather than make them so the entire page has to scroll?

I have given up on IE8 x64 since Adobe doesnt even have a flash player for it.

Thanks for pointing all that out to me.

Doc
www.ddsog.com

I've Pmed you already but going to write here and hope it helpful

- Options to chosse display order when adding category
- Options to add multi songs at once
- Top Play, Top Download, Top New
- Top Playlist/ Newest Playlist
- Newest album

there're simple add-on for this MOd but it will be help full enough.

I second the ability to add more than one song at a time.

Thanks for the feedback on my ideas. In regards to a couple of your comments:

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my first post. What I mean is;
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
Also, would it be possible to add a "soft delete" option, rather than simply remove from the database entirely?

Yes, sorry, I mean a sub-sub category.

I managed to find the quicklist_on_main_type setting, which solved the random comments problem I was having. However I can't find any settings for the other two issues;

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8084/testyix.png

I found the setting comment_length_limit but the issue is truncating long comments in the "Latest Comments" module, rather than limiting the comment length on the actual media itself. Basically, an extra setting for maximum characters in to show in the "Latest Comments" module (in addition to comment_length_limit). The other option is to somehow attach the closing quotation to the last character of a comment so that it doesn't start a new line on it's own (although this is a minor thing).

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One more thing, I've noticed there's lots of different icons that all do the same thing;

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6060/testrxp.png

If this isn't being changed in the new play list you mentioned then could it please be considered to have just one icon for "Add to playlist" (keeping the video/music/article icons for information on media type only). I think some of my members might get confused with all the different icons doing the same thing.

Thanks once again for the great mod and feedback :).

Try musicbox_width setting for width you concern :rolleyes:

I replied :).
Some options I'd want to leave for 3rd party plugin from other coders while a few you mention that are already available at this time.
- Newest album (all version)
- Top Playlist/ Newest Playlist (1.0.6)
- Top Play, Top Download, Top New (1.0.6)


If the demand is clearly high I may implement it faster than the schedule. :eek:

I'm not sure if such feature like comment needs soft-delete , it'll just make the database heavier and not necessary because how would we want to soft-delete something just a few character. It's not a topic or long post.

Note: both options in the picture are available in v1.0.6

Maybe I think about it in v1.0.7 , just have to find a way to make it look good to display.

comment_length_limit actually applies for both in v1.0.5 , but there is an extra option for Latest comment in v1.0.6 that's totally the solution you are looking for.

They are the base for more options later. I'm giving every admin the choice to customize the musicbox the way he/she prefer. So it takes a bit of this and that which are not to be unique in different sections.

I've released the musicbox v1.0.6, please update if you'd like to. It adds two security layers and few extra options that might be useful for some of us

1.0.6 (Released July 09 2009):

1. Optimize Javascript code for faster load and smaller size 100%
2. Display amount of media for broken/unapprove media list on Admin QP 100%
   
   http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5143/49530412.jpg
   
   
3. AJAX integrated Playlist system 100%
   
   http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2799/80162763.jpg
   
   
4. Public playlist 100%
5. Share feature for Playlist 100%
6. Now support both left and right column on sides. 100%
   
   http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2784/23759168.jpg
   
   
7. Fix a small bug that prevent closing on view broken/unapproved media lists. 100%
8. Update Cache feature core. 100%
9. Ajax Artist Info Editor on Admin QP. 100%
   
   https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
   
   
10. Add Delete function to Artist Info Editor. 100%
11. Fix a bug in Artist Info Creator that incorrectly sets English country for artist. 100%
12. Fix an avatar path bug in comment list of player window. 100%
13. Fix an incorrect mouse over title in Artist info. 100%
14. Increase character limit in Weblink URL box in AdminCP. 100%
15. Simple Musicbox Poster block (shows who has posted media in musicbox). 100%
16. Minor change in search function 100%
17. Predefined IMG tag option for article 100%
18. Simple Built-in Sql Inject Protection 100%
19. Option to set Autostart/Loop for video,audio media 100%
20. FLV mode supports MP4 file 100%
21. Free AdminCP Media Manager Plugin by TeknoSounds 100%
22. Improve link clearness for media type 100%
23. Instant! Anti-Flood Protection - Automatically Cancel Multiple Requests 100%
24. Overview feature for Instant! box 100%
    
    https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
25. Minor changes for musicbox 100%

Outstanding update....

On last screen of install I got....

What does that mean?

That means the installer tries to delete the DnPMusicbox_Settingsnew.php file after it has successfully merged settings from this file to your current one DnPMusicbox_Settings.php. However the host restricts this action. It's not an error or problem. You can delete DnPMusicbox_Settingsnew.php manually.

It appears I forgot something... the delete function for the media manager won't work without this added:
/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php

needs to be added at the beginning of the file somewhere around the other deletes

when i addmedia the category doesnt list any of the categories i created, its just blank
music.php?do=add

and when i want to add a normal http link and on media type i selected audio links it always failedto submit
Sorry an error has occured : Data you provided is not valid.

Have you read the F.A.Q that says

Also, about the second issue, what the normal http link were you trying to post?

were adding links from downloadsII but it doesnt work
domain.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=123456
have a reuest, can u add a new field to allow us to post a ddl link and same time audiolinks.
like on File Type: include direct download link thanks =)

also is it possible u can add several columns so ppl can llisten to like 5 samples songs and not only one

Ah i see. For security purpose, public version has disabled the post of php link.

I note your request, I need to come up with a few more use of the extra link before it could be implemented.

thanks and it would be great to allow us to post several links not onlyt restrictedto one? example somemaywant to listen to more than just one sample songs/videos

oh :( so isnt there anyway to enable php links

it is possible to deactivate the php link protection manually but in my opinion , you shouldn't. I can get you a solution to bypass this protection for admin account but then the media will not work because the php link you are to input transfer to a webpage not direct link to a media file, doesn't it ?

I'd suggest you make use of the description box. You can insert sample in the Direct url box while applying bbcode tag to decorate the description. For instance, this goes to the description/lyric form

Do you like this song? Buy it for only $150, that's 50% the original price!

actually, i can ask user to direct the php link. So once they click it will instantly download.
Yeah i thought about it but then as you can see theres so much bbcode to add for just a mere dl link. So its not just possinle for youto add a just simplecolumn with a hyperlinks active

wonder if its possible to have a image link of your playlist so members can click on the playlist pic and play the list directlyfrom the users signature

oh yeah also, wonder if u can allow assigned usergroup to add picture of the artists on music.php front page aswell of delete their own submitted songs. Well i saw that you allowed user to delete artists but not deleting their own songs seems bit odd :/
thanks ^^

also notice a bug with the voting system of comments. When i click thumb down the user get -4 automatically.

not sure this is normal behaviour but when you only have foreign artist the Singer database column will not appear. It will appear only if i add english artist

another sugestion is for the users personal playlist can u have feature to allow user to replay all songs its more easier that way. Wondering if u can have alink on every songs you submit to let user addto playlist because the little small icon it took me hours before i noticed it was meant to do

Very great modification. I love it. :)

Is there a way to rename the music.php?

*edit*
I have taken a look into your files and there is no (simple) way to rename the file.
Maybe it would be an idea for a later version? ;)

*edit2*
Something else:
Wouldn't it be better to create a product with tables and phrases? That would be easier to translate it ;)

I would like to get my hands on the vbadvanced module

Hey silvery, if you don't beat me to it and don't mind, I'm gonna start working on a DownloadsII merge :)

I use a remote mysql server for my forum and when I try to install the product I get:

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 41

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 41
» The information tables is missing in the database. Ready to process.

I'd love to install this! Can you maybe change this product so it uses the same database calling method as vBulletin?

xx

Because it is a sole demand that's why it's unwise to implement if there is not much use in general though.

If you are using vBadvanced I think you can take a look at DnP's paid plugin that sport musicbox to everywhere on the forum. View the dnp network for example.

Currently member cannot delete artist. The option is there to restrict. I need to figure out a place for member to do that instead of the Admin QP.

You may have missed

Multiple artist lists work that way :rolleyes:

^^ so you made a discovery. Well about autoplay all songs, I'm working on it. Some flash clip can definitely not be played automatically in line.

:)How about using mod-rewrite instead?

With current 220+ options at the moment and growing every version, send them to database and retrieve each time needed is a huge slowdown.

I think you can look on the home forum of dnp instant! musicox, but not sure DnP has finished it completely. It is a paid plugin though.

._. think it will be tough ? maidos would absolute like that if it's possible to be made.

Yes it is using the same database query method as vBulletin that's why on the feature list says fully integrated with vBulletin forum. In your situation I wonder if there is any database connection limitation has been set ?

So if I am correct then this will not work unless I purchase Something to work with VB Advanced? If this is the case I will have to click uninstall as our free forum cannot support the additional cost. Please advise.

Portal addons should come with this mod free, I am clicking uninstall as well.