Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

Version 2.3.0 of LDM is now the official release. This works with both VB3.7 and VB3.8. You can obtain it here

Version 2.2.8 remains available here, with limited support.

04.02.08: patch-cat.xml 'extra' uploaded - see first post for information

27.10.07: Version 2.2.8-post1 uploaded
French translation of product installer uploaded (other language translations are in the main release zip)

Remember to back up your current database tables before upgrading.

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose link and file manager, which handles user uploads and downloads in a flexible way. A range of media players is integrated into LDM and others are included as plugin extras. LDM is described below in the first post of this thread, which also contains a brief list of the currently-known bugs.

This release of LDM works correctly with all VB versions 3.6.x and recent versions of vbadvanced.

Documentation, screen shots, etc, are provided as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

Thank you to everyone who has tested, given suggestions, helped with the translations, etc.

[Ucla74]

Originally Posted by Ucla74

Sorry...forgot I'd reset that. Fixed. Thanks, Andrew!

Just so it's clear--I fixed the password, not the problem.

[chorton]

Is it possible on the ratings to make it mandatory that they leave STARS as well? My members complain that the rating sytem devalue's some of the songs if the person letting a review/comment forgets to let stars.
I would like it to be required they they pick a star rating.

[|oR|Greg]

Andrew, have you considered using an FLV player for locally hosted FLV videos?

I'm using one, and it's pretty sweet.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ucla74

Just so it's clear--I fixed the password, not the problem.

Yes, I'd realised - am back at work now, so will take a look this evening...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Andrew, have you considered using an FLV player for locally hosted FLV videos?

I'm using one, and it's pretty sweet.

Wimpy Flash makes my life easiest...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by chorton

Is it possible on the ratings to make it mandatory that they leave STARS as well? My members complain that the rating sytem devalue's some of the songs if the person letting a review/comment forgets to let stars.
I would like it to be required they they pick a star rating.

OK, will add a switch.

I've been thinking for some time about Slave's idea for tag clouds. He'd suggested using keywords as the markers of proximity. I'm wondering about using people's collective "hit" and "rating" patterns - rather like in Amazon, you get suggestions of things you may like based on what you buy and others buy. What would you think about an add-on that helped people find other music they might like?

[|oR|Greg]

Is there anyway to make the comments system post to the discussion thread if you're using the auto-thread-create plugin?

[chorton]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

What would you think about an add-on that helped people find other music they might like?

I think that would be a great idea.

[butty]

Originally Posted by chorton

I think that would be a great idea.

what he said!

[AndrewD]

Second question first.

Originally Posted by butty

the other issue is that if you have over about 15/20 entries per page or more the page loading and scrolling etc slows down to a crawl you can see what i mean here

http://www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum...s.php?catid=13

id rather not have only 15 per page as my archive is going to be full of hundreds of mp3's, is there a way of solving these problems

of course i understand if because of wimpy and constraints with the flash buttons etc this isnt possible.

As far as I can tell, this is a problem with dear old Internet Explorer. The scrolling problem does not occur with either Firefox or Opera. I wondered if this was possibly due to IE using the <object> tags and the others using the <embed> tags for Flash, but this seems not to make any difference - as soon as you load up 20+ flash tags on the same page, IE slows to a crawl.

Originally Posted by butty

the problem i have is that for one the wimpy player flash button is great but it doesnt stop playing when another one is clicked on the same page can u think of a way to solve this?. also if u navigate from the page it stops altho the nature of flash i can understand having to live with that.

Yes, this is down to the coding of the wimpy button.

Have you tried using the other wimpy addin I've supplied, which uses the regular wimpy player inside the jukebox? This would solve both your problems at the same time - there would only be one flash object at a time, and any request to play a new trac would automatically stop the earlier one.