Add-On Releases - DnP Instant! AJAX/SEO Musicbox + News v1.0.7 : Online entertainment at its best

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"One of the most unique AJAX online media sharing service script for advanced webmasters"

Support
Due to high volume of PMs request for support, plus it's unwise to repeat an answer over and over in different PMs therefore, please note :

• In-Topic Support priority is given to Everyone who has installed
• Private Message Support is given only to Contributors, Helpers, Donators and Beta Test Volunteers

Introduction
This is the SEO friendly yet Advanced AJAX powered Musicbox by DnP Network?. It is found by Silveryhat in the late 2008 and early 2009. The original version was first use way back in the '06 or '07 with limited functions and no ajax support. A serious upgrade and rebuilding have been made few weeks ago for this release. Main goal was to make it faster and compatible with all vBulletin forums. This project is the hard work of Silveryhat and DnP Administrator of DnP Network?, we wish to bring the best to the vB community.

DnP Instant! Musicbox is free for non-commercial, non-profit use. Otherwise, please read the Notice at the end of this post.

Requirements

• Host supports AJAX
• Administrator skill level MUST be intermediate, for you must know what you are doing. 70% of the issues was because Admin does not have a clue of the host configuration and what the notice tries to tell them when a problem occurs. Also the other 20% is because Admin does not read the 2-Step Installation Guide carefully. I will not give support for such situations.
• vBulletin from 3.5.x to 3.8.x

Simplified 2-Step Installation :

1. Upload all files and folders under the "upload" folder to your forum root.

2. Run forum_root/install_dnp_musicbox.php to setup new tables to your database. This little friendly webpage is also AJAX supported. Delete it after you have finished installing the data.



[Note] : For Unix host, please make sure the folder you have uploaded the musicbox content to is CHMOD to 666 or 777 (writable) if you receive a permission error during installation.

And, That's all for the installation step!

IF you have installed successfully :

Read HOW-TO & F.A.Q
Mark as Installed for Support - Vote for it.
Nominate for MOTM.
Was the Installation Process easy ?

Customizations :

• Now proceed to AdminCP ? DnP Musicbox Options to add new categories, artists (optional), and albums (optional).
• Use the Configuration Editor from Musicbox Homepage ? Administrator's Quick Panel to customize the your personal musicbox !

There is no manual template change needed, unless you would want a musicbox link to show on navigation bar, too.

Access forum_root/music.php to start your musicbox!

Brief
Now, it is time to speed up the rest of the introduction. Here's the small summary of DnP Instant! Musicbox with some picture links and one giant screenshot.

Features :

* Lightweight, Fast response and 95% AJAX powered musicbox. Supports cross browsers, non-javascript browsers.
* All Ajax links are degradable, SEO friendly with built-in normal URL.
* More than 100+ customizations (and continue to grow each version) to fit your own way. Explore them yourself!
* Allows the creation of Singer Biography , Album Records and Lyric for song.
* Members can rate the song using Who Like It feature.
* Playlist is built-in. Data is saved on cookie file for fast access and database safe.
* Templates are built-in. No necessary change is required.
* Easy installation process. Includes dynamic installation webpage.
* Support your own forum style with matching style option. No Template editing is necessary. vBulletin Style - Style 1 - Style 2
* [View Screenshot] Flash file from online video services can also be embed. Literally any online video could be inserted into the musicbox. Any question of how, please ask.
* [View Screenshot] Lightbox effect included. Option can be switched On or Off.
* [View Screenshot] The Instant! box on mainpage is fully run by AJAX. It conveniently shows many different media stats such as Newest, Hottest, Highest rate or just random. You can even customize how many songs to show, replace the current icons and change the width elements, or the size of thumbnails. Then, you might run into a tough decision to choose the way it should list the song like the screenshot above, because both look pretty good.
* [View Screenshot] The Instant! box also sports a compact layout for a clean and tidy overall look.
* [View Screenshot] Navigation is all ajax powered for fastest response. Categories are organized and nested.
* [View Screenshot] Social Bookmarking Icons are included.
* [View Screenshot] Do your members like to comment (or start a flame war ._. ) ? Yes DnP Instant! Musicbox has a built-in comment system as well. It also runs by AJAX and includes Rating feature. A comment that has too many negative points will not be shown anymore. A good community will tend to unfold itself, well if it doesn't... you can always delete that bad comment in a blink (This kind of blink )
* [View Comment Rating Screenshot]
* [View Screenshot] When member report links as broken, you can quickly view a list of them in less than 10 seconds. The Administrator's Quick panel is located right in the footer and it runs with AJAX too!
* [View Screenshot] DnP Instant! Musicbox also comes with more than many hidden blocks that they can only be activated from the configuration editor. These blocks can display new topics, new singers or albums, showing announcement, list of friend websites, random songs, etc...Check them out too if you have time.
Admin can moderate media posted by members.
Members can report broken links.
* FLV/MP4 supported.
* [View screenshot] Built-in 14 default supports/guide for Online video sharing services.
* [View Screenshot] Instant! Setting Editor for quick configuration changes.
* Option to compress javascript files for very fast page load.
* Allow custom thumbnail for media. You can post a picture to display by default for your video, audio clip.
* [View Screenshot] Allow the customization for Player window look and feel. Be unique!
* [View Screenshot] Turn Off the Light feature for soothing video experience.
* [View Screenshot] Administrator's Note to member on Post page
* Instant! Cache system for completely 0 query requested on pageload even with Full blocks activated.* Automatic Anti-Flood System & SQL Inject Protection

Demo (Current Version on Demo page is maybe different due to testing purpose) :
As shown on the original homepage (click Continue to pass the firewall protection)
http://silveryhat.com/delynie/music.php or http://music.silveryhat.com/

Sample video clips :
http://silveryhat.com/song498 (I will follow him) (Youtube)
http://silveryhat.com/song360 (We didn't start the flame war) (CollegeHumor)
http://silveryhat.com/song221 (Khi con tim biết y?u (Love Paradise)) (DailyMotion)
http://silveryhat.com/song362 (Can't let go) (FLV Player)

Like old songs? Try Search function for these :

500 miles
Never on a sunday
Deborah
Love is blue
Leaving on a jet plane
Auld Lang Syne
Donna Donna
Greenfield
Knock Three Times
Seven lonely days
Am I that easy to forget
Please release me
I do my crying in the rain
River of no return
The Tennessee Waltz

Sample mp3 songs:
http://silveryhat.com/song187 (No turning back)
http://silveryhat.com/song237 (Love Paradise)

Member's Instant! Musicbox:
These are great boards that have supported the development of DnP Instant! Musicbox. Some of them has donated money or purchased the branding-free license which greatly encourages further growth of the musicbox itself. I appreciate your kindness and I hope your forum will extend to its best.

All Updates and History log

Notice: Default theme of musicbox and images are properties of DnP Network?, they should not be used any where else but the musicbox without permission. DnP Instant! Musicbox Copyright notice is not to be removed without a purchase of branding-free version else your domain and forum will be reported to Piracy Report.

Paid Request & Branding-free License:
Paid request is optional and available up to demand, because a few of us would want to extend the musicbox ability to another level. Click here to check out what is available.

Media Copyrights Infringement :
Please do not abuse the use of musicbox to create an illegal source of music. It's all your responsibility when it comes to these matters.

Please be aware : For every Modification, there are always bugs somewhere that the author have not yet found them himself. The same gravity applies for DnP Instant! Musicbox. Though I have manage to solve all the issues before anyone notices, there is still a great chance it's not perfectly bug free. Even vBulletin itself. I urge any kind souls who will contribute their time and effort, will help me improve it for every coming version. Bug reports, Ideas, Feedbacks are truly welcomed.

Update : From weekly to monthly per patch. Depend on requests, feedbacks and amount of bugs found.

2-Step Upgrade:

1. Upload all files and folders under the "upload" folder to your forum root.

2. Run forum_root/install_dnp_musicbox.php to upgrade tables. Current data will not be lost, only new columns are installed.

[Note] : For Unix host, please make sure the folder you have uploaded the musicbox content to is CHMOD to 666 or 777 (writable) if you receive a permission error during installation.
(..did I just copy almost exactly the two steps of installation here ._. )

Additional Plugins (varied authors) :

1. Comment Block on Forum Home Index plugin (free)
2. Who's Online Plugin for DnP Instant! Musicbox (free)
3. DnP Instant! Musicbox's AJAX New Thread on Forum Home Index
4. Media Block on Forum Home for DnP Instant! Musicbox (Display music list on your forum homepage - Simple version - Free)
5. Posting Multiple Media Plugin (Quick way to post multiple media to musicbox database $1)
6. DnP Instant! Box and Playlist on Forum Index (Display music list on your forum homepage - Advanced version - $5)
7. Branding-Free License Purchase (Remove copyright line at bottom of page and allow the commercial use - $1)

Enjoy!

Bottom line - About Search Engines, Do they really crawl the content?:
Try this or this for examples.
My site rank is not high enough to beat other big sites, so I would narrow down the search to show that google does see the content of Musicbox.
Keyword : Leaving on a jet plane dnp or Honest Graduation Song dnp, as well as Baby I would dnp.
Here is the site search where it displays everything Google has gathered from the Musicbox : allinurl:silveryhat.com/delynie/music.php

Original Version of this topic can be found at
http://www.silveryhat.com/delynie/f130/dnp-instant-musicbox-modification-for-vbulletin-forum-6858.html

[aztecboi2003]

How much for you to install?

[Alien]

Very nice work done here.. I'm tagging this to test soon...

Thank you.

[Hornstar]

Very nice work. I will keep a close eye on this one. For now I would love to see you have it know the difference between songs and videos. eg. it gives the user a link like this: .com/song362 but it is for a video and not a song.

another example: you have it called music.php but this is now more then just music. maybe rename it media.php or something.

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by nightbloom

I get some of the things you have done... but as an admin, how do I edit the songs members have posted, or delete them, so that I can set up the sub cats? When I try, I get the "do not have permission...." message. Do I have to com pletely uninstall and reinstall to start over?

Yes, I did this..check_user_location_when_post_edit_song

Those songs you have posted but not working, the Patch 3 download will give you more helpful hint to edit.

On further thought I think this is just too hands on for me to use. I have hundreds and hundreds of members who all like music of different kinds and this is just too poorly organized and implimented at this time for me to use it.

The first start is the hardest. If everything doesn't require much work, the great success it brings has no fulfill values.

THis error pops up every time I try to enter a category.

PHP Code:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/adminfunctions.php:280) in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3087 


The categories are all together, not nested like they show on the page, so unless you only have three or four genres and intend to never change them, its very hard to keep track.

I'll take a deeper look into this. Thanks!

The admin either has ALL control or almost no control over input. There is no way to alter or edit what members input. If a member wants to add a new artist they discovered, they have to ask me or the other admin to input all the information, way to time intensive on a forum that is busy.

Admin has FULL control over those songs anyone posts. Admin can delete / edit them anyway he/she wants. Play a song and at the bottom of it there are two buttons that you may find. Refer to F.A.Q question 6th.
About the ability for member to add artist
._. sorry for this part I'd just copy from the F.A.Q

4 - Can my members add artist ? or Album ?
No.

Why?!
Imagine how a mess it would become if one member adds "Lady Gaga" , then another adds "ladyGaga" and his friend who also plays the forum does "Gaga lady", but a random member does not like those names and wants to do "Gaga my luv" for himself while a noob dont know wat and dont know how where he accidentally creates "Lazy haha" into the list.. The same reason applies for Album records therefore only Admin can create the artist and album. It might be a hard work but you want your musicbox looks good with working portraits and correct information.

However, add the musicbox grows, I don't see any reason not to make it better. I'll note the idea as well.

Originally Posted by aztecboi2003

How much for you to install?

Erm I see no excuse to charge someone to install a beta mod. It's way easy with only 3 steps, why don't you give it a try? I can help you install it but you need to PM me your host info, ftp server and forum admin password. It is complicated and these information are too personal to share.

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Very nice work. I will keep a close eye on this one. For now I would love to see you have it know the difference between songs and videos. eg. it gives the user a link like this: .com/song362 but it is for a video and not a song.

another example: you have it called music.php but this is now more then just music. maybe rename it media.php or something.

hey the new file name is cool, i thought of it too but i had to choose a super simple name...
For .com/song362 it is a short url that i use (this setting is optional in the configuration). I'm adding the new url rewrite feature that's pretty much similar to what you say (spoileeeeeeer : /video-Show-off-fails , /music-bad-day , etc..

[rapidphim]

darn... been waiting for something like this a very very long time... thank you so much!

couple questions:
1/ can this music box search in Viet language, or other word, can it be searched in UTF-8
2/ can this hotlink audio files from other sites/servers?

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by rapidphim

darn... been waiting for something like this a very very long time... thank you so much!

couple questions:
1/ can this music box search in Viet language, or other word, can it be searched in UTF-8
2/ can this hotlink audio files from other sites/servers?

1. It totally depends on the database encoding. It works perfectly on mine.
2. ._. no. If a webmaster does not want a file to be linked we should not violate his privacy. But doesnt firefox already bypass hotlink protection ?

[mgcom]

To could to be true

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM music_cat AS lite_cat Order By disorder ASC;

MySQL Error : Table 'db1008501_dypie.music_cat' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Sunday, June 14th 2009 @ 05:53:28 PM
Error Date : Sunday, June 14th 2009 @ 05:53:28 PM
Script : http://www.dyp.ie/forums/admincp/dnp...p?do=updatecat
Referrer : http://www.dyp.ie/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav


Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.21-Max

[mgcom]

daft question but how do i uninstall ?

[nightbloom]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

Admin has FULL control over those songs anyone posts. Admin can delete / edit them anyway he/she wants. Play a song and at the bottom of it there are two buttons that you may find. Refer to F.A.Q question 6th.

If a member adds a video and there is no category or artist entered, no one can even open the song to edit it. It just doesnt work for anyone. I pressed the edit button on the new popup message that was added and got the no permission page, even after making the setting change that you suggested.

Originally Posted by mgcom

daft question but how do i uninstall ?

Rerun the install php, it has an uninstall function also.

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by nightbloom

If a member adds a video and there is no category or artist entered, no one can even open the song to edit it. It just doesnt work for anyone. I pressed the edit button on the new popup message that was added and got the no permission page, even after making the setting change that you suggested.



Rerun the install php, it has an uninstall function also.

._. what setting did you use ? If

PHP Code:

    //Confirm where user comes from when a request to edit song sent. 
    //Default is yes. If member reach permission restriction when editting a song, turn this off
    'check_user_location_when_post_edit_song'    =>    'yes', 


You must change it to no