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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

[IR15H]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

hey, from the screenshot, i guess if you enable PHP short_open_tag then it'll work for you. I'm always use VertrigoServ , it's pretty good.

Thank did the trick, thanks!

[Doctor Death]

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.

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by IR15H

Thank did the trick, thanks!

Glad it works

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

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.

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

[IR15H]

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:
  
  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:
  
• 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 .

[TeknoSounds]

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.

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by TeknoSounds

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

Originally Posted by IR15H

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. (I haven't had time for this, I guess someone might come up as a plugin for it )
• Option to change the order of comments on media (oldest at top/newest at top). (Via comment_on_main_order )
• 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). (Via allow_rate_self )
• 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). (I'm not sure if it is necessary and it could create some chaos. Most of the big sites I know do not allow the editing.)
• Option to remove "English Singer?" radio buttons from forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addartist (or replace with a "Nationality" free text box). (This option was not intended to create a world wide list of artists, that's why I simplify it which also reduces the work for admin)
• Ability to have more than one sub category. (Does it mean another category inside a sub-category ?)
• Ability to have one entry belong to more than one category (e.g. "Indie" and "Bands beginning B", for example). (It'll make the database becomes complex and requires additional queries to retrieve categories for every request. I aim for a light and fast musicbox so some feature has to be very considered.)
• 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. (This is actually a good idea but at the same time it will slow down the system, I have to think about it first if I plan to implement.)
• 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? (Fixed )
• "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. (The reason this block is basic because the musicbox itself is a musicbox it should not handle too much work from the forum that makes the interface becomes confusing. I will upgrade this block soon but just like the other option I need to see how much it's gonna affect the server load)
• Disallow the same name artist to be entered more than once. (Good one.)
• Maybe enable some sort of tagging feature. (It will eventually come in future versions.)
• Ability to end album/artist outside the admin cp. (I have finished Artist Editor for v1.0.6)
• Ability to collapse "Newest Songs", "Singer Database" etc. modules like you can "Latest Comments". (Noted.)
• XHTML validity. (Wait for it )

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:
  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. (Options for this is available in Configurations.)
• ADMIN CP > DnP Musicbox Options> Album Manager > Add ALbum (This typo has been reported & fixed .)
• forum/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php?do=addnews > Add Nes
• Hovering over the icon: (Fixed.)
  
• 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"). (The old playlist system is gone in version 1.0.6 so don't worry about this one anymore)

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 .

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

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

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

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

[silveryhat]

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

[Preech]

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.

[Doctor Death]

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