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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

[Doctor Death]

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!

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

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!

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

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.

Soon comes the next version

[Doctor Death]

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

[silveryhat]

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?

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

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.

[silveryhat]

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

[Doctor Death]

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

[haothiencz]

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.

[Preech]

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

[IR15H]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

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

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

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

• 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 )

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my first post. What I mean is;

Also, would it be possible to add a "soft delete" option, rather than simply remove from the database entirely?

• Ability to have more than one sub category. (Does it mean another category inside a sub-category ?)

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

• "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.)

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;



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;



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 .