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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

[logoz2008]

hi,

need help with a few things:

how do I remove the "foreign singers" and "english singers" blocks/ titles I just want it to list all singers under Singers Database?

the media player (windows media player) for audio/mp3 comes on the left side in player window, how do i change that to top since i have no need for anything on the left side. what i mean i want one colomn and remove the left?

is there a way to change the position of blocks i.e. which comes first comment blocks, singers list category etc. on main page?

thanks

[Sador]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

Thank you for the positive feedback

About the installer, I did not have much time to edit all the user front-end information, it was pretty much a copy and paste from the original introduction ^^.

- About user file uploader, a member who's using the musicbox has come up with a great addon that you may want to take a look at Upload directly from music box

- I think when it's about suggestion for new artist / album, it's best to use the forum instead. Too many options possibly slows down the musicbox and confuse the users.

- The plugin is just a simple script to show user location on WOL of the forum

You're welcome.

- Hehe okay.

- Checked the link, but the site seems to be offline right now. I'll try again later.

Edit: just tried again and installed. Seems to work very well. Thanks for the suggestion, I like it.

- Maybe you're right. Just would have been useful to get suggestions the same way broken links are shown. The user fills in the form, it's viewable for admins from the admin quick panel, where you can either approve the suggestion, edit a bit, or just delete it. That way you don't have to do the extra step of adding it manually in the admin CP. Ah well.

- Ah okay. Thanks.

Thanks for the information. I'm still wondering about where you can add things to the playlist though, could you perhaps tell me that as well?

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by logoz2008

hi,

need help with a few things:

how do I remove the "foreign singers" and "english singers" blocks/ titles I just want it to list all singers under Singers Database?

the media player (windows media player) for audio/mp3 comes on the left side in player window, how do i change that to top since i have no need for anything on the left side. what i mean i want one colomn and remove the left?

is there a way to change the position of blocks i.e. which comes first comment blocks, singers list category etc. on main page?

thanks

- All of your requests are more about personal interests and require deeper modification to the musicbox, it may cause issues. If you are familiar with manual code editing then I'll show you how it could be done. But note that if you upgrade to newer version, the change may be overwritten.

Originally Posted by Sador

Thanks for the information. I'm still wondering about where you can add things to the playlist though, could you perhaps tell me that as well?

The icon in front of the media name

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

I don't know in which way it could take long to add the media since all it asks for are just Media name, URL and Category as the requirements :erm:

Well the Other video button has a load button just add the URL click and boom its all done and added tags, title , etc...

the lazy way they like lol:erm:

[logoz2008]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

- All of your requests are more about personal interests and require deeper modification to the musicbox, it may cause issues. If you are familiar with manual code editing then I'll show you how it could be done. But note that if you upgrade to newer version, the change may be overwritten.

Thanks, I got it done. :- )

Great Mod indeed thank you. I just needed for audio and not the video etc. stuff.

[logoz2008]

silveryhat,

I need help with a few things.

1. When playing all media in an album, the page loads with the player and the list of media but nothing happens. This is audio media so it loads Windows Media Player, with the list of songs on the right/above in yellow text but no thing plays.

2. Playlist, I can create a playlist and share it, but I dont see the playlist button anywhere ngheplaylist.gif on main page. I can view shared playlists, and once I click on a playlist it shows the individual tracks but is there a way to play the whole playlist? Right now the way it works I have to click on an individual track within the list to play one after the other. It doesn't load the next song.

I have resetted all settings and modifications, this is a fresh install.

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by logoz2008

silveryhat,

I need help with a few things.

1. When playing all media in an album, the page loads with the player and the list of media but nothing happens. This is audio media so it loads Windows Media Player, with the list of songs on the right/above in yellow text but no thing plays.

2. Playlist, I can create a playlist and share it, but I dont see the playlist button anywhere ngheplaylist.gif on main page. I can view shared playlists, and once I click on a playlist it shows the individual tracks but is there a way to play the whole playlist? Right now the way it works I have to click on an individual track within the list to play one after the other. It doesn't load the next song.

I have resetted all settings and modifications, this is a fresh install.

1. In some case, the playlist cannot be generated because tmp folder is not writable or does not exist , try to CHMOD it to 777
2. I have remove the autoplay feature for playlist in v1.0.7 because it still has some bugs due to flash media cannot be played.

Originally Posted by Animemike

Well the Other video button has a load button just add the URL click and boom its all done and added tags, title , etc...

the lazy way they like lol:erm:

I see, that sounds cool. I may come up with something similar later

Originally Posted by logoz2008

Thanks, I got it done. :- )

Great Mod indeed thank you. I just needed for audio and not the video etc. stuff.

This option will be included in future version

[logoz2008]

Originally Posted by silveryhat

1. In some case, the playlist cannot be generated because tmp folder is not writable or does not exist , try to CHMOD it to 777

Okay I got it working but I don't know if it the best way to go about it.

The issue was that the playlist was calling on: $row[url]

The songs are using local Url. So $row[url] calls only upon half portion of the full url in the playlist: /artist/song_number.mp3

Local url is defined as : site/forum/music/media

So when it was loading it was calling on site/forum/artist/song_number.mp3 (missing the the /music/media part after the forum/)

When playing all the songs in album, it wouldn't work unless it is complete url: site/forum/music/media/artist/song_number.mp3

I defined "".$dnpOptions['local_url_path']."$row[url]\" in musicajax.php which works, but I dont know if its best way because if anyone opened the .asx file in editor they can see where the songs are stored.

Plus if you add external media it will call the local url path + the external link in $row[url].

I hope I made sense lOl

p.s. music.php loc is at site/forum/music.php

[Lift for Life]

This is an amazing feature. I was a bit hesitant at first but decided to give it a try and am absolutely blown with the look, feel and functionality of this add on. Am just getting started with loading media and want to add more content before adding it to the main skin but test thus far greatly exceed expectation.

Thanks
NOMINATED

Lift

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by logoz2008

Okay I got it working but I don't know if it the best way to go about it.

The issue was that the playlist was calling on: $row[url]

The songs are using local Url. So $row[url] calls only upon half portion of the full url in the playlist: /artist/song_number.mp3

Local url is defined as : site/forum/music/media

So when it was loading it was calling on site/forum/artist/song_number.mp3 (missing the the /music/media part after the forum/)

When playing all the songs in album, it wouldn't work unless it is complete url: site/forum/music/media/artist/song_number.mp3

I defined "".$dnpOptions['local_url_path']."$row[url]\" in musicajax.php which works, but I dont know if its best way because if anyone opened the .asx file in editor they can see where the songs are stored.

Plus if you add external media it will call the local url path + the external link in $row[url].

I hope I made sense lOl

p.s. music.php loc is at site/forum/music.php

I see what you mean and it could possibly be a bug. The auto play all audio is an old plugin by DnP and I will upgrade it myself in next version

Originally Posted by Lift for Life

This is an amazing feature. I was a bit hesitant at first but decided to give it a try and am absolutely blown with the look, feel and functionality of this add on. Am just getting started with loading media and want to add more content before adding it to the main skin but test thus far greatly exceed expectation.

Thanks
NOMINATED

Lift

Thanks for the positive feedback , should I bring all compliments to the first post for good impression