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OK, I need some advice on how best to present the information before I attempt the next one in the list: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36702.

Edited by NotAProghead - March 09 2025 at 17:49

^ Yes, the image aligns perfectly with the biography now.  I think M@X has actually made a big mistake with this 'new format', and how it affects images on the site. David (Atavachron) brought this up in a thread I started back in mid-February when I was getting intermittent errors loading PA artist pages.

Edited by yam yam - March 08 2025 at 17:31

^ Had a very quick look at the first 15 of those. About half of them have already been updated by José or yourself, but all the ones that remain untouched have no total time and no brackets around the individual track times for starters. The releases information is probably incomplete in most of those too.

Edited by yam yam - March 08 2025 at 20:01

yam yam wrote: ...it would result in a huge, long list in the Line-up / Musicians section, and I'm not sure if that field would accept it without throwing up an error and deleting the page ID (as has happened before when large amounts of text have been entered in the Releases information section). It looks as though the final credits listing would run to somewhere around 1000 characters, and that has certainly been too many for the Releases information section to cope with in the past.

It looks as though the Line-up / Musicians section doesn't have the same limited maximum character count that the Releases information section does, so we might get away with entering the full orchestra info after all. 

yam yam wrote: projeKct wrote: ^ After two years, I'm happy to announce that the issue (�) is finally resolved — at least, I think so! If you notice any other anomalies, feel free to mention them here. I can reach out to M@X fairly quickly. On all album pages, at the bottom, in the PROGARCHIVES REVIEWS GUIDELINES section, we have this: 1 - Write in ENGLISH, we regret that we cannot accept reviews in other languages. Avoid the use of on-line translators wherever possible, they will not do justice to your efforts. Do not use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in your reviews, standard sentence case should be used at all times. Do not use abbreviations or ï¿½texting� language. Remember to check your review for spelling, grammar and punctuation. A poorly presented review can distract the reader from the well written content. Reviews accepted should be a MINIMUM 100 words preferably substantially more, no maximum. Not a big issue really, since it doesn't affect any of our work on here, but maybe M@X would like to get rid of this last remaining (hopefully lol!) bit of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics from the site?

Also done in Julien's list:

Edited by yam yam - March 09 2025 at 20:14

Next one from Julien's list: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38644. Not an awful lot wrong with this one tbf. It's been picked up by Julien's script because the line: 1. Track title (3:04) had been left in the track list.

Edited by NotAProghead - 1 hour 10 minutes ago at 12:33

Last one for tonight is done: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=40004. This is just a digital single, with no track time and a very short song title, so it was picked up by the script.

Edited by NotAProghead - 1 hour 3 minutes ago at 12:40

^ Here you are, Jim - download link to Eugene's upload of George's AFTv1.3 utility, with instructions on how to use it, and details of the very few instances where it doesn't work. George talks about his utility somewhere in the collab zone, and a v1.4 was developed which capitalises the third 'T' in 'Total Time' (v1.3 outputs it as 'Total time', but manually typing in that second uppercase 'T' is no problem at all). All the links in the collab zone are dead Sendspace ones, so the only version which still has a live link on line is v1.3. I use it all the time, and it's a massive help when you've got a load of albums to add, or missing track lists etc. to fix. Julien developed a total time calculator too, but I've never seen how that one works to be able to compare the two.

Edited by yam yam - 15 hours 7 minutes ago at 22:36

^ I can assure you that George's utility is totally safe, uses hardly any system resources when you run it, and you don't have to install anything into the program files area of your computer. The archive simply has its contents extracted by your unzipping program into a folder containing just two notepad files, a small .exe utility which does the time calculation and makes any necessary changes to the text formatting, and a windows command script which tells the .exe utility what steps to take at each stage of the process.