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Points: 32553 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:06
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:



PS: What do you think of the SPEAKER in the reviews now ? Geek


Just when you almost started to feel this site couldn't get any better... Thumbs Up
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:07
Too cool, M@X! Non invasive and it lets you explore the artist faster. Excellent!



(now how do we get one of those for interviews that have audio content attached to them? )
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Points: 4075 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:10
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:


(now how do we get one of those for interviews that have audio content attached to them? )


Audio Interviews needs to be added as regular mp3.

Like AYREON & others...

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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:26
Wow! The speakers are great! Excellent idea M@X!!

EDIT: I know this is not the reporting thread, but as we are on topic, King Crimson's review/s appear with the speaker but really don't have mp3's, as far as I'm concerned.


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Points: 32553 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:38
Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Wow! The speakers are great! Excellent idea M@X!!

EDIT: I know this is not the reporting thread, but as we are on topic, King Crimson's review/s appear with the speaker but really don't have mp3's, as far as I'm concerned.


I'm afraid you'll have to contact Mr. Fripp on that one, Pablo.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 16:43
^No man, I know the copyright thingy, but bands that don't have mp3's the speaker doesn't show, that's what I'm reffering.
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 17:05
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:


(now how do we get one of those for interviews that have audio content attached to them? )


Audio Interviews needs to be added as regular mp3.

Like AYREON & others...

??


I mean - is there a chance to have one of those speakers for each artist we interview? Bring up the audio content so that you can chill and listen to the artist while reading the interview, or for the few that have an audio interview, listen and read along - or something like that.
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Points: 17298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 19:27
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Thanks to you guys for bringing constructive comments.

PS: What do you think of the SPEAKER in the reviews now ? Geek



Max, not to be too demanding today, but since you askedLOL

I think the speakers are best left inside the artist page for one reason.  I notice that the tracks available will often not be tracks from the album being reviewed, thus, a noob who doesn't know the artist may click on the song and think they are hearing something from that album.  As we all know album quality varies wildly between albums.  (I realize the album cover is shown in the pop-up but not everyone will notice)

I think if the track was married to the album being reviewed it would be OK, but as it is now you could have a 5 star track present for one of the worst titles from the artist, giving a Noob the impression he was hearing that, assuming he's not bright enough to figure it out. 

But I realize how much work that would likely be, so feel free to ignoreLOL

You said you like feedback, right???
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Points: 4075 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 23:04
Finn,

I also want to promote the player since it's under-use according to my web logs. It's a nice feature and I also bare that in mind while adding it.

I think we should give a try for some days....
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 01:40
I agree with M@x about the player, it's a great asset to any site, actually I've been trying to implement it on my future site/blog but as I'm a coding illiterate I crashed trying to read various tutorials LOL
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 01:43
Kinda cool feature I guess, if something I'll never use really.
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Points: 3073 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 04:01
I like the new speaker feature, but agree with Finnforest that it should link to samples from the album thatīs reviewed and not to songs from other albums by the artist.
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Points: 6457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 05:10
Since we're on the topic of the front page I'll make this question here. Is it possible to bring back the Prog News, Press Releases area to the Forum New Topics window? If there are to be only three forums displayed like there is now, I think the news section should be more importat than the interviews.

edit: Oh, now I scrolled it all the way to the bottom, and there it is. Well, I think it was better up there with Lounge, Polls and Interviews. Now it seems kind of hidden under everything else. Hard to find if you don't miss it and search for it.


Edited by Keppa4v - February 14 2009 at 05:12
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Points: 4075 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2009 at 03:38
Ok , i've changed the POPULAR ARTIST mechanism and it's now pretty LIVE, I mean it is based on the previous day data. So basically , it's showing the TOP 40 artists with most page viewed the day before today.

Please comments.
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Points: 774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2009 at 15:04
Very cool, M@x! The site is improving day by day, it's a fantastic feeling to belong here! Clap
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