My suggestion concerning the website

While I was viewing the website, I thought to my self why there is no prog index by countries? It'd be very helpful if I could look for bands by countries. I know that I can search for a band and go to its country and look for other bands from the same country, but countries that have very few bands can hardly be found when I make a random search for a random word like my country, for instance,  and looking through the entire list takes so much time and energy that I never do it. Let me know what you think, I believe it would be helpful.

Edited by Dan Yaron

Hey Snow Dog, I can do that, but what I mean is that finding bands from Cuba, for instance, a country that has only one bad isn't very easy considering the fact that most people including me won't go through the entire A-Z list just for one band from a country that has one band, I found that Cuban band while looking through the A-Z option, and I didn't think there had been any Cuban bands before I found that band without even looking for it. In a nutshell, I just think it'd be another useful way to discover new bands.

Dan Yaron wrote: Hey Snow Dog, I can do that, but what I mean is that finding bands from Cuba, for instance, a country that has only one bad isn't very easy considering the fact that most people including me won't go through the entire A-Z list just for one band from a country that has one band, I found that Cuban band while looking through the A-Z option, and I didn't think there had been any Cuban bands before I found that band without even looking for it. In a nutshell, I just think it'd be another useful way to discover new bands.

Dan,

I don't know if M@X intends to implement a facility to search for a country by keyword along the lines you suggest (and I agree it would be useful), but you can search for bands from a particular country - albeit less conveniently - by typing the following URL into the Address box of your Web browser:

http://www.progarchives.com/Band-list.asp?country=1

where the last digit(s) are a country code, which I assume is M@X's own as it does not correspond to the UN or ISO country code standards.

The above URL will list Argentinian bands in the Archives. If you replace the 1 with 199 then you will list the bands from Uzbekistan in the Archives.

The country codes for all the bands in the Archives to date are listed below. Notice that country code 140 is for the 'country' Various and 210 is for the 'country' Multi-National. I assume that they were intended to be the same thing, in which case the relevant entries in the database need to be corrected.

Argentina	1
Armenia	11
Australia	13
Austria	14
Belgium	22
Brazil	108
Canada	37
Chile	42
Cuba	53
Czech Republic	55
Denmark	56
England	206
Estonia	65
Finland	70
France	71
Germany	77
Greece	80
Hungary	91
Indonesia	94
Ireland	97
Israel	98
Italy	99
Japan	101
Latvia	112
Luxembourg	119
Mexico	132
Multi-National	210
Netherlands	145
New Zealand	147
Norway	153
Panama	157
Peru	160
Poland	162
Portugal	163
Romania	167
Russia	168
Scotland	208
Siberia	213
Slovakia	211
Slovenia	212
Spain	207
Sweden	178
Switzerland	179
Turkey	190
Turkmenistan	191
United States	197
Uruguay	198
Uzbekistan	199
Various	140
Venezuela	200
Yugoslavia	203

You can enter country codes not on the above list. Try a few, in case I've missed out a country in the above list.

 

Edited by Fitzcarraldo

Hey Easy Livin'..you Admin now? Or have you always been since I've been here and I Haven't noticed?

Tony R wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Hey Easy Livin'..you Admin now? Or have you always been since I've been here and I Haven't noticed?  Easy has passed over to the other side,Snowy....forget him and get on with your pathetic existence.

Ok Tony "R" Us

Wow....you are now in the higher circle!  Looking down from your lofty plateau at us mere insects!........Crumbs!

Easy Livin wrote: That's a useful list Fitz, it must have taken ages to prepare! I think the difference between Various and Multi-national is that Various is for various artists albums, multi-national is for when the the members of a single band are from different countries. I could be wrong though..

Thanks, Easy. It only took about 15 minutes to put the list together: with Excel in one window and just running the cursor quickly down the countries in another window, for band pages A to Z in turn. With the cursor over a country hyperlink, the country code is displayed in the bottom line of the Internet Explorer window. There are so many repeated countries under each letter that it was quick to check through each list, although I might have missed one or two.

The only entry in the Archives with the 'country' "Various" is GONGZILLA, which the biography says is an international band, so I assume that the 'country' Various (code 140) is actually the same as the 'country' "Multi-National" (code 210). Anyway, no doubt M@X will enlighten us and fix it, if necessary.

My favourite country code is 9. Maybe the penguins have hidden talents.

 

Edited by Fitzcarraldo