ProgRadar - Stay up to date on new releases!

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Have a look at this cool new feed:

http://progfreak.com/srv/progradar.xml

It should be pretty self explanatory, but here we go: Whenever someone first tags an album as progressive at Progfreak.com, the album appears on that list. It's like a weblog which is compiled automatically from all the PF users, and you can use it as a notification service for new releases. Of course I would be glad if more people contributed - but there are already many high profile experts aboard, Windhawk and avestin, rushfan4 and many more ... and of course yours truly.

Please guys, give me some feedback on this, regardless of whether you're going to use it or not. And if you don't know it already: If you contribute and also assign genre information, artists will automatically be listed on the suggestion page of the appropriate PA genre team as well - so your contribution would benefit both PF and PA.

Edited by Mr ProgFreak - January 04 2009 at 05:29

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Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Topic: ProgRadar - Stay up to date on new releases! Posted: January 04 2009 at 05:28
	Have a look at this cool new feed: http://progfreak.com/srv/progradar.xml It should be pretty self explanatory, but here we go: Whenever someone first tags an album as progressive at Progfreak.com, the album appears on that list. It's like a weblog which is compiled automatically from all the PF users, and you can use it as a notification service for new releases. Of course I would be glad if more people contributed - but there are already many high profile experts aboard, Windhawk and avestin, rushfan4 and many more ... and of course yours truly. Please guys, give me some feedback on this, regardless of whether you're going to use it or not. And if you don't know it already: If you contribute and also assign genre information, artists will automatically be listed on the suggestion page of the appropriate PA genre team as well - so your contribution would benefit both PF and PA. Edited by Mr ProgFreak - January 04 2009 at 05:29

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: January 04 2009 at 06:42
	Update: Changed the layout a little bit. The text in the feed now contains Myspace links and album cover art / links to amazon, CDBaby and emusic.com.

MovingPictures07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: January 09 2008 Location: Beasty Heart Status: Offline Points: 32181	Posted: January 04 2009 at 08:56
	This is neat, Mike! I think having the band's website (well, if they have one) would also be a good addition next to the Amazon and other links. It's a great way to keep up with new releases. Edited by MovingPictures07 - January 04 2009 at 08:57


Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: January 04 2009 at 12:04
	Added another cool feature, to increase the usefulness of the feed: You can personalize it, so that albums which you already know are not listed: http://progfreak.com/srv/progradar.xml?user=Mike Simply put your user name in that url instead of mine to get your own feed!

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: January 05 2009 at 04:22
	Yet another update: The feed items now contain special links which render narrow versions of the album pages. You can set your feed reader to open the feed url instead of showing the descriptions. BTW: If you've never used feed readers except for Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can try this one: http://www.feedreader.com/ The idea is that you use it to monitor several feeds. PA offers a few, PF too - for example for monitoring genre chart activities.

Angelo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244	Posted: January 05 2009 at 05:28
	Nice idea, we can only hope people are going to use it.
	ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected]

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: January 05 2009 at 08:25
	^ I still have my hopes that more people will start to use PF regularly. It doesn't necessarily take much time at all ... whenever you're listening to a fascinating album, you can (you don't have to - I myself don't do that meticulously every time I listen to music) look it up at PF and submit some tags, or maybe add it to your playlist. It typically takes less than a minute, but it can accomplish a number of things. To name only one: If it's an album by a band that's not currently listed in the archives, the proper tags will automatically put the band onto the suggestions page of the appropriate genre team.

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: January 11 2009 at 15:54
	FYI: The feed url works properly in Opera now ... thanks to cobb2, who made me aware of the problem. Be advised though that while you can view the feed with Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera, it's real power unfolds when you use it with a proper feed reader. The idea is that you use an application that runs on your computer and monitors several feeds. Then you can view the results of all the feeds together. If you like you can try http://www.google.com/reader ... there you can view several feeds online. You can also use http://www.feedreader.com/ ... that's an offline newsreader which you install on your computer. You'll receive new feed entries as you would receive emails in an application like Outlook or Thunderbird. BTW: If you're already using Thunderbird you can also use it for RSS feeds. As an user of PA and PF, you could for example monitor the latest PA reviews, PF/PA genre team activities and PF prog radar ... Edited by Mr ProgFreak - January 11 2009 at 15:56