MyOnlineBand Alpha Release Sept 30th
JamMaster
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/myonlineband/web/alpha-release-sept-30th
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.
JamMaster
posted. This includes my first pass at the following features:
Create Profile Wizard
Personal Home Pages
Create Project Wizard
Project Workspace
Please sign into the site and check it out. If you have not registed
for the site, please sign up. Any feedback both positive and negitive
is needed.
JamMaster
profile wizard. You can now use the skill builder. The personal home
page has been much improved.
I have fixed a few bugs and added a few more bells and whistals.
If you have time stop by the site and check out the changes. Let me
know what you think. If you come across any bugs, please report them.
I have some issues with the rich text editors in firefox. This may be
an issue if you are using the Project Workspace and are uploading
files. Everything works fine in IE as far as I can tell.
Try creating a project. The site currently only supports the "Public"
collaboration model right now so even if you select one of the other
models any registered user will still be able to join in. The other
collaboration models are more for offline bands that want to share
information. This feature may not make the Alpha.
The invite others feature on the project workspaces has not been
completed yet. You can do the main stuff though (upload mixes, add
comments). Uploads are currently limited to 15mb. If you have larger
files you can link them rather then upload. You will still be able to
track downloads on linked files.
JamMaster
noting:
- Project Workspace page has been improved. The time out for uploads
has been increased to 4 minutes. A few bugs have been fixed and a cool
roll over effect has been added to the uploaded file list.
- Profile Builder is now complete. Try cutting and pasting your
MySpace content into the rich text editor. It should preserve all of
your content including pictures and hyperlinks.
- You can now access your portal using a shortcut URL (for example
http://www.myonlineband.com/sharkboy )
- The "Invite Others" feature now works. You can enter in the email
addresses of musicians that you would like to collaborate with. The
system will send an email to each of the people that includes your
personal message, the project name and description and a link to the
project workspace.
- The "New Artist", "Top Artist", and "Artist Search" pages are now
functional.
- The "New Projects" and "Projects Home" pages are now functional.
- The "Post Comments" Feature of the project workspace is now
functional.
- The "Members Home Page" (http://www.myonlineband.com/members/ ) now
includes a list of all projects that you have started.
Bad news for mac users. I will not be supporting Safari until I create
a mobile version. The testing I did using the Safari beta for the PC
was real bad. Not even then menus work.
The site does support Firefox but there are still problems with forms
that use the rich text editor. I will probably add some code that will
display a normal text box rather then the rich text editor when people
use Firefox. The best user experience is still in IE though.
JamMaster
the sight and everything does work. The only problems are with the top
menu bar.
On Sep 17, 10:27 am, JamMaster <ciliber...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The site was refreshed again last night. There are a few changes worth
> noting:
> - Project Workspace page has been improved. The time out for uploads
> has been increased to 4 minutes. A few bugs have been fixed and a cool
> roll over effect has been added to the uploaded file list.
>
> - Profile Builder is now complete. Try cutting and pasting your
> MySpace content into the rich text editor. It should preserve all of
> your content including pictures and hyperlinks.
>
> - You can now access your portal using a shortcut URL (for examplehttp://www.myonlineband.com/sharkboy)
>
> - The "Invite Others" feature now works. You can enter in the email
> addresses of musicians that you would like to collaborate with. The
> system will send an email to each of the people that includes your
> personal message, the project name and description and a link to the
> project workspace.
>
> - The "New Artist", "Top Artist", and "Artist Search" pages are now
> functional.
>
> - The "New Projects" and "Projects Home" pages are now functional.
>
> - The "Post Comments" Feature of the project workspace is now
> functional.
>
> - The "Members Home Page" (http://www.myonlineband.com/members/) now
JamMaster
mostly bug fixes.
I have now fixed most of the browser compatibility issues. The site
works in all major browsers including FireFox and Safari. I have
tested using the Safari beta for Windows. If someone could verify on a
Mac it would be a big help.
For the image uploads, I now automatically resize the image so that it
wont be as distorted. I check to see if the image is larger then the
hight or width I use in the profile views. If it is I resize to image
to 150 X 150 but while maintaining the aspect ratio.
Also I have removed all of the menu items that go to unfinshed pages.
On the Project Workspace page I have made the file lists sortable and
have enabled paging. I also have the project members section working.
Everyone who uploads a file is automatically added as a member.
I should have the streaming audio up and running in a few days. Stay
tuned.
> > use Firefox. The best user experience is still in IE though.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
JamMaster
Alpha are now in production. Also I have moved the site to the new
hosting provider. This allows me to up the limit on the uploads. I am
ging everyone 200 MB to start. You can earn more by participating in
projects and refering people to the site.
Also, I have a new file upload component that gives you feedback on
your uploads using a status bar. It fixes all the timeout issues and
is a much better end user experiece. I have also added streaming
audio. For this refresh, the streams are any availible on your
profile. By the way you can now upload an unlimited number of demo
tracks for your profile.
Check out my updated profile : http://www.myonlineband.com/sharkboy.
If you click "play", if you don't have the Silverlight plug-in you
will be promted to install it. Details will play the song on it's own
page. The song page can coontain lots of info about the song.
I have run into some issues getting this to work with Firefox. This
looks like it is a firefox bug that effects quicktime and flash as
well. I am looking for a work around. It works fine in IE and Safari
on the Mac. Silverlight is a great technology. It is, right now the
only way to stream WMA audio to a Mac. This is why all the other sites
make you convert everything to MP3. With Myonlineband.com, you upload
whatever you want and we stream it. The onlything I cannot stream is
MP4.
I need all of your help in building this community. Please try and get
on the site and forward this to your friends.
Anyone interseted in playing some shows in the New York Area to
support the site, please let me know. I am lining up some dates with
promoters and am working on a deal with Manny's music to help promote
the site.
JamMaster
The following changes have been made:
· Fixed a few ascetic issues with main navigation menu
· New home page now shows new artists and latest published tracks. I
have posted around 10 tracks and Real Justice has also posted a
sample
· On the Manage Published Media Page you can now specify whether or
not you want your published tracks to be downloadable. You can
specify
· No Downloads - In the future this will be tied into the e-commerce
system. No Downloads will change to Purchase only. For now the
Download button is grayed out for these tracks. This is the default
value.
· Allow downloads for registered users - Any logged in member will be
able to download.
· Free Downloads - The sing will be free to download for all users.
· Added a delete option for both published songs and uploaded mixes
and tracks.
· Added Read-Only version of the project workspace for non-register
users and the Google spider. This works much better with the "Invite
Others" feature.
· Check out Real Justice's essay on "Recording Fundamentals"
· Added a music page that allows you to browser all published tracks.
· Song Details page - Each song gets it's own page that shows lyrics,
a personal description of the song, supporting artists and a photo.
· Many bug fixes and minor tweaks.