Demo Stats


Written on February 2, 2009 – 4:14 am | by benbruscella

A design goal for GrammaFone is that it works well with a large music collection. demo.grammafone.com is getting there:

Songs: 3963
Albums: 667
Artists: 435
Genres: 37
Total Time: 283:58:27
Total Size: 23.6430GB
Registered Users: 44

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First Update for 2009


Written on February 2, 2009 – 3:50 am | by benbruscella

The demo site has been updated with the latest code -svn #272.

Features of this release are:

  • Hover information fixed after drag/drop in playlist
  • Install on Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP (XAMPP) fixed
  • Updated Amazon code to the current Amazon Associates Web Service for artwork
  • New default browse Mode.
  • Player verified with IE7, finally!

That’s correct, you can now install GrammaFone on a local windows machine running XAMPP, and you can use IE7. And you get artwork from Amazon providing you’ve got an API key.  I’ve tested this on both XP and Vista, and things look good so far.

This all came about because I was recently forced to use a Windows development environment for work, so I decided to see how hard it would be to get GrammaFone to run in that world in my spare time.  Turns out it was pretty easy.

Apart from some platform dependent php checks, this one was a big problem:

var r = document.createRange();

In case you’re wondering, this call is nice for certain browsers, but not so much IE, so now we just stuff the innerHTML from the ajax return into the playlist, and everyone is happy.  And yes, that includes Google Chrome!

Can you imagine a world with GrammaFone on a webkit browser and an iPhone with flash support in your hand?  NICE!

I’d love to hear from anyone installing this on a windows platform.  Remember though, you will need curl support to get the artwork from Amazon.

Enjoy!

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Support now available at our Google Group


Written on February 1, 2009 – 8:39 pm | by benbruscella

I got sick of all the spam management on the forum, so the forum posts have been sent to our google group. GrammaFone will be using this group for support from now on. Enjoy!

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demo playlist growing


Written on July 8, 2008 – 8:37 am | by benbruscella

We are now happily serving 2500 songs on demo.  GrammaFone continues to grow.

Please test so GrammaFone is the best Music server out there!

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GrammaFone 0.1 beta Coming Soon


Written on July 7, 2008 – 8:26 pm | by benbruscella

GrammaFone is fast approaching its first beta release!  The demo site is now running svn #227, which includes these major changes from mp3act:

  • playlist Drag Drop support using prototype and scriptaculous
  • Play music anywhere on the file system
  • Flash player (the famous jw media player) on by default
  • Streaming (M3U playlist) without mode switching

There are a few bugs we want to squash before uploading the beta, but expect a release in the next 2-3 weeks.

Go try the latest version now, its pretty cool.

http://demo.grammafone.com

Now, a question.  GrammaFone has been tested on firefox and safari, but has trouble on IE.  I hate IE, but should we support it or not?

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