GrammaFone http://www.grammafone.com Your Digital Music System Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Demo Stats http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/demo-stats/ http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/demo-stats/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:44 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/?p=24 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
]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/demo-stats/feed/ First Update for 2009 http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/first-update-for-2009/ http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/first-update-for-2009/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:50:36 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/?p=17 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!

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/02/first-update-for-2009/feed/ Support now available at our Google Group http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/01/support-now-available-at-our-google-group/ http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/01/support-now-available-at-our-google-group/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:39:59 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/01/support-now-available-at-our-google-group/ 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!

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2009/02/01/support-now-available-at-our-google-group/feed/ demo playlist growing http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/08/demo-playlist-growing/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/08/demo-playlist-growing/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:37:24 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/08/demo-playlist-growing/ We are now happily serving 2500 songs on demo.  GrammaFone continues to grow.

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

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/08/demo-playlist-growing/feed/ GrammaFone 0.1 beta Coming Soon http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/07/grammafone-01-beta-on-the-way/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/07/grammafone-01-beta-on-the-way/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:26:25 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/?p=13 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?

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/07/07/grammafone-01-beta-on-the-way/feed/ Flash player now on by default http://www.grammafone.com/2008/06/22/flash-player-now-on-by-default/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/06/22/flash-player-now-on-by-default/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:35:13 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/?p=12 The latest svn revision (#171) of GrammaFone now has both the flash player and m3u streaming available from the same GUI.  We’ve also updated to the latest JW media player, and the latest script.aculo.usjavascript library as well.

http://demo.grammafone.com has been updated, so give it a shot.

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/06/22/flash-player-now-on-by-default/feed/ Playlists with the flash player http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/07/playlists-with-the-flash-player/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/07/playlists-with-the-flash-player/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:21:20 +0000 benbruscella http://www.grammafone.com/?p=11 The flash player now works with the full playlist! And it is very nice to use.  Niro has done a great job.

If you want to try this on the demo site, remember that the flash player is not the default play mode.  You have to turn it on in your account options, log out and log back in.  This will be resolved soon too.

We have a couple of blocker issues we are looking at but the first release is coming along nicely.

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/07/playlists-with-the-flash-player/feed/ Help us out http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/03/help-us-out/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/03/help-us-out/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:28:40 +0000 admin http://www.grammafone.com/?p=10 There is no official release yet, but we decided to setup a demo site for you guys to play with and give us feedback.

The site is here:

http://demo.grammafone.com

Register, play and feedback to the support forums.

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/04/03/help-us-out/feed/ Preliminary music uploads and flash jukebox support http://www.grammafone.com/2008/03/31/preliminary-music-uploads-and-flash-jukebox-support/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/03/31/preliminary-music-uploads-and-flash-jukebox-support/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:02:16 +0000 admin http://www.grammafone.com/?p=9 Niro has commited preliminary versions of an ajax based file upload system for grammafone, as well as a basic flash jukebox player ! Full playlist support is not quite finished, but should be soon at this rate. If you want to try this out, remember to switch from the default streaming mode and login again to see the flash player.

If you’ve got some time, please play with the latest trunk and let us know how it goes in the support forum.

Cheers!

]]> http://www.grammafone.com/2008/03/31/preliminary-music-uploads-and-flash-jukebox-support/feed/ New Developer joins GrammaFone http://www.grammafone.com/2008/02/16/new-developer-joins-grammafone/ http://www.grammafone.com/2008/02/16/new-developer-joins-grammafone/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:51:30 +0000 admin http://www.grammafone.com/?p=8 Myke Cocolla has joined the GrammaFone dev team, and has already posted a fix for that annoying Amazon API key whitespace problem. Thanks Myke! Check out the fixes here and here.

Remember to keep an eye on development at the trac page, get the code using subversion (no official release yet) and chat about it on the forum.

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