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4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

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Re: 4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

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Post by ra »

agentbleu wrote: post #12
shawndrost wrote: post #9

Cool stuff! A few bugs: under the "recently viewed" header, the same song appears twice in a row. You're getting text encoding funkiness -- http://www.myplaylist.biz/Coldplay/Cemeteries-Of-London/2698...

'You're getting text encoding funkiness --??' please explain what you see, all looks good here?

Same here - characters in the lyrics aren't displaying correctly - like the character encoding is incorrect. (Firefox on Windoze xp)

You need to sanitize the text you are storing to unicode. Here's a cut and paste:

Singing la lalalalala la lé… And the night over London lay…

Re: 4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

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Post by nir »

This is very cool :)

By default, if the search string consists of more than 1 word do you do an OR or AND search? It seems OR from the results I'm getting, but most people now are conditioned by Google to expect an AND search (which really makes more sense..)

Great work, either way.

Re: 4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

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Post by anewaccountname »

dime wrote: post #20

I would highly suggest you get a license to feature the lyrics on your site if you intend on going mainstream. Aside from legal troubles you could face, I think intellectual property should be respected. Using someone's copyrighted material without their consent is never ok.

>Using someone's copyrighted material without their consent is never ok.

Sometimes it is fine.

Re: 4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

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Post by agentbleu »

deathbob wrote: post #15

Found all three songs I looked for first try, but site is getting pretty slow. Might try whittling down the number of results returned. Also saw text encoding funkiness. Really nice tho, bookmarked. How are you getting the songs and pictures in the flash on the left?

hmm, site getting slow. I have to be careful about robots, they can kill it, as its all generated dynamically thus memory is an issue and I just downgraded memory as I like to run a tight ship.

The flash widget I built, its all custom, Images from Flickr and MP3s sourced through Seeqpod, both have shit hot APIs.

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