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

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Post by tstegart » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 4:37 PM UTC

agentbleu wrote: post #14

tstegart wrote: post #3

Are we supposed to comment on the coding or the business model? Not bad for four weeks coding. Might have a little trouble making money with the copyright issues involved.

feel free to give your thoughts regardless

The work is good. The interface isn't very polished, but it sounds like you haven't really worked on it yet, so I assume you'll polish it up later.

On the copyright side, there have been issues in the past (http://news.cnet.com/Lyrics-site-negotiates-copyright-issues...). I'm not sure how they were worked out, or if a defense of "everyone else is doing it" justifies reliance. You should look into any updates in the area, and also be aware that one day someone might disagree with you on if its ok (and by disagree I mean sue).

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

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Post by deathbob » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 8:15 PM UTC

agentbleu wrote: post #28

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.

Well the flash thing is really cool, it's awesome to have the song to listen to and because the images are pulled from wherever sometimes they're hilarious :). Really nice piece of work!

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

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Post by agentbleu » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 10:08 PM UTC

tstegart wrote: post #41

agentbleu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

feel free to give your thoughts regardless

The work is good. The interface isn't very polished, but it sounds like you haven't really worked on it yet, so I assume you'll polish it up later. On the copyright side, there have been issues in the past ( http://news.cnet.com/Lyrics-site-negotiates-copyright-issues... ). I'm not sure how they were worked out, or if a defense of "everyone else is doing it" justifies reliance. You should look into any updates in the…

yes that was like 10 years ago Published: February 8, 1999 11:25 AM PST

I think things have gotten out of hand since then.

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

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Post by agentbleu » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 10:12 PM UTC

agentbleu wrote: post #40

pistoriusp wrote: post #38

http://www.myplaylist.biz/Coldplay/Lost/269837 this was displayed on the page above: array(1) { [0]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(8) "coldplay" [1]=> int(0) } } here1 coldplayhere2 coldplay And if I take the lyrics from this page, "Just because I'm loosing" or Just because I'm loosing, it doesn't find Coldplay. Am I incorrect in assuming it should find this? I think it's pretty cool, but I would give the user the option…

u just caught me checking something hence the array. looking into the search problem now. thanks

Turns out in FullText search In boolean mode, there are many stop words, "it's" "I'M" are just 2 of them. Seems I have hit a limitation there on the tech. It will have to be as good as it gets I'm afraid. Short of putting in a custom search engine, that's as fas as the tech allows for them moment, unless I build in a workaround to change all single quotes something else then change back. I will sleep on that...