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Tony Provencher Approved 
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holleyhall wrote: Just wondering if I went back to the previous page design I had would I get all my song images and song comments back? although I do like the new layout I do miss having those features and having the opportunity to comment on other artists songs as well. Also I am not sure how to update my favorite songs in this new set up? sorry for so many questions. Hi, Holley, I have been back and forth between my old (Sage) theme and the new one. Not only do you get your song images back, but you also get back all your theme customisations as well. It will not change the theme of ezFolk mp3 section, nor the themes other artists have chosen, so I don't think it will have any effect on your ability to comment on other artists, offerings. Hope this helps. P.S. http://www.w3schools.com/ is a GREAT site! I have used it many times. Last edited on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 08:03 pm by Tony Provencher ____________________  My ezFolk Page My Websites
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holleyhall Approved 
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Hi Tony! I just set my page back to the previous layout and all the pictures and stuff did come back. I really did like some of the features of the new layout but really missed those other features it lost so I guess I will leave it as is for now. Perhaps at some later date I will be ready for a new makeover. Cheers! Holley 
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James Connolly Approved 
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Richard, On the new MediaPro theme, i notice there is only a Hi-Fi Stream to play the songs and albums, unfortunately i am still on Dial-Up, guess I'm behind the times. Anyway, my question is, are the Lo-Fi streams eliminated on the new theme ? or will this change sometime in the future ? In order for me to listen to the new songs I would have to DOWNLOAD them in HI-Fi to listen properly and this would take hours. I do miss listening to the new songs and new artists. Thanks, JamC
____________________ James (Seamus) Connolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/jamesconnolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/422/popmp3.php http://www.myspace.com/celticseamus |
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Richard Hefner Administrator 
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James, I think that might be one of the drawbacks of using MediaPro. I read recently that only about 10% of Internet users are still on dial-up, and while it would be nice to have the LoFi links still in there, things are probably headed in the other direction. There are some things you can do to still play songs on ezFolk in LoFi. For instance, you could create LoFi radio stations for the music you want to listen to. Those would be stored in your own music section and you can listen to them, include any ezFolk artists you want, change them around, invite other listeners, or whatever. Maybe somebody else can throw in some ideas about what they do with a dial-up on ezFolk. Hope that helps!
____________________ Richard Hefner Webmaster, ezFolk.com MP3 Page: http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/richardhefner Running Blog: http://old-runner.com |
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Tony Provencher Approved
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I noticed the absence of lofi also, and would like to add my voice to a request to have that feature included. Dial-up service is not always a choice people make, but, rather, is imposed on them by the services provided at their location. I'm sure there are many people, like my relatives in Western Massachusetts, for whom broadband is not even offered. James, you can still access lofi versions of songs that have one with a little bit of url modification. Just get the url (Right click>'Copy link location', in Firefox) of the song. Paste it into the address bar of your browser. It will look something like this: http://ezfolk.com/audio/play.php?mode=song_hifi&band_id=934&song_id=4005 Change the 'hifi' in the string to 'lofi'. It will then look something like this: http://ezfolk.com/audio/play.php?mode=song_lofi&band_id=934&song_id=4005 Peace, Last edited on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 12:13 am by Tony Provencher ____________________ My ezFolk Page My Websites
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Richard Hefner Administrator
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Back when we tried Evolution (by the same author) we had the same discussion because it didn't include LoFi links either. At that time I had the template customized to include LoFi and paid about $200 to have it done. I really don't have the 200 bucks to do it again, but if somebody can do the customization that would be great, or if everybody interested wants to get together and come up with the extra $200 that'll work too. Let me know if that sounds like something you folks want to do.
____________________ Richard Hefner Webmaster, ezFolk.com MP3 Page: http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/richardhefner Running Blog: http://old-runner.com |
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Tony Provencher Approved
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I'd be very happy to pitch in. Let us know how. Gotta run now. Won't be back till evening. See ya then.
____________________ My ezFolk Page My Websites
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HowlinHobbit Approved 
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I have the PHP knowledge to do the alteration on the template. What I don't have is the "how these templates are put together" knowledge. Things like what custom tags do which thing, etc. Do you know where I could get such info?
____________________ Howlin' Hobbit Got Uke? MySpace ezFolk UkeLand |
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Richard Hefner Administrator
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HowlinHobbit wrote: I have the PHP knowledge to do the alteration on the template. What I don't have is the "how these templates are put together" knowledge. Things like what custom tags do which thing, etc. Do you know where I could get such info? HH, The templates are all Smarty templates... http://www.smarty.net/ The Jamroom part of it has extensive documentation that can be found here... http://www.jamroom.net/Documentation I do pretty minor changes myself. I keep wanting to learn all the inner workings of both Smarty and Jamroom but haven't gotten around to it, and the older I get the less likely I am to ever do it.
____________________ Richard Hefner Webmaster, ezFolk.com MP3 Page: http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/richardhefner Running Blog: http://old-runner.com |
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James Connolly Approved
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Hey Provencher, you're a genius ! the LO-FI works fine now with a little finagling of the url address. just been listening to "In Answer To A Letter", sounding sweet there Yony. Hopefully now a lo-fi version will be created when artists post new material. Rock on Folkies ! JamC
____________________ James (Seamus) Connolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/jamesconnolly http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/422/popmp3.php http://www.myspace.com/celticseamus |
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Tony Provencher Approved
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James, Thank you. I have just uploaded two new songs, and can confirm that the program will still create a lofi version by default, so, if any new artists' songs do not have a lofi version, it is because they chose to defeat lofi creator. Hobbit, you're my hero! Richard, I'm still more than willing to pitch in, in any way I can, including anteing up some funds to go toward improvements like this one. Cheers,
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Tony Provencher Approved
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I have found a relatively easy temporary solution that sort of kills two birds with one stone for artists who would like to use the MediaPro template, and still offer lofi links and personal chart. I posted about it here: http://www.ezfolk.com/forums/forum6/6147.html Last edited on Sun Aug 24th, 2008 07:36 pm by Tony Provencher ____________________ My ezFolk Page My Websites
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HowlinHobbit Approved
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OK. Near as I can tell, this page has the variables needed. Since the hifi play is already there, a search needs to be done (GREP?) on all of the assorted template files for the theme looking for the string "{$SONG_HIFI_PLAY}" to appear. Then you look at the file(s) that show up in the search and duplicate all of the $SONG_HIFI_whatever variables using the $SONG_LOFI_whatever variables. I don't want to go through all the hoorah of setting up JamRoom on my local machine, but if Richard would zip up a copy of all the template files that go with the current theme and mail 'em to me, I'll see if I can track down where the song stuff happens and figure out if I'm just blowing smoke or if I can do something about it. I ought to be able to tell if I'm in the right area simply by looking at the code and comparing it to the page in question... but I can't guarantee anything. I remember looking into this once before and being flabbergasted at how widely and chaotically the stuff was spread in so many files. Probably makes sense to the programmers, and may well make sense in the efficiency department, but it sure makes for a steep learning curve!
____________________ Howlin' Hobbit Got Uke? MySpace ezFolk UkeLand |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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Sounds like they are into "Structured Programming" and "Object Oriented Programming," HH. I'm an old spaghetti-coder myself and just have the worst time with the new-fangled coding techniques.
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HowlinHobbit Approved
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I like structure and OOP doesn't bother me. It's all this scattered and uncommented stuff that drives me batty.
____________________ Howlin' Hobbit Got Uke? MySpace ezFolk UkeLand |
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