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Post by Spud »

Most of your recent requests have been implemented.

*frankie please skip the rest...

The pisser of it is that I had outlined all this on my way to Louisville, as something to do while stuck in a hotel room out of town. When I saw the thread, I lost my enthusiasm, because the potential for surprise was gone, and it would totally look like I had caved in to user demand.

However, I have regrouped, realized that I am in fact nothing more than your tool, and gone ahead and implemented these features as previously planned. Woohoo.
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Spud wrote: *frankie please skip the rest...
why?
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Spud, you so totally caved. And it's a beautiful thing.
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Post by boltoph »

It looks great and is a surprise to me. The thread is my bad, wish I hadn't ruined it for you Spud. I didn't know...but the update rocks. Esp. that you were already outlining the idea, having nothing to do with the thread.
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Post by Leaf »

Ah Spud... I hate when that happens.

HOWEVER!!!

Please, oh please, you are not a "tool". You are a facilitator. And that's a hell of a task, which you and the others do quite well...

... so I'm gonna go check and be all suprised.
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nice job spud. you're getting soft in yer old age. :P
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I have to add that if I had waited another week to mention anything at all, right now i'd just be writing a thank you note saying, "man, I was just thinking about that!! yeah!" so...yeah!! thanks.
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Well, guys, for being so nice, here's a freebie you didn't even ask for:

You can now "stream all" an individual artist.

I know, I know.
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Spud wrote:Well, guys, for being so nice, here's a freebie you didn't even ask for[...]
Oh lovely. Oh wonderful. Spud is so good to us.

I think, as a special thankyou to Spud, we should have a fight of Octothorpe cov....Oh. Bugger.

Well if we didn't have one already we should have had one anyway.
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YAY STREAM ALL ARTIST.
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Spud wrote: You can now "stream all" an individual artist.
So, being the silly and rather stupid person I am, I figured "heh, bet if I stream by title and then by date I'll get the same stream." BUT NO...they're by title, and by date. Go figure. Intelligent design may just be a viable theory after all.

Your's truly...not worthy.
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Yeah, the playlists are generated on the fly, so not only are they sorted properly, they are continuously up to date, excluding the current fight.
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Oh, what the hell. We're on a roll here. Winning Statistics added to bottom of Artist pages.
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How do I update my artist page?
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Post by erik »

Spud wrote:Yeah, the playlists are generated on the fly, so not only are they sorted properly, they are continuously up to date, excluding the current fight.
Man, this is a serious badass feature. Totally makes it easy to browse the archives. Yay you.
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Spud = awesome!
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I think Erik is still waiting for his flying car, though.
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Father Bingo wrote:How do I update my artist page?
I hope to have an upload form worked up in the near future, but for now, you have to go with the old standby, email (songnews address on the front page will work). Feel free to attach a 400x400 image as well.


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You can now "stream all" of the fightmasters' current picks.

It has been suggested that there be an archive of these picks, or that the pick status be somehow conveyed on the artist pages, but that it not possible at this time, as they are not stored. This may come at some point in the future. Or not.
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Post by king_arthur »

There's a new post today from jb about "how to win fightmaster's heart" when sending in songs...

Would it be possible to include the "abbreviations" to be used for each song somewhere? JB's example, for example, says that if the song is "Look Good In Black" to send it in as "flamingnoobies_lgib" but there's no way to know for sure that "lgib" is going to be the abbreviation. "lgib" is the obvious guess, but sometimes it's not so obvious...

Maybe this info could be included in the first post in each week's prefight thread or something? Like...

C: One Beautiful Summer (obs)
V: Mad City (mcity)
S: Tanker Truck (ttrk)

That would help those of us who are trying to be good to be even better :-)

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Kapitano thinks this is a plusgood idea. So good he wonders why no one else thought of it before.
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Here is a suggestion that I have no idea how hard it would be to implement:

The first time you recieve an submission from a given email, send back an email that says something like:

"Welcome to songfight! Thank you for your first submission! To make things run as smooth as possible, we ask that you send emails in the following format: 1) Subject line is the title of the song 2) Body of email is your band name 3) Name of attached mp3 is bandnamenospacesandwithoutthewordthe_abbreviationoftitle.mp3 (if a band called "The John Benjamin Band" wanted to submit a song for the title "Look Good in Black", then they would send an mp3 entitled johnbenjaminband_lgib.mp3). If your first submission was already in this format, congratulations and keep up the good work."
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