Howdy folks

Now that the new site has gone live, we're working to iron out some of the problems that have inevitably come along with it.

If you've noticed an error, please check the threads in this forum and the bugs and issues forum before posting to let us know about it; chances are we're aware and are working towards getting it sorted

Thank you for your patience while it's all sorted it out ^_^ 

This isn't so much an error, but I have noticed it.

Before when you'd look up an artist, at the bottom it would list similar sounding artists, but I can't seem to find that anymore. Is that a feature that's been taken away?

Aye, it's currently unavailable. With this new code we've had a chance to look at the way some of the things we have work, and to see if we can improve on them. This is one of those areas where we've got different ideas that we're playing around with, but wasn't deemed essential enough to go live with the new version.

In short, it will eventually be back in one form or another :)

Well, I've been having problems with my searches. I don't know if it's just my computer or what.

 But if I type in an artist or song title, it'll either take me to a previous search, or no results found.

For instance, I tried searching Kanye West, and it said no artists found. Then I tried again, checking any spelling errors, but then it took me to Amanda Perez, who I had searched five minutes prior.

 So I can't search anything at all.

Anything I could be doing wrong?

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SongMeanings Underling

hej,

I do like the new layout. However, letters that are not used in English are now shown by those stupid signs, as on many other sites. :(

This used to be no problem, but well, now it is. This makes it especially difficult to search for artists that have ü/ö/ä or ß in their names...

Now, since there are many languages with other signs (eg French, German, Swedish...), it would be great if you could sort that out. Thx a lot....

desTondl

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Last modified on 2008-11-09 10:18:09 by desTondl

Slight problem I just noticed.
Some of my favorites are twice on my favorites list. It's probably because sometimes I clicked on the "Add to favorites" link twice, but it didn't show on the old SM.

Very minor problem with little priority, but still, just letting you guys know.

I think a lot of them duplicated when I was converting the data over to the new database.  You can just delete the duplicates, if you don't mind.  

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mike SongMeanings Admin

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Last modified on 2008-11-14 19:26:07 by syko_brat

select uf2.user_id, uf2.artist_id, count(uf2.artist_id) as count from users_favorites as uf inner join users_favorites as uf2 on uf2.artist_id=uf.artist_id and uf2.user_id=uf.user_id and uf2.id!=uf.id group by uf2.artist_id having count > '1'

That finds your dupes, and then you just need to setup a while or foreach loop to do...

delete from users_favorites where user_id=$row['user_id'] and artist_id=$row['artist_id'] limit 1

cool, thanks chad -- how goes everything with mmmdi?

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mike SongMeanings Admin

By the by... that only gets rid of one of the dupes, so if it's somehow possible to have a band in a user's list more than twice, you might want to run it a couple of times (or you could do something like limit $row('count')-1 in the second query).  Also, you're obviously going to want to change the table / field names to match your setup, but I imagine that's fairly close to how you guys did your db.

And MMMDI, it goes... about the same, I guess.  I've been spending most of my time playing around with MvMMDI, truth be told... there's just something about the actual coding aspect that I enjoy more,  so it's been fun building that from the ground up.

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I've got just 2 small things to bring attention to...

• While I know that it may not apply to more than one artist, that I can think of at the moment... Is it possible to make it so that when searching for an artist, such as "Too $hort," that if you type in the letter "S" instead of the dollar sign "$" it would simply recognize what we're searching for? (I don't know shit about coding whatsoever. So I have no idea if that's a simple fix, or not.)
• I have no idea if anyone else uses "IESpell" besides myself. It's something I've grown accustomed to having. The problem is, when writing in the Forums, it won't allow you to just 'right click' and check your spelling. Again, if that's not an easy fix, it's really not that big of a deal. It just kinda comes in handy some times.

Other than that, I'm really diggin' the new site guys (and gals too!)

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might not always work but i've gotten some success with it. i would fix this, it's kinda important.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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Last modified on 2008-12-03 16:40:36 by mike

I'm on top of it.  Thank you.

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mike SongMeanings Admin

hello mike did you fix it?

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

whenever I post a comment, it signs me out... it's not a cookies problem as it only happens when I post comments.

When I type Jimi Hendrix in the search bar, the search doesn't find him, and when I actually managed to get to the page with all his songs, a bunch of them don't have the lyrics:

songmeanings.net/songs/view/18523/

songmeanings.net/songs/view/18299/

That's not all, but it's what the page looks like