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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?
I think it's cos SM doesn't like black people.
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Call it peace or call it treason; call it love or call it reason, but i ain't marchin' any more.
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
when i try to look at the tracks on certain albums all the ones that i'm checking don't have tracks listed. they don't seem to be listed on any :(
hey on the edit profile link it will not allow me to edit any of my interests do you know why. hey i would like to give you a thumbs up for using PHP Apache and MySQL I use it for work and it is phenomenal.(that last word isn't spelled right)
hey it doesn't also say that i have submitted any comments when in fact i did for THe Recluse by cursive on the fourth page
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 Administrator
Just a heads up, not sure if you know but on the Press page, when you click the links (gif, jpeg and tiff)
404 Not Found
nginx/0.6.31
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Last modified on 2008-11-14 19:26:07 by syko_brat
For a bunch of users, on the page where it says "You are currrently viewing X's profile" it says that their join date is December 31, 1969.
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 Administrator
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.
Could you please ad a feature that displays the date the lyrics where posted? I'm pretty sure you guys had it before the web 2.0 thing.
can't suggest an album for an artist, and an album I suggested just never went through?
lol
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www.soundclick.com/dannyb520 -- mad new beats YO
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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If we can't be free, can't we at least be cheap?
~ ♫ . ♫ . ♫ . ♫ ~FreezeSukka~ ♫ . ♫ . ♫ . ♫ ~
might not always work but i've gotten some success with it. i would fix this, it's kinda important.
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i am a tortured soul, wandering in a nihilistic paradise... oh won't someone rescue me
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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 Administrator
hello mike did you fix it?
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i am a tortured soul, wandering in a nihilistic paradise... oh won't someone rescue me
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:
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/18523/
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/18299/
That's not all, but it's what the page looks like
okay... the new site is really cool. i like it a lot :) but.. (and this could just be my shitty computer) everytime i copy & paste a journal/lyric link in my URL bar, it just takes me to the Songmeanings homepage... i'd greatly appreciate any advice or help!
The search function is really wonky. What happened to Hobo has happened to me a few times. Most recently, right now. The search never came up with Jim Cuddy before today. Turns out it's been there for over a year. It's not just a Jim thing either as it's happened with other bands.
I've checked out a band before without finding it in the database. Ok, so I come back a couple days later after checking some lyrics and then I find out the band's been listed for 7 years.
I wasn't under the influence while conducting searches by the way.
It looks like these comments were split away from original song...
Orphaned comments: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858500425/
And here is the song as linked from artist's page (all comments dated after above orphaned thread):
hmmm, what browser are you using?
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
Hey, when I post a reply on the forums, I dont get the formatting bar anymore? Any reason for it? Also, the pictures thread still isnt working :S
what browser?
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
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Yeah, same here. Isn't this a problem for anyone else?
I think this is the only useful way to view lyrics as I mostly listen to an entire album at the time.
Also a feature which show all lyrics in an album on one single page would be sweet.
Other than that I really like the site (well the users with thoughtful comments especially!).
Sorry if my english is a little rusty...
Albums are not yet working.
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I cry for the time that you were almost mine, I cry for the memories I've left behind, I cry for the pain, the lost, the old the new, I cry for the times I thought I had you
I've noticed that when I'm going to submit a track that's instrumental, I click the "is this an instrumental" box and it auto enters the information but when submitted, it shows up with a (No lyrics yet) tag at the end of the lyric and has no indication that the track is an instrumental (i.e. Dead Can Dance - To the Shore). I'm not sure if it's jsut my computer but I've noticed it's happened to me a few times within the last few weeks
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http://www.last.fm/user/Delirium-Cordia
Happens to all of them. Not sure what we're doing about it, but it is known and has been brought up.
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I cry for the time that you were almost mine, I cry for the memories I've left behind, I cry for the pain, the lost, the old the new, I cry for the times I thought I had you
editing journals never seems to work.
am i posssibly doing something wrong?
Natasha is lost without a handy azkm-quote. 
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Call it peace or call it treason; call it love or call it reason, but i ain't marchin' any more.
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I get the "you have 1 new message" message but when I click on it, it's empty.
I have that too!
Also, I have issues viewing others' journals. I don't know if it's my computer or the website, but everything always seems to crash as soon as I click on the latest journal link. I also can't reply to journals.
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"Alright boys, bring it in, bring it in. Now the Spider Pirates win this race every year, and I, for one, am not going to take it anymore! That's why I brought in these guys. These guys are the best."
now it's two messages, yay.
Blue Öyster Cult is still listed as Blue "yster Cult.
If the Ö is an issue it would be better to list it as O than ", obviously.
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I cry for the time that you were almost mine, I cry for the memories I've left behind, I cry for the pain, the lost, the old the new, I cry for the times I thought I had you
Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth : http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/43991/
Can't get this page to display properly. Am I the only one ?
I know the forum quoting problem has been reported before, but it doesn't seem to be in this thread. So...
You can't quote the first post in any forum thread.
E.g. when i tried to quote random_monkey's post at the head of this thread i got this error message:
SELECT * FROM sm030_forum_category as category , sm017_forum_thread as thread WHERE category.category_id = thread.category_id AND thread.thread_id = 821821; failed
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Call it peace or call it treason; call it love or call it reason, but i ain't marchin' any more.
fixed! nice catch with the first post quoting!
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
oh yeah, it's been like that forever...i guess i assumed someone else mentioned it already.
and you changed it but didn't really fix it; now, when you try to quote the first post it just acts like you hit reply instead of quote. there's no quoted text in the form on the page that comes up.
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www.soundclick.com/dannyb520 -- mad new beats YO
ah yeah, forgot the extra trailing comment id to quote.. woops... ill fix tonight
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
I get no results, no matter who, or what, I serach for.
Instead I get this
"Query failed: connection to 10.0.0.11:3312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused). "
The link to the Lyric Report thread is not up to date on the Help page.
http://www.songmeanings.net/help/3/
It still points to: http://www.songmeanings.net/thread.php?tid=12520
And it's actually: http://www.songmeanings.net/forum/viewtopic/860/
Good thing it's "stickied" right on top so I had no problem finding it manually in the forum. But you should have it fixed anyway right?
I don't fully understand, but I can't edit my interests.
I don't know if thats just cause I'm new or if it's cause of new layout stuff or whatever.
Just want to know if I'm the only one or not?
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Yeah, pretty much. =]
Not quite there yet. :)
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
alright. haha I was like... "am I retarded or will it not let me click?" haha okay well hope it gets working soon. =)
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Yeah, pretty much. =]
I just noticed when I was suggesting an artist, you get asked if you want to receive a PM about the completion or something, but I couldn't click either yes or no.. Is that intentional or an error?
Hmm, I cant view the main page. It just says everytime that we're down for maintanence. Its pretty annoying :P
refresh your browser's cache
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
Ahhh
*nods*
Sorry, Im new to this firefox thing :P
For some reason Jimi Hendrix songs are unavailable. They aren't there when i search for them by name, and when i go on his artist page, clicking on a song sends me to an error message
Hey Joe where going with that Gun of yours?
I ging the shot my wife.
is that Misogynistic
anyway,
everytime I come to this site without log in
my computer blocks a pop up
I don't want to be linking to pages with pop ups
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NO WAR
not sure if this is just stupidity on my part, but the editing journals thing never seems to work for me.
Along with nightmarryyou & CurtneyIsASuperher0, I can't edit journals either :(
it still says i'm a "member" even though i've posted 50 lyrics.... shouldn't it be "trusted member"....?
nevermind, i am trusted now... :)
Like some other members above, I have one new message but when I go into my inbox there's nothing. But I've gotten other messages...it's just the one that won't show up. Or it doesn't exist..? idk. I'm so confused.
Is there a reason why it doesn't show up? If you can fix this, that'd be awesome.
Thanks!
=me
No, you are not the only one. I came to report the very same.
This is the error message I got:
Pop up ads are around this morning?
I would just like to bring up this problem one more time. It's been mentioned a couple of times in here.
Just a bit frustrating that almost all of the Jimi Hendrix songs are unviewable.
I'm thinking about deleting the hendrix lyrics and resubmitting them. I cannot figure out for the life of me why that error message comes up.
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
way too much ads, popups.. what the hell!?
maybe not an error per se, but an error in judgement by someone..
We're in the process of revamping our inventory with our ad company.
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mike
SongMeanings Administrator
Hey.
How long does it take for submitted artists to be accessible by search? For instance, I added artist http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/137438990983/
on the 26th, but it's still not accessible by search, either in Artists, or by searching by Song.
That seems to be a widespread error right now, I've reported it to the other mods and we're working on figuring out a cause and solution. 
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"Dressed by hand-me-down, hair designed by pillow,"
desTondl said something similar, but I was looking specifically at Spanish songs and any letter with an accent comes out as a weird question mark. Accents aren't nearly as difficult as some symbols (in my opinion), and it totally ruins the flow of a song with those question symbols. In my keyboard, I just hit "option and 'e' and then the letter I want."
I've been getting "504 - Gateway Error" or something similar every 20 minutes or so since last night, and it lasts about 15 minutes, it's quite annoying.
Things look OK on our end. Please let me know if you continue to see this.
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SM Grease Monkey
I searched and didn't see my problems posted so:
My interaction page is pretty much all fed up. It does say the number or lyrics I've posted, and I think it also says the number of artists I've submitted, but you can't browse them. That number is also wrong, though- it says I've submitted one artist when I've submitted quite a few. Not that it really matters, but I was just wondering if this was going to be fixed and if other people had the same problem.
There are others (like the page codification - gawd - but... I know you guys are working your hardest for this site. Thanks!
(I was also going to edit the errors in my previous post and it gave me the "you're no authorized to perform this action" error. :P)
I recently tried to search some songs from Sonic Youth, but the page tells me an error occured for every single one.
Whenever I try to open the secon page of any genere It leads me back to the homepage. Can somebody help me out or is it a general error?