Live Underground Music

New music player in the works

Daem0nX — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:58:02 +0000

It has been far too long since any news (or anything for that matter) has been posted, sorry. Quick explaination? Being laid off and unemployed sucks. Times are rough, but some code has been hammered out recently. Wrote a new class to help speed up dev (70 lines to 7), and am currently working on a new music player. Still working out a few issues, writing functions for it, etc but dev for the site isn’t dead.

Quick ping

Daem0nX — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:03:19 +0000

We’re still here and throwing around ideas to move the site forward however after new years things slowed down quite a bit. Jen and I are back at work and in school so that takes priority at the moment. Once things calm down we’ll pick this back up. =)

Small upload bug fixed

Daem0nX — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:04:43 +0000

I accidentally left in some code while debugging the new upload component and forgot about it when I put it into production. While I don’t believe it would have caused any issues uploading files, if you had any problems please let me know.

Happy New Year!

Daem0nX — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:01:05 +0000

We hope all of you are out enjoying the end of 2008 and welcoming in 2009. Maybe Jen or I will see you at a party =)

New Upload System is LIVE!
We here at Live Underground Music (LUM) have been putting in OT and are ringing in the New Year with a new upload system. It may not look great at the moment, but I assure you, this new upload leaves the old form in the dust. I’ll resume work on updating the system along with other aspects of the site after the new year and my move is complete.

If you encounter any issues with the new upload component or anything on the site, please use the contact us page / form and let us know what is going on.

Couple new things

Daem0nX — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:39:36 +0000

Updates are probably going to freeze for hopefully just a few days while I move. After getting setup in the new place I’ll try to resume work near the same pace as the last week.

Added a page for Bands by Genre. It still needs a lot of work but basic works for initial design. I’ll update it later to display how many songs that band has, etc.

Added a music player to the band profiles. It will only load in that bands songs. The “Launch Player” link will still launch the original player, with all the music in one interface.

Quick update

Daem0nX — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:18:04 +0000

So I spent some of my Xmas coding a url change for the site. Band profile pages will now link as /band/Band+Name instead of the ugly id=# An example of this is
www.liveundergroundmusic.com/band/A+Birdsong+Valentine
While you’re on their profile page reading the info, check out the track “Knowing the Problem”. You can download the song from their profile or listen to it in the player. Additionally, the Band name will be displayed in the title bar. (I used their profile as the profile preview in the last post by the way.)

In other news, www.TheLUM.com is being updated too! You’ll soon be You’re now able to tack on additional info to go to the page you want. Such as www.TheLUM.com/blog will take you here. You can use it for linking to bands as well such as www.thelum.com/band/The+Jank Ah, short urls =)

The uploader is still being worked on, a few things from the template css styles are being messed up. At the moment it’s trial and error fixing.

Xmas presents

Daem0nX — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:43:33 +0000

Well one one and a half to be exact… band profile pages are now live. They may not be perfect, but hey, I’m not a CSS expert and I’ve been spending most my time on the upload system. Anyway, hit the music page, click on a band name and check out any info they provided.

Band Profiles:

Upload system progress:
Core functions are in place for the component
Fixed some formatting issue with custom additions
Added custom input fields
Preparing to add into the site to fix formatting from site template css
Will start working on the upload script that processes the file soon

Update – started testing the upload component in LUM. Working on some issues.
Preview image =)

Work slowly resumes between holiday and next school semester

Daem0nX — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:22:30 +0000

Worked on the profile code a little bit, getting back into the code structure due to the break while at school. Added reCaptcha to create band page. Changed a little code to clean up user info so no extra slashes \ are shown on the profile page (description).

The bug I was having issues with and looking for, for our upload component has been found. I’ve started testing with the fix (will be fixed in next beta) and will continue testing for the custom changes LUM requires.

Was sifting through the database and noticed that quite a few songs have been downloaded and listened to via the player. Hopefully we’ll have more stuff up soon.

December news

Daem0nX — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:17:39 +0000

Yep, still dealing with finals (last week, w00t).

Started testing with the new uploading component. I’ve started testing the examples and have a portion of it working but trying to figure out a bug introduced by the latest release, however progress is being made.

Hope everyone has a merry xmas or [insert holiday name here] =)

Swarming Holidays

Daem0nX — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:41:51 +0000

Halloween, Thanksgiving and now Xmas.

Updates for the time:
Updating blog code
We put up the draft of the LUM Manifesto
Adding more ideas to the ever growing list for the site
Switched from Prototype to jQuery for AJAX
Started toying with new buttons and alert message styles
Started integrating recaptcha into the site
Continuing to look into a template redesign so things flow together better
The base code of the upload system being worked on has changed due to flash 10
-Due to these changes everything needs to be retested – delayed again, ugh

MISC
Hopefully things will pick back up soon as at least my school semester is ending in two weeks.
Hope everyone dealing with finals right now is pulling through =)