ThirdChord

It’s been a while, but progress is being made. ThirdChord has had a bit of download activity lateley and the new users are submitting some good bug requests. I am currently working on version 0.85 which will fix all of these bugs and will also add a few good features.

0.85 will contain support for the aforementioned themes which will allow a much easier customization of the “front-end grid”. In addition, I will address the most requested feature - deletion of albums and tracks. I know it’s pretty annoying to upload and process a batch of tracks only to realize that they are incorrect or you dont want them lingering around for what ever reason. This version should allow you to clean that mess up.

I don’t want to promise dates, but I have been devoting some serious time to it so I hope to have it out there soon.

Thanks to Giles’s, 0.84 fixes a bug that was casing some installations (most Dreamhost customers) to not be able to save any information. The bug was caused by a problem with the way xajax was written. This version also upgrades the xajax library to its latest version - 0.2.4.

For the full change-log, head on over to the forum.

On onther fronts, the transformation to Ruby on Rails is not going as planned. I have to curb my over ambitious goals for this project for now and instead focus on smaller, more mangeable changes. Right now I am working on adding a way to create and mange track grid themes. These themes will allow Thirdchord users to customize the way the track grid is displayed to their customers on their website. I’ll be rolling that one out in the next few days.

I had hard coded “Bobbie and the Douche Bags” into trackGrid.php for some strange reason which was causing the “Add to Cart” buttons not to work. This is fixed now. This release added CDATA tags to the data in rss feed and updated the license.txt file.

0.82 fixed a few minor things, one of which hopefully being a problem with the Flash track editor and track player movies where the fonts were not embedded correctly. A few people have made mention of incompatibility with PHP 5. I fixed one issue, but I do not have a test set up with PHP5 installed so I am quite sure there are many others.

In addition, this version ships with an RSS feed. This feed will be used to index users content back into the ThirdChord database.

This kicks off the inaugural offering of the ThirdChord source base. It is released under the GPL.

Get it from the front page of the ThirdChord site. There is a support forum here for any questions you may have while installing or using.