Yet Another Lyric Site, Or Is It?

[Kevin]

I know there are a lot of lyric sites out there, but I found at least one flaw with every one of them. None of them had everything I thought a lyric site should have--user interaction. People adding lyrics, people commenting on lyrics, people talking about lyrics. So with my newfound PHP and MySQL knowledge, I decided to give writing a lyric solution a shot.

Over the past few months I've been programming a site backend with PHP that talks to a MySQL database, and I think it's pretty close to the ultimate lyric site. It's got everything:

• User addition of lyrics in real time.
• Commenting of lyrics in real time.
• Lyric rating.
• Discussion forums to discuss non-lyric issues.
• User profiles.
• ... and more being added all the time.

So, I ask you to help me beta test the site before it goes live on its own domain and server.

The URL where you can find the beta version is:

http://www.urban-digital.net/songmeanings/

Check out the beta information page (link at the top) to find out how you can submit bug reports, view recently fixed bugs, and suggest new features.

Thanks guys!

[rm']

Kevin, that sounds like a fantastic idea. I'll report any nastiness I find.

[Kevin]

Thanks, and feel free to sign up for an account and add some lyrics... the more the merrier!

[rm']

I dunno if it's PHP or mail.com, but it takes an awful long time to recieve that there confirmation email. On top of that, you need a way to display more than 7 artists at a time (or am I just not looking har enough?). Which reminds me; I can't find a link to the listing of artists on the main page. I had to check out an artist spotlight, and from there, go to all the other artists.

[Kevin]

The Confirmation E-Mail: Server is having problems with Sendmail, so it's disabled for now, but it still says its sending. I'll change that.

Artist List: At the bottom there is a link that says 'list all artists' which brings up a list of 20 artists at a time (20 per page * 7 pages). The division of pages cuts down on server load, but I suppose I could add a list of all artists at one time. You can also click a letter to display all the artists that begin with that letter.

Thanks for testing, Radioactive Man!

[tjb2004]

Dude, that site is awesome! Keep us updated!

[tjb2004]

You know what you should do is for each artist have the artist name then the cd's that they have produced, then in the cd's have the songs. These could all be viewed at once just like the way the songs are now by the artist but they would be more organized and easier for people to find songs.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by tjb2004
You know what you should do is for each artist have the artist name then the cd's that they have produced, then in the cd's have the songs. These could all be viewed at once just like the way the songs are now by the artist but they would be more organized and easier for people to find songs.

I've actually thought about that, but... I would have to work out a few problems if I wanted to do it... it wouldn't take much but it would require a little more work in adding lyrics, which might mean less lyrics overall, I dunno.

But, I'm seriously considering that

[bonj]

Wow.. damn nice, Kevin The site looks *very* promising. It's exactly what I'd look for in a lyrics site. I've been looking for a good one ever since lyrics.ch got shut down and went crappy.

[tjb2004]

Originally posted by Kevin
But, I'm seriously considering that

Hope you do it!

[Ice]

nice

[Kevin]

Thanks for the compliments guys, I worked pretty hard on it and I'm glad to see people like it!

[Ice]

you know what'd be cool? is if we could add artists..

real cool site.

[Kevin]

Actually, I have the form to do that, but... its generally restricted to administrators. But I'll consider it.

Your idea has been added to the progress list... hehe

http://www.urban-digital.net/songmeanings/live/progress.php

Down the road I think it would be cool if there was a plugin to interface SongMeanings with Winamp. For example, play a song, it searches the database and displays the lyrics in the minibrowser. Now that would be cool!

[Ice]

thats be real cool.. but you could already do that with the minibrowser.. i forgot how exactly.. but in one of the files you can set the default page in the minibrowser and use variables in the url (like artist and song title).