I Have A Proposition (alternative, albums, effect, tunes, copyright)

Mirrorball95 · 05-04-2009, 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

I think an alternative to what OP might be getting at is having the ability to embed a streaming flash music player. You know, those kind where you upload songs to a public server and make a playlist, then embed the player.
(I guess playlist.com would even be an option, provided the music is already available there)

The benefit wouldn't be extreme, but I can see how it'd make things slightly easier than following links to other sites.
I don't see how that would be any different than embedding Youtube videos as far as legality is concerned.

Any thoughts?

Edit:
To add on to this, I wonder how feasible it'd be to have the ability to embed a small flash music player in your sig that holds a streaming playlist of your fave tunes that others can click and listen to at any point.

Yeah I just thought it would be good to have some a couple of Robert Plant tracks available to stream on the post & I think it would be better than having links. Never mind anyway.

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Originally Posted by toretorden

Yup, my point is that you can't upload pirated music to the musicbanter server. At least I wouldn't want that because it puts the site in danger. If you can stream it from other sites, that would solve that problem.

On last.fm, there is a [track artist=Yes]Close to the Edge[/track] function that would then make close to the edge a clickable link to it's stream. Maybe it's possible to add such last.fm function to the forum with a little php knowledge.

I could have a look into it. I think it's fun anyways.

I understand the piracy issue, what I was saying is that you dismissed my idea as 'obviously' not a good idea whereas piracy issues aside, it would be beneficial to the users of this site. Just forget it anyway man.

Guybrush · 05-04-2009, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Mirrorball95

I understand the piracy issue, what I was saying is that you dismissed my idea as 'obviously' not a good idea whereas piracy issues aside, it would be beneficial to the users of this site. Just forget it anyway man.

If people can attach mp3s, they will attach pirated music. It's not a hard scenario to imagine. Of course mods could moderate all attachments, but that could be a lot of work and there are other ways (as I mentioned in my last post). Musicbanter is not responsible for the contents of other sites, so it's better to stream/link to such things off-site.

At least, that's my opinion but it should make sense to others as well.

Freebase Dali · 05-04-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

If people can attach mp3s, they will attach pirated music. It's not a hard scenario to imagine. Of course mods could moderate all attachments, but that could be a lot of work and there are other ways (as I mentioned in my last post). Musicbanter is not responsible for the contents of other sites, so it's better to stream/link to such things off-site.

At least, that's my opinion but it should make sense to others as well.

Tore, any thoughts on my idea of being able to embed a streaming flash player in sigs?

Mirrorball95 · 05-04-2009, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Silvernails

A "new music" thread would be a really good idea, especially if it had some form of 30 second sample of a song or something

Yeah thats another good idea but theyll get their asses kicked for piracy/copyright etc so just forget it man.

Guybrush · 05-04-2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

Tore, any thoughts on my idea of being able to embed a streaming flash player in sigs?

Not at the moment!

Despite Mirrorball's suggestion to "forget about it", I've already written up a simple snippet of code that will enable a new BBCode, [lfmtrack]. Wrapping it around a track title will produce a simple link to the song's last.fm page where, if it exists, you can usually get a 30 sec sample (in rare cases the whole song).

It would work like this : [lfmtrack artist=Madrugada]Vocal[/lfmtrack]

And that would produce a simple link like this : Vocal

It's not certain it will be added (mods can't add new codes), but it's very simple to do and I'll give it a push.