JukeFly Blog

I checked out a new Macbook in the Apple Store today, loaded up JukeFly and saw that in Safari with the default setup, couldn’t even see the whole page!

So, I drove back to the office, and shaved off another 40 pixels or so from the mininmum height of the site.   The big problem is we have these old left over controls for the community page and to see your friends etc.  The checkerboard grid is the problem.  It doesn’t resize well, and it’s just not very useful.

If you see any problems or wierd scroll bars where you don’t think they should be, send us a message (feedback tab, forum, or comment on blog, we’ll get it).

The radio feature is currently offline — we’re looking to do a quick reimplementation on the feature to make it more useful and will keep you posted.

After moving the forums Vbulletin blew up, even though we patched up the URL’s in the db as we were told to do.  So it’s not working correctly right now.

They are back up now.  If you have a problem, let us know through any channel (blog, forum, or feedback tab on the site)

We upgraded our server software to use Phusion Passenger instead of Mongrels for better server performance.

One side effect however is we can’t really use Apache’s ModRewrite anymore which means the form and blog are no longer at http://jukefly.com/forum and http://jukefly.com/blog

Instead, they are now here:  http://forum.jukefly.com and http://blog.jukefly.com

Technically it’s cleaner this way anyhow.   However, this means RSS feeds from the blog will be broken, so if you subscribed, you’ll need to re-subscribe again to the new RSS feed.

We spent the last week heavily optimizing our database and code to speed up syncing by about 50x faster.   You can now sync any reasonable number of songs (say 100,000) and it never slows down.

We can in theory handle about 600 new songs per second (too bad your PC can’t get the id3 tag info out that fast).   So in one hour, we could import 2.1 million songs versus before about 43k songs.

We changed a lot of code, and did a lot of testing, but if you do find something odd, please let us know on the forum or the feedback tab of the site.

We just noticed an error pop-up when the the lyrics window was being displayed. This was due the addition of an extra tag by lyricwiki - one of the sites we use when searching for lyrics. Its been fixed. Please let us know if we missed anything.

Thanks to our user uncleramsay we fixed our sort by Album.  The problem was, if you had multiple artists on an album, it would sub-sort the artists first before the track number.

So now, if you sort by Album, it’ll sub-sort the track number next, then if there is no track number, by Artist.

Thank you uncleramsay for figuring this bug out!

If you see a blank page where all your music is supposed to be, please send us feedback.  We had a caching issue that caused this.

A huge thanks to our user bruce_bardis for giving feedback on this problem, without him many new users signing up may of been affected by the problem and not stuck around on the site!  Thank you!

We added a Listening History button to the main music tab to show you what you’ve listened to in the last 24 hours.  You can copy this as plain text or as XML to the clipboard then use that data somewhere else if you wish.   Eventually, we want to be able to automatically call an external URL when you play a song on JukeFly thereby you can push your activities to another site and even render the results of that push inside JukeFly.com.

For now, if you want to know what you listened to in the last 24 hours, press the button.   A user named BUBBLES on our site requested this feature as he runs a radio show where he needs to know what he played so he can publish that to his listeners.   We figured, if he wants it, someone else might want it too.

Keep the feature requests coming!

Both the “Remember Me” on the login box and uploading photos are fixed!   Remember Me currently will remember you for 2 weeks, after that time you’ll have to login again.   If you disagree with 2 weeks and think it should be longer, let us know.