JukeFly Blog

We had massive spam attacks on the forums over the holidays and didn’t have the proper setup to handle it while some people were away.   We’re back on top of it and will be switching to a moderated system until a better anti-spam solution can be found.   If you happen to know how to handle spam in an elegant way on vBulletin board system, feel free to leave a comment or shoot us a line (our email found to the right -> About page).

Thanks!

News broke, can’t get the RSS feed — Will fix it in a bit, we’ve got bigger better features coming soon

I’m on a mini-vacation right now with some family for the holidays over thanksgiving, we were using JukeFly to play some music for a little get together last night (mostly 80’s dance) and found we had a search bug, a pretty nasty one.

When you changed the search type from say Artist to Title etc, it was using a stale cache and the search results were completely bogus.  This is fixed now (thanks to my trusty Macbook Pro) and all is well again.

I also found that we got requests from people for music I didn’t have, in which I hit the Video tab to find the tunes on YouTube to play.  It became clear very quickly that we should be able to queue up a YouTube video like any other song possibly in a playlist so it’ll just keep going whether the song is on your library collection or over the netsomewhere.

What do you think?

We had a hardware failure which caused us some downtime today.  The problem has been resolved and we’re putting in redundant measures to make sure it does not happen again.

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.