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Covers (PDF, JPG, and so on) are no longer linked on the details pages of e-tree shows. Please re-enable them.
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ID:9
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 04 2002
Requested by:Jon Aizen
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On my wish list is means to subscribe to a particular band, and get email notication when a new show is added, (for that band)
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ID:25
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 05 2002
Requested by:GratefulDad
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When new shows match md5s for an entry at db.etree.org/shncirc during import, automatically stick a link to the shncirc entry on the new details page. Alternatively or in addition, have an admin-editable shncirc link box.
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ID:26
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 05 2002
Requested by:hamilton
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Make it easier in terms of navigation as to what type of formats a show might be available. FOr example, when you select a band, and get a list of shows, include a detail that says "This show is available in shnf/flac/torrent" etc. That way if someone's looking for say, a bit torrent download, they can just scroll through, rather than havin to click into each individual show to see if that type is available.
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ID:46
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 15 2002
Requested by:YonderPhish
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Allow admin's to delete contents via the web interface.
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ID:55
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 10 2003
Requested by:bleblanc57
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Allow admins to move track fixes and info file updates from user directories to imported show directories via web.
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ID:56
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 10 2003
Requested by:bleblanc57
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Add a link on the main Audio page to explain the bandwidth sharing tools available. This page should include which servers have what tools running on them with links to download the tools as well as a FAQ if available. This should encourage use of these tools since you won't have to search the fourms to find this info.
Also, I second the request to be able to view individual bands entries by review rather than just date.
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ID:59
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 14 2003
Requested by:chriswebb
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Mike Colon, Motet Archivist, would like to see a repository area that he could log in to and download seeds that are pending approval. The Motet has a limited policy in which they have requested that all Archive seeds get approval from him. He would like to be able to listen to some of them prior to giving approval.
Mike can be reached at: mcolon@visionair.com
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ID:60
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 15 2003
Requested by:bleblanc57
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unify the import and contribution center into one tool
a simple improvements along the way to that could be
-an active link to contribution center following the import process
overall a tightening of the upload process would be great
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ID:61
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 15 2003
Requested by:boogie
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Search Function tweak: Right now in the pulldown, FAQ and Forum options are at the bottom, and unlike the others, even have to be scrolled to, so they're way out of sight. Put them at the top of the pulldown and more people will think to check the FAQs and msgs first. Thanks!
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ID:63
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 18 2003
Requested by:hamilton
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Add a link on eac show details page(at archive.org) that enables etree users to add that show to their db.etree.org list. Since it is possible for etree users to get to a specific show details page(at archive.org) from the browsing shows page for a band over at the etree.org page.
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ID:64
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 20 2003
Requested by:/pushkar
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For bands with Limited flag, add a subfeature to be able to put in specific off-limits dates, if needed. See item 3 of
http://webdev.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=1958 and followup http://webdev.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=1959 fo background. Should be able to take dates back out if needed (eg, Phish reversed their etrading policy on a number of dates.). Not sure how it would work with more hairsplitting (eg Garaj Mahal date OK except for 1 particular recording of it), but could be handy for more general cases. Off-limits date listing should be viewable by all, but not modifiable by all (people can just tell admins to add something).
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ID:76
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 29 2003
Requested by:hamilton
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Include a field in the web form for adding books for the name of the contributer.
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ID:81
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 10 2003
Requested by:pooja
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for the reviews section, aside for the "report show" link that'll come soon, instead of having 1-5 stars you can include 1-5 stars plus a sepreate image to denote a faulty show. I cant differentiate between one star for bad show and one star for faulty show. Maybe a skull and crossbones?
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ID:85
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 14 2003
Requested by:Erich
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Add a feature that allows us to invite the IA robot to crawl a site.
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ID:89
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 28 2003
Requested by:cfLee
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Add link for new Error Reports feature to the "Useful Links" box on the LMA page, and maybe to wherever else it would be in more general view for movies, texts. This will raise profile, and seeing previous reports may help train people how to report off the details pages. Thanks again, great feature!
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ID:91
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 17 2003
Requested by:hamilton
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i see a bunch of talk about email when a band has a new show up. what if when a band has a new show uploaded, on the browse page the band name changes color (perhaps a red), as does the year, and the new shows for several days after the upload. this way the user only has to visit once a week or so to see the new shows and has an easy way of finding them. This color changing feature could also work in that new bands could have a color (orange perhaps) for the first week on the archive.
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ID:92
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 23 2003
Requested by:chops11
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On the "Bug Report" page, allow admins to see the submitters email address. Sometimes it's helpful to have direct contact with the submitter to help troubleshoot and find more info on the problem.
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ID:93
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 28 2003
Requested by:bleblanc57
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Artist recommendation feature- recommendations could go under the band details area for each. If you like this artist, you may like x, y, z...
Rationale: As names increase, it gets harder for people to sift through to what they might like best. But lots of artists object to being pigeonholed into style boxes, so here's a softer idea for association.
How it could work: (1) For any OK'd artist, patrons could select from other OK'd artist(s) to set up a recommendation linkage. After any linkage is made, it would appear on the first one's band details page. (2) To keep these recommendation links useful and cut down on the "It's all good, dude" effect, allow people to cast a simple vote on a linkage someone has made, with buttons for "I agree" vs "I disagree" on each. Then next to the recommendation, show a tally of how many other people agreed or disagreed with the linkage. Still other users can take that tally into account. (3) To prevent vote padding, maybe set it up to let through only 1 vote per specific linkage per individual patron ID.
Maybe some of this could work through a Recommendation Center page or something. I bet there is a pool of enough caring people around to have this work- assuming it's doable!
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ID:98
Priority: 5
Requested
May 09 2003
Requested by:hamilton
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when browsing through shows, display the number of times downloaded and batting average along side directory views which is already shown.
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ID:99
Priority: 5
Requested
May 10 2003
Requested by:woostahDave
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Create searchable "genre" categories for the audio collection.
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ID:102
Priority: 5
Requested
May 19 2003
Requested by:Tribe
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private messaging on the message boards with the option to disable if desired. thanks!
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ID:103
Priority: 5
Requested
May 21 2003
Requested by:woostahDave
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my feature request is a better star review system. i like the current 5 star system, but there should be more fields. maybe a 1-5 star system for "Show quality" for band tightnest, setlist diversity, rare songs, energy of band, etc, and a second 1-5 star rating for "Recording Quality".. if there are pops, too much crowd noise, if it is super clean, all that. thoughts?
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ID:104
Priority: 5
Requested
May 21 2003
Requested by:Tyler
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Add instructions on how to resubmit a show for md5check/flaccheck etc... when a user has corrected failing files. - In other words, when the system sends them an email notifying them of the failures, it would be nice if it also included instructions on how they can manually resubmit it on their own. (this will reduce the number of responses we get to etree@archive.org telling us "I fixed it."
-Brad
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ID:105
Priority: 5
Requested
May 31 2003
Requested by:bleblanc57
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It would be nice if you could do a search by region, say if i wanted a list of all the shows on the archive that were taped in Arizona. Thanks.
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ID:107
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 11 2003
Requested by:UAsoulive
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Please allow a search for 24-bit audio files only (indicated in the directory structure with a *.flac24 extension on the folder name). That way, those looking only for 24-bit files can find them.
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ID:110
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 16 2003
Requested by:MattD
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It would be cool to have the user name listed with the files they upload linked to the rest of the imports they have done. Basically have a list of what's been done by who.
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ID:111
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 24 2003
Requested by:vansabar
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i'd like to see an "active users" number on the main page or right above the forum. just how many people are on the page at one time. i believe it's pretty easy written in php.
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ID:115
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 20 2003
Requested by:chops11
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Regarding the show ratings (1 to 5 stars),
Allow for two different ratings per show...
One rating for the sound quality of the tape, the other rating for the quality of the performance/setlist.
The reason I say that is because a 5 star performance does not necessarily mean a 5 star recording quality.
Thanks for all you do.
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ID:122
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 11 2003
Requested by:niuphan
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when adding an item the contributer could ask for email to be sent when a review or error is posted to it.
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ID:124
Priority: 3
Requested
Dec 22 2003
Requested by:Jonathan Aizen
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when error reports are resolved, add the URL of the item that was in doubt to the email being sent.
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ID:125
Priority: 3
Requested
Dec 22 2003
Requested by:Jonathan Aizen
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Move the "Notes" section to just below the "Setlist" section. As it is right now, the "Reviews" section splits them up, so when a show has 3+ reviews it's tough to match up guest tags with the Notes without scrolling up and down a few times.
For an example, see here: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=719
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ID:126
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 29 2003
Requested by:bleblanc
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Whenever a show, movie etc has an error on it, the page of that item should show that an outstanding error is on the file, thereby warning potential dl'ers about the file, and not wasting time dl'ing it if there is a problem.
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ID:127
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 03 2004
Requested by:Bill T.
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have on the main 'browse BAND XXXX' screen (ex: http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=Fugazi ) have it so there is a total # of shows listed, as well as the totals per year that are currently there. The total for the band is currently listed on the main 'browse all bands' screen, but it would be cool to see the total on the individual band browse page, and seems fitting.
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ID:130
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 01 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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More user confirmation before doing actions.
For an example on the "Contribution Center" page, you might see a paragraph like this :
"MD5 checksum verification failed. Waiting for user to correct.
Waiting for user intervention. Since you are the contributor you can confirm that the above issues have been resolved. "
There is a url under "above issues have been resolved" -- clicking it resubmits the show to be verified. Instead perhaps it can go to a page confirming this is what the user actually intends to do so.
"Are you sure you want to resubmit the show?" Something as simple as that. Just a thought.
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ID:132
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 21 2004
Requested by:moeron
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If a video is part of a series, the Program Details page would benefit from convenient links to the other parts of the series. Right now the user needs to search the site to find the other parts. Also, it would be helpful to adopt a naming convention like "Part 1 of 3" instead of just "Part 1". Thanks.
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ID:133
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 14 2004
Requested by:trafalgar
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Include reviewer's names in the search would be nice, eg search for "spuzz", "nordby", hennig", etc.
Actually, a general refining of the search methods would be great, though I know your hands are full as it is...
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ID:134
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 15 2004
Requested by:trafalgar
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On your Server Statistics (esp. Daily) would you please state the Time Zone e.g. UTC, EST etc.
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ID:136
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 25 2004
Requested by:maldwyn
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It would be cool to put a curator-view only 'APPROVE THIS SHOW' link on the left of the details page under the 'This Show' heading. Obviously it would show up only for shows waiting for curator approval, since now what i do is open the details page of a show in a new window (fromt he CE) and look it over, then click the policy to make sure it is solid, then close this window and click 'approve' from the CE. I guess the 'bundling' of needed approval shows still needs to be had (as in the CE) but clicking 'ok' on the show details page seems 'one-step easier'.
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ID:137
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 27 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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Hello. Great site, but what would make it greater is some sort of genre/description field for describing live music artists - that way, it'd make it easier for us to 'discover' new artists (I've never heard of most of 'em so at the moment I'm just browsing randomly). Also, perhaps you could prompt reviewers to enter such descriptions as well as their own comments.
Thanks - excellent site.
Al Cale
Hertfordshire, UK
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ID:138
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 31 2004
Requested by:caley
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for Internet Archive Forum:
Reply Notification emails should contain subject and content of the actual reply in question, and maybe the handle of the author as well.
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ID:142
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 22 2004
Requested by:ssamadhi97
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Firstly. Luvya, Luvya, Luvya.
Please reverse the order of the live music reviewer comments. It would make more sense (and add incentive) having the first comments on top w/ the preceding and, occasional, rebutal comments scrowled down. Reviewer comments are probably not referred to except by new viewers and would probably not be bothersome if the very first comment is always found at the top. Thanks.
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ID:144
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 30 2004
Requested by:lilrichwhiteboy
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Add text info and flac fingerprint files to the complete lossless zip file package. It would be nice to have info file with the setlist and show details. Thx! GratefulDad
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ID:145
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 30 2004
Requested by:GratefulDad
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Add links and thumbnails (and number of items in collection) for _all_ movie collections to the 'Moving Images' hub page.
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ID:147
Priority: 2
Requested
May 03 2004
Requested by:simon c
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Make compulsory _some_ kind of statement on the copyright of what you're uploading - if people don't always want to use Creative Commons, we need to find alternative verbiage for what other people might also need. This would clean up a lot of the rights confusion.
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ID:148
Priority: 1
Requested
May 03 2004
Requested by:simon c
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Work out a general 'subject' tree for each collection which is compulsory, and then allow people to place optional keyword subjects within that section. This'll make it a lot easier for people to browse collections.
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ID:149
Priority: 1
Requested
May 03 2004
Requested by:simon c
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Place a * by each 'original' recording on the details page, if derivatives have been made - then people can tell which one is the original.
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ID:150
Priority: 1
Requested
May 03 2004
Requested by:simon c
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Find a way to make ZIPs/M3Us of original media too, in case of Open-Source Audio collection where bitrate is less the 192, and therefore you don't get VBR versions - or just some way to deal with the fact that you only get 64kbps streaming/ZIP on many Open-Source Audio items that were uploaded at a much higher bitrate.
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ID:151
Priority: 1
Requested
May 03 2004
Requested by:simon c
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allow to search by .md5 checksum or .flac fingerprint
allow to search by FILENAME!
(ie: Medicusc1939_10 or Medicusc1939_10.avi etc...)
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ID:156
Priority: 5
Requested
May 07 2004
Requested by:glenn
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Add error reporting capabilities to the Open-Source Audio and other non-Etree audio collections.
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ID:157
Priority: 1
Requested
May 07 2004
Requested by:simon c
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Find some way to better integrate multiple thumbnails and movies in a movie entry details page layout - for example - http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?id=5662
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ID:160
Priority: 1
Requested
May 21 2004
Requested by:simon c
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feature request: LMA Forum Stickies on top FAQ issues?
howdy, we're all understanding of nooB questions, but the increasing number of RTFM/RTFAQ posts on "why no concerts from 'Flying Gardensheds from Hell' or 'Look People' (or whatever other non-troll band request) " might be proactively addressed by a stickie at top of the LMA Forum post list?
IE something titled "Wondering why your favorite Band X isn't yet here?" or "Please read before posting to ask about concert availability." A concise stickie text addressing the issue could include a link directly to the appropriate FAQ section....
Perhaps other frequently-asked-without-first-reading-the-FAQs items could be addressed in the same manner?
So why aren't there any Look People concerts? ;-) (extra credit to those who knew the band...)
thanx for all your GREAT work, mitB!
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ID:161
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 05 2004
Requested by:musicistheBEST!
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from user 'Triggin' on the message board forum:
"what up ppl ? i was just thinking of something that would be a cool option for this website. Since it takes a while to DL entire live shows, it would be cool if there was an option to save or remember the shows that you want to eventually DL. Kind of like a shopping cart or something where you can keep track of the log of shows that you eventually want to DL. Maybe it could be associated with your login profile or something. Just an Idea, Peace "
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ID:162
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 12 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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It would be cool to have a feature similar to Live Phish Radio that would play a "shuffled" list of streaming audio files from the archive.
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ID:163
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 24 2004
Requested by:hood
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It would be nice if in the contribution center, there was a link to re-run the md5 check/file converter. It's a pain to have to delete the show, then have the user re-import. :D
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ID:166
Priority: 5
Requested
Jul 19 2004
Requested by:suspect
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Under "Some commonly asked questions to read before asking for help in the forums" can we add
Q: Does anyone have show X by band X?
A: Some explination that this is not the place to grovel and to check phishhook and db.etree, yada yada yada..
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ID:172
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 04 2004
Requested by:chops11
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when clicking on a forum topic, you read it, and then hit 'reply' but there is no 'reference' of what the previous post said. it would be cool to have the previous thread topic replys down below at the bottom of the reply box screen, so you can get some context of what the message was that you're replying to.
tyler
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ID:173
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 04 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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from the etree list:
From: "Marty Meyer"
Date: October 6, 2004 6:31:24 AM PDT
To:
Subject: [info] suggestion
Any way to put the source info into the summary when listing out recently added shows. It would be way easier than having to keep drilling thru to find source info. Other than that love the site & the music... Thanks!
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ID:176
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 06 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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The Newton Project is making available online, for free to anyone with internet access, the work (ALL of it) of Sir Isaac Newton. Much of this is from manuscripts that are either out of print or have never been published. See: http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/
Their funding runs out at the end of 2004. They've applied for more, but may not get it. They also seek support to produce a print edition of his non-scientific papers, for which something like the bookmobile might be perfect.
In short, if they don't get their funding, the Internet Archive should look into partnering with them so that they can keep up this work. Their goals are the same as the Archive's: they're putting knowledge on the internet for free for everyone. It's a great fit.
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ID:178
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 15 2004
Requested by:brianwc
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The ability to links shows by opener or headliner at the same gig... if both artists are on the archive..
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ID:179
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 18 2004
Requested by:dgrayshn
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suggested from a user:
"IMO if the zip file is the way they want to distribute it, the zip itself should contain the entire file heirarchy in proper format
>
>ie
>
>bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.zip expands to --
>
>bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.shnf (or flac16, or flac24, etc)
>----bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.txt
>----bandYYYY-MM-DDd1
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1.md5
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1.ffp.txt
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t01.flac (or shn, etc)
>--------.......
>----bandYYYY-MM-DDd2
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2.md5
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2.ffp.txt
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2t01.flac (or shn, etc)
>--------.......
>
>its definetly a very bad thing to distribute 1 massive file which contains subfiles and NO MEANS to verify the contents within that file
>
>
>i understand the "make it easy" attitude at archive...personally i think its easier if i dont have to pick and choose all the seperate files i need to download...entire should mean entire
>
>i also understand that many/most seeds will come in incorrectly made...i think that its the "librarians" job to sanitize/standardize these offerings in the interest of consistency and quality control
>
>esp if seeders have to wait for their poorly formatted seeds to show up for download...its incentive for them to get it right the next time"
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ID:180
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 20 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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in order to help increase the number of reviews left for shows on the LMA, implement a random 'you've been seleted' type of pop-up / e-mail so that 1/100 downloaders get polled / reminded to review the show they just downloaded... is that possible since the LMA allows anonymoust downloads? possibly make a 'click through' pop up for the files .. the pop up would say: "Please return to this page and review this show after listening to it so others know what it sounds like. thanks for using the LMA!" or something like that so that people would review stuff in higher numbers. many shows have several thousand downloads but no reviews... -Tyler
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ID:181
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 20 2004
Requested by:Tyler
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Enable the "Clean" perl script being used to clean setlist fields to automatically remove HTML encoding. Also, it would be nice if it would remove HTML from the Source/Lineage/Taped By/Transferred By fields too.
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ID:182
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 22 2004
Requested by:Brad Leblanc
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Make the movies details page not display the "view movie scenes" link for items where user uploaded own animated GIF.
From jon:
The link is shown as a legacy thing - in the "olden days" it was harder to
check if thumbnails exist. Now it's fairly easy to check when drawing the
details page (using the $movieFiles->files array or the $formatArray).
------------------------------
Eg: Frank Pannucci has uploaded his own animated GIF:
http://movies08.archive.org/3/movies/PRELINGER_SILLY_BULLS/PRELINGER_SILLY_BULLS.gif
This stops thumbnails being generated, with his
animated GIF taking precedence, and is intended behavior.
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ID:184
Priority: 4
Requested
Nov 23 2004
Requested by:tracey pooh
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Split the Audio Forum into 2 (or more) separate forums. Mainly to separate The "Help Requests" from the "General" discussions. Might help to have a separate "Grateful Dead" related forum per this discussion:
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=24352
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ID:185
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 24 2004
Requested by:Brad Leblanc
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For error report curators, show a link or reveal email address to contact the reporter for clarification, without closing the report. BTW Possible related feature request IDs: 93, 125, 157.
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ID:187
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 24 2004
Requested by:Diana Hamilton
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update the Ogg Vorbis encoder used for the derived audio files to the official 1.1 encoder.
(reason: 1.0rc2 is -very- outdated; improvements have been made in the "low" bitrate range that's used for the vorbis audio files in the live music section here. it's like "higher quality for free"! ;-))
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ID:188
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 28 2004
Requested by:ssamadhi97
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Since this is a live audio archive, it would be great to have some ongoing stats on equipment/transfer lineages. All lineages could be queried and a list of equipment generated and bar graphs could show clearly what people are using for: mics, decks, conversion, etc.
Since the live audio covers a long range of history, an overall breakdown with a subsequent year by year or decade by decade breakdown would be cool also. This would be like a mini-archive of equipment lineages.
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ID:190
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 09 2004
Requested by:ncalsurfer
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I would like to see the option to list shows by total downloads. List by ratings is nice, but a show could have a high rating with limited reviews. List by DLs would be nice to see.
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ID:191
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 09 2004
Requested by:ncalsurfer
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The ability to sort entries on the "bookmarks" page by title, and possibly by date added would be nice.
PS: Keep up the great work!
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ID:193
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 22 2004
Requested by:t_a_wright
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Download in lame --alt-presets standard option. 64 Kbps is great for streaming, but 160 kbps VBR is a little low for people wanting high quality audio, but not wanting 1 GB files. This would probably involve a substantial load increase to your servers though and is just the convenience of not having to get FLAC's and convert to -aps.
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ID:194
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 03 2005
Requested by:poopiehead
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make the ogg vorbis / mp3 deriver generate m3us for streaming ogg vorbis files as well
(I can hear you.. "yay, another feature request")
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ID:195
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 11 2005
Requested by:ssamadhi97
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Provide RSS feeds of new shows on a global and per-artist basis. Maybe even per-venue? :-)
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ID:196
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 16 2005
Requested by:blalor
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Provide web service to database. Allow methods to enable listing of artists, so that I could, for example, find shows for all the artists in my iTunes library.
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ID:197
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 16 2005
Requested by:blalor
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can we have some choice in the player we can use when streaming the feature films. as Steve Jobs has a tiny percent of the global market, why are you people shoving quicktime down our throats unfairly if your intention is the Alexandria Library etc, 95% of the computersnux or use Bill Gates, linux or opensource etc not QUICKTIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ID:198
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 16 2005
Requested by:sysad65
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-as mentioned before email notification for new shows of "subscribed" artists would be nice
-either email notification of changes/updates of error reports or a section under "Patron Info" for errors reported by the patron, or automatic bookmarking of a show when an error is reported.
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ID:199
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 20 2005
Requested by:graphite
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On http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-contribute.php?stage=upload_info i think the line:
Once your uploads are complete, you now need to import(link) the concerts. Do NOT go to this step before the files are done uploading, as it causes problems with our automated Contribution Center.
should be changed to:
Do NOT go to this step before the files are done uploading, as it causes problems with our automated Contribution Center. Once your uploads are complete, you now need to import(link) the concerts.
I think people are trigger happy on links and would click before reading the next line about how not to do so until complete. In approving shows i see a lot that are imported before complete.
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ID:200
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 26 2005
Requested by:chops11
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It would be nice to give the prefix associated with each artist somewhere, either in the main all-shows listing, or in the "policy notes". For example,
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-band-showall.php#Diesel_Dog
should have a "archive prefix" listing that indicates that "dd" is the prefix to use.
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ID:202
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 08 2005
Requested by:bradm
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Perhaps add a band review capability so folks won't feel compelled to paste their generic rantings or ravings into reviews on multiple shows by that band.
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ID:204
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 30 2005
Requested by:kmcmurtrie
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I was thinking as I approved 'mother tongue' (who are from whatever
country that has file domain extention '.de' .. that the archive and
LMA is global and is becoming more and more global.. i've seen a few
europe bands pop up here, and of course all the usa ones.. but I was
wondering what / how hard it would be to add a field on the band
policy creation page that is 'country of band' or 'origin country of
band' ... or something like that? it would be good to collect that
data if the band gives it so that in the future there is a 'show bands
by country' (maybe furthur, by state?).. just thinking out loud, what
do you think? Surf Coasters would be Japan, ... heck, i'd love to see
some africa bands too... i guess i'd even add a line to my standard
'____ a GO to archive.org' that would be:
"just for our records, we like to keep track of where each band is
from... what city / state / contry do you guys consider yourself
from?"... i don't know, if anything just for my personal knowledge..
always cool to find out a band you love lives in the town you are at
but you just didn't know it yet.. this location info could be public
on the policy page for users (maybein the footer with the other
public info?)
thoughts?
tyler
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ID:205
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 03 2005
Requested by:Tyler
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In contrast to other feature reqs for extra stars, I recommend *removing* the star system from the reviews. As we have seen from the personal comments in the reviews (which people make depsite the cautions not to), star amounts (and attempts to influce the average stars) seem to spark many conflicts. Further, misguided people often place single-star reviews instead of error reports. People's *words* about an item are the most valuable component of reviews. Without the stars, visitors can judge by reviewer's thoughts only. Thanks!
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ID:206
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 04 2005
Requested by:Diana Hamilton
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How do I get my band A-Kamp archived on here, we are constantly losing our master live recordings due to our being unorganised musicians, we have played with several bands that are archived here like Flowmotion, and Scott Law, if that is a selling point I dont know e-mail me at cleian06@evergreen.edu to let me know thanks Ian
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ID:210
Priority: 5
Requested
May 08 2005
Requested by:Olymp Ian
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I would love to see a way to allow only higher quality mp3's to be made of our recordings. 192khz VBR would be nice. I hate wha tthe 64khz does to my precious recordings... ;)
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ID:211
Priority: 5
Requested
May 12 2005
Requested by:Cleantone
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Would it be possable to make sure md5 and txt files are included in zipped bundles? Retroactive would be ideal but new material would be good as well.
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ID:212
Priority: 5
Requested
May 12 2005
Requested by:Cleantone
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Include a section of the archive dedicated to the compilation of geneology (for research and archival purposes). Could be text, audio, photographs, whatever. Could do searches by name, etc.
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ID:217
Priority: 5
Requested
May 26 2005
Requested by:TimePilot
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I can be a great idear to generate dynamic podcast.
I explain : for example If someone want to download all the MP3 files in the 78RPM collection.
Make a webpages or a dynamic link that include the podcast request people whant.
It can be a great Idear for the netlabel scene and all the related sounds, and also extent this to the other media (book films etc..).
It would be a great thing for people that want to get many files from the archive and want to get it without time consuming...
Thanks again for all your collection It's a great website :)
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ID:220
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 08 2005
Requested by:Strial
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Please begin using H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10, AVC) video encoding in place of your current MPEG-4 *and* MPEG-2 standards. Think of all the bandwidth you will save by making H.264 the format for full-quality video instead of MPEG-2, and think of all the improvement in video quality to the 64 and 256 kbs downloads over the current MPEG-4 implementation!
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ID:221
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 09 2005
Requested by:Erik Lanigan
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Thanks for a great service! But:
I'd like to see the audio file downloads cleaned up a bit. For example, often there are ZIP:s and M3U:s with the MP3 files, but not with the Ogg files, which would be very convenient. (M3U works fine with Ogg, of course.) Also, the format link table currently used isn't very useful I think. I'd prefer a simple list like this: (Underscore is a hyperlink, ### a comment.)
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Artist Name - Album Name
Listen to all _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### Two M3U links.
Download all _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### Two ZIP file links.
Song 1 Title: Listen _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. Download _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### This would be M3U links and direct downloads.
Song 2 Title: etc...
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Add more formats if they're avaliable, like WAV, SHN, FLAC etc., but not as streams.
BTW, has the Vorbis encoder been updated yet? You really should use the latest version...
Video would be similar. Use the Ogg Theora+Vorbis java applet!(*)
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Producer - Title
Watch in browser _as Ogg_, _as MPEG-4_, _as MPEG-2_. ### Applets and plugins.
Download _as Ogg_, _as MPEG-4, _as MPEG-2. ### Direct links.
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Right now, there are often Ogg Theora files, but they're hidden behind the "all files" link and there's no java applet.
*) http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
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ID:226
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 27 2005
Requested by:abo
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http://www.archive.org/details/911theRoadtoTyranny
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ID:227
Priority: 5
Requested
Jul 05 2005
Requested by:Samizdat
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It would be totally great if the audio archives supported podcasting - i.e. publishing RSS feeds containing links to new content. You could publish a podcast of "most recent MP3s" as well as "most recent from the Grateful Dead" etc. It would probably get a lot more people downloading the free audio content you have available.
I have some spare time, and I would really like this feature implemented, so if you need someone to implement it, send me email at peter@cs.uoregon.edu. I was going to write a screen-scraper to do this on my own, but it would be even better if it was available for everyone.
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ID:230
Priority: 5
Requested
Jul 28 2005
Requested by:Peter Boothe
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The ability to sort my bookmarks, or at least have them in alphabetical order (or by artist, basically the same) would be great! Also the ability to see in the search page whether I have THAT show already bookmarked--that way I can keep from double-downloading. Amazing job so far, keep it up!
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ID:232
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 07 2005
Requested by:GTVert97
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Could we have a date that the concert was uploaded so it is easier on visiting to see what has been added since last visit -
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ID:233
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 11 2005
Requested by:Seth Haniel
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Greetings,
I was wondering if you could tell me how to get my television news show "Liberty News TV" listed as a sub-folder, the way Democracy Now is? I have only uploaded one episode and one segment so far, but I would like to upload all eight episodes along with other special features, and add a new episode each month, if I could figure out how to creat a sub-folder. Can you help?
thanks very much
Matt Power
editor@libertynewstv.com
www.libertynewstv.com
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ID:234
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 20 2005
Requested by:liberty news tv
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Links to other sites
A well ordered and searchable list of other sites that provide such open access information on the web. Note: I have some at: http://www.wematter.com/links.htm#av (with associated blog area: http://wematter.blogspot.com/2005/05/links-08.html )
My proposal is:
1) Provide a forum for people to submit a site to you. (and a contact for the site) -- and other info it they can provide it.
2) Automatically forward an Email to the contact, assuming the site is not in your database, that you are considering adding a link to the site requesting:
2.1) Permission (assumed after 15 days)
2.2) A site title
2.3) Keywords for the site
2.4) A site discription
2.5) (If you can set up a hierarchal organization, perhaps using dmoz (http://dmoz.org/) or yahoo) the place in the structure where the site it.
2.6) Other information, e.g. Access requirements, Archival time...
3) Then have some easy (automatic) way to put the site, and its associated discription in a table with search capability.
4) Then put a link in your top titles, [Other Sites] --> (a page with the Forum location, the "Top Level hierarchal structure", a Search box, and an advanced search form)
I think what I'd like is the search to return a list of the sites, their locations, a 1 line discription, and a pointer to the full site information. -- That way I could refine the search, go to a site that was found, or look at the details of the site's discription.
As an initial first step you might be able to build a Q/D form, pure text search, and link so that people could start submitting the other sites, and then when you have time, flesh it out with more powerful software.
Thanks.
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ID:237
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 24 2005
Requested by:mll
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Put the date a show was added to archive. it can help with grateful dead downloads cause sometimes there are multiple sources, remasters and whatnot. if you knew the newest upload it could help out a bunch
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ID:238
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 25 2005
Requested by:mikeinboone
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Creation of some form of rpc api, perhaps 3 (one for text, one for audio, and one for video) That will get a list of all items in the catalogue, and links to their download site, as well as other metadata such as recording date)
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ID:239
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 26 2005
Requested by:dcsmith77
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Allow users to update information on undescribed works, allow users to add their own album art for albums, books and movies to quickly allow identification and add a little pizaz
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ID:240
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 26 2005
Requested by:dcsmith77
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Current video material from feature films has horrible artifacts because of poor cropping (for example Charade).
Because progressive video compressors are designed to compress noisy photographic images, possible black boxes around picture forces the compressor use most of the available bandwidth in a desperate try to preserve these sharp borders. This means that little bandwidth is left for actual film image making it blocky and causing compression artifacts.
Please, if at all possible, crop these films properly from original telecines before encoding them. It will preserve the material better and save bandwidth.
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ID:242
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 18 2005
Requested by:alt_
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I use Mozilla FireFox most of the time, but cannot search IA or download with it. I would really like to be able to work with this site with this browser. Thanks for your time.
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ID:243
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 25 2005
Requested by:nubbit1
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OpenID support for logins ( http://openid.net/ )
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ID:251
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 20 2005
Requested by:mailinator
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To Whom It May Concern:
Greetings. I am searching for a particular image that was on a website that is no longer operational. The website is ata.feathers.net. If you search for this website in archive.org, and select the Dec 02, 2000 page, then click on the "Artwork" button, then scroll down and under "Avians" select "Generic Birds" and then scroll down and you'll see illustrations by an artist known as "Pilot." Actually, you won't see the images, but you will see the names of the jpg files. I'm looking to obtain the birdtf.jpg file by Pilot, but it doesn't show up when I look in your archive. Is there any way you can help me obtain this jpeg? Please contact me via e-mail, if possible. My e-mail is twilson2084@yahoo.com. Thank you kindly.
Sincerely,
T. Wilson
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ID:253
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 27 2005
Requested by:twilson2084
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Just adding my voice but... Rss and/or email notification of show additions would be great - preferably limited to selected bands, and ideally including a geographic constraint.
The ability to add comments (aka "reviews") without choosing a star rating.
While I'm thinking of it, how about dropping the star rating system altogether - perhaps replacing it with one that's meaningful.
Thanks!
Doug Moog
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ID:254
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 31 2005
Requested by:dug
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...and it would be nice if the md5 checker could be modified to ignore the md5summer header
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ID:256
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 05 2005
Requested by:dug
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Bring back the lossless Grateful Dead
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ID:262
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 23 2005
Requested by:Hatta
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Eliminate Ratings, Stars, and "wiki" Commentary
Rationale:
I think that when someone walks an armload of delicate and precious gear through the crappiest neighborhoods in the country to attempt to get the best recording from a hall with the acoustics of a crypt they deserve at least some degree of peace and respect.
I have seen comments insulting brother and sister tapers who made amazing recordings in the most horrible sounding halls and despite FOH staff mishandling.
These tapes were GREAT, considering how bad the show sound was in the section.
And what do they get from the commentors ?
"Too much bass"
"I deleted this after taking two days to D/L it 'cause it sounded like shit !"
"The piano didn't come through"
No thank yous, no appreciation, just angst and ire.
The comment section is completely irrelevant and distracting to the Archive mission.
It is a forum for opinionated, misinformed, and downright silly commentary.
It has no benefit to users, as the credentials and scope of perspective of the commentor are unknown.
I truly hope that Archive takes a more respectable position and turns off comments.
In the long haul, the stupid comments make Archive look stupid in the realm of digital libraries.
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ID:263
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 23 2005
Requested by:_Bob_
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Please tell us why all the dead downloads are suddenly gone.
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ID:265
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 24 2005
Requested by:ardsley
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INSERT INTO movies (title,collection,collectionid,nwoi,runtime,proddate,descr,sponsor,producer,productionco,director,contact,credits,color,sound,shotlist,segments,cat1,cat2,cat3,pick,public,addeddate,adder,uploader) VALUES ('the sunbather','opensource_movies','thesunbather160x120','thesunbather160x120','2:13','2005','a quick little lego film.','','eskermation','esker productions','me','eskerstudios@yahoo.com','','color','sound','','','','','',0,0,now(),'eskermation','mchl4anything@yahoo.com')
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ID:266
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 25 2005
Requested by:eskermation
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I want the the SNBD, Grateful Dead Back, this is so F***** UP, it is pathetic of GDM. Trading is trading. Who make 's up these rules?
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ID:267
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 28 2005
Requested by:slowchange69
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hi. escuse my poor english, im from brail. i uploaded somo albuns (mp3) and i want that the files available still the same i was uploaded (no lower bitrate, no higher bitrate, no ogg). i just want to link the zip file, but the zip file (whole directory) contains a lot of unnecessry files (low bitrate mp3 etc...) can you help me? my email: monstrolegume@yahoo.com.br
thanks!
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ID:268
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 02 2005
Requested by:monstrolegume
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turn off reviews in audio section. people who review shows are more often than not ...
1) not qualified to review
2) don't distinguish between performance and recording, so the review implies either or both (good or bad)
3) are commenting based on a bias (e.g. don't like the band in general, don't like sbd tapes, don't like aud tapes, etc.)
4) useless in terms of forming a clear picture of either the performance or recording - and thus misleading to someone who is unable to distinguish someone's bias from a true "review".
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ID:270
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 03 2005
Requested by:Gedit
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I would like to see the Grateful Dead offerings split between those available for download and those available for streaming only. Just a suggestion, you guys are the best.
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ID:271
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 09 2005
Requested by:john rf
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I'd like to be able to replace a single item of a show, without having to replace the entire show. Specifically I'm thinking of the text file. If an error was discovered, or previously unknown setlist is to be added, you either have to reupload the whole thing, or have an admin deal with it.
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ID:273
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 12 2005
Requested by:Unstoppable Drew
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Add a search for shows available to be streamed
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ID:274
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 13 2005
Requested by:warnerc
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I am interested in downloading the newsreel: "News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950,(Part I)" which includes the Truman Assassination attempt, but I noticed that it is only available in MPEG1. Do you have plans to offer better quality resolution formats such as MPEG4? I would like a higher quality format. Thank you.
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ID:276
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 21 2005
Requested by:figgeeys
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Correction Regarding my previous message: Instead of MPG4, I meant MPG2 since I understand MPG2 is higher quality than MPG4. Thank you.
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ID:277
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 22 2005
Requested by:figgeeys
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This is a feature that could be useful for the user and useful for the archive.
It is the possibility to have legally valable copies of pages of the archive.
This could also a possibility of gaining money to help the archive to grow.
For exemple, in a judgement, an attorney could bring a page extracted from internet archive.
The process would be very simple: in order to get such a page Internet Archive could put a simple form to fill, a small fee to pay and
Internet Archive would testify the page is what its robot found on the net on the date .... and send if requested, a paper copy of the page.
A fee of 40 $ for a single page and 5 $ for each susequent page (sometime in a trial many pages could be asked) + 5 $ for each printed page would be fair as it will sure pay itself.
Having many trial where the page of the archive will be accepted, will also give more relevance to the archive.
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ID:278
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 23 2005
Requested by:0
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would love to determine on my own which moviestills to choose for the gif-animation.
In my case (http://www.archive.org/details/photopiloteBerlinJerusalemALimescapade) way too many pictures are taken of night scenes; you can see barley nothing and its misleading in terms of content/nature of the movie
thanx
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ID:279
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 26 2005
Requested by:photopilote
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Old software (abandonware,etc.) should be made available to users like an online library that can "borrow" a digital copy of software and play it on an hardware emulator (collaborate with emulator writers to achieve the security necessary). The physical copies of software could be donated to the Archive by anyone and could be "checked out" on a token system, only so many tokens for the number of physical copies in the archive. Please archive and make legally available old software! It does us no immediate good for you to archive the software and not allow anyone to enjoy it.
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ID:282
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 08 2006
Requested by:Goodknight777
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It would be helpful to designate 'classic' books. For example assigning a 'Nobel' descriptor to books authored by prize winners.
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ID:285
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 26 2006
Requested by:Dana Roth
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I do not see "sheet music" as a category, and think this is a somewhat serious omission. There exist very few sheet music repositories on the Web, although many works, even 20th-century works, are slowly becoming public domain.
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ID:286
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 03 2006
Requested by:rskint
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Is there a REST based OR SOAP webservice available ? If so let me know and I'd be keen on building a php based PEAR class to interface against it. If there isnt one, I could help develop one ? Has there also been any discussion of mirror sites ?
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ID:288
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 04 2006
Requested by:electroteque
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Add the ability to show only streamable shows when searching artists on the live music archive
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ID:289
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 08 2006
Requested by:punchie
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Sure would like to see source information available in the summary for the RSS feed of new additions to the Archive.
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ID:293
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 24 2006
Requested by:Moriconi
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For media types that have it available (specifically audio and moving images), the ability to search by runtime or play length (specifically: over x minutes and under y minutes) would be helpful. Thanks!
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ID:294
Priority: 5
Requested
Mar 30 2006
Requested by:Xaroth
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Please add author information to the new Texts RSS feed; it's essentially crippled without that info. Thanks!
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ID:297
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 11 2006
Requested by:PeterSalient
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In the UK (probably elsewhere as well) we are using learning platforms more and more - linking web based resources into asignments for students or selecting resources that best suit an individual's learning style - it would be superb if an API was available for the IA so that searches of locally stored resources could appear along with IA selected searches. This would make a wealth of materials available to learners.
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ID:299
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 18 2006
Requested by:Dave Thomson
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Please add some organization. The search engine sucks. it was nice when bands were browsable by date/year. Now its just a cluster F*CK.
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ID:309
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 11 2006
Requested by:medlhuber
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I would like my math videos to be featured in your "Education" area of your web site. I do not see where this can be done. What is the procedure for allowing this to happen?
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ID:314
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 09 2006
Requested by:VideoMathTutor
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It would be great to give ratings to individual Bands (or rate them
through ratings of titles/CDs) and then see _one's own_ ratings in the
Band listings such that may immediately discriminate between bands one
has already listened to and rated and bands that are yet unknown to
me.
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ID:318
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 27 2006
Requested by:Cinquero
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i want to get a lma t-shirt
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ID:323
Priority: 5
Requested
Nov 15 2006
Requested by:jason funkalope
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it would be great to have track numbers in the list of tracks... the lack of numbers makes it really difficult to check which song i'm listening to when the track name in the stream box is something like "moshi2004-02-06d1t07_64kb" and i have to count thru the tracks til i get to number 7
thanks
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ID:324
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 03 2006
Requested by:ccharlie
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Specific collection for VJ Clips as a subsection of Moving Images. VJ clips are normally short silent clips designed for use in live video performances at concerts and nightclubs. Many VJ clips are already available on archive.org including some of the most popular downloads according to batting average (search for VJ to see. A specific collection would make it easier to find these clips and encourage many more people to submit footage to the archive.
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ID:326
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 13 2006
Requested by:sleepytom
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Maybe you would like to add a link to your educational resources for http://www.open-of-course.org, a multilingual portal for open content courses and tutorials. The focus is on practical educational information where people can benefit from in daily life.
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ID:328
Priority: 5
Requested
Feb 08 2007
Requested by:Kletskous
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Specifically audio files (or video, for that matter), if I own an RSS feed of stuff that I want to upload, provide a method of a) proving I own the feed and b) automatically suck all the content on it - much faster than manual upload and less prone to error. Just a thought, love your work - thanks!
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ID:334
Priority: 5
Requested
Apr 01 2007
Requested by:pragmaticpete
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I enjoyed the Dick Tracy serial considerably. Can I save any movie in this Internet Archive on the hard drive & DVD on my PC (Windows XP)? How do I accomplish this?
Please e-mail me at carlfranz@optonline.net Thank you. Carl
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ID:337
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 06 2007
Requested by:sciwriter
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if LMA can hyperlink the taper and/or uploader name, that may be quicker and easier than using the search function for finding other shows taped by the same taper or uploaded by the same uploader. i already use the hyperlinks for venue and for reviewers to find other shows, so I know i would use the feature for tapers, too. thanks
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ID:338
Priority: 5
Requested
Jun 11 2007
Requested by:Ha Ha Ha Whoops
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To the LMA crew, up-loaders, downloaders and listeners-
I love what you have done with LMA. Being able to play the posts so you can hear the sound quality and what the bands have done is spectacular.
I wonder how possible it would be to take it to the next level? What if you could click on a link that would play multiple artists. Maybe it would randomly play though all of the recently added uploads. Maybe you could give it some guildlines such as dates or bands that you want or don't want. It would be even better if you could save these playlists and play them again at a later date.
I for one would sign on every day and press play for sure. Not that I don't already.
What do you think? LMA Internet Radio anyone?
Thanks for your time!
LA Jammer out!
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ID:342
Priority: 5
Requested
Aug 06 2007
Requested by:lajammer
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The moving images on the website are distracting and make it hard to navigate through the information. Single non-moving images would be easier on the eyes.
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ID:347
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 07 2007
Requested by:rhinokitty
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You could greatly reduce bandwidth and load balancing costs by providing torrents to files that were popular. The problem of a torrent not being available because no one is seeding it has been solved by project Ibiblio (who I am sure you have heard of) with their Osprey + Permaseed solution:
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/
http://osprey.ibiblio.org/
http://osprey.ibiblio.org/wiki/Docs/Permaseed
Here is a model of how you might use BitTorrent to offset bandwidth costs and more efficiently disseminate and decentralize information, thus increasing freedom of information:
http://www.recordsquest.org
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ID:348
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 07 2007
Requested by:rhinokitty
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Also, the text on this page should wrap. Scrolling to the right is also not easy on the eyes.
P.S. I love everything that you are doing and really do think that you are the coolest, I hope that my criticism is taken as constructive, I am just trying to be concise so you don't have to read through more stuff than is necessary.
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ID:349
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 07 2007
Requested by:rhinokitty
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I think a control panel for registered users would be the perfect adition to the Archive. I log into the Archive and there is not a control panel where we can manage the files we have uploaded. I have uploaded my first free music album and I have to go to the file and then link to the edit page from the download page... it makes no sense! other services like facebook and even myspace have a very-easy-to-use control panel. we the creators an developers of these files you are receiving can help a lot with catalogging files by ading a control panel to our accounts. the index page is quite cluttered and messy. I don't see a tidy space to start with. you shoud crae more about showing a tidy welcome in this page instead of offering direct links to files in your collections.
This is a library, isn't it? so make a face and buil very robust but flexible search tools and let us search for ourselves.
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ID:350
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 05 2007
Requested by:0p0
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Most peer reviewed scientific journals charge a lot of money (perhaps averaging $25.00) merely to view/download papers of from one to perhaps 20 pages, documenting the results of research. This puts research out of the reach of the private citizen. It is also an egregious policy, as much/most of the research is publicly funded, and the basic premise of scientific research is that it is for the public good. Can steps be taken to change this, perhaps making these publications available through the Archive?
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ID:352
Priority: 5
Requested
Oct 22 2007
Requested by:paskell
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If you can't fix the download counters at least give us the option to remove those numbers off the page.
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ID:360
Priority: 5
Requested
Dec 02 2007
Requested by:evokerecords
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It would be convenient if we had access to a 'bookshelf' of items that we want to use. A simple 'send to bookshelf' feature would make such a feature easy to use and make our user experience much more convenient.
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ID:369
Priority: 5
Requested
Jan 29 2008
Requested by:danielpalos
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Adam Curtis' documentary including mayfair1.avi through mayfair4.avi is apparently missing segments 2 and 3. Can they be restored/obtained? Mr. Curtis is one of the most important video documentarians of our time.
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ID:375
Priority: 5
Requested
May 11 2008
Requested by:paskell
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Hi!
The xResolveUrl function in your javascript currently actually loads URLs. This is not so nice for, say, irc:// urls in Firefox with ChatZilla installed. Currently, your code causes loading a page with irc:// links to actually open those links automatically, which is a very bad user experience.
To remedy this, I can think of several possible solutions:
- blacklist IRC in this code, like you did for mailto: and javascript: . This solves the ChatZilla problem, but maybe not others
- only resolve relative URLs (so test with a regex like /^[^:]+:/ to see if there's a protocol at the start of the URL). This solves the problem in general, I believe.
- manually create absolute URLs in the client side code using a custom-written function, instead of relying on the browser. This, I suppose, is probably the least attractive option, but if you borrow code from an open source project like Firefox it need not be a complete disaster.
Thanks!
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ID:379
Priority: 5
Requested
May 28 2008
Requested by:Gijs K
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Hello Archive.org tech support,
it would be very handy to have a check box for "public domain" videos in the advanced search panel.
Working on a linguistic university research program, we're looking for videos with "no rights reserved".
Searching your gigantic database and checking videos licences one by one is taking a lot of time so we deeply hope you could add such a feature to your interface.
Thank you.
Alexandre S. for CARLA
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ID:380
Priority: 5
Requested
Jul 03 2008
Requested by:CARLALEX
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Listened to an old TWinTech, heard it takes 12 hrs for your systems to process a scanned book. Any possibility of implementing a distributed processing app (e.g. SETI/Folding@Home) that patrons could run to help reduce the local workload?
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ID:382
Priority: 5
Requested
Jul 28 2008
Requested by:Therkyn
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Any chance that the missing volumes of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle can be scanned and uploaded? So far I've noticed that Vols 1-11, 17-20 & 24 are missing. Thanks
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ID:392
Priority: 5
Requested
Sep 27 2008
Requested by:mannetje
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