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Trizzle Project update: featured songs are back

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:54:03 -0800

This morning I finally updated the production site with the new code that I've been working for the past month. As a result, the Trizzle Project now sports some new features, including:

You can now review, rate and tag artists and albums as well as songs.
Trizzle search has been enhanced--it's now faster, thanks to the mysql 5 view, and will handle multi-word search strings better–ie, if you search for "zep dog" Trizzle will now return Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog" whereas before it would not.
The recent reviews page now shows recent reivews of songs, artists and albums.
Feeds! You're probably sick of hearing about them by now, but in case you're not, there is now a feed of the most recent reviews to be entered into Trizzle.

Now that the site has been upgraded, I felt it was time to put some more compelling content on it. This evening I finally added more featured songs to Trizzle, after many months of their being absent. Since there was such a long hiatus, I added more than usual, fifteen in all, including new songs by the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, the Kings of Leon, Of Montrel, Beirut and more.

Not only that, but every featured song has a high-quality un-DRMed mp3 so you can listen to the whole song (no 30 second samples on Trizzle!) and even add it to your media player of choice (but i f you do and you like the song enough to listen to it more than few times, please do buy a copy of the song from the ITMS or better yet the entire album.)

Click the link below to see what's featured on Trizzle this month:

Trizzle featured songs

Trizzle Featured Songs–Feb. 2007

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Trizzle update: login/registration

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 29 May 2006 18:11:37 -0700

Thanks to a three-day weekend with no plans, the Trizzle Project now has login and registration functionality. I know this isn't exactly ground-breaking, but I'm sort of excited that I finally stopped procrastinating and got this done. The only complex part of implementing login and registration was dealing with the existing user data that the system had already generated when people came to the site. This means that if you visited the Trizzle site already, when you register, it will pre-fill the screenname field with the auto-generated value Trizzle was using when you posted a song review. You can, of course, change the screenname to whatever you want it to be.

Next on the agenda are some features that will give users more reasons to register. The most important thing is the ability to "friend" (isn't it amazing that after five hundred years in the English language, only now has friend become a verb?) other users so a user can easily see what songs his or her friends are loving (or hating) enough to review on Trizzle.

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LJ mention in news.com article

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:09:05 -0700

News.com reports that Congress is thinking about restricting access to to social websites like MySpace and LiveJournal .

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Trizzle: new version posted

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:04:13 -0700

I rolled out an update to the Trizzle website last night. Probably not a very smart idea, since I had no idea which database tables needed to be added to the fozboot.com schema, and I was really tired when I did it. Not to mention the data already in the TrizzaBase needed to be mangled because of the big change I made to how songs, artists and albums are related. I think I fixed everything but I'm sure there's some breakage somewhere.

You can now tag, rate and blurb songs using the Trizzle Songbird extension working prototype, but it's really kludgey. Today I've been working on a better approach, which I may post to fozboot.com later this evening.

Wedding Crashers - Uncorked (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

I worked on Trizzle while watching this movie. I found it to be a pleasant surprise-although reviews were just middling, I thought it was very funny, especially during the middle section on the island with Christopher Walken's crazy family.

The part at the end moving towards the inevitable heartwarming baring of the soul dragged, though. Just once I'd like to see a movie like this take more chances at the end-end up with everyone alone, or dead, or just have a completely absurd non-ending. End with the characters not having learned anything at all, the way it would be in real life.

Damn, but you know what.. Jane Seymour is still hot. Live and Let Die came out, what, thirty-three years ago? Definitely in my top five Bond girls of all time list.

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