Message 10/76
Date: 27-Sep-04 @ 12:51 PM -
RE: mcc> vs. nisha
OK, i've added a new delimiter to strip out the bracket and now it'll play on this site
thing is, i dont think you appreciate the ludicrous characters in some titles or user names - you can either:
1. strip it all out and just use a random filename (which we do) that removes un-streamable & un-downloadable filenames so they will all play - before we did this the filenames being added were ludicrous and over half of them wouldnt play
2. then you arrive at issue 2 - what if the user hasnt encoded a title with the mp3 they upload? - if it's in the player running, (and that covers various media players) & there's no title, you might not remember which track you clicked on and which one you're listening too if you are listening and browsing at the same time
3. so we added the title-add bit to the code to try and assist this issue for at least most of the users media players, but that has to be parsable because it's not a title written into the file at source.
we went for the one that has the most chance of allowing the file to work/stream/download AND to display a title (without forcing the user to use some browser-based embeded player, and without insisting the user embeds a title in the file at source.)
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