We are working now in "the reaper" (mentioned in a previous post), an automated process that will automatically delete torrents (and his respective album) that haven't show any seeder in 5 consecutive days. This will allows us to keep the website clear of dead torrents, without requiring any administrative overhead of our part.
Also (and this is very important), it will allow us to start accepting new torrents with only one seeder (if the uploader stop seeding, the torrent will die promptly without polluting the website), and we plan to put a notice in your profile page that will appear when one or more of your uploaded torrents have no seeders, listing them, to encourage you to start seeding it again.
I think that would we a very useful an nice functionality, and a good way to encourage voluntary seeding in this website when we don't enforce any ratio to anyone.
I will post the details when is ready and deployed, in approximately a week.
Cheers !
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Twitter feed of new albums
We have a small new feature: a Twitter page announcing the newly published albums in Coda, just when they gets published, in real time. Be our first follower !
http://twitter.com/codafm
It's a small and fun feature, and i hope you all find it useful.
http://twitter.com/codafm
It's a small and fun feature, and i hope you all find it useful.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
About uploading torrents
As you surely already know, we launched just a couple of weeks ago, so we desperately need more quantity and variety of content.
In this post, i want to encourage our users to upload new torrents, but also i want to talk about the kind of torrents we need right now. As a such young website we are, we still don't have much traffic, and that means less torrents downloaded and shared, and that's is a problem with the submitted torrents created by you that have only one seeder, they don't tend to get much distribution, they die fast, and nobody wants a website full of dead torrents.
So, until we get more traffic, i wanted to ask you to not upload torrents created by yourselves, and just just download .torrent files of your favorites albums/bands that we don't have yet from other (public) sites (like The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc), healthy torrents with a good number of seeders, and upload them here. It's also easier and faster, and it's very likely that your albums are already there. Remember that, after all, we are only a public directory, and not a private tracker where someone is going to download and seed your album just to keep a ratio.
Another reason for this request is that we are still working in "the reaper", an automated process that will automatically delete the torrents that doesn't show any seeder in n days (probably 5, to be decided). But for now, we don't have any way to delete the dead torrents and his albums.
Thanks for your understanding, and thanks to those who were already uploading healthy torrents, we are growing fast in contents thanks to them.
If you have a question or a suggestion about this issue, please feel free to post it in the comments.
Cheers !
In this post, i want to encourage our users to upload new torrents, but also i want to talk about the kind of torrents we need right now. As a such young website we are, we still don't have much traffic, and that means less torrents downloaded and shared, and that's is a problem with the submitted torrents created by you that have only one seeder, they don't tend to get much distribution, they die fast, and nobody wants a website full of dead torrents.
So, until we get more traffic, i wanted to ask you to not upload torrents created by yourselves, and just just download .torrent files of your favorites albums/bands that we don't have yet from other (public) sites (like The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc), healthy torrents with a good number of seeders, and upload them here. It's also easier and faster, and it's very likely that your albums are already there. Remember that, after all, we are only a public directory, and not a private tracker where someone is going to download and seed your album just to keep a ratio.
Another reason for this request is that we are still working in "the reaper", an automated process that will automatically delete the torrents that doesn't show any seeder in n days (probably 5, to be decided). But for now, we don't have any way to delete the dead torrents and his albums.
Thanks for your understanding, and thanks to those who were already uploading healthy torrents, we are growing fast in contents thanks to them.
If you have a question or a suggestion about this issue, please feel free to post it in the comments.
Cheers !
Monday, January 19, 2009
Bigger album cover
We have a small new feature: bigger album covers available for download.
To get it, just click in the album cover (in the album details page) to view it at full size (usually 500 x 500 px). Useful for download and embedded in the mp3 files that you downloaded, to see it in iTunes or other players that shows album art.
I should have take a screenshot showing how it works, but I'm too lazy, so just go and click in an album cover, the bigger image appears with a cool zoom effect. Notice that the size of the bigger image may vary between albums, some are smaller that the mentioned size.
I hope you all find it useful.
To get it, just click in the album cover (in the album details page) to view it at full size (usually 500 x 500 px). Useful for download and embedded in the mp3 files that you downloaded, to see it in iTunes or other players that shows album art.
I should have take a screenshot showing how it works, but I'm too lazy, so just go and click in an album cover, the bigger image appears with a cool zoom effect. Notice that the size of the bigger image may vary between albums, some are smaller that the mentioned size.
I hope you all find it useful.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Inagurating our blog
Welcome to our new blog, when we're going to keep you updated about the recent and upcoming developments about Coda.fm. Also, this will be for now the space to start to get to know each other as a community and gather some feedback, at least until we get a forum.
A forum is planned, and high in our list of priorities, but we still need to finish some essential features of the website, so for now it will have to wait.
If you are a registered user of Coda, please use your login name when you publish comments in this blog, to get knowing who is who. It would we cool a common login, to be able to log in the blog with the same credentials you use in Coda, but, as many other cool features we have in mind, it will have to wait. Remember that we launched just 15 days ago, and we have still have a lot of work to do.
For now, this ugly and generic blog should be fine to keep you updated.
So, i invite you to stop by and say hi in the comments.
A forum is planned, and high in our list of priorities, but we still need to finish some essential features of the website, so for now it will have to wait.
If you are a registered user of Coda, please use your login name when you publish comments in this blog, to get knowing who is who. It would we cool a common login, to be able to log in the blog with the same credentials you use in Coda, but, as many other cool features we have in mind, it will have to wait. Remember that we launched just 15 days ago, and we have still have a lot of work to do.
For now, this ugly and generic blog should be fine to keep you updated.
So, i invite you to stop by and say hi in the comments.
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