New website to use in conjunction with Ubustream

[dinki]

I've been working on a community based playlist database. After I started working on this I decided that it would probably gain more popularity (and thus have more updates) if I made it for the casual user and had the ability to export the lists in various PVR playlist formatting (currently GBPvr and Media Portal formats).

The list of features include:

Casual User (ie no login):

Can view all tv/radio stations , view stations with external players and can report stations as nonfunctional.

Registered User:

Can view all tv/radio stations , submit new stations, view stations with external players, rate stations, report stations as nonfunctional, add station to their favorite stations, can manage (add/delete) stations from their favorite stations, and can download their favorite stations in the playlist format of their choice.

Admin User:

Can do everything the registered user can do plus has the ability to remove nonfunctional stations from being displayed and included in user playlists as well as approve new submitted stations.

At some point I plan to write a program that will validate stations as being functional or nonfunctional to help keep everything up-to-date. I am also planning on having a way for registered users to automatically download their custom playlists daily if they so desire. This will keep everyone's playlist updated. I may also add the capability to have new stations that the user might like be added to the playlist (if you like Spanish news stations and a new one is added, it would add this to your playlist).



I have just opened the site for public consumption so expect the unexpected. I still have a few open issues (no 'Contact Us' or 'FAQ' pages) but the site should be very functional otherwise. I am open to any suggestions and would appreciate any additional stations you might like to contribute.

Also, although I am outputting the 'standard' Ubustream xml format, you will be tied to having the players installed to their 'normal' directories. If you have your players in other locations you will have to edit the file you download by hand.

Let me know where I can make improvements or if anyone is even interested

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Here's the URL:

http://www.worldwidemediaproject.com

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[sub]

whats the URL?

[dinki]

Is that really necessary?? Oh yeah.. doh!

http://www.worldwidemediaproject.com

[dinki]

No one interested or does the site just suck?

[jbyram2]

I'm interested. I just got Ubustream to work with my MVPs, and I was dreading loading the TV channels into UBUstream, and now you have made it easy..

You might want a more secure reqistration process to discourage bots and spammers

(Now I'm off to watch TV at your site, and build my playlist)


Thanks!

[MixMan]

Nice initative and good work.

[dinki]

Thanks guys.. I wasn't fishing for compliments though they are much appreciated.

I built in the functionality to force the user to provide a valid email address and click a link that would be sent after registration but it seems that my shared hosting is blacklisted on some of the email servers I use for my own personal/work email. I'm looking into the CAPTCHA validation method now but I'm not overly concerned with spammers/bots at the moment.

[dinki]

It has been pointed out to me that the Ubustream export has a problem with blank lines at the start of the file. I'm looking into fixing this now, but in the meantime, if you do download a playlist, simply remove the blank lines at the beginning of the file with a text editor and everything should work fine.

[ShiningDragon]

Uh, yeah! Really nice!

Thank you :-D

But... please put your URL in your signature, so that i can find it again if i loss my favourites ^^;

[dinki]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've fixed my signature as well as the problem with the Ubustream.xml file. All should work without issue now.

Any additional bug reports, requests, suggestions are very much appreciated. Please note that the website is only a few weeks old and has only been public for a few days. I intend on adding a lot of other features including displaying additional information about each station (via javascript popup tooltip style), ability to view newly added stations since last login, view other users playlists (if they allow it), and ability to suggest stations to your 'friends'.

I would appreciate it if anyone who has a few stations already in their playlists would add them to the database. Then others can enjoy them too.

Stay tuned for more...