DMusic.com | for indie musicians and fans | Free MP3 music downloads - Forums: Staff Announcements: Has anybody been able to upload with IE6?

Forums > Staff Announcements

Has anybody been able to upload with IE6?

NosmoKing	Date: February 20, 2008 @ 3:20 AM Just curious as I could upload with Opera but error messages using IE6 - They have been reported to Jack! If others are having the same problem perhaps you could mention it here!
jack	Date: February 20, 2008 @ 12:02 PM Hi guys, I'm currently pretty much going out of my way to resolve this. It's a little difficult since I have been unable to reproduce this and have successfully uploaded using IE 6. Any and all information would be appreciated, particularly your operating system and whether or not you have installed any updates or service packs.
NosmoKing	Date: February 20, 2008 @ 1:49 PM Version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254 running on XP SP2 with all current updates for IE6 Error message is Wrong file type. Only png, jpg,tif,gif,ai,psd, mp3,wav,ogg,avi,mpg,wmv,doc,xls,txt,pdf are allowed. If you uploaded a valid file, please report the error to an administrator quoting this value: 'mime_type'='application/octet-stream' and state what browser you used to upload. Thanks.
Distilled1	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 2:39 AM ie 6 isn't really even supported by its maker anymore...is it? once you go open source and to the M$ you'll see the light
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 3:30 AM Yes, Rich... But the thing is too many people blindly believe M$ and IE are the way to go, that they are the best, the innovators, the standard others follow... Some are so stuck in this way of thinking that, even when faced with such a major problem as this could be, they would rather bang their heads against the monitor than try another browser, like Firefox... Opera... I lovingly refer to this as the "Microsoft Brainwash Program".
Opossum	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 3:34 AM This is somewhat reminiscent of some modes of thinking on certain types of updates. "If it ain't broke...break it."
NosmoKing	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 3:34 AM I use opera and have had it for years! (Yes it uploads) IE6 is still supported and updated by MS - It worked before and I would believe there is a potential of many users who did not upgrade to 7 - They will come out of the woodwork when they try and use it! Ask miralemaker!
Mojosnake	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 3:35 AM yeah well firefox is not the be all end as i cant upload files ANYMORE using firefox on a mac ,,, get the same error he's getting.. there has to be a larger issue somewhere...
zedsalt	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 4:07 AM I use IE7 because it causes the fewest compatiblity problems of any browser I've tried lately. I held off switching from v6 until it started to make trouble. And I don't have time for any of this silly "brainwashing" talk, because I have to catch a flight to Seattle to wash Bill's car.
Distilled1	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 4:17 AM what needs to happen with FF and mac is Jack to get the code to FF and to Mac and say look this was working what did you do? I am suprized M$ is still updating and supporting because I kept a copy of IE and last I tried to update it it forced IE7 on me and man thats a joke and a try at copying Opera and Mozila. Mozila follows the html and web standards M$ wont they are in their eye. just a rant. If I can find IE6 I will try and upload, I do with FF but on Windows I wish I had a mac as well I would certainly love to help Matt. (cause I hear safari is )
GeneHilbert	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 4:18 AM I had so much problem with IE6 on this site. Somewhere along the line the compatibly between the two is corrupted. I still use win2000 so an upgrade to IE7 was not possible - I had to install Firefox to remedy the situation.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 5:03 AM IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera... You wouldn't believe how much within each of them doesn't conform to a "web standard" - it's something that hit us when redesigning the site. Jack and I had worked on the design within Firefox and it came out ok, only to look like sh*t in IE and all because FF conformed to certain CSS rules and margins that IE didn't (which was never rectified in IE7 either, since MS figured security was more important than conformity... and since security in IE7 is hardly better... go figure again) so it meant having to test things on both and I can remember plenty of headaches finding code that would work with both. Add different types of computers into the equation and I'd have probably burst my remaining brain cell and turned us into a text-driven BBS instead.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 5:04 AM Well, I never found the code, GreenFloppyDisk Man did. But I felt the pain, yes I sure did.
jack	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 5:58 AM I'm installing XP SP2 on a virtual machine tonight, going to see if I can break stuff with a vanilla install. If I manage to get an upload to fail I will be revising the upload code and adding a fall back option that allows legacy browsers to upload. If it continues to work, there's not much I can do if I cannot reproduce the problem myself. I haven't ruled out the option that this is a problem on DMusic's end either, but until I can reproduce the problem I can't do much debugging.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 8:00 AM I have XP SP2 here, SP3 beta on a fresh install downstairs, Firefox and IE6 on this one (since I can't stand IE I never upgraded to v7) and I think it's IE7 on the SP3 machine although I didn't check. The real question is why only some browser/computer setups would encounter upload issues, apart from the obvious things like security software on user computers and cookie settings in browsers.
jack	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 8:05 AM It looks like browsers are mostly reporting the wrong mime type to DMusic- this is a value that's sent on upload and is the way we've always done it. Most of the problems seem to be stemming from this anyway, for example, IE 6 appears to be reporting an mp3 file as application/octet-stream - which is the MIME type for a binary file (such as an exe), it really should be audio/mpeg. This could be a bug with IE 6 or a problem with the way apache is parsing the form data on our end. What's weird is my copy of IE 6 reports the data as audio/mpeg correctly.
miraclemaker	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 8:10 AM and now for something completely different. I was able to upload with Opera, but when i tried to stream it was a no go. I really dont no what else can be done, and like an idiot I deleted the original
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 8:15 AM It uses those same filetypes to determine what application to open when downloading/streaming a file, doesn't it? Would it then stand to reason that perhaps an application installed on the problem machine could've altered those types for IE, since IE basically gets most of its information from the operating system? Could we not just create a routine to read the first few bytes of an uploaded file to determine its type instead?
NosmoKing	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 8:34 AM If you didnt want IE7 , you only needed to say NO and check .. "Dont ever bother me with this again" - It doesnt really force anything on you if you choose to "Choose" what you install or dont!
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 9:41 AM I'm trying to work out who you are replying to, NosmoKing, since I can't see anyone talking about being forced to using IE7 in this forum...
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 9:43 AM Oh wait, temporary blindness. I see it now. Rich, is your "copy" one of those that requires access to the net in order to install, like most IE packages are? I never use them, I always get the redist packages, which need no net access.
Distilled1	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 9:46 AM it did with the OS new install on a new (last of XP weeks before Vista brand new box.) if I had xp SP2 on the ols one (its now a linux box) it would have ie6 but I re did all that box to have a non M$ machine
jack	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 10:01 AM Sorry, was testing the new quote button.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 10:07 AM i'm considering doing a dual boot but not on this machine, much as i despise Microsoft the music app i run isn't available for Linux (and won't be)... ooh quote button works again. much easier than copying the selection source and editing it
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 10:09 AM On 21st Feb 2009, jack said: Sorry, was testing the new quote button. On 31st Dec 1969, ChillinBuzz said: Iz a n00b.
NosmoKing	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 11:42 AM umm... quote works.. IE6 and for many IE7 doesnt!
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 11:48 AM file uploaded \| oh poop, file won't complete \| is browser IE? \| is IE reporting file as application/octet-stream? \| server: treat file as mp3. proceed to create streams as normal.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 11:51 AM #2 error check, encounters the error above. #3 easy enough to determine user's browser type. #4 again, system seems able to do this. #5 the interesting one. if the system has errored and you tell it to handle as an mp3, will the scripts handling the streaming creation still function, or will the system convince those scripts automatically?
TnyjMuzic	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 12:54 PM I used IE 7 browser to upload and it worked fine.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 3:01 PM lucky you... it seems others are not so fortunate.
Distilled1	Date: February 28, 2008 @ 3:17 PM make sure cashe and all cookies are cleared I know it seems like a but I think this may be an issue (it was with FF at first) and I know IE cashe and cookies get really buried and hard to clear not just the history I mean wipe it.. try clean up (free )
NosmoKing	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 3:35 AM It isnt the issue! It is reported wrong as per the error message I posted in the start of this thread! It still doesnt work.. The website has some problems that need to be addressed and or a workaround done! Opera worked for me but people should not be forced to change their browers and in some cases media players to use this site again and that in fact is what is happening! (forget media players for this thread, but yes people are having problems with them as well)
Distilled1	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 4:33 AM WMP has "ALWAYS" had a problem (and the 11 update has made it worse it broke my kids ZEN and sansa clip MP3 players had to go back to 8 now) to allow for non DRM music to work on them! because of codecs for DRM and WMP file and MP3 issues (WMP doesn't like MP3 unless its DRM) SO the player issue has been here and other sites for a long time... read back into the forums even back in 2003 and before find the ORigional stuff from 1999? about what players to use! if the error is this audio/ something goofy (then yes Jack needs to get on it, and fix it) but if its only an IE 6 issue could it be that ie 6 is now just not a web browser good enough for the web anymore? Jack what are the servers running? Apache? I am assuming we are not on MS stuff. (and for good reason) is it that the new servers (and new software running the servers don't recognize stuff from ie6 due to its non conformity to open web standards? *Just a inquiring mind wants to know question I don't know I cant do any seeing to help debug. I will again look for an ie6 and try (if someone can get me an ie6 I will try to get one up using it. I still think there are only a handful, not getting uploads witch makes me wonder what it could be here since dozens are uploading each day...old and new artist alike and new I can see having not been in here and DL FF or Opera and using WMP etc. . 'Tis Odd and I would love to help de bug it ...
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 5:11 AM It isn't just IE6. I have tried uploading with Firefox, IE6, and IE7. Still no dice. I tried new tracks, I tried old. It still will not recognize the file type. I tried two accounts, sub and non-sub. I even created a new artist page. Nope. I'm getting so depressed....
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 8:35 AM I guess that this probably isn't the best time to report that changing song order in a folder doesn't work in IE7, either... Well, when it rains... I did manage to upload a file last night, though. In order to eliminate all the variables that could possibly interfere, I ripped the file from a copy of our CD using WMP, as an mp3 @128kbps format. The simplest variety of mp3 possible. I also made sure that there were no spaces in the file name, as per the upload instructions on the file manager page. Used underscores instead of spaces, no hyphens or apostrophes, or any other "weird" characters. That may help some, but I'm sure not all.
Distilled1	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 8:39 AM ypu know I have een using windows audio converter to convert to mp3 the last I don't know 6 months... witch works fine for me.. but again its odd hat some are having issues and some not. Jack we need to know what you need from the users uploading and where they can gain that info (my computer about you know the non techy need to know how to get you the info that you will need to de bug properly.
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 9:01 AM I use Cakewalk to convert. I know we did have some issues with that way back when, but they involved using .MP3, which Cakewalk assigns as a default. DMusic only recognized .mp3. But I know this, and I know no spaces are allowed in the filename, too. But no matter what I do, even tracks that uploaded before do not upload. So I don't think it's on my end.
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 9:11 AM Well, let's troubleshoot this, then... Would it be possible for you to upload 5 or 6 of the files you're working with, in a zip file, to someplace like Megaupload or Sendspace so that another designated user can attempt upload from their machine? At least that way, we can determine that there isn't a problem with the files themselves...
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 9:19 AM I have two new test files, very short that are just sound tracks-- I was going to test the track replacement function, to make sure it still worked. And one file that has been on DMusic for months. I think if I send them by YouSendIt, it will give me a link I can post. How's that?
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 9:30 AM That'll work.
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 9:52 AM I'm too cheap to pay for it, so I could only upload one at a time. The first link is to Temple of the Winds, the original one I uploaded to my page. The second link is to George, just a test file. I just tried to upload both again, to two different pages, and it still gives me this: Temple_Of_The_Winds_W_Shadowmom_.mp3 - Wrong file type. Only png, jpg,tif,gif,ai,psd, mp3,wav,ogg,avi,mpg,wmv,doc,xls,txt,pdf are allowed. If you uploaded a valid file, please report the error to an administrator quoting this value: 'mime_type'='audio/x-mp3' and state what browser you used to upload. Thanks. But here are the two links. I think they'll work. http://download.yousendit.com/565EB6D51660D3CE http://download.yousendit.com/75B3644D4D7D5F7F
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:05 AM Okay. Files uploaded fine, and are streamable. They're labeled "Test 1" and "Test 2", and can be streamed here: http://thesignalhybrid.dmusic.com/ I created a new folder called "Test" to upload them into, and uploaded both files at once, using the File Manager. The one thing that I did notice along the way, is that, when creating a new folder, the default option for what it should contain is "Images" or "Pictures" (I forget which). I changed this option to "Music", and it all went smooth as glass. Let me know when you'd like the files removed or made invisible. At least they're on the DM Server now.
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:12 AM Woof, thank you for the test... you can delete them whenever you want to. I will reupload Temple whenever my account works, but it's not a priority. I don't know why the file manager will not recognize my files, though. They are the exact files you just uploaded.
Distilled1	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:12 AM I got Temple up fine. so heres a question.. could this be something with MS update? I know the mac issue and Firefox is there and thats a mac issue that happens all over the web... both lo hi and DL work
Distilled1	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:15 AM OR Jack has some issue with certain users file managers (although they should all be the same!)
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:18 AM I have no idea, but this is Firefox, and I have Windows XP. The fact that it's refusing to recognize them as mp3s leads me to believe it's my account. I don't think I'm the only one left who can't upload, there's got to be a common thread. That's what we have to find.
ShadowMom	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:18 AM Jack has issues with me. So? I have the feeling I'm heading back to the dungeon any day now.
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:26 AM You're too noce for the dungeon, Mom... Purgatory, perhaps, but not the dungeon. I have the same feeling... Just like some userpages had music and some didn't right after the migration, I suspect that some userpages have functionality that managed to get thrown out of whack due to the crash. This would explain why some users are having loads of trouble with uploads, and others aren't. My account, and Distilled's, have both been here for years... and I know that my music wasn't affected by the outage. It all was there as soon as the site went live again. This is just speculation, of course. But at least we know your files are okay.
Woof	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 11:28 AM Err... "Nice", not "Noce"... Hate typos.
miraclemaker	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 10:23 PM Is it it funny how you can upload with opera and not with ie. You would think that a MS product would have no problems - but I have uploaded using ie on another site before (like myspaz) and it worked fine, and of course my old files when I first joined here were uploaded with ie6
NosmoKing	Date: March 1, 2008 @ 3:57 AM To reiterate! On 20th Feb 2009, NosmoKing said: Version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254 running on XP SP2 with all current updates for IE6 Error message is Wrong file type. Only png, jpg,tif,gif,ai,psd, mp3,wav,ogg,avi,mpg,wmv,doc,xls,txt,pdf are allowed. If you uploaded a valid file, please report the error to an administrator quoting this value: 'mime_type'='application/octet-stream' and state what browser you used to upload. Thanks. This is what I posted at the beginning of this thread and the info that Jack knows about! The server does not recogize the file type properly from some of our systems using some or all browers. As indicated earlier, I was able to upload using Opera and when some others tried also had success. It isnt a file problem at all as already estabished.. just something that needs to be fixed here!
NosmoKing	Date: March 1, 2008 @ 3:57 AM It does warm my heart that the quotes are working though!
miraclemaker	Date: March 2, 2008 @ 10:22 PM Its really sad that this particular problem and an aray of others are not being fixed or even delt with. Not to mention on top of that a virus adware bug. We will lose many good people here it seems, and you cant blame them for their frustration.
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 3, 2008 @ 12:40 AM They are being dealt with, somehow despite what's going on it would be impossible to see absolutely nothing being done... The server move did occur but I'm guessing the damage is far worse than originally noted. They are being fixed, although at what rate I can't even begin to say. As you may have noticed (well, some have) the problems are varying pretty wildly. I have no issue uploading and streaming/downloading with Firefox on XP SP2. Some are having issues with that same setup and others are having issues with completely different setups and even different machines... So it's obviously not just a file manager issue. We already have lost a large number of users and no, you can't blame them but at the same time, when there's no update or fixes, don't assume the problems aren't being fixed or dealt with. My mailbox says something quite different... Although WHEN things will work again... Your guess is as good as mine. If an "update" is what some people want, whether there's any news or not, I will try to post one as I come across information. That's the best I can do and I'm only doing that because: a) I've been here a long time, b) I still love the site, c) I want the place to work again so we can get back to doing what we do best, which is making music rather than complaining the site isn't being fixed.
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 3, 2008 @ 1:04 AM If it's any consolation, I might be able to upload fine but all my songs (bar the latest upload) are gone, even the songs that have been up on the site for 4 years. My entire ChillinBuzz collabs section is f*cked. The Evolution's Chaos one is hit and miss... I guess I better check the TrailBlazers page... I still think a total reset isn't such a bad idea now...

Post A Reply
From:	guest	(Icons - Linking)
Post: