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fu-dog	Date: February 24, 2004 @ 2:25 PM You might notice that your statistics have changed drastically. This is because some of the data that was displayed was for songs that had been queued in someone's player, but they never actually got around to playing that song. This has been removed from the actual streams/downloads total as it's not relevant. Such data will become available down the road in the advanced statistics package that's in the works.
smooka	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 2:16 AM keep up the good work, DM staff werkz hard!
Cryxan	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 4:16 AM Niiiiice. This will take care of people clicking their tracks 20 times to make their numbers go up.
miriamgomezm...	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 5:12 AM Good idea, Fu-dog. By the way: what happens when somebody listens to a playlist? Does it count as a stream as well?
Distilled1	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 4:17 PM I wonderd that also the playlist thing
fu-dog	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 5:08 PM When someone listens to one of your songs on a playlist, it counts as a stream, either high or low depending to which they listened.
robbydadrummer	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 5:50 PM Coolness...
Jesuszilla	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 7:34 PM Cool, my last 2 songs have 0 plays in just over 10 days. Need to spam more.
Jesuszilla	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 7:40 PM One of my old songs had about 120 hi fi plays but now has just 19.
fu-dog	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 7:57 PM That's why i made the announcement. The change might be very drastic for some artists...
Veracohr	Date: February 25, 2004 @ 9:25 PM [useless post] I notice the "Unknowns" are gone. [/useless post]
fu-dog	Date: February 26, 2004 @ 12:05 AM I removed the display if the song listed lacks unknown entries , ie - entries that don't have a recorded value of how much of the track was actually streamed.
withering	Date: February 28, 2004 @ 8:10 AM Nice. Could it be possible to give some information on how these numbers are calculated? I assume there is some per unique ip in this formulae? Does anonymous streams/downloads count at all? A little curious, because the same thing happened to me as did to Jesus here, I just found that some of my songs have more than streams/downloads combined...! So, I guess we might have a lot of deaf fans? Don't know if that's a good thing or not?
Jesuszilla	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 5:56 AM Yeah, one of my newies has 0 plays but 2 comments and thumbs up. Oh the humanity!
TameasDust	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 2:35 PM ahhhhhhh the wonders of programming and future responses
withering	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 6:24 PM I think the stats are from another dimension. Or at least one of them alternate realities. Cause, in the alternaive reality I lived yesterday, I specifically remember that I listened to all yer new tracks 'zilla. Cause my middle left-foot toe is still kind of numb in a warm and fuzzy way.
fu-dog	Date: March 1, 2004 @ 6:56 PM 0 plays with two thumbs up? Does that track count and "partial" listens? The system works thusly: It chops up a song into chunks and sends them to a user. It counts each chunk, and when the script is done sending data, it notes how much was sent to the user. The problem with this method is that if a user scrolls through the song, the count starts from zero again. In this way, only songs played straight through count as full listens. Thusfar, this is the best system i've been able to come up with given the nature of the beast (stateless) without incurring lots of overhead with database transactions for every song seek.
withering	Date: March 2, 2004 @ 9:53 AM The song in question is most likely this one: Forever Mourn, id=112610 I know I did at least one full stream from start to end without scrolling because I listened through the whole album, and maybe one partial as well on that song. And I guess Jen & others have listened to it as well. So - something is definitely still rotten in the state of Denmark.
YaBoyDrew	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 12:34 AM anything new goin on with the statistics Fu-Dog. I miss how they used 2 be
fu-dog	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 2:33 PM Soon. Really. For really. If not today, then sometime next week.
smooka	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 3:05 PM he's serious, he's not fu-ing around
DevonPowell	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 4:30 PM
YaBoyDrew	Date: April 5, 2004 @ 5:12 PM LOL AT SMOOKA
fu-dog	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:47 PM Okay. Stats are up and running again. The "real data" that they represent is from December 15th, 2003 and later. You might find partial and unknown entries from songs prior to that time. This was before we started counting percentages of song transfered. Any questions or possible issues, please feel free to put them here and drop me a note to let me know you're looking for help. Sometimes i miss the forum for a bit whilest wading in code.
blubat	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:52 PM thanks fu-dog we all appreicate it
blubat	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:54 PM well that makes a huge difference i think all my stats went up about 500% hahaha i was wodering about that.
Apertome	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 8:24 PM Yes, thanks fu-dog!
YaBoyDrew	Date: June 15, 2004 @ 1:34 PM iiiiiiiiiight goodshit

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