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RobertMcDade	Date: May 12, 2005 @ 5:09 PM The only thing I like about SoundClick is the "individual song picture" feature...It lets you give more meaning to your song, it gives the people listening something to remember it by, and it gives people a way to relate your songs to the what your talking about in it. It is the only thing this site is lacking...Please add this feature! If you do, I believe this site would be an unconqerable OMD titan.
Dizeazed	Date: May 12, 2005 @ 9:55 PM Agreed Individual song images are excellent.. and would give our pages so much more individualism and character.
moam	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 12:36 AM
LilVIetBalla	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 12:36 AM yes i gues, but they hella friggin small.
utopiauk	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 7:37 AM I agree. This is a feature that I like on Soundclick. It would great to have it available here.
furiousBall	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 1:58 PM duly noted and added to "the list"
shadowself	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 3:57 PM That's got my vote, too. I like creating my own images, and this would give me even more of an outlet.
RobertMcDade	Date: May 13, 2005 @ 5:11 PM @ FuriousBall....um, could you like...bump this one a little more towards the top of the list?
koiulpoi	Date: May 15, 2005 @ 1:40 PM Definatly agree with this one.
Dizeazed	Date: May 15, 2005 @ 5:00 PM No need to bump this thread anywhere, Robert... This idea has already been put on "the list" and the DMusic staff members are lookin' into it.
koiulpoi	Date: May 16, 2005 @ 2:57 PM Sweet sweet.
RobertMcDade	Date: May 16, 2005 @ 7:17 PM Lol....sorry bout that Dizeazed, im just really anxious about it
iOrbit	Date: May 16, 2005 @ 7:28 PM "That's got my vote, too. I like creating my own images, and this would give me even more of an outlet." Same here. I used to be really active at deviantart. Now it's Dm. It goes in waves I guess.
freddemillio	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 2:22 AM img tag in HTML as the first part of the description. If you look at the source code on my artist page (or any other artist page that has little pictures next to the titles) then you can see examples. You really do not need to be an HTML ace to do this (I am far away from being an ace) and it can be as simple as a cut-and-paste operation. Of course if the site had this as an automatic feature that would be more convivial but until that functionality exists, with a little bit of extra work, you can have a picture next to your title right now." id="134859">If by "song pictures" you mean putting an image next to the title of your song, it is already possible at DM today. It just takes a little bit of HTML in the description line of the info to get this done. You need to have your image either on the DM site or another website (that you have permission to link to) and then use the the img tag in HTML as the first part of the description. If you look at the source code on my artist page (or any other artist page that has little pictures next to the titles) then you can see examples. You really do not need to be an HTML ace to do this (I am far away from being an ace) and it can be as simple as a cut-and-paste operation. Of course if the site had this as an automatic feature that would be more convivial but until that functionality exists, with a little bit of extra work, you can have a picture next to your title right now.
Dizeazed	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 12:51 PM Fred... I don't believe HTML works in the song descriptions.
RobertMcDade	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 3:26 PM It doesn't, i've already tried... sigh
freddemillio	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 4:59 PM Sorry to disagree with everyone but HTML definitely works in the song description field of the info. My artist page is done that way. Just look at the source code to see what I've done. Robert, I'll DNote you with the formula.
Dizeazed	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 5:05 PM stands corrected Wow!!! I've tried, several times, to do somethin just like that... Many props!!!
Dizeazed	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 5:06 PM P.S. Fred... Would you post an example of the HTML code, in this forum, to help everyone out?
freddemillio	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 5:37 PM Sure thing Diz! I'm happy to be useful every now and then Here is the formula with the angular brakets changed to square brakets ( [ ] ) so that this forum post does not really translate it into html. Obviously when you really use it the square brakets have to be changed back to the angular html ones. [IMG BORDER="2" ALIGN="Left" WIDTH="77" HEIGHT="76" hspace=12 SRC="http://files.dmusic.com/music/l/i/littleredking/Bretagne.gif"] A collaboration by Vamallela and Little Red King. Full credits in Info. You use that in the Description field of the Info section of the song. Hope that helps everyone.
onewhodreams	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 10:02 PM Wow! Thanks for sharing that Fred! Your page looks nice and I like your Favorites section too
onewhodreams	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 10:14 PM ...although I just tried it and it didn't work All the html did not fit in the Description field.
RobertMcDade	Date: May 17, 2005 @ 10:48 PM Excellent formula Fred! I really appreciate it! You have just made SoundClick dissappear off of my favorites list, cuz like I said in a previous post, the only reason I liked SC was purely do to Individual Song Pics....and you've solved that problem for me all together! Your awesome!
freddemillio	Date: May 18, 2005 @ 6:42 AM Ocean. OWD, just as an experiment, maybe try copying in my exact html code and description (of course changing brakets to angular ones) to see if it fits in your description field and produces the desired result in the song title? If that does not work then :shrug: it is a real mystery because it does work on my page (and I have absolutely no special privileges). I hope this might be useful for you! :D" id="135013">OWD - you are right - the description is limited in characters and this forces a compromise. First, (probably obvious) you need to make sure that the title of the image is as small as possible so you do not eat up character count. You need to avoid a picture title like "My_day_at_the_beach_on_the_first of_september_in_the_year_two thousand_and_four_with_a_picture_of a_sailboat_in_the_background_and_a pelican_catching_a_fish_out_of_the water.jpg". (That's a joke, I'm sure that none of us would do that.) The lengthy html code means that your descriptions will have to be done with fewer characters and for the moment that is how things are at DM. By experimenting with a few cycles of putting in the description and then checking the results you'll be able to find something that works (it just might not be exactly what you wanted, but oh well ... as the Stones said "you can't always get what you want...") On my account / artist page, the html code & description that I posted above fits in my description field and is exactly how I did the description / picture on the song Ocean. OWD, just as an experiment, maybe try copying in my exact html code and description (of course changing brakets to angular ones) to see if it fits in your description field and produces the desired result in the song title? If that does not work then it is a real mystery because it does work on my page (and I have absolutely no special privileges). I hope this might be useful for you!
koiulpoi	Date: May 18, 2005 @ 4:57 PM Admins... must... improve... this feature!
Dizeazed	Date: May 18, 2005 @ 7:13 PM It's coming soon! locks thred: Complaint will soon be resolved

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