Geekido

In MacIDOL’s Jamroom package, I use artist quotas to weed out spammers and drive-by subscribers to artist accounts. A new artist is “provisional” until they upload at least one song. A provisional artist gets deleted after 30 days of inactivity.

Up until now, it’s been a manual process to go in, look at the provisional artists, and convert those with at least a song to regular artists. I changed that today.

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I’m busy making a Drupal front-end for MacIDOL to replace the custom pages. The custom pages feature a section where a user can browse for music through a hierarchical genre scheme. In Drupal, I’ve implemented this as a taxonomy for the genres, adding the Term Field module to store the Jamroom genre_id with each taxonomy term.

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