Opentape News

FOLQUÉBEC

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:28:03 -0500

Now and then we stumble into some killer customizations of Opentape. Here’s one with awesome folk music from Quebec.

Opentape 0.12 Released!

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:01:28 -0500

A new version of Opentape is now available! This update is contains a few small fixes to the software that make it easier to deploy Opentape on a wider range of web servers with their varying PHP configurations.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted patches and reported bugs.

FIXES

- Fixed time-clicking/stop playback UI bug. If you clicked on time remaining or total time while track is playing JS errors would be generated and the page would fail. Thanks fusen!
- Fixed preg_replace bug @opentape_common.php 314, thanks harry_tuttle!
- Removed rogue php short tags (How did you all sneak in here?) Thanks Eli!

ENHANCEMENTS

- Changed Opentape license to AGPL
- Made it possible to empty the artist name and have this show up correctly in the mixtape
- Replaced hacked XSPF implementation with one that uses PHP DOM
- Made XSPF playlist non-cachable via hash in URL. This way tracks play in the correct order after reordering them in the admin panel in all browsers. (Eli)

Katie Chastain's new site is powered by Opentape

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:25:43 -0400

Katie Chastain's new site is powered by Opentape:

Katie Chastain’s new site is powered by Opentape. Have a look and a listen!

The future of artist presence of the web is not in an all-in-one premium web service or a social network that has conflicting business priorities but in easily customizable open source software.

Ethan Kaplan’s Drupal-powered artist sites are another excellent example of this in action.

Opentapes in the wild!

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:45:48 -0400

Opentapes in the wild!:

Twitter @opentape with info about your opentape install and we’ll re-tweet it to share with our followers!

Similarly, follow us to find cool things to listen to. We’ve already tweeted a bunch!

Open² - CC music on Opentape

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:38:00 -0400

Open² - CC music on Opentape:

Jonathan Deamer collected some cool CC-licensed tunes and loaded them into Opentape. Cool!

Changes in Opentape 0.11

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:20:54 -0400

Get Opentape 0.11 here

FIXES
- Fixed handling of ’” in track and mixtape titles and track names
- Fixed timeout/hang on some systems during password creation or login due to PHP_INT_MAX issue.
- Corrected cookie/session handling to be more reliable, prevents double logins/logouts issue
- Fixed potential security issue where mixtape password could have been changed after the mixtape was setup by loading welcome.php
- Fixed inability to run opentape on a non-standard port
- Assorted PHP syntax fixes that reduce warnings
- PHP-curl extension no longer required for opentape to work. Your installation must allow creation of the http:// stream context though
- Fixed issue when running on win32/php with reading ID3 data

ENHANCEMENTS
- Added support for servers with magic_quotes_gpc enabled in PHP stripping the quotes in various inputs
- Re-wrote preferences storage to store the password and other data more securely in serialized php files that cannot be retrieved remotely. This feature automatically upgrades from old file format.
- Added index.php files into songs/ and settings/ folders to further protect them
- Added a server-end check to make sure non-mp3 files are not uploaded
- Only scan for MP3s in the songs dir, no other files read or added
- Tracks are added on top as they are uploaded
- If no id3 data is found the filename of the file is now used as the title

Thanks again for the patience, all the bug reports and fixes in the forum and on twitter! Proper bug tracking coming very soon.

Opentape 0.11 Released!

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:13:45 -0400

Opentape 0.11 Released!:

A new version of Opentape is now available! This update is highly recommended for all users of Opentape as it fixes numerous reliability issues and one important security bug.

Thanks to everyone in the Opentape forum who posted bug reports and fixes! We will be setting up a proper issue-tracking system shortly to keep this more organized.

The Record Machine's Mixtape

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:10:10 -0400

The Record Machine's Mixtape:

The Record Machine is an independent record label based in Kansas City, Missouri.

They’ve setup Opentape earlier this week and even have an embedded player in their blog!
Check it out for some eclectic tracks!

Opentape HQ Forum

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:40:14 -0400

Opentape HQ Forum:

The Opentape forum is up. Report technical issues, suggest ideas, share thoughts.

More discussion and feedback

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:59:00 -0400

More interesting discussion and coverage at Read Write Web, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Deal Tech Confidential, OStatic, Blorge, Lifehacker, Ben Kessler and WebProNews.

Mike at the OStatic blog pointed out that we did not specify an OSS license that we are using to distribute Opentape or the components (Mootools, SWFObject, JW Player, Services_JSON, portions of getid3) that make it work. We’ve reached out to Mike for help in correcting this issue and will address it in the next update. If your specialty is OSS licensing, please get in touch with us.

Thanks everyone for the feedback, we love it and are looking for more.

First blog coverage and Twitter updates

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:34:13 -0400

Notable coverage and discussion so far on: GigaOM, Mashable, Hacker News, MetaFilter and SitePoint.

A few notes:

- Opentape is not affiliated with Muxtape.

- Opentape is built from the ground up with original CSS and backend PHP code. The only element borrowed from Muxtape’s publicly available UI code is the song rearrange tool.

We’ve also created an Opentape twitter account to share smaller updates and gather community feedback. Please @opentape if you are playing with the tool.

That was quick!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:50:04 -0400

First band using Opentape: Two Shots of Rye.

Preview their new record Hooks on Tape here (via Opentape).

Are you an artist/band setting up Opentape? Let us know, we like it.

Welcome to Opentape!

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:14:00 -0400

This is the first release of Opentape - a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.

See demo, download it and let us know what you think.