DJTT Midimap Website Beta
DJTT Midimap Website Beta Posted on: 06.04.2012 by Precious Dawson Hi All,About 2 months ago I had an idea about creating a website dedicated to sharing midimaps. I turns out that DJTT were also planning to build the same thing. So, we joined forces and I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of our midimaps site: midimaps.djranking s.com. We are giving you guys on the community the link first, before we go fully public, so you can kick the tires and put it through it's paces. The new site has been populated with all the official DJTT mappings and I would love it if you guys could start uploading your mapping's too. The database is searchable by software and controller, so you can quickly find the mapping files that work with your setup. The system has built in version control. Every time you upload a new mapping file the version number will be automatically incremented (of course you can manually override it). You can subscribe to mapping updates to received emails when a new version of a mapping is available. Another cool feature is that you can create an "edit" of someone else's mapping. For example, if you downloaded a mapping file for your controller but you did some edits to add a new feature or fix a bug, then you can just go back to the page where you downloaded the original mapping and hit the "Upload an edit of the mapping" button. A copy of the original mapping will be created and you will be asked to upload the new mapping file(s). You can sign up for the beta using your community credentials or by starting a new account. We have a list of ideas for the next version, but we wanted to open it up to the DJTT community to see what popular requests may be. If you have any feedback, suggestions or bugs to report then visit the support community : http://community .djranking s.com/community display.php?f=41 This is a beta, there will be bugs but I will responsive as possible to get everything working perfectly. Enjoy. John. | |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
You can't select more than one controller. If you have an "edit" of a mapping that works with another controller then you can click the "Upload an edit of this mapping" button to copy the data. That way you get the benefit of being able to track the popularity of each edit separately.
in theory most midimasher mappings are quite generic - as the controllers "device" file abstracts the actual midi from any other config/lua script. 99% of a midimasher config deals with named events and any controller that names it's controls the same way will be able to use the same mapping.
Links are automatically detected and converted.
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
what would be very cool tho is to be able to 'auto login' users, which would be easy once the above is done. 1) users clicks on login page 2) login code checks login status and if not logged in 302's to a script on community .djranking s.com 3) script on community .djranking s.com (bloody cookie domains ) checks the login and then 302's back to the original page either with an auth token to log them in, or to just display the login page to the user this would all happen transparently. they'd just automatically be logged into your site if they were already logged into the community . edit: i've recently used this method for a sponsor who provides white labels to affiliates so users can login to their white label sites using the sponsors main user info. perl not php (which i presume u are using) but same theory applies. edit: if i can help in any way feel free to email me as zestoi at djism or djism at zestoi |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
You can't select more than one controller. If you have an "edit" of a mapping that works with another controller then you can click the "Upload an edit of this mapping" button to copy the data. That way you get the benefit of being able to track the popularity of each edit separately.
in theory most midimasher mappings are quite generic - as the controllers "device" file abstracts the actual midi from any other config/lua script. 99% of a midimasher config deals with named events and any controller that names it's controls the same way will be able to use the same mapping.
Links are automatically detected and converted.
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 | i've signed up but not actually uploaded a mapping (as don't have one to add at this time) and have a couple more questions: * i see the option to upload an image - i presume its not a limit of just one? * is it easy to embed the images within the actual text so u can add descriptions like u can on the community ? (i will need at least 4 or 5 images with descriptions for each when i post my midimasher launchpad map) * how do i select more than one controller? the map i will want to upload (F1 emulation for traktor 2.5) will be for launchpad+nanokontrol but it will also work (with a minor edit) on something like an apc40 can we have some more editor controls? i see you're using something from yahoo - not sure what other controls u can add but would def need to be able to embed a link (unless hrefs are automatically converted wiki style?) and indents etc. the actual editor area is also kind of small - ideal for a small description but not so great if needing to really add some big explanations - tho cant get to see what might be on the next page without anything to upload ofc. edit: could be these issues won't affect anyone else so wouldn't make sense to add anyway - just mentioning things as i believe of them |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 | i havent created an acct to see the upload mapping page, but surely the initial default version is 0.0.1? everyone seems to have different interpretations tho of how to use version numbers - which is why i don't really like them very much. when i do use them i use x.y.za as: * x = uber major version (almost never is anything apart from 0 for initial dev work and 1 for a release) * y = major version (may change very few months when big functionality changes) * z = small updates or bug fixes * a = beta prerelease so a typical version string i may use is 1.2.26c for the 3rd release candidate of 1.2.26 problem is what decides changing the major version number or not - so i rarely do and only a total rewrite (or near enough) would make me consider releasing a 2.y.z of anything hence why i just use dates for midimasher like midimasher-20120402 plus i use 'git' for almost all my version control these days which doesnt have an actual version number for commits. |
Leeanna Ayla 08.04.2012 | I changed my avatar on Friday I believe and the new mapping site used my old avatar when I signed up today. |
Leeanna Ayla 08.04.2012 | If I change the version number from the default 0.1.0 to a 1.0.0 will the next upload follow my version naming? I'll read through the discussion you guys are having and give more thoughts on this later, but I will say I don't initially like the idea of not having the discussion about mappings on the community . I can see where that might be a good thing though. |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
what would be very cool tho is to be able to 'auto login' users, which would be easy once the above is done. 1) users clicks on login page 2) login code checks login status and if not logged in 302's to a script on community .djranking s.com 3) script on community .djranking s.com (bloody cookie domains ) checks the login and then 302's back to the original page either with an auth token to log them in, or to just display the login page to the user this would all happen transparently. they'd just automatically be logged into your site if they were already logged into the community . edit: i've recently used this method for a sponsor who provides white labels to affiliates so users can login to their white label sites using the sponsors main user info. perl not php (which i presume u are using) but same theory applies. edit: if i can help in any way feel free to email me as zestoi at djism or djism at zestoi |
Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
really needs to be integrated. the whole web is about shared logins these days - i don't see any point in making users signup again - when it doesnt take much code to auth via vbulletin anyway.
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
Absolutely, this is what we are trying to achieve in the long run.
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Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
The new site will replace mapping uploads and discussion about those specific mappings but it will not replace general discussion about mappings. Or maybe it should, we can discuss this further.
For now the community
is remaining as is and we are running the mapping site in parallel until we get enough feedback to make a good decision about where to go.
You can upload any type of mapping file format and zip/tgz files. There is a filesize limit or the server will time-out when uploading, but this will be huge. For the types of files we are uploading it won't be a problem.
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
if it was me i would even integrate the wordpress comments with vbulletin. there's been some great blog articles and also not bad discussions in the blog comments section but normally i just don't bother as i'd rather discuss any decent blog articles with people here on the community
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imho "unifying" rather than "diversifying" is the way to go...
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 | You can sign up with your community
username first, then you will be able to sign in. The new site will replace mapping uploads and discussion about those specific mappings but it will not replace general discussion about mappings. Or maybe it should, we can discuss this further. For now the community is remaining as is and we are running the mapping site in parallel until we get enough feedback to make a good decision about where to go. You can upload any type of mapping file format and zip/tgz files. There is a filesize limit or the server will time-out when uploading, but this will be huge. For the types of files we are uploading it won't be a problem. |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 | if u look thru threads on this (sub)community
you'll see it's much more than just mappings. i'm still convinced that discussion *of* the mappings should stay here - but even if not just merging this community
with the "Controllers, Mods and Gear Reviews" one wouldn't make a heap of sense. i also believe you'd get less people joining in discussion of the mappings if it was in a separate system. if it was me i would even integrate the wordpress comments with vbulletin. there's been some great blog articles and also not bad discussions in the blog comments section but normally i just don't bother as i'd rather discuss any decent blog articles with people here on the community . imho "unifying" rather than "diversifying" is the way to go... |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 |
Originally Posted by DJTT John
The idea is that the new site will replace the controllers section of the community
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At the moment you are correct. But, we are hoping that with feedback from the DJTT community we can expand it. What would make it better than traktorbible.com and community
threads?
if however u could get the traktorbible owners to migrate all the mappings that they have into your new site then it's all good. what we really don't need is two 'central' places for people to be posting mappings to. people *will* want to discuss mappings *somewhere* on the community . i really don't believe it makes any sense to come up with something that is completely separate. i check various sections on the community several times a day, and it's easy when it's all part of the same system.
It should work, let me know what you did and I'll try and reproduce the problem. We questioned if people should be forced to login to download or not. We decided to see what would happen. As you can imagine, it wouldn't very good if we tried out downloads for all first then switched to downloads for signed in users second.
Absolutely, it's not forced! It's there for convenience. Although you must use x.y.z format version numbers so they can be sorted easily.
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Precious Dawson 08.04.2012 |
nice idea i believe - tho isn't this basically what traktorbible.com is used for?
tried to login using my community
login but didn't work. i hope/presume you're linking to the vbulletin login info for this as would be slightly insane to require a different login. i wrote some code to do that for one client a few years ago - don't suppose it's much different now.
i would like to see some community
integration re: comments or something. makes more sense (i believe) to create a community
thread for a mapping to it can be discussed and people get to see updates etc - but it could always link back to a page on your new site to actually down etc. the vb thread could even be embedded within your site instead of the whole separate comments system.
being able to tag mappings and then browse by controller/tag etc would be nice. not sure how useful the main homepage will be once it has a decent set of mappings and browsing would be nicer than having to select a pulldown for software and/or controller imho.
it's a nice central hub for djtt's own mappings rather than a few odd pages on the blog - but not convinced it's better than a combination of traktorbible.com and community
threads for other users mappings atm.
edit: u def need to use vbulletin logins (unless u are and mine just isn't working) as u can't do anything atm, download/comment/etc without being logged in. forcing people to login just to download a mapping is maybe one step too far as well.
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this is a nice feature so long as it's the default behavour and not *forced* behavour. for example any midimasher mapping that i might upload will have it's own version number and other people may well not upload every version so they'd need to be able to specify that etc. Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming! |
Chasidy Heckenbach 08.04.2012 | nice idea i believe - tho isn't this basically what traktorbible.com is used for? tried to login using my community login but didn't work. i hope/presume you're linking to the vbulletin login info for this as would be slightly insane to require a different login. i wrote some code to do that for one client a few years ago - don't suppose it's much different now. i would like to see some community integration re: comments or something. makes more sense (i believe) to create a community thread for a mapping so it can be discussed and people get to see updates etc - but it could always link back to a page on your new site to actually down etc. the vb thread could even be embedded within your site instead of the whole separate comments system. being able to tag mappings and then browse by controller/tag etc would be nice. not sure how useful the main homepage will be once it has a decent set of mappings and browsing would be nicer than having to select a pulldown for software and/or controller imho. it's a nice central hub for djtt's own mappings rather than a few odd pages on the blog - but not convinced it's better than a combination of traktorbible.com and community threads for other users mappings atm. edit: u def need to use vbulletin logins (unless u are and mine just isn't working) as u can't do anything atm, download/comment/etc without being logged in. forcing people to login just to download a mapping is maybe one step too far as well. edit2:
The system has built in version control. Every time you upload a new mapping file the version number will be automatically incremented
Another cool feature is that you can create an "edit" of someone else's mapping.
edit: there's also no reason why u couldnt auto login users using their community login if u redirect via the community .djranking s.com using some code there that passes an auth token back to your site |
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