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casting the net wider

I have had a hard time discovering new music since MTV Amp went off the air. Lately, I occasionally hear a neat snippet in a car commercial and in the interstitials at Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. So, help me find new music, please bookmark some mp3’s with the tag “for:joshua” and I will listen. To make this easier for myself and everyone, del.icio.us now has special support for media.

Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added. You can use these just like normal tags. RSS feeds that have one of those system tags added will automatically become a rss-with-enclosures file.

The tag “system:media:audio” includes

• *.mp3 tagged as “system:filetype:mp3“
• *.wav tagged as “system:filetype:wav“

The tag “system:media:video” includes

• *.mpg tagged as “system:filetype:mpg“
• *.mpeg tagged as “system:filetype:mpeg“
• *.avi tagged as “system:filetype:avi“
• *.wmv tagged as “system:filetype:wmv“
• *.mov tagged as “system:filetype:mov“

Examples:

• ALL music items on delicious:
  http://del.icio.us/tag/system:media:audio
• mp3s tagged as “mashups”:
  http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3+mashups
• ALL video items on delicious:
  http://del.icio.us/tag/system:media:video

RSS/Podcasting Examples:

• ALL music items on delicious as a podcast:
  http://del.icio.us/rs
  s/tag/system:media:audio
• mp3s tagged as mashups as a podcast:
  http://del.i
  cio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+mashups
• ALL video items on delicious as a podcast:
  http://del.icio.us/rs
  s/tag/system:media:video
  (a nice client for this is ANT at http://www.antisnottv.net/)

In addition, the following types are recognized:

The tag “system:media:image” includes:

• *.jpg as “system:filetype:jpg“
• *.jpeg as “system:filetype:jpeg“
• *.gif as “system:filetype:gif“
• *.png as “system:filetype:png“

The tag “system:media:document” includes:

• *.pdf as “system:filetype:pdf“
• *.doc as “system:filetype:doc“

60 comments June 12th, 2005

moving to new servers

We will be moving to new serversWe will be moving to new servers on Sunday, June 5 starting at noon EST and hopefully completing by 4 PM. The site will be unavailable during this time.

Updates will be posted to this blog during that time, and we will also have live status at #delicious on irc.del.icio.us.

update 12:02 pm EDT: I’ve brought down the website and begun the database backup. This part takes about 20 minutes.

update 12:27 pm EDT: I’m moving the backups to the new server and restoring the backup. This takes about 20-60 minutes depending on the network.

update 12:40 pm EDT: I’ve begun restoring the database on the new servers. This takes about 30 minutes.

update 1:03 pm EDT: I’ve begun rebuilding the tag indices (this is faster than restoring them.) There are two of them and they take about one hour each.

update 2:31 pm EDT: I’ve begun rebuilding the second index.

update 4:04 pm EDT: The new servers are up. Some functionality is missing and will come online over the next few hours, including Related Tags, Search and Inbox.

update 6:12 pm EDT: I misconfigured something and some users were seeing the “banned” messages. Hopefully this is fixed, please let me know if you see any further problems.

update Monday, 12:02pm EDT: Looks like everything caught up overnight. The inbox is slowly replaying, should catch up in a day or two.

52 comments June 2nd, 2005