the database structure is THE SAME
so you can do it both ways, no problem. both ways will work good

Germi

ok thanks, it's a database with over 5000 albums... I will let you know if everything works

The upgrade went very smooth, everything is there, the new admin is much better

However I've got a lot of layout problems

All Artist pages are empty, no picture, title, albums or songs.
It says New Artist in the browser bar... and when I change the album view it goes to the Main page... Album and Song views look normal

Please help me out! I will play with the paramaters, a lot of new options

have you downloaded the LATEST version?

in the last 3 hours I had to upload new versions, because there were things missing. PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE COMPONENT for 1.6 again, uninstall and install the new one.

GErmi

yes, I downloaded the latest version 1 hour ago...

Everything works except the Artist view

hmm... ok..

can you post a link? or you are in a localhost environment?
what shows in screen? can you make a screenshot?

thanks!

yeah, it's a local wampserver. Could it be that the artist tables are different, because I don't see fields for website, city etc. in PMA?

I've also made a screenshot:



I reinstalled the component, and everything is working like it should.

Hi Germi, I already fixed the problem, minor issue :P

My database was missing a few table structures for city, website etc. I've added them manually and now everything works fine.

Are you sure none of the other table structure are different from old versions? :dry:

btw is it possible to change "Years active" to "Year of creation"?
This would make more sense as MC can calculate the number of active years, now I have to update every artist page every year... :blink:

I also would like to add more website links if possible, for example to myspace, lastfm or facebook... here's a good example: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/samael/

good!

yes, database structure is the same as version 2.1

no, no "years of creation". why? because this is a free field. i like to place things here like

1997 - present

and sometimes...

1997 - 2001, 2008 - present

the biography of a band can have a lot of irregularities...!!

True, I like that now, I was just a little bit confused. I've already changed it to "Active since" to fit my needs

I've found a new problem with a module... The Recently Added Module does not display recent/new albums but albums from 2010 when set to User ratings, but works fine with Admin rating, very weird.

:S :S really? oops... I'll take a look

only in Joomla 1.6?

thanks, keep up the good work!!

yeah, I only use 1.6 now and I also think the User Rating is not working in the module, it still shows Admin rating. Good luck solving it!