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I Would seem that one or all of the ftp servers are declining passwords.several of the users that ourmedia are experiencing this problem. And according to your own forms uses from other areas as well. At ourmedia our spinexpress publisher is not connecting for users in displaying a declined password error.
Covers (PDF, JPG, and so on) are no longer linked on the details pages of e-tree shows. Please re-enable them.
ID:9
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 04 2002 Requested by:Jon Aizen
On my wish list is means to subscribe to a particular band, and get email notication when a new show is added, (for that band)
ID:25
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 05 2002 Requested by:GratefulDad
When new shows match md5s for an entry at db.etree.org/shncirc during import, automatically stick a link to the shncirc entry on the new details page. Alternatively or in addition, have an admin-editable shncirc link box.
ID:26
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 05 2002 Requested by:hamilton
Make it easier in terms of navigation as to what type of formats a show might be available. FOr example, when you select a band, and get a list of shows, include a detail that says "This show is available in shnf/flac/torrent" etc. That way if someone's looking for say, a bit torrent download, they can just scroll through, rather than havin to click into each individual show to see if that type is available.
ID:46
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 15 2002 Requested by:YonderPhish
Allow admin's to delete contents via the web interface.
ID:55
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 10 2003 Requested by:bleblanc57
Allow admins to move track fixes and info file updates from user directories to imported show directories via web.
ID:56
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 10 2003 Requested by:bleblanc57
Add a link on the main Audio page to explain the bandwidth sharing tools available. This page should include which servers have what tools running on them with links to download the tools as well as a FAQ if available. This should encourage use of these tools since you won't have to search the fourms to find this info.
Also, I second the request to be able to view individual bands entries by review rather than just date.
ID:59
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 14 2003 Requested by:chriswebb
Mike Colon, Motet Archivist, would like to see a repository area that he could log in to and download seeds that are pending approval. The Motet has a limited policy in which they have requested that all Archive seeds get approval from him. He would like to be able to listen to some of them prior to giving approval.
Mike can be reached at: mcolon@visionair.com
ID:60
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 15 2003 Requested by:bleblanc57
unify the import and contribution center into one tool
a simple improvements along the way to that could be
-an active link to contribution center following the import process
overall a tightening of the upload process would be great
ID:61
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 15 2003 Requested by:boogie
Search Function tweak: Right now in the pulldown, FAQ and Forum options are at the bottom, and unlike the others, even have to be scrolled to, so they're way out of sight. Put them at the top of the pulldown and more people will think to check the FAQs and msgs first. Thanks!
ID:63
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 18 2003 Requested by:hamilton
Add a link on eac show details page(at archive.org) that enables etree users to add that show to their db.etree.org list. Since it is possible for etree users to get to a specific show details page(at archive.org) from the browsing shows page for a band over at the etree.org page.
ID:64
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 20 2003 Requested by:/pushkar
For bands with Limited flag, add a subfeature to be able to put in specific off-limits dates, if needed. See item 3 of
http://webdev.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=1958 and followup http://webdev.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=1959 fo background. Should be able to take dates back out if needed (eg, Phish reversed their etrading policy on a number of dates.). Not sure how it would work with more hairsplitting (eg Garaj Mahal date OK except for 1 particular recording of it), but could be handy for more general cases. Off-limits date listing should be viewable by all, but not modifiable by all (people can just tell admins to add something).
ID:76
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 29 2003 Requested by:hamilton
Include a field in the web form for adding books for the name of the contributer.
ID:81
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 10 2003 Requested by:pooja
for the reviews section, aside for the "report show" link that'll come soon, instead of having 1-5 stars you can include 1-5 stars plus a sepreate image to denote a faulty show. I cant differentiate between one star for bad show and one star for faulty show. Maybe a skull and crossbones?
ID:85
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 14 2003 Requested by:Erich
Add a feature that allows us to invite the IA robot to crawl a site.
ID:89
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 28 2003 Requested by:cfLee
Add link for new Error Reports feature to the "Useful Links" box on the LMA page, and maybe to wherever else it would be in more general view for movies, texts. This will raise profile, and seeing previous reports may help train people how to report off the details pages. Thanks again, great feature!
i see a bunch of talk about email when a band has a new show up. what if when a band has a new show uploaded, on the browse page the band name changes color (perhaps a red), as does the year, and the new shows for several days after the upload. this way the user only has to visit once a week or so to see the new shows and has an easy way of finding them. This color changing feature could also work in that new bands could have a color (orange perhaps) for the first week on the archive.
On the "Bug Report" page, allow admins to see the submitters email address. Sometimes it's helpful to have direct contact with the submitter to help troubleshoot and find more info on the problem.
Artist recommendation feature- recommendations could go under the band details area for each. If you like this artist, you may like x, y, z...
Rationale: As names increase, it gets harder for people to sift through to what they might like best. But lots of artists object to being pigeonholed into style boxes, so here's a softer idea for association.
How it could work: (1) For any OK'd artist, patrons could select from other OK'd artist(s) to set up a recommendation linkage. After any linkage is made, it would appear on the first one's band details page. (2) To keep these recommendation links useful and cut down on the "It's all good, dude" effect, allow people to cast a simple vote on a linkage someone has made, with buttons for "I agree" vs "I disagree" on each. Then next to the recommendation, show a tally of how many other people agreed or disagreed with the linkage. Still other users can take that tally into account. (3) To prevent vote padding, maybe set it up to let through only 1 vote per specific linkage per individual patron ID.
Maybe some of this could work through a Recommendation Center page or something. I bet there is a pool of enough caring people around to have this work- assuming it's doable!
ID:98
Priority: 5 Requested May 09 2003 Requested by:hamilton
when browsing through shows, display the number of times downloaded and batting average along side directory views which is already shown.
ID:99
Priority: 5 Requested May 10 2003 Requested by:woostahDave
Create searchable "genre" categories for the audio collection.
ID:102
Priority: 5 Requested May 19 2003 Requested by:Tribe
private messaging on the message boards with the option to disable if desired. thanks!
ID:103
Priority: 5 Requested May 21 2003 Requested by:woostahDave
my feature request is a better star review system. i like the current 5 star system, but there should be more fields. maybe a 1-5 star system for "Show quality" for band tightnest, setlist diversity, rare songs, energy of band, etc, and a second 1-5 star rating for "Recording Quality".. if there are pops, too much crowd noise, if it is super clean, all that. thoughts?
ID:104
Priority: 5 Requested May 21 2003 Requested by:Tyler
Add instructions on how to resubmit a show for md5check/flaccheck etc... when a user has corrected failing files. - In other words, when the system sends them an email notifying them of the failures, it would be nice if it also included instructions on how they can manually resubmit it on their own. (this will reduce the number of responses we get to etree@archive.org telling us "I fixed it."
-Brad
ID:105
Priority: 5 Requested May 31 2003 Requested by:bleblanc57
It would be nice if you could do a search by region, say if i wanted a list of all the shows on the archive that were taped in Arizona. Thanks.
ID:107
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 11 2003 Requested by:UAsoulive
Please allow a search for 24-bit audio files only (indicated in the directory structure with a *.flac24 extension on the folder name). That way, those looking only for 24-bit files can find them.
ID:110
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 16 2003 Requested by:MattD
It would be cool to have the user name listed with the files they upload linked to the rest of the imports they have done. Basically have a list of what's been done by who.
ID:111
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 24 2003 Requested by:vansabar
i'd like to see an "active users" number on the main page or right above the forum. just how many people are on the page at one time. i believe it's pretty easy written in php.
ID:115
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 20 2003 Requested by:chops11
Regarding the show ratings (1 to 5 stars),
Allow for two different ratings per show...
One rating for the sound quality of the tape, the other rating for the quality of the performance/setlist.
The reason I say that is because a 5 star performance does not necessarily mean a 5 star recording quality.
Thanks for all you do.
ID:122
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 11 2003 Requested by:niuphan
when adding an item the contributer could ask for email to be sent when a review or error is posted to it.
ID:124
Priority: 3 Requested Dec 22 2003 Requested by:Jonathan Aizen
when error reports are resolved, add the URL of the item that was in doubt to the email being sent.
ID:125
Priority: 3 Requested Dec 22 2003 Requested by:Jonathan Aizen
Move the "Notes" section to just below the "Setlist" section. As it is right now, the "Reviews" section splits them up, so when a show has 3+ reviews it's tough to match up guest tags with the Notes without scrolling up and down a few times.
For an example, see here: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=719
ID:126
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 29 2003 Requested by:bleblanc
Whenever a show, movie etc has an error on it, the page of that item should show that an outstanding error is on the file, thereby warning potential dl'ers about the file, and not wasting time dl'ing it if there is a problem.
ID:127
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 03 2004 Requested by:Bill T.
have on the main 'browse BAND XXXX' screen (ex: http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=Fugazi ) have it so there is a total # of shows listed, as well as the totals per year that are currently there. The total for the band is currently listed on the main 'browse all bands' screen, but it would be cool to see the total on the individual band browse page, and seems fitting.
ID:130
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 01 2004 Requested by:Tyler
More user confirmation before doing actions.
For an example on the "Contribution Center" page, you might see a paragraph like this :
"MD5 checksum verification failed. Waiting for user to correct.
Waiting for user intervention. Since you are the contributor you can confirm that the above issues have been resolved. "
There is a url under "above issues have been resolved" -- clicking it resubmits the show to be verified. Instead perhaps it can go to a page confirming this is what the user actually intends to do so.
"Are you sure you want to resubmit the show?" Something as simple as that. Just a thought.
ID:132
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 21 2004 Requested by:moeron
If a video is part of a series, the Program Details page would benefit from convenient links to the other parts of the series. Right now the user needs to search the site to find the other parts. Also, it would be helpful to adopt a naming convention like "Part 1 of 3" instead of just "Part 1". Thanks.
ID:133
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 14 2004 Requested by:trafalgar
Include reviewer's names in the search would be nice, eg search for "spuzz", "nordby", hennig", etc.
Actually, a general refining of the search methods would be great, though I know your hands are full as it is...
ID:134
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 15 2004 Requested by:trafalgar
On your Server Statistics (esp. Daily) would you please state the Time Zone e.g. UTC, EST etc.
ID:136
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 25 2004 Requested by:maldwyn
It would be cool to put a curator-view only 'APPROVE THIS SHOW' link on the left of the details page under the 'This Show' heading. Obviously it would show up only for shows waiting for curator approval, since now what i do is open the details page of a show in a new window (fromt he CE) and look it over, then click the policy to make sure it is solid, then close this window and click 'approve' from the CE. I guess the 'bundling' of needed approval shows still needs to be had (as in the CE) but clicking 'ok' on the show details page seems 'one-step easier'.
ID:137
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 27 2004 Requested by:Tyler
Hello. Great site, but what would make it greater is some sort of genre/description field for describing live music artists - that way, it'd make it easier for us to 'discover' new artists (I've never heard of most of 'em so at the moment I'm just browsing randomly). Also, perhaps you could prompt reviewers to enter such descriptions as well as their own comments.
Thanks - excellent site.
Al Cale
Hertfordshire, UK
ID:138
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 31 2004 Requested by:caley
for Internet Archive Forum:
Reply Notification emails should contain subject and content of the actual reply in question, and maybe the handle of the author as well.
Please reverse the order of the live music reviewer comments. It would make more sense (and add incentive) having the first comments on top w/ the preceding and, occasional, rebutal comments scrowled down. Reviewer comments are probably not referred to except by new viewers and would probably not be bothersome if the very first comment is always found at the top. Thanks.
Add text info and flac fingerprint files to the complete lossless zip file package. It would be nice to have info file with the setlist and show details. Thx! GratefulDad
Add links and thumbnails (and number of items in collection) for _all_ movie collections to the 'Moving Images' hub page.
ID:147
Priority: 2 Requested May 03 2004 Requested by:simon c
Make compulsory _some_ kind of statement on the copyright of what you're uploading - if people don't always want to use Creative Commons, we need to find alternative verbiage for what other people might also need. This would clean up a lot of the rights confusion.
ID:148
Priority: 1 Requested May 03 2004 Requested by:simon c
Work out a general 'subject' tree for each collection which is compulsory, and then allow people to place optional keyword subjects within that section. This'll make it a lot easier for people to browse collections.
ID:149
Priority: 1 Requested May 03 2004 Requested by:simon c
Place a * by each 'original' recording on the details page, if derivatives have been made - then people can tell which one is the original.
ID:150
Priority: 1 Requested May 03 2004 Requested by:simon c
Find a way to make ZIPs/M3Us of original media too, in case of Open-Source Audio collection where bitrate is less the 192, and therefore you don't get VBR versions - or just some way to deal with the fact that you only get 64kbps streaming/ZIP on many Open-Source Audio items that were uploaded at a much higher bitrate.
ID:151
Priority: 1 Requested May 03 2004 Requested by:simon c
allow to search by .md5 checksum or .flac fingerprint
allow to search by FILENAME!
(ie: Medicusc1939_10 or Medicusc1939_10.avi etc...)
ID:156
Priority: 5 Requested May 07 2004 Requested by:glenn
Add error reporting capabilities to the Open-Source Audio and other non-Etree audio collections.
ID:157
Priority: 1 Requested May 07 2004 Requested by:simon c
Find some way to better integrate multiple thumbnails and movies in a movie entry details page layout - for example - http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?id=5662
ID:160
Priority: 1 Requested May 21 2004 Requested by:simon c
feature request: LMA Forum Stickies on top FAQ issues?
howdy, we're all understanding of nooB questions, but the increasing number of RTFM/RTFAQ posts on "why no concerts from 'Flying Gardensheds from Hell' or 'Look People' (or whatever other non-troll band request) " might be proactively addressed by a stickie at top of the LMA Forum post list?
IE something titled "Wondering why your favorite Band X isn't yet here?" or "Please read before posting to ask about concert availability." A concise stickie text addressing the issue could include a link directly to the appropriate FAQ section....
Perhaps other frequently-asked-without-first-reading-the-FAQs items could be addressed in the same manner?
So why aren't there any Look People concerts? ;-) (extra credit to those who knew the band...)
thanx for all your GREAT work, mitB!
ID:161
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 05 2004 Requested by:musicistheBEST!
from user 'Triggin' on the message board forum:
"what up ppl ? i was just thinking of something that would be a cool option for this website. Since it takes a while to DL entire live shows, it would be cool if there was an option to save or remember the shows that you want to eventually DL. Kind of like a shopping cart or something where you can keep track of the log of shows that you eventually want to DL. Maybe it could be associated with your login profile or something. Just an Idea, Peace "
ID:162
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 12 2004 Requested by:Tyler
It would be cool to have a feature similar to Live Phish Radio that would play a "shuffled" list of streaming audio files from the archive.
ID:163
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 24 2004 Requested by:hood
It would be nice if in the contribution center, there was a link to re-run the md5 check/file converter. It's a pain to have to delete the show, then have the user re-import. :D
Under "Some commonly asked questions to read before asking for help in the forums" can we add
Q: Does anyone have show X by band X?
A: Some explination that this is not the place to grovel and to check phishhook and db.etree, yada yada yada..
ID:172
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 04 2004 Requested by:chops11
when clicking on a forum topic, you read it, and then hit 'reply' but there is no 'reference' of what the previous post said. it would be cool to have the previous thread topic replys down below at the bottom of the reply box screen, so you can get some context of what the message was that you're replying to.
from the etree list:
From: "Marty Meyer"
Date: October 6, 2004 6:31:24 AM PDT
To:
Subject: [info] suggestion
Any way to put the source info into the summary when listing out recently added shows. It would be way easier than having to keep drilling thru to find source info. Other than that love the site & the music... Thanks!
ID:176
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 06 2004 Requested by:Tyler
The Newton Project is making available online, for free to anyone with internet access, the work (ALL of it) of Sir Isaac Newton. Much of this is from manuscripts that are either out of print or have never been published. See: http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/
Their funding runs out at the end of 2004. They've applied for more, but may not get it. They also seek support to produce a print edition of his non-scientific papers, for which something like the bookmobile might be perfect.
In short, if they don't get their funding, the Internet Archive should look into partnering with them so that they can keep up this work. Their goals are the same as the Archive's: they're putting knowledge on the internet for free for everyone. It's a great fit.
ID:178
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 15 2004 Requested by:brianwc
The ability to links shows by opener or headliner at the same gig... if both artists are on the archive..
ID:179
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 18 2004 Requested by:dgrayshn
suggested from a user:
"IMO if the zip file is the way they want to distribute it, the zip itself should contain the entire file heirarchy in proper format
>
>ie
>
>bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.zip expands to --
>
>bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.shnf (or flac16, or flac24, etc)
>----bandYYYY-MM-DD.mic.txt
>----bandYYYY-MM-DDd1
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1.md5
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1.ffp.txt
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t01.flac (or shn, etc)
>--------.......
>----bandYYYY-MM-DDd2
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2.md5
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2.ffp.txt
>--------bandYYYY-MM-DDd2t01.flac (or shn, etc)
>--------.......
>
>its definetly a very bad thing to distribute 1 massive file which contains subfiles and NO MEANS to verify the contents within that file
>
>
>i understand the "make it easy" attitude at archive...personally i think its easier if i dont have to pick and choose all the seperate files i need to download...entire should mean entire
>
>i also understand that many/most seeds will come in incorrectly made...i think that its the "librarians" job to sanitize/standardize these offerings in the interest of consistency and quality control
>
>esp if seeders have to wait for their poorly formatted seeds to show up for download...its incentive for them to get it right the next time"
ID:180
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 20 2004 Requested by:Tyler
in order to help increase the number of reviews left for shows on the LMA, implement a random 'you've been seleted' type of pop-up / e-mail so that 1/100 downloaders get polled / reminded to review the show they just downloaded... is that possible since the LMA allows anonymoust downloads? possibly make a 'click through' pop up for the files .. the pop up would say: "Please return to this page and review this show after listening to it so others know what it sounds like. thanks for using the LMA!" or something like that so that people would review stuff in higher numbers. many shows have several thousand downloads but no reviews... -Tyler
ID:181
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 20 2004 Requested by:Tyler
Enable the "Clean" perl script being used to clean setlist fields to automatically remove HTML encoding. Also, it would be nice if it would remove HTML from the Source/Lineage/Taped By/Transferred By fields too.
ID:182
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 22 2004 Requested by:Brad Leblanc
Make the movies details page not display the "view movie scenes" link for items where user uploaded own animated GIF.
From jon:
The link is shown as a legacy thing - in the "olden days" it was harder to
check if thumbnails exist. Now it's fairly easy to check when drawing the
details page (using the $movieFiles->files array or the $formatArray).
------------------------------
Eg: Frank Pannucci has uploaded his own animated GIF:
http://movies08.archive.org/3/movies/PRELINGER_SILLY_BULLS/PRELINGER_SILLY_BULLS.gif
This stops thumbnails being generated, with his
animated GIF taking precedence, and is intended behavior.
ID:184
Priority: 4 Requested Nov 23 2004 Requested by:tracey pooh
Split the Audio Forum into 2 (or more) separate forums. Mainly to separate The "Help Requests" from the "General" discussions. Might help to have a separate "Grateful Dead" related forum per this discussion:
ID:185
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 24 2004 Requested by:Brad Leblanc
For error report curators, show a link or reveal email address to contact the reporter for clarification, without closing the report. BTW Possible related feature request IDs: 93, 125, 157.
ID:187
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 24 2004 Requested by:Diana Hamilton
update the Ogg Vorbis encoder used for the derived audio files to the official 1.1 encoder.
(reason: 1.0rc2 is -very- outdated; improvements have been made in the "low" bitrate range that's used for the vorbis audio files in the live music section here. it's like "higher quality for free"! ;-))
ID:188
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 28 2004 Requested by:ssamadhi97
Since this is a live audio archive, it would be great to have some ongoing stats on equipment/transfer lineages. All lineages could be queried and a list of equipment generated and bar graphs could show clearly what people are using for: mics, decks, conversion, etc.
Since the live audio covers a long range of history, an overall breakdown with a subsequent year by year or decade by decade breakdown would be cool also. This would be like a mini-archive of equipment lineages.
ID:190
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 09 2004 Requested by:ncalsurfer
I would like to see the option to list shows by total downloads. List by ratings is nice, but a show could have a high rating with limited reviews. List by DLs would be nice to see.
ID:191
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 09 2004 Requested by:ncalsurfer
The ability to sort entries on the "bookmarks" page by title, and possibly by date added would be nice.
PS: Keep up the great work!
ID:193
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 22 2004 Requested by:t_a_wright
Download in lame --alt-presets standard option. 64 Kbps is great for streaming, but 160 kbps VBR is a little low for people wanting high quality audio, but not wanting 1 GB files. This would probably involve a substantial load increase to your servers though and is just the convenience of not having to get FLAC's and convert to -aps.
ID:194
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 03 2005 Requested by:poopiehead
make the ogg vorbis / mp3 deriver generate m3us for streaming ogg vorbis files as well
(I can hear you.. "yay, another feature request")
ID:195
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 11 2005 Requested by:ssamadhi97
Provide RSS feeds of new shows on a global and per-artist basis. Maybe even per-venue? :-)
ID:196
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 16 2005 Requested by:blalor
Provide web service to database. Allow methods to enable listing of artists, so that I could, for example, find shows for all the artists in my iTunes library.
ID:197
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 16 2005 Requested by:blalor
can we have some choice in the player we can use when streaming the feature films. as Steve Jobs has a tiny percent of the global market, why are you people shoving quicktime down our throats unfairly if your intention is the Alexandria Library etc, 95% of the computersnux or use Bill Gates, linux or opensource etc not QUICKTIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ID:198
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 16 2005 Requested by:sysad65
-as mentioned before email notification for new shows of "subscribed" artists would be nice
-either email notification of changes/updates of error reports or a section under "Patron Info" for errors reported by the patron, or automatic bookmarking of a show when an error is reported.
ID:199
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 20 2005 Requested by:graphite
On http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-contribute.php?stage=upload_info i think the line:
Once your uploads are complete, you now need to import(link) the concerts. Do NOT go to this step before the files are done uploading, as it causes problems with our automated Contribution Center.
should be changed to:
Do NOT go to this step before the files are done uploading, as it causes problems with our automated Contribution Center. Once your uploads are complete, you now need to import(link) the concerts.
I think people are trigger happy on links and would click before reading the next line about how not to do so until complete. In approving shows i see a lot that are imported before complete.
ID:200
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 26 2005 Requested by:chops11
It would be nice to give the prefix associated with each artist somewhere, either in the main all-shows listing, or in the "policy notes". For example,
should have a "archive prefix" listing that indicates that "dd" is the prefix to use.
ID:202
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 08 2005 Requested by:bradm
Perhaps add a band review capability so folks won't feel compelled to paste their generic rantings or ravings into reviews on multiple shows by that band.
ID:204
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 30 2005 Requested by:kmcmurtrie
I was thinking as I approved 'mother tongue' (who are from whatever
country that has file domain extention '.de' .. that the archive and
LMA is global and is becoming more and more global.. i've seen a few
europe bands pop up here, and of course all the usa ones.. but I was
wondering what / how hard it would be to add a field on the band
policy creation page that is 'country of band' or 'origin country of
band' ... or something like that? it would be good to collect that
data if the band gives it so that in the future there is a 'show bands
by country' (maybe furthur, by state?).. just thinking out loud, what
do you think? Surf Coasters would be Japan, ... heck, i'd love to see
some africa bands too... i guess i'd even add a line to my standard
'____ a GO to archive.org' that would be:
"just for our records, we like to keep track of where each band is
from... what city / state / contry do you guys consider yourself
from?"... i don't know, if anything just for my personal knowledge..
always cool to find out a band you love lives in the town you are at
but you just didn't know it yet.. this location info could be public
on the policy page for users (maybein the footer with the other
public info?)
In contrast to other feature reqs for extra stars, I recommend *removing* the star system from the reviews. As we have seen from the personal comments in the reviews (which people make depsite the cautions not to), star amounts (and attempts to influce the average stars) seem to spark many conflicts. Further, misguided people often place single-star reviews instead of error reports. People's *words* about an item are the most valuable component of reviews. Without the stars, visitors can judge by reviewer's thoughts only. Thanks!
ID:206
Priority: 5 Requested Apr 04 2005 Requested by:Diana Hamilton
How do I get my band A-Kamp archived on here, we are constantly losing our master live recordings due to our being unorganised musicians, we have played with several bands that are archived here like Flowmotion, and Scott Law, if that is a selling point I dont know e-mail me at cleian06@evergreen.edu to let me know thanks Ian
ID:210
Priority: 5 Requested May 08 2005 Requested by:Olymp Ian
I would love to see a way to allow only higher quality mp3's to be made of our recordings. 192khz VBR would be nice. I hate wha tthe 64khz does to my precious recordings... ;)
ID:211
Priority: 5 Requested May 12 2005 Requested by:Cleantone
Would it be possable to make sure md5 and txt files are included in zipped bundles? Retroactive would be ideal but new material would be good as well.
ID:212
Priority: 5 Requested May 12 2005 Requested by:Cleantone
Include a section of the archive dedicated to the compilation of geneology (for research and archival purposes). Could be text, audio, photographs, whatever. Could do searches by name, etc.
ID:217
Priority: 5 Requested May 26 2005 Requested by:TimePilot
I can be a great idear to generate dynamic podcast.
I explain : for example If someone want to download all the MP3 files in the 78RPM collection.
Make a webpages or a dynamic link that include the podcast request people whant.
It can be a great Idear for the netlabel scene and all the related sounds, and also extent this to the other media (book films etc..).
It would be a great thing for people that want to get many files from the archive and want to get it without time consuming...
Thanks again for all your collection It's a great website :)
ID:220
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 08 2005 Requested by:Strial
Please begin using H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10, AVC) video encoding in place of your current MPEG-4 *and* MPEG-2 standards. Think of all the bandwidth you will save by making H.264 the format for full-quality video instead of MPEG-2, and think of all the improvement in video quality to the 64 and 256 kbs downloads over the current MPEG-4 implementation!
ID:221
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 09 2005 Requested by:Erik Lanigan
Thanks for a great service! But:
I'd like to see the audio file downloads cleaned up a bit. For example, often there are ZIP:s and M3U:s with the MP3 files, but not with the Ogg files, which would be very convenient. (M3U works fine with Ogg, of course.) Also, the format link table currently used isn't very useful I think. I'd prefer a simple list like this: (Underscore is a hyperlink, ### a comment.)
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Artist Name - Album Name
Listen to all _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### Two M3U links.
Download all _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### Two ZIP file links.
Song 1 Title: Listen _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. Download _as MP3_, _as Ogg_. ### This would be M3U links and direct downloads.
Song 2 Title: etc...
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Add more formats if they're avaliable, like WAV, SHN, FLAC etc., but not as streams.
BTW, has the Vorbis encoder been updated yet? You really should use the latest version...
Video would be similar. Use the Ogg Theora+Vorbis java applet!(*)
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Producer - Title
Watch in browser _as Ogg_, _as MPEG-4_, _as MPEG-2_. ### Applets and plugins.
Download _as Ogg_, _as MPEG-4, _as MPEG-2. ### Direct links.
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Right now, there are often Ogg Theora files, but they're hidden behind the "all files" link and there's no java applet.
*) http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
ID:226
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 27 2005 Requested by:abo
It would be totally great if the audio archives supported podcasting - i.e. publishing RSS feeds containing links to new content. You could publish a podcast of "most recent MP3s" as well as "most recent from the Grateful Dead" etc. It would probably get a lot more people downloading the free audio content you have available.
I have some spare time, and I would really like this feature implemented, so if you need someone to implement it, send me email at peter@cs.uoregon.edu. I was going to write a screen-scraper to do this on my own, but it would be even better if it was available for everyone.
The ability to sort my bookmarks, or at least have them in alphabetical order (or by artist, basically the same) would be great! Also the ability to see in the search page whether I have THAT show already bookmarked--that way I can keep from double-downloading. Amazing job so far, keep it up!
ID:232
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 07 2005 Requested by:GTVert97
Could we have a date that the concert was uploaded so it is easier on visiting to see what has been added since last visit -
ID:233
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 11 2005 Requested by:Seth Haniel
Greetings,
I was wondering if you could tell me how to get my television news show "Liberty News TV" listed as a sub-folder, the way Democracy Now is? I have only uploaded one episode and one segment so far, but I would like to upload all eight episodes along with other special features, and add a new episode each month, if I could figure out how to creat a sub-folder. Can you help?
thanks very much
Matt Power
editor@libertynewstv.com
www.libertynewstv.com
ID:234
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 20 2005 Requested by:liberty news tv
Links to other sites
A well ordered and searchable list of other sites that provide such open access information on the web. Note: I have some at: http://www.wematter.com/links.htm#av (with associated blog area: http://wematter.blogspot.com/2005/05/links-08.html )
My proposal is:
1) Provide a forum for people to submit a site to you. (and a contact for the site) -- and other info it they can provide it.
2) Automatically forward an Email to the contact, assuming the site is not in your database, that you are considering adding a link to the site requesting:
2.1) Permission (assumed after 15 days)
2.2) A site title
2.3) Keywords for the site
2.4) A site discription
2.5) (If you can set up a hierarchal organization, perhaps using dmoz (http://dmoz.org/) or yahoo) the place in the structure where the site it.
2.6) Other information, e.g. Access requirements, Archival time...
3) Then have some easy (automatic) way to put the site, and its associated discription in a table with search capability.
4) Then put a link in your top titles, [Other Sites] --> (a page with the Forum location, the "Top Level hierarchal structure", a Search box, and an advanced search form)
I think what I'd like is the search to return a list of the sites, their locations, a 1 line discription, and a pointer to the full site information. -- That way I could refine the search, go to a site that was found, or look at the details of the site's discription.
As an initial first step you might be able to build a Q/D form, pure text search, and link so that people could start submitting the other sites, and then when you have time, flesh it out with more powerful software.
Thanks.
ID:237
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 24 2005 Requested by:mll
Put the date a show was added to archive. it can help with grateful dead downloads cause sometimes there are multiple sources, remasters and whatnot. if you knew the newest upload it could help out a bunch
ID:238
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 25 2005 Requested by:mikeinboone
Creation of some form of rpc api, perhaps 3 (one for text, one for audio, and one for video) That will get a list of all items in the catalogue, and links to their download site, as well as other metadata such as recording date)
ID:239
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 26 2005 Requested by:dcsmith77
Allow users to update information on undescribed works, allow users to add their own album art for albums, books and movies to quickly allow identification and add a little pizaz
ID:240
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 26 2005 Requested by:dcsmith77
Current video material from feature films has horrible artifacts because of poor cropping (for example Charade).
Because progressive video compressors are designed to compress noisy photographic images, possible black boxes around picture forces the compressor use most of the available bandwidth in a desperate try to preserve these sharp borders. This means that little bandwidth is left for actual film image making it blocky and causing compression artifacts.
Please, if at all possible, crop these films properly from original telecines before encoding them. It will preserve the material better and save bandwidth.
I use Mozilla FireFox most of the time, but cannot search IA or download with it. I would really like to be able to work with this site with this browser. Thanks for your time.
ID:251
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 20 2005 Requested by:mailinator
To Whom It May Concern:
Greetings. I am searching for a particular image that was on a website that is no longer operational. The website is ata.feathers.net. If you search for this website in archive.org, and select the Dec 02, 2000 page, then click on the "Artwork" button, then scroll down and under "Avians" select "Generic Birds" and then scroll down and you'll see illustrations by an artist known as "Pilot." Actually, you won't see the images, but you will see the names of the jpg files. I'm looking to obtain the birdtf.jpg file by Pilot, but it doesn't show up when I look in your archive. Is there any way you can help me obtain this jpeg? Please contact me via e-mail, if possible. My e-mail is twilson2084@yahoo.com. Thank you kindly.
Sincerely,
T. Wilson
ID:253
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 27 2005 Requested by:twilson2084
Just adding my voice but... Rss and/or email notification of show additions would be great - preferably limited to selected bands, and ideally including a geographic constraint.
The ability to add comments (aka "reviews") without choosing a star rating.
While I'm thinking of it, how about dropping the star rating system altogether - perhaps replacing it with one that's meaningful.
Thanks!
Doug Moog
ID:254
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 31 2005 Requested by:dug
...and it would be nice if the md5 checker could be modified to ignore the md5summer header
ID:256
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 05 2005 Requested by:dug
Bring back the lossless Grateful Dead
ID:262
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 23 2005 Requested by:Hatta
Eliminate Ratings, Stars, and "wiki" Commentary
Rationale:
I think that when someone walks an armload of delicate and precious gear through the crappiest neighborhoods in the country to attempt to get the best recording from a hall with the acoustics of a crypt they deserve at least some degree of peace and respect.
I have seen comments insulting brother and sister tapers who made amazing recordings in the most horrible sounding halls and despite FOH staff mishandling.
These tapes were GREAT, considering how bad the show sound was in the section.
And what do they get from the commentors ?
"Too much bass"
"I deleted this after taking two days to D/L it 'cause it sounded like shit !"
"The piano didn't come through"
No thank yous, no appreciation, just angst and ire.
The comment section is completely irrelevant and distracting to the Archive mission.
It is a forum for opinionated, misinformed, and downright silly commentary.
It has no benefit to users, as the credentials and scope of perspective of the commentor are unknown.
I truly hope that Archive takes a more respectable position and turns off comments.
In the long haul, the stupid comments make Archive look stupid in the realm of digital libraries.
ID:263
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 23 2005 Requested by:_Bob_
Please tell us why all the dead downloads are suddenly gone.
ID:265
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 24 2005 Requested by:ardsley
INSERT INTO movies (title,collection,collectionid,nwoi,runtime,proddate,descr,sponsor,producer,productionco,director,contact,credits,color,sound,shotlist,segments,cat1,cat2,cat3,pick,public,addeddate,adder,uploader) VALUES ('the sunbather','opensource_movies','thesunbather160x120','thesunbather160x120','2:13','2005','a quick little lego film.','','eskermation','esker productions','me','eskerstudios@yahoo.com','','color','sound','','','','','',0,0,now(),'eskermation','mchl4anything@yahoo.com')
ID:266
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 25 2005 Requested by:eskermation
I want the the SNBD, Grateful Dead Back, this is so F***** UP, it is pathetic of GDM. Trading is trading. Who make 's up these rules?
ID:267
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 28 2005 Requested by:slowchange69
hi. escuse my poor english, im from brail. i uploaded somo albuns (mp3) and i want that the files available still the same i was uploaded (no lower bitrate, no higher bitrate, no ogg). i just want to link the zip file, but the zip file (whole directory) contains a lot of unnecessry files (low bitrate mp3 etc...) can you help me? my email: monstrolegume@yahoo.com.br
thanks!
ID:268
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 02 2005 Requested by:monstrolegume
turn off reviews in audio section. people who review shows are more often than not ...
1) not qualified to review
2) don't distinguish between performance and recording, so the review implies either or both (good or bad)
3) are commenting based on a bias (e.g. don't like the band in general, don't like sbd tapes, don't like aud tapes, etc.)
4) useless in terms of forming a clear picture of either the performance or recording - and thus misleading to someone who is unable to distinguish someone's bias from a true "review".
ID:270
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 03 2005 Requested by:Gedit
I would like to see the Grateful Dead offerings split between those available for download and those available for streaming only. Just a suggestion, you guys are the best.
ID:271
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 09 2005 Requested by:john rf
I'd like to be able to replace a single item of a show, without having to replace the entire show. Specifically I'm thinking of the text file. If an error was discovered, or previously unknown setlist is to be added, you either have to reupload the whole thing, or have an admin deal with it.
ID:273
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 12 2005 Requested by:Unstoppable Drew
Add a search for shows available to be streamed
ID:274
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 13 2005 Requested by:warnerc
I am interested in downloading the newsreel: "News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950,(Part I)" which includes the Truman Assassination attempt, but I noticed that it is only available in MPEG1. Do you have plans to offer better quality resolution formats such as MPEG4? I would like a higher quality format. Thank you.
ID:276
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 21 2005 Requested by:figgeeys
Correction Regarding my previous message: Instead of MPG4, I meant MPG2 since I understand MPG2 is higher quality than MPG4. Thank you.
ID:277
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 22 2005 Requested by:figgeeys
This is a feature that could be useful for the user and useful for the archive.
It is the possibility to have legally valable copies of pages of the archive.
This could also a possibility of gaining money to help the archive to grow.
For exemple, in a judgement, an attorney could bring a page extracted from internet archive.
The process would be very simple: in order to get such a page Internet Archive could put a simple form to fill, a small fee to pay and
Internet Archive would testify the page is what its robot found on the net on the date .... and send if requested, a paper copy of the page.
A fee of 40 $ for a single page and 5 $ for each susequent page (sometime in a trial many pages could be asked) + 5 $ for each printed page would be fair as it will sure pay itself.
Having many trial where the page of the archive will be accepted, will also give more relevance to the archive.
ID:278
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 23 2005 Requested by:0
would love to determine on my own which moviestills to choose for the gif-animation.
In my case (http://www.archive.org/details/photopiloteBerlinJerusalemALimescapade) way too many pictures are taken of night scenes; you can see barley nothing and its misleading in terms of content/nature of the movie
thanx
ID:279
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 26 2005 Requested by:photopilote
Old software (abandonware,etc.) should be made available to users like an online library that can "borrow" a digital copy of software and play it on an hardware emulator (collaborate with emulator writers to achieve the security necessary). The physical copies of software could be donated to the Archive by anyone and could be "checked out" on a token system, only so many tokens for the number of physical copies in the archive. Please archive and make legally available old software! It does us no immediate good for you to archive the software and not allow anyone to enjoy it.
ID:282
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 08 2006 Requested by:Goodknight777
It would be helpful to designate 'classic' books. For example assigning a 'Nobel' descriptor to books authored by prize winners.
ID:285
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 26 2006 Requested by:Dana Roth
I do not see "sheet music" as a category, and think this is a somewhat serious omission. There exist very few sheet music repositories on the Web, although many works, even 20th-century works, are slowly becoming public domain.
ID:286
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 03 2006 Requested by:rskint
Is there a REST based OR SOAP webservice available ? If so let me know and I'd be keen on building a php based PEAR class to interface against it. If there isnt one, I could help develop one ? Has there also been any discussion of mirror sites ?
ID:288
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 04 2006 Requested by:electroteque
Add the ability to show only streamable shows when searching artists on the live music archive
ID:289
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 08 2006 Requested by:punchie
Sure would like to see source information available in the summary for the RSS feed of new additions to the Archive.
ID:293
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 24 2006 Requested by:Moriconi
For media types that have it available (specifically audio and moving images), the ability to search by runtime or play length (specifically: over x minutes and under y minutes) would be helpful. Thanks!
ID:294
Priority: 5 Requested Mar 30 2006 Requested by:Xaroth
Please add author information to the new Texts RSS feed; it's essentially crippled without that info. Thanks!
In the UK (probably elsewhere as well) we are using learning platforms more and more - linking web based resources into asignments for students or selecting resources that best suit an individual's learning style - it would be superb if an API was available for the IA so that searches of locally stored resources could appear along with IA selected searches. This would make a wealth of materials available to learners.
Please add some organization. The search engine sucks. it was nice when bands were browsable by date/year. Now its just a cluster F*CK.
ID:309
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 11 2006 Requested by:medlhuber
I would like my math videos to be featured in your "Education" area of your web site. I do not see where this can be done. What is the procedure for allowing this to happen?
ID:314
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 09 2006 Requested by:VideoMathTutor
It would be great to give ratings to individual Bands (or rate them
through ratings of titles/CDs) and then see _one's own_ ratings in the
Band listings such that may immediately discriminate between bands one
has already listened to and rated and bands that are yet unknown to
me.
ID:323
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 15 2006 Requested by:jason funkalope
it would be great to have track numbers in the list of tracks... the lack of numbers makes it really difficult to check which song i'm listening to when the track name in the stream box is something like "moshi2004-02-06d1t07_64kb" and i have to count thru the tracks til i get to number 7
thanks
ID:324
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 03 2006 Requested by:ccharlie
Specific collection for VJ Clips as a subsection of Moving Images. VJ clips are normally short silent clips designed for use in live video performances at concerts and nightclubs. Many VJ clips are already available on archive.org including some of the most popular downloads according to batting average (search for VJ to see. A specific collection would make it easier to find these clips and encourage many more people to submit footage to the archive.
ID:326
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 13 2006 Requested by:sleepytom
Maybe you would like to add a link to your educational resources for http://www.open-of-course.org, a multilingual portal for open content courses and tutorials. The focus is on practical educational information where people can benefit from in daily life.
ID:328
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 08 2007 Requested by:Kletskous
Specifically audio files (or video, for that matter), if I own an RSS feed of stuff that I want to upload, provide a method of a) proving I own the feed and b) automatically suck all the content on it - much faster than manual upload and less prone to error. Just a thought, love your work - thanks!
I enjoyed the Dick Tracy serial considerably. Can I save any movie in this Internet Archive on the hard drive & DVD on my PC (Windows XP)? How do I accomplish this?
Please e-mail me at carlfranz@optonline.net Thank you. Carl
ID:337
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 06 2007 Requested by:sciwriter
if LMA can hyperlink the taper and/or uploader name, that may be quicker and easier than using the search function for finding other shows taped by the same taper or uploaded by the same uploader. i already use the hyperlinks for venue and for reviewers to find other shows, so I know i would use the feature for tapers, too. thanks
ID:338
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 11 2007 Requested by:Ha Ha Ha Whoops
To the LMA crew, up-loaders, downloaders and listeners-
I love what you have done with LMA. Being able to play the posts so you can hear the sound quality and what the bands have done is spectacular.
I wonder how possible it would be to take it to the next level? What if you could click on a link that would play multiple artists. Maybe it would randomly play though all of the recently added uploads. Maybe you could give it some guildlines such as dates or bands that you want or don't want. It would be even better if you could save these playlists and play them again at a later date.
I for one would sign on every day and press play for sure. Not that I don't already.
What do you think? LMA Internet Radio anyone?
Thanks for your time!
LA Jammer out!
ID:342
Priority: 5 Requested Aug 06 2007 Requested by:lajammer
The moving images on the website are distracting and make it hard to navigate through the information. Single non-moving images would be easier on the eyes.
You could greatly reduce bandwidth and load balancing costs by providing torrents to files that were popular. The problem of a torrent not being available because no one is seeding it has been solved by project Ibiblio (who I am sure you have heard of) with their Osprey + Permaseed solution:
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/
http://osprey.ibiblio.org/
http://osprey.ibiblio.org/wiki/Docs/Permaseed
Here is a model of how you might use BitTorrent to offset bandwidth costs and more efficiently disseminate and decentralize information, thus increasing freedom of information:
Also, the text on this page should wrap. Scrolling to the right is also not easy on the eyes.
P.S. I love everything that you are doing and really do think that you are the coolest, I hope that my criticism is taken as constructive, I am just trying to be concise so you don't have to read through more stuff than is necessary.
I think a control panel for registered users would be the perfect adition to the Archive. I log into the Archive and there is not a control panel where we can manage the files we have uploaded. I have uploaded my first free music album and I have to go to the file and then link to the edit page from the download page... it makes no sense! other services like facebook and even myspace have a very-easy-to-use control panel. we the creators an developers of these files you are receiving can help a lot with catalogging files by ading a control panel to our accounts. the index page is quite cluttered and messy. I don't see a tidy space to start with. you shoud crae more about showing a tidy welcome in this page instead of offering direct links to files in your collections.
This is a library, isn't it? so make a face and buil very robust but flexible search tools and let us search for ourselves.
ID:350
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 05 2007 Requested by:0p0
Most peer reviewed scientific journals charge a lot of money (perhaps averaging $25.00) merely to view/download papers of from one to perhaps 20 pages, documenting the results of research. This puts research out of the reach of the private citizen. It is also an egregious policy, as much/most of the research is publicly funded, and the basic premise of scientific research is that it is for the public good. Can steps be taken to change this, perhaps making these publications available through the Archive?
ID:352
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 22 2007 Requested by:paskell
If you can't fix the download counters at least give us the option to remove those numbers off the page.
ID:360
Priority: 5 Requested Dec 02 2007 Requested by:evokerecords
It would be convenient if we had access to a 'bookshelf' of items that we want to use. A simple 'send to bookshelf' feature would make such a feature easy to use and make our user experience much more convenient.
ID:369
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 29 2008 Requested by:danielpalos
Adam Curtis' documentary including mayfair1.avi through mayfair4.avi is apparently missing segments 2 and 3. Can they be restored/obtained? Mr. Curtis is one of the most important video documentarians of our time.
ID:375
Priority: 5 Requested May 11 2008 Requested by:paskell
Hi!
The xResolveUrl function in your javascript currently actually loads URLs. This is not so nice for, say, irc:// urls in Firefox with ChatZilla installed. Currently, your code causes loading a page with irc:// links to actually open those links automatically, which is a very bad user experience.
To remedy this, I can think of several possible solutions:
- blacklist IRC in this code, like you did for mailto: and javascript: . This solves the ChatZilla problem, but maybe not others
- only resolve relative URLs (so test with a regex like /^[^:]+:/ to see if there's a protocol at the start of the URL). This solves the problem in general, I believe.
- manually create absolute URLs in the client side code using a custom-written function, instead of relying on the browser. This, I suppose, is probably the least attractive option, but if you borrow code from an open source project like Firefox it need not be a complete disaster.
Thanks!
ID:379
Priority: 5 Requested May 28 2008 Requested by:Gijs K
Hello Archive.org tech support,
it would be very handy to have a check box for "public domain" videos in the advanced search panel.
Working on a linguistic university research program, we're looking for videos with "no rights reserved".
Searching your gigantic database and checking videos licences one by one is taking a lot of time so we deeply hope you could add such a feature to your interface.
Listened to an old TWinTech, heard it takes 12 hrs for your systems to process a scanned book. Any possibility of implementing a distributed processing app (e.g. SETI/Folding@Home) that patrons could run to help reduce the local workload?
Any chance that the missing volumes of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle can be scanned and uploaded? So far I've noticed that Vols 1-11, 17-20 & 24 are missing. Thanks
Dudes, you HAVE to start including captions or subtitles. Having done video myself, I know for a fact this is redonkulously easy. The Internet Archives inaccessible to the hearing impaired? Plus the fact that many people, with or without hearing impairments, are in situations where they either don't have audio or can't turn it up.
I know I'm being blunt and accusatory, but I do not apologize. Too many people aren't being too bright about this very fundamental issue. I'd like to see you stand out from the crowd.
ID:395
Priority: 5 Requested Oct 28 2008 Requested by:Audiodef
After 60 years, I can finally understand all the words to the TWO BLACK CROWS, (Moran and Mack) I have original records Part 1 thru 8, but indicate Jan.21'13 and May 22,'23, so I assume these are dates of recording. My sister and I used to sit and try to write down the words but it was difficult to understand. This was in the early 40's on a Victorola, and my Dad had them before he married my mother in 1929. Thanks!
ID:398
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 25 2008 Requested by:russellville
For LMA, I dont see the option for FTP downloading of all files. Is this no longer supported? It is way more convenient than picking each file with the browser. Thanks, Andrew
ID:399
Priority: 5 Requested Nov 28 2008 Requested by:cdlots
I would love it if your excellent collection-rss.php script could search on other database fields, such as "avg_rating"
I tried using the title= field, but even that didn't seem implemented.
For example: collection-rss.php?collection=feature_films&;avg_rating=5
Would be terrific! Your php script currently feeds descriptions and preview images to my mythtv set-top PC, and can stream in real-time with a minor mod to mythnews. On-demand Internet Archive on my TV, works great!
ID:402
Priority: 5 Requested Jan 22 2009 Requested by:Erik S
My request concerns the text library. You have numerous excellent texts but working with them can be almost impossible. One example will suffice. Bishop Percy's Folio consists of four volumes, three on romances and ballads, one on loose and humorous songs. Searching for "Bishop Percy" gives 34 hits. Tjis is were the trouble starts. At lesat 10 of the hits all have the same title, yet they link to any of the four volumes, and not just that, several volumes appear to have been scanned more than once. What are the differences between these scans? There is no way of knowing. Only by digging to the http level can one see they have different dates, but that is all. Why one should download one rather than the other. The titles as they are listed on the hit page are also a total hit and miss affair. I would suggest you standardise on an accepted academic bibliographical format like MLA and ask all contributors to provide information on their scans (resolution; cleanness of copy) and incorporate that in the listing.
ID:403
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 11 2009 Requested by:luuk84
My request concerns the text library. You have numerous excellent texts but working with them can be almost impossible. One example will suffice. Bishop Percy's Folio consists of four volumes, three on romances and ballads, one on loose and humorous songs. Searching for "Bishop Percy" gives 34 hits. This is were the trouble starts. At least 10 of the hits all have the same title, yet they link to any of the four volumes, and not just that, several volumes appear to have been scanned more than once. What are the differences between these scans? There is no way of knowing. Only by digging to the http level can one see they have different dates, but that is all. Why one should download one rather than the other remains unclear. The titles as they are listed on the hit page are also a total hit and miss affair. I would suggest you standardise on an accepted academic bibliographical format like MLA and ask all contributors to provide information on their scans (resolution; cleanness of copy) and incorporate that in the listing.
ID:404
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 11 2009 Requested by:luuk84
I don't want my blogger blog archived but can't change robots.txt because it's controlled by Blogger. What can I do?
ID:405
Priority: 5 Requested Feb 12 2009 Requested by:BloggingPerson
Download count in search engine -- when you do a search and sort by number of times downloaded some items that have been downloaded many many times always wind up sorted at the bottom and on the search results, those items do not list that they've ever been downloaded. See a query like this:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A"tlm170"
Note if you go to page 3, there is an item called " Ha Ha the Moose Live at moe.down - Snow Ridge Ski Area on 2008-08-30 - Ha Ha the Moose" -- it has been downloaded 800+ times but appears near the bottom (mixed in with the things that have 10 or less d/ls) and lists no downloads on the search results.
When I upload items to the live music archive and need to change the song titles, I can easily use the edit link on the page to rename the individual files and that fixes them on the details page, but it does not fix the names inside the Java player. How can I get that list regenerated?
I am having trouble with your text versions of at least two volumes; I am researching the Boyle family, and find that all text for names starting with A B and L are missing from'Armorial families, a directory of gentlemen of coat. and 'A manual of .... including the illustrous Boyle Family' The flip book version on these two doesn't seem to contain the same material. Thank you for your help
For several years I've sought software that increases the speed of podcasts and corrects the pitch to eliminate the chipmonk effect. Windows Media Player does the best job on a computer and Audacity will slowly convert a file using a 2-step process. Just this year FasterAudio.com and MP3 Speed Changer from http://www.crazyboomerang.com/ began offering software that will batch process audio files with pitch-corrected speeds over 200%. MP3 Speed Changer, at $20, is the cheapest and also the most stable of the two. However, I don't think it is quite as good as Windows Media Player. MP3 Speed Changer is adequate for me and the developer has done past work to produce improved versions, so future versions may occur that offer better results. So I'd like to see a feature that presents information about what I'd call "speed listening".
ID:414
Priority: 5 Requested May 30 2009 Requested by:virginiajim
I am unable to download information from your archives. The download starts an then stops,jaming any attempt to fix it.Please communicate with me to solve the problem.
ID:417
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 07 2009 Requested by:kermie
the book at http://www.archive.org/details/booksofkings00bhuoft
is the wrong book. It is listed as by Bahr but it is by Keil
ID:420
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 16 2009 Requested by:Kevin W. Woodruff
remote upload capability
ID:422
Priority: 5 Requested Jun 22 2009 Requested by:cattom
Bug Reports
Band abbreviations seem to be able to be associated with more than one band.
ID:54
Priority: 1 Reported Jan 07 2003 Reported by:Jonathan Aizen
Movie search results (and possibly others) have WRONG count. Result of searching reviews - multiple reviews per item causes count to go off...
ID:114
Priority: 1 Reported Aug 10 2003 Reported by:Jonathan Aizen
You can't browse the latest shows for any bands with characters such as ' in their band names - example, Club D'Elf:
ID:146
Priority: 1 Reported May 03 2004 Reported by:simon c
You're not able to get to any old posts in forums such as the Prelinger forum right now, because there's no 'more' button or way of paginating old posts past the first forum page.
ID:152
Priority: 1 Reported May 03 2004 Reported by:simon c
For very, very long directory names when users are uploading, bad things will happen - for example 'Mary_Stafford-Im_Gonna_Jazz_My_Way_Right_
Straight_Through_Paradise' had the directory name and meta_xml filenames concatenated when approved, so it didn't import properly. Either find a way round this or find a way to warn users not to do it, I'm guessing?
ID:153
Priority: 1 Reported May 04 2004 Reported by:simon c
Browsing Open-Source Audio artists still shows problems for artists with a ' in their name - you can't see any items, when they actually exist.
ID:154
Priority: 1 Reported May 04 2004 Reported by:simon c
Real video links, for example in this movie item - http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=14964 - are broken, because they try to redirect to to movies.archive.org/movies03/URL, instead of movies03.archive.org/URL.
For more info see this URL - http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=15444
ID:158
Priority: 1 Reported May 09 2004 Reported by:simon c
Some recently updated reviews don't show up in 'Recent Reviews' on the collection page - eg:
..never showed up in the Brick Films recently added reviews.
ID:159
Priority: 1 Reported May 20 2004 Reported by:simon c
I Would seem that one or all of the ftp servers are declining passwords.several of the users that ourmedia are experiencing this problem. And according to your own forms uses from other areas as well. At ourmedia our spinexpress publisher is not connecting for users in displaying a declined password error.
When filling out the form for the detail pages, users sometimes include quotes in them and text is found to be missing from the quotes onward.
ID:65
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 20 2003 Reported by:bleblanc57
On the page http://web.archive.org/collections/pioneers.html - which is very cool, by the way, the Yahoo wayback link is broken. Looks like something like http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/ (from October 17th, 1996) would work instead.
ID:69
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 26 2003 Reported by:h0l211
In Moving Images section, clicking on a either link under Watch movie brings up an option window for open/save file. Click on Open and nothing happens. Click on Save and it saves a file with a .php extention but nothing happens.
ID:82
Priority: 5 Reported Feb 15 2003 Reported by:bigb1984
yeah there is a buglet i guess. basically since the item is gone it doesn't have anything with which to associate the report. the best is to mark the item complete before removing the details page. if you could leave a bug report about it (just copy this email), i'll fix it one day :)
jon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: Error Report bug
> Jon, there's an error report for the 5/25/2002 Jack
> Johnson show. The error report indicates that a DAT source
> from the same taping rig has been uploaded and the MD
> source can be removed. I agree, so I deleted the show from
> etree03 and removed the details page. Now that I did, the
> error report won't let me get in to confirm its
> completion. It tells me "You are not authorized to access
> this page" Bug?? Let me know what you think.
>
> -Brad
Downloads from the archives (just any old file stored on a former web site) do not work.
Either
1. Disconnected at 1024 KB of download. No mention of this in any FAQ.
Configuring download mangler to use one connection makes no difference.
2. Downloads 99% of file, then closes connections.
3 archive.org DOES NOT SUPPORT RESUME - download has to start ALL OVER AGAIN. This weird non-support of a common HTTP feature is a huge drain on your server, as downloads are DONE ALL OVER AGAIN, instead of just retrying and downloading the three missing bytes or something. This is a FUNDAMENTAL FLAW in your HTTP support.
The files I happen to be interested are typically around 3, 4 of 5 MB. I wouldn't mind a slow download, but not being able to see but not download because of serious server-side defects is infuriating.
I looked at AIFM. Program has no help, no file menu to speak of and doesn't do anything.
Used several browsers and downloads manager, including your favourite Mozilla. It is definitely a serious archive.org issue.
ID:118
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 13 2003 Reported by:thesis
Hi, I was hacking around and found this strange behavior where an HTTP socket is being closed one byte short. Is this a feater or a bug?
wget -m 'http://web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390'
--12:56:38-- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390
=> `web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390'
Resolving web.archive.org... done.
Connecting to web.archive.org[209.237.233.204]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 402,455 [text/plain]
The sizes do not match (local 40216) -- retrieving.
--12:56:39-- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390
=> `web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390'
Connecting to web.archive.org[209.237.233.204]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 402,455 [text/plain]
99% [==================================> ] 402,454 108.30K/s ETA 00:00
12:56:43 (108.30 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 402454. Retrying.
--12:56:44-- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390
(try: 2) => `web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390'
Connecting to web.archive.org[209.237.233.204]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 402,455 [text/plain]
99% [=================================> ] 402,454 116.38K/s ETA 00:00
12:56:48 (116.38 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 402454. Retrying.
--12:56:50-- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390
(try: 3) => `web.archive.org/web/20030210100501/support.efficient.com/drivers/kernels/Flowpoint/v390/fp144-16.390'
Connecting to web.archive.org[209.237.233.204]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 402,455 [text/plain]
hey dudes, just was looking at the radiators 2004-07-04 show and the user had checked the 'no mp3' box and had left the track times in the setlist field. like normal i clicked 'clean' to remove them. i then noticed that after i do so, the no mp3 box was unchecked, having been reset to it's original value? maybe? i don' tknow if this happens a lot or was an accident, but this might be the reason some shows end up with mp3's after the user swears they checked the box. maybe we can disconnect that aspect of the two things?
for curators, while looking at the direct link that is 'just reviews' (ex: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-reviews.php?id=12581 ) there is no 'edit' link to go in and edit the reviews, if say there is 4 of the same review some-how, to get in and delete the extra ones, curator has to go in the front door and find the regular details page and then 'edit' then do the reviews. it would be helpful if there was an 'edit' link on just the reviews page, and if possible, a regular direct link to the show details page on the reviews screen.
this is one example of shows on the browseing page that get nested in another shows table...
ID:183
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 19 2004 Reported by:cfo
Download link(s) in OSA item reportedly disappeared:
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=24392
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=01faztresnoites
No error report capability for OSA items yet, so reporting here. BTW I tried substituting an ê into Três in the id just in case, still didn't see a d/l link.
ID:186
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 24 2004 Reported by:Diana Hamilton
the wget link on the FTP Information page for show downloads is defunct. replace with http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ (that's the same link as before, just minus the "wget.html")
ID:189
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 02 2004 Reported by:ssamadhi97
on pretty much all Llama show details page you'll find the following typo: "Transfered by" - should be "transferred"
please fix it, it hurts my eyes ;)
ID:192
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 17 2004 Reported by:ssamadhi97
ID:201
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 28 2005 Reported by:Ana Nelson
Minor bug for the Live Music Archive: if a band plays two shows at the same venue on the same day, the Archive assumes that they are different sources for the same show. There should be some way for the uploader to indicate that the shows are different when they are.
Forum thread here: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=31447
ID:203
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 26 2005 Reported by:xtifr
What happened to the music library http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php
Is this just a glitch or did it get taken down ? You guys are awesome :-) I have to ask how much of your bandwidth gets used up by people downloading Grateful Dead shows ?
ID:208
Priority: 5 Reported May 02 2005 Reported by:StrawRider
Download and Derivation Problems in Open Source Audio - All of the audio download links on my newest CD (http://www4.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=pool) are broken except the OGGs. Actually, they're all broken except OGG on my older CD (http://www4.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=blackink) as well. In fact, they're broken for all of the Open Source Audio entries I've tried to download. Additionally, several FLAC derivations have not been made for the new CD.
ID:209
Priority: 5 Reported May 03 2005 Reported by:Brendan Themes
There was an error with the database operation while trying to update the program details.
We would appreciate it if you would inform us of this. Debugging information follows: INSERT INTO movies (title,collection,collectionid,nwoi,runtime,proddate,descr,sponsor,producer,productionco,director,contact,credits,color,sound,shotlist,segments,cat1,cat2,cat3,pick,public,addeddate,adder,uploader) VALUES ('School Magic Show','opensource_movies','schoolmagicshow','schoolmagicshow','','2005','Jordan had been really wanting to go to a magic show sponsored by his school and my Grandma volunteered to watch my other 2 kids.\r\n\r\nThis was a lot of fun and I even got official permission to take this footage. Thanks to John Kaplan for agreeing to let me take some quick clips. Check out his website at www.welikemagic.com.\r\n','','Nathan Peters','','Nathan Peters','http://www.nathanpeters.com\r\nhttp://www.welikemagic.com','John Kaplan','','','','','John','Kaplan','magic',0,0,now(),'Nathan Peters','nathan@nathanpeters.com')
ID:213
Priority: 5 Reported May 19 2005 Reported by:Nathan Peters
Today 21-May-2005, when I try to FTP up new material to audio-uploads.archive.org, it complains that the disk is full. This is my first attempted use of archive.org. Are you running out of disk space?
jeff at taupro.com
ID:214
Priority: 5 Reported May 21 2005 Reported by:xanalogica
I uploaded a new version of a movie and would like the old one deleted. They are identical except I corrected lighting in some scenes in the second one. The old one to delete is:
http://www.archive.org/details/Hukilau2003
ID:215
Priority: 5 Reported May 23 2005 Reported by:Swanky
I'm trying to chose a license but I get error messages.
ID:216
Priority: 5 Reported May 23 2005 Reported by:Damage Control
Please edit the link in the last post on this page to read:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
I believe, and that would make that forum display much better... I think that link makes the window scroll a long way horizontally...
maybe a way to make long links wrap in the forums?
ID:218
Priority: 5 Reported May 29 2005 Reported by:glenn
Help! I tried to add my film "Manifestoon" and it failed the first time. I tried to upload a new file, but said it couldn't because the file already existed. It does not show up from a search on your site however. I want to upload it, but it won't let me now. What should I do?
jdrew@ucdavis.edu
ID:219
Priority: 5 Reported May 31 2005 Reported by:Jesse Drew
How do I get files on the ftp site deleted?
ID:222
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 11 2005 Reported by:Blind Gregory
Addendum to the above: I have 15 files and 6 folders that have to be deleted because they are all the products of uploads that weren't completed at ftp://blind_gregory@yahoo.com@movies-uploads.archive.org:21.
They should be easy to find. The files are all named bad download (#) and the folders are all named dead file (#). Also, as far as I can tell, they are the only files there.
How will I know when they've been deleted?
ID:223
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 11 2005 Reported by:Blind Gregory
Ace Drummond Chapter 5 should be moved from Open Source Movies to Feature Films.
In Feature Films there are two Chapters 6 of Ace Drummond; one of them is in fact Chapter 7.
ID:225
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 26 2005 Reported by:Jorgito
After uploading an image through Ourmedia.org, I proceeded to the contributions page but found nothing in any of the links that should have the image. What is the problem I am experiencing?
Advanced Search
Hello Peter H. Rosen (not you? sign in or log out)
There was an error with the database operation while trying to update the program details.
We would appreciate it if you would inform us of this. Debugging information follows: INSERT INTO movies (title,collection,collectionid,nwoi,runtime,proddate,descr,sponsor,producer,productionco,director,contact,credits,color,sound,shotlist,segments,cat1,cat2,cat3,pick,public,addeddate,adder,uploader) VALUES ('Maui Artists Showcase #118','opensource_movies','maui','maui','16 min','2002','This special program features really cool video feedback. The models set the light in motion by their various body movements. Sometimes when the movement, lighting and phase of the camera angle are correct, the slightest movement of camera or model can set the light into self oscillation causing amazing fractals.\r\n\r\nThe song COOL IN THE SHADE is performed written and produced (on a Mac) by Peter Rosen. All rights reserved.','Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services','Peter H. Rosen','V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media','Peter H. Rosen','Peter H. Rosen\r\nV.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media\r\n140 Uwapo Rd. , #49-204\r\nKihei Hi 96753\r\n808 875 4747\r\nIM: MauiMacMan','','color','sound','','','fractals, light painting, music,','','',0,0,now(),'Peter H. Rosen','peter@creativity.net')
The download counter on http://www.archive.org/details/Majikscreamsandpissingbamboo
is not working (stuck at 9)
Can it be fixed
ID:231
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 03 2005 Reported by:Jim Didge
I note that the movie "Gullivers Travels" has a large section missing around 3' 48'' into the film, maybe 10 mins lost. I didn't play much beyond there, as the contrast varies quite a lot losing much of the detail. It maybe there are other parts missing later on.
Nigel D. Andrews
ID:235
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 21 2005 Reported by:Nigel Andrews
Guys, there's gotta be a little more leeway in the system. Hitting one wrong key screws everything up. How about a penultimate step in the import process that goes: "Are you done filling out the form? Are you ready to finalize your import? If yes, click *here*. Click *here* to preview your import. Click *here* to go back and change something."
________________________________________
There was an error with the database operation while trying to update the program details.
We would appreciate it if you would inform us of this. Debugging information follows: INSERT INTO movies (title,collection,collectionid,nwoi,runtime,proddate,descr,sponsor,producer,productionco,director,contact,credits,color,sound,shotlist,segments,cat1,cat2,cat3,pick,public,addeddate,adder,uploader) VALUES ('I\'ll Show You A Quiet Enjoyment Clause','opensource_movies','Dumbeast-IllShowYouAQuietEnjoymentClause708','Dumbeast-IllShowYouAQuietEnjoymentClause708','00:01:16','2005','They\'re doing an upgrade to the common patio space right outside my window at our apartment complex. Today, demolition of the extant concrete floor of the space began. Those guys are really doing hard work. \r\n\r\nEsos individuos realmente están haciendo el trabajo duro.\r\n\r\nIt\'s very loud.\r\n\r\n\r\nEs muy ruidoso.','','Bruce Bortin','bortinofilm','Bruce Bortin','','','color','sound','','','jackhammer ','loud ','demolition',0,0,now(),'Bruce Bortin','bruce.bortin@gmail.com')
ID:236
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 23 2005 Reported by:Bruce Bortin
Bookmark deletion appears to be broken again. Clicking on the delete icon causes the page to refresh, but the bookmark is not deleted.
FYI... it was broken previously and I posted a message on the Live Music Archive forum and Diane Hamilton was kind enough to send a message and the problem was fixed.
Incorrectly nested html table data cells on this page: http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead%3A%201987
Hello,
Trying to stream or DL http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=13434&from=browsePopular (Hayseed Dixie, Flanigans, Columbus,OH April 29, 2004) I get page not found (404). It has been like this for some time. Will it be back up soon? Thanks for your effort.
ID:245
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 03 2005 Reported by:tubeglow
The "Boys Beware" file can no longer be accessed. Since it's the #4 most downloaded file of the Prelinger Archive and the staff's #5 favorite, I'd really love to see it. Thanks!
ID:246
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 04 2005 Reported by:Whipper
Hi I need to erase an item from your pages, the name of my company has been used without my permission,
please delete it as sson as possible
http://www.archive.org/details/my_first_vlog_6
cheers
marco@gommunity.com
ID:247
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 10 2005 Reported by:markokko
Every time I try to use CC publisher to upload files I get the message of either an invalid e-mail address or password at Archive. Yet, when I go to Archive I sign in using the same info that gets me rejected when trying to use CC publisher. What's going on?
ID:248
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 13 2005 Reported by:rickmath
Hi,
I seem to recall that, not too long ago, VLC was the only player that did not play the automatically derived mp4 files at archive.org out of sync. And it has always played mpeg1 and Mpeg2 files perfectly--unlike Windows Media Player and just about every other player I have come across--they are all skippy and jerky during playback to verious degree. I really like VLC. It is rock steady on a PC.
Yet the latest version of VLC for Windows, v0.8.2, does not play the automatically derived mp4 files from archive.org at all well. There is no audio at all during playback. MPEG1 and MPEG2 playback is still absolutely perfect.
I did a bit of research in the VLC forum and discovered that other people had the same problem, but someone commented that the previous version 0.8.1 played these files OK. This confirmed my experience and luckily I still had a copy of v0.8.1 on my PC. I installed it and it plays the files with sound and without the sync problem.
Processor(s)
Model : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+
Speed : 2.00GHz
Model Number : 2400 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2900 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC synchronous write-back
System Mainboard
Bus(es) : AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394
MP Support : No
System BIOS : Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V600-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1003 System Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V600-X System Chipset : ASUSTeK Computer Inc VT8377 Apollo KT400 CPU to PCI Bridge Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate) Installed Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Memory Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate)
Video System
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive : IC35L040AVER07-0 (38.3GB)
Disk Drive : Maxtor 6Y080L0 (76.3GB)
Disk Drive : ST316002 3AS SCSI Disk Device (149.1GB) CD-ROM/DVD : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd, 5X Wr)
Logical Storage Devices
1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A
Hard Disk (C:) : 30.1GB (19.4GB, 64% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (D:) : 39.3GB (32.9GB, 84% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (E:) : 68.4GB (7.3GB, 11% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (F:) : 11.3GB (9.8GB, 86% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (G:) : 76.3GB (11.1GB, 15% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (H:) : 38.3GB (8.0GB, 21% Free) (NTFS) CD-ROM/DVD (I:) : N/A
Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 1 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
FireWire/1394 Controller : Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Mouse : HID-compliant mouse Human Interface : USB Human Interface Device
MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : Standard Game Port
Device : Game Port for Creative
Device : Mia (WDM)
Device : SB PCI(WDM)
Printers and Faxes
Model : Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Model : HP LaserJet 6L Model : HP DeskJet 880C Model : Family Tree Maker Printer Model : Adobe PDF
Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Ver 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
Network Adapter(s)
Networking Installed : Yes
Adapter : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
ID:249
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 14 2005 Reported by:Chris Edwards
The Night of the Living Dead details page (http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead) appears to be busted for some reason. The banner appears, but none of the movie details or anything appear--just white space.
ID:250
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 20 2005 Reported by:mademoisellerustad
None of the hyperlinks to SKB 7-1-05, Live at Big Meadow Stage are working as of 10/20/05. Oddly, it's impossible to hear this show any more??? see below. Can this plz be fixed? thank you!
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=26916
ID:252
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 23 2005 Reported by:adelaid
www.searchenginecommando.com is entered in your database, which is actually a paid website. When we go to search softwares, this page appeared
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Atucows%20AND%20subject%3A%22NUDE%22
Most of the websites are commercial in nature. How come these are listed here? Please do something to eradicate these links, as these take a huge data to load, eating up many small users in places like India.
ID:255
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 03 2005 Reported by:beluru
Download Problems, tried to D/L The Green Glove and My Dear Secretary,(Feature Film Archive) to be given a 'Connection refused' message from my Download Manager (Download Accelorator Plus 7.5). I use this app all the time for my D/Ls from the archive and have never had any problems before. Will try with the generic MSWindows XP D/L
to see if Ican get them that way, but will be much slower.
Any comments or assistance would be appreciated, you have my E-Addy. NorthsideR
ID:257
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 07 2005 Reported by:NorthsideR
There was an error with the database operation while trying to add the recording details.
We would appreciate it if you would inform us of this, providing this debugging information: INSERT INTO audio (uploader,runtime,collection,collectionid,date,title,descr,author,source,taper,notes,addeddate,adder,public) VALUES ('industrialjazzgroup@yahoo.com','56:00','opensource_audio','IJG','2004-00-00 00:00:00','Industrialjazzwerke, vol. 1','','Andrew Durkin','','','',now(),'Andrew Durkin',0). Error:Duplicate entry 'opensource_audio-IJG' for key 2
ID:258
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 10 2005 Reported by:Andrew Durkin
Submissions reflect inaccurate number of times downloaded. The video submissions, I have made, to the archive do not convey the correct number of downloads in the summary; in all cases showing just "1" one. This is discriminatory, because visitors are less likely to download vidoes, that are less popoular. Please correct this problem in such pages, for instance, as: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=clune%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_movies
ID:259
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 16 2005 Reported by:eamonpatrickclune
ID:260
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 16 2005 Reported by:LRLittlehale
I uploaded three items (as I always used to do under the "old" contribution system) to a directory: an MPEG-2, an .OGG, and a .ZIP archive with photos taken during the making of the MPEG-2/OGG. Unfortunately, it looks like your thingy tries to split apart the .ZIP to be all cute about it, and it explodes. Here's the event in the log, where it is currently FROZEN and NOT PROCEEDING, leaving my collection of imports waiting:
Deriving 20040229-bbs-schinnell_flippy.zip from multiple files
Class: Flippy Zip
Source file: /3/items/20040229-bbs-schinnell/20040229-bbs-schinnell.zip
Target file: /3/items/20040229-bbs-schinnell/20040229-bbs-schinnell_flippy.zip
....it's just frozen there, unable to move on. Apparently you unzip into the same directory, and then have no "automatic overwrite" or other way to keep going.
ID:261
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 22 2005 Reported by:Jason Scott / TEXTFILES.COM
Gratefule Dead shows are no longer available for download. Is this temporary?
ID:264
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 24 2005 Reported by:herrin
BUG: Can't Add Review
I can't add a review to this Prelinger Archives item:
http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951
Even a simple one-word title and one-word review ("test," in both cases) produces only a blank page.
Ideas?
Thanks,
-- D
ID:269
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 03 2005 Reported by:SkyCaptain
UK 1949 National Archive film "London Airport" MPEG2 download link is linked to wrong film - links to "Modern Guide to Health", which is also shown in the thumbnails.
ID:272
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 09 2005 Reported by:Alpha206
Hi...thx again for all your hard work w/ LMA...it's simply amazing, and I'm so thankful for it's existence.
When I go to SKB 2-22-02 Gothic, however, the shn files seem to be missing, and nothing's avail. for d/l now??? Can they be replaced? Thanks!
ID:275
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 21 2005 Reported by:adelaid
The following link appears to be broken.
http://www.archive.org/details/MyJapan1945
moving image > Prelinger > My japan (1945)
ID:280
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 29 2005 Reported by:turtle.blu
The images aren’t loading properly for any of the archived versions of “epylon.com”
ID:281
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 30 2005 Reported by:belotte
This site has the YO MILES shn files fore download.
When I download them, they are shn.text files.
Shorten cannot decode them. This is faulty.
These are supposed to be legitimate shn audio compressed files.
Can you help me solve this ?
My computer is MAC OS X.4
ID:283
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 19 2006 Reported by:James Brunswick
There seems to be some typos in the following list:
Pure Scicences (1)
Pure Science (32)
Pure Science (Astronomy) (1)
Pure Science (Life Science) (1)
Pure Science (Zoology) (1)
Pure Sciences (8)
Pure Scinces (5)
ID:284
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 26 2006 Reported by:Dana Roth
I would like to ask why our website palmtreeamerica.com has been indexed almost every other day for the first few months of last year (2005), then it stoped indexing our website completely. Also after seeing these results I added a robots text file not allowing this service to index our website. After doing so I am still able to view a larg portion of our website's pages that have been indexed in the Internet Archive. Can I have all pages that are indexed deleted from your site so I can start over and have the proper results shown in the Internet Archive? Please let me know,
Sonia L.
customerservice@palmtreeamerica.com
ID:287
Priority: 5 Reported Feb 11 2006 Reported by:pta
i have a cable modem connection using a realteck 8139 ethernet connection built in to my computer
when i first start downloading my speed is showing fast
then all of a sudden iit start droping and stopps at 41 kilbytes per second it take me 11 hrs to download a 2gigbyte mpeg 2 file is the site having trouble with download speed ho can i get a better download
thanks for your time rdick2004@aol.com
ID:290
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 18 2006 Reported by:starfighter1
URL: http://www.archive.org/download/dn1999-0323/dn1999-0323-1_64kb.mp3
Text: The specified item cannot be found or its XML is unparseable...
Feel free to report this so that we can fix the problem.
ID:291
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 21 2006 Reported by:LRLittlehale
http://www.archive.org/details/StashaGoliaszewskiTPR051221 has no title, it should have the title TPR051221. It is the show of TransPhillyRadio for the 21st of Dec 2005. Stasha Goliaszewski
ID:292
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 22 2006 Reported by:TransPhillyRadio
I uploaded some an audio album, and the derived zip file only contains the first track. I have rederived the item, which doesn't appear to fix it. please help.
http://www.archive.org/details/Demand_Independent_Noise_Party_BOXXX0002
Thanks, dugRnet
ID:295
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 31 2006 Reported by:dugRnet
I got a blank page trying to download / view Faust Part One. In the address bar I see the following URL: www.archive.org/details/faust_1_2005
Please consider removing the link to the Winamp download page you have posted on the FAQ section (recommended to play flac files, etc.). After installing Winamp from this site, all of the Windows video files on my hard drive were converted to Winamp video files without my foreknowledge or consent. (I also made a point of not allowing Winamp to be set as my default player upon installation, yet that happened, as well.)
In addition to the aforementioned problems, part of my Norton anti-virus and Spybot anti-spyware protection has suddenly become disabled, as well. Perhaps this is just coincidence, but I have my doubts.
The truth is that I'm pretty mad and disgusted about the whole thing because my system is so corrupted now that I will have to reformat my hard drive. I don't blame this site, but I would appreciate it if you would investigate this link, and the Winamp player itself (which I will NEVER use again).
I've uploaded several movies in mpeg1 format and the archive system is unable to create derivatives. for example:
http://www.archive.org/details/kawa_marago
http://www.archive.org/details/wizyta_tiereszkowej
http://www.archive.org/details/wojciech_siemion
ID:302
Priority: 5 Reported May 12 2006 Reported by:Alek
If you search for e.g. http://website:81 then the links in search results are wrong: they omit the port number. The links are accessible if you copy the link address and add the port number.
ID:303
Priority: 5 Reported May 14 2006 Reported by:John Peppers
Very minor issue, but also easy to fix (at least in theory). :)
On the item creation page at http://www.archive.org/create/ there is a special box for live concerts, and in that box it says "Use this section instead if item is a live music recording for the Live Music Archive," where "Live Music Archive is a link. But the link points to the old location at http://www.archive.org/audio instead of http://www.archive.org/details/etree where the LMA is now found.
ID:304
Priority: 5 Reported May 15 2006 Reported by:xtifr
Are there still shows missing from the new view? Guessing there might be other shows where this is occuring but here is one example that I saw.
i.e. I don't see Railroad Earth 2006-03-17.
When I look at the "old" view it is there: http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Railroad%20Earth%3A%202006
*http://www.archive.org/details/rre2006-03-17.414.flac16
When I sort the "new" view by date I don't see it: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A%22RailroadEarth%22&sort=-%2Fmetadata%2Fdate
Is there some problem with metadata?
Where is the date being retrieved from?
ID:305
Priority: 5 Reported May 20 2006 Reported by:heikki
Bookmarks page does not display names properly if they contain a "&" symbol. The text coming after the "&" appears to be truncated. Change to parsing rules needed?
i.e.: http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/heikki
The text in ( ) below is not displayed on the bookmarks page.
Live at Paul (& Robyne's Backyard on 2005-11-05)
Bookmarked: 13 hours ago
Add comment
Live at Jim (& Janine's Backyard Deck on 2005-09-04)
Bookmarked: 13 hours ago
Bookmarked by 2 users
Add comment
Live at Krogh's Restaurant (& Brewpub on 2002-12-14)
Bookmarked: 13 hours ago
Add comment
ID:306
Priority: 5 Reported May 20 2006 Reported by:heikki
The updated Live Music Archive is a little weird, the playlists on the left are 64 and vbr tracks combined instead of in separate playlists.
ID:307
Priority: 5 Reported May 24 2006 Reported by:dr234
Hello, I sure woudl appreciate it if you could repair the Wayback Machine. It has not worked for two days and forum posts indicate it may have been down since May 27th. Thank you.
ID:308
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 01 2006 Reported by:MJer
Browse by Year for Ryan Adams is currently non-functional
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=RyanAdams&field=%2Fmetadata%2Fyear
ID:310
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 18 2006 Reported by:sitryd
the streaming video file at http://www.archive.org/details/RosenDocumentaryQT says unsupported media type. It used to play just fine. What happened that the file no longer streams? Thanks for fixing it. Blessings, peter@creativity.net
Etree is proactive in the 'lossless' distribution of Trade Friendly music. Please re-enable the 'Download Lossless' links for Arvhive submissions. My fear is that the integrity of these donated recordings are being jeapordized by only featuring a link to download shows in mp3 lossy formats. I understand that this is in developement, looking for the best way. Please set at High Priority.
Thanks for your hard work! rtsp://ia300130.us.archive.org:554/0/items/RosenDocumentaryQT/RosenDocumentaryQT.mp4 gives error of 415 unsupported media type. I have quicktime 7 configured correctly IMHO and the file does not play with Firefox 1 or Safari on a powerbook. Is it the media or something I am missing on my computer? Please advise: peter@creativity.net
The automated contribution engine documented on this page: http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php is returning the message "You have supplied an invalid collection opensource_movies for mediatype movies" for all videos being contributed to that collection.
ID:315
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 17 2006 Reported by:potatono
When I try to access the "Details" page for the movie D.O.A. Internet Explorer hangs and then crashes. There are always 3 or 4 items on the page left to be displayed. This behavior has been going on for a couple of weeks.
ID:316
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 25 2006 Reported by:millerah
In the waybackmachine you can find my oldest posts for my blog http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com. But, when I clicked on a link to my old faq page, (thehomelessguyfaq.blogspot.com) my old template shows, yet someone else's posts appear. Why is that?
ID:317
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 29 2006 Reported by:thehomelessguy
Dear Tech Support,
I have almost given up on ever sending anything to
the Archives ever again. It seems that I have
different problems each time. It is like trying to put
together a complicated puzzle to get anything to work.
I don't think I am a stupid person. Today I spent the
hole day trying to upload a small video. I have given
all of the information asked for in the cc publisher,
I have followed all of the instructions. I get to the
last page where you select, send to the Archives, or
do your own hosting. I select, send to the archives.
According to all of the instructions a page is suppose
to come up which would allow me to log on to my
account with the Archives, and start my upload. That
page does not come up. A page comes up that tells me
about the Archives selecting an identifying code for
me. If I want to change that code, I can, by pushing
Next. There is no Next on that page at all to push. In
fact the only thing that there is to select that does
anything is exit. End of upload, and start over from
scratch. I have used the Archives, and downloaded a
so many wonderful things. You folks are just great.
As far as sending my own work in to add to the
collection, it is absolutely a pain in the ass. What
can I do to make CC Publisher work ?
Thank you for your attention, and any help you could
send along would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
John J. Coghlan
johncoghlan2000@yahoo.com
ID:319
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 03 2006 Reported by:J. Coghlan
There are two listings for "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962):
http://www.archive.org/details/the_brain_that_wouldnt_die
AND
http://www.archive.org/details/brain_that_wouldnt_die
The first (older) one has not license tag; the second claims this film is in the public domain. Which is correct?
ID:320
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 20 2006 Reported by:Jeff Q
I've uploaded many files before to my audiobook of Irenaeus of Lyons' Contra Haereses -- http://www.archive.org/details/VsHeresies3
This Tuesday, when I uploaded my latest files, the details page never properly came back. All you get is a blank page at that URL. Now it's Friday, and it's still missing. Please bring back my page! :)
ID:321
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 27 2006 Reported by:Maureen S. O'Brien
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution as Depicted in Newsreels
I am trying to download the MGEG2 version of this movie as it is absolutely perfect for the project I am working on. After it downloads i get an error that Quicktime cannot run the program. "Error Opening Movie. The movie could not be opened." Is their something wrong with the file?
I am using a MAC running 10.4 downloading in Firefox(1.5.0.8). I have downloaded the two lower quality movies and they work fine.
Please contact me at sadie1074@gmail.com or at 315-380-0702.
Thank you very much, Heather Buck
ID:325
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 08 2006 Reported by:sadie1074
In my submission of 1-27-2007 of The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France under Open Source Audio it plays correctly from the Streaming link, but the box at the top plays it at about triple speed, like Donald Duck. The original audio file is 64kbps 22 khz. Is the Khz the problem or something you need to fix?
Second, this is the first of a number of audio books. How can I get this categorized as an audiobook rather than general open source audio?
Leslie Evans, lbevans@earthlink.net
ID:327
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 27 2007 Reported by:Shaggyman
When contributions are posted as multiple files, say 20 or 30 pdf files, the download count is inaccurate. The download count is bumped once for each download although it takes 20 or 30 separate downloads to get just one copy of the document. I would suggest that when multiple files are required, that the download count should be divided by the number of files.
ID:329
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 16 2007 Reported by:Biker Bob
Unable to login. Won't accept password. Tried with ccPublisher and ftp but isnt working.
ID:330
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 31 2007 Reported by:Todd Partridge
I am receiving this error when trying to login to the FTP server to upload a show:
530 Authentication failed, sorry
Unable to make a connection. Please try again.
I am able to login to the site with the same credentials I am using for the FTP server, but they fail on FTP.
Thanks
ID:331
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 31 2007 Reported by:perphunk
Your record at: http://www.archive.org/details/calendarofancien00dubluoft
has the wrong book attached to it. The record is for The Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, edited by Gilbert, J.T. The book that actually shows up in the images is Dublin: A Historical Sketch" published by The Religious Tract Society.
ID:335
Priority: 5 Reported May 03 2007 Reported by:unav
Hi
I try to search the web site www.therasense.com, a company that was bought by Abbott. However, when I click an archived site of therasense, I am always redirected to the new Abbott site. What am I doing wrong?
Kind regards
Matthias Kläy
ID:336
Priority: 5 Reported May 26 2007 Reported by:mklaey
The specified item cannot be found or its XML is unparseable...
Feel free to report this so that we can fix the problem.
ID:339
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 25 2007 Reported by:13
The content of the site is excellent, but the relentless animated gif thumbnails have to go, before someone has an epileptic seizure looking at the pages. (Honestly, I have to stop using the site, this is so bothersome.) I suggest either (a) have animated gifs stop after one cycle or (b) don't use them. Thanks!
Unable to access any of a collection of US patent archives. Link to one of them:
http://www.archive.org/details/us_patent_05780833_to_05790255_395
My connection just times out. Also, in the meantime, I cannot access the archive.org web site at all.
ID:341
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 03 2007 Reported by:AbattoirJW
I come to the Archive quite often for the AUDIO of OTR. My favorites are the Westerns & especially FRONTIER GENTLEMAN. Please know that the following episodes of the FRONTIER GENTLEMAN series are without the audio content: Episodes 11, 13, 14, 15. Something has corrupted these files, for at one point a few months ago they were OK. Thanks.
ID:343
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 09 2007 Reported by:Whitaker Fulton
I'll echo what others are seeing...
I can get to the main interface, via whatever server you have the "www" hosted on. However, the "web" server is not responding. Firefox 2.0. reports "can't establish a connection to the server at web.archive.org". IE gives a more general error message.
I forgot to add, that if users have certain security features set in their browsers, they may complain they can't access the WaybackMachine at all. I've got IE locked down according to advice from WindowsSecrets. To allow use of the InternetArchive, I must add the following to Trusted sites: *.archive.org. For Firefox, I use the NoScript add-on. One must Allow archive.org, when the NoScript icon on the bottom has a red diagonal line through it. That adds the site to a whitelist.
There is a text encoding problem near the bottom of the following page:
http://www.archive.org/about/about.php
Under the following headings (near the bottom):
Storage and Preservation -> Preservation -> Accidents:
"Maintaining copies of the Archive�s collections at", I think the apostrophe character was not encoded properly.
ID:351
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 08 2007 Reported by:James Gauth
The prelinger Archive has a wonderful sellection of Charlie chaplin films. Is it possible to also upload these in mpeg2 format? And could this be done in the near future?
ID:353
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 30 2007 Reported by:Caroline Dijckmeester
"A Treatise on Dynamics--W. H. Besant" is wrongfully scanned
as another book " Development of Mathematics in China & Japan"
Please look into this point as I am eager to read Besant's book
kmng@yahoo.com
ID:354
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 31 2007 Reported by:kmng
The MPEG2 copies of the second 2004 presidential debates isn't loading properly. I downloaded the entire first third but it wouldn't open in Quicktime, RealPlayer or iMovie. It also won't load off the page. Suggestions?
ID:355
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 12 2007 Reported by:BGES
Problem with metadata editor. I uploaded a file, and then noticed I had a typo in the description, so I attempted to use the metadata editor to edit that field. However, when I click "submit" I get an error to the effect that I can only have one title (didn't change the title!). What appears to be happening is that the metadata editor is attempting to change the title from "not set" to the correct title. Only problem is, the title was already set... hence the error. I even tried using the metadata editor without making any changes whatsoever, and when I submit I get the same error about the title
ID:356
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 13 2007 Reported by:FaithSing
I'm trying to do a recursive wget on http://web.archive.org/web/20050204033254/www.saveourdams.com/, but when I do I'm only returning the top level page.
Do you have any recommendations as to how to copy an archived website down locally. I've tried many spiders and none seem to work. I'm using wget -r -l 0 http://web.archive.org/web/20050204033254/www.saveourdams.com/. I'm using the wget from http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/default.htm and helpfile from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/
ID:357
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 14 2007 Reported by:tysonflint
unable to access Democracy Now (recently added) download.
The following is the error message:"The search engine encountered the following error: Search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive. We are working to resolve this issue. Thanks for your patience."
We are trying to download for Public Access TV
ID:358
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 21 2007 Reported by:drceo
Does Archive.org actually work at all? When I do a search, all I get is the first page of results. It's not use clicking on any of the search results, because 95% of the time all I get is a message saying there's a problem. It's impossible to get to page 2 of the results. So what's the point of having zillions of texts available online when the search engine is so awful that you can't actually find a link that works?
ID:359
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 23 2007 Reported by:Carl Wernerhoff
Something weird is happening to netlabels statistics (at least mines): last weeks downloads show only zeros while one item has impressive number of -12!!! (see screenshot: http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z199/recyclingrecords/archive_stats_error.jpg)
ID:361
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 06 2007 Reported by:Recycling Records
I cannot get beyond the main web page without getting this error: "The search engine encountered the following error: Search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive. We are working to resolve this issue. Thanks for your patience." The site has become basically inoperative. It is the same for both IE and FireFox. Connectivity has evaporated. The site is now useless. This has been going on for a few weeks.
ID:362
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 11 2007 Reported by:AGV
I guess everyone at the archive is asleep, or does not know how to fix the error report problem I mentioned yesterday, and others have reported it as well. This is very discouraging. I will e-mail other places to get some attention.
ID:363
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 12 2007 Reported by:AGV
On the live music archive home page (http://www.archive.org/details/etree), the "Browse All Artists with Recordings in the Live Music Archive" link is no longer working. It hasn't been working for weeks. (maybe going on months now actually)
ID:364
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 13 2007 Reported by:keystoneclimber
The "Downloaded" counter on audio titles has been non-functional for several weeks now -- basically it has gotten stuck.
ID:365
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 15 2007 Reported by:TheBookworm
I've been trying to stream CBS Radio Mystery Theater since last night. None of it is working, no downloads, no streaming, nothing. It was fine until yesterday. Does anyone work on the weekends? thanks.
ID:366
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 30 2007 Reported by:cmuberti
please can you help.
i didn`t find on my page the link to edit my files. i like to upload an new item, and it`s not possible.
http://www.archive.org/details/Austrian_Hip-Hop_-_Exclusive_Beatz
ID:367
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 11 2008 Reported by:Austrian Hip-Hop
For the past couple of months on some uploads, I've been given different ftp addresses that don't work, sometimes don't even seem to be in DNS at the time, although will work later. I normally upload on a Sunday morning via http://www.archive.org/create.php, and today (20/1/08) it was ia341028.us.archive.org that failed me. Seems to work now though.
ID:368
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 20 2008 Reported by:Christ Church Moreton Hall
I have not been able to access archives of fhm.com for several days.
ID:370
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 07 2008 Reported by:I Hate Wake Tech!
The "grinning mob" is missing from the drop down list when checking in a upload. (lma)
ID:371
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 10 2008 Reported by:TheRealMe
I recently got some spam by folks using your search query to relay to their server presumable to piggy back on the trust associated with archive.org
ID:372
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 16 2008 Reported by:phidelity
I'm not able to search texts at all at the moment. Everything comes back with an error message.
ID:373
Priority: 5 Reported Mar 27 2008 Reported by:vincek
As at writing (1 April 2008), many files have not had their downloads updated for perhaps 4 days. I can give examples if needed.
ID:374
Priority: 5 Reported Apr 01 2008 Reported by:John August
I installed the new audio flash player per page instruction. Adobe shows that it installed successfully, however, now all your pages are telling me it is not installed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can no longer get the flash player on your pages or check my uploads by it!!!!!
ID:376
Priority: 5 Reported May 20 2008 Reported by:Phil8659
IE not displaying the flash player plug in on upgrade. Issue resolved by deleting all past history and cookies, which means the programming of the page is not checking with IE but with the cookies this site puts on the puter, poor programming practice.
ID:377
Priority: 5 Reported May 20 2008 Reported by:Phil8659
After resolving the issue once, clicked on the Try New Player link again, again your site misidentifies my flash version, and screws up the browser link to audio player on your site. I suggest that the coding used by Adobe to identify the flash verssion be paid attention too.
ID:378
Priority: 5 Reported May 20 2008 Reported by:Phil8659
The Grateful Dead show for 71/11/07 seems to be missing.
TWO BUGS IN ONE!
I tried downloading the book Evolution of the Essex Rivers and of the lower Thames (1922) (bw copy) but what I got was a book entitled "Scarlet Fever" by another author. I tried to file a review for this item to alert you to the problem, but every time I clicked on the link to the item page (here: http://www.archive.org/details/evolutionofessex00greguoft) it switched to "Anonymous User" and did not allow me to log in.
ID:383
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 05 2008 Reported by:Woosh!
I'm sure someone reported this already, but the play list doesn't match the posted film. Thanks.
http://www.archive.org/details/NewsMaga00_9
ID:384
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 07 2008 Reported by:famtech2006
Having a problem viewing printed pages using the DjVu format. I tried it to view the British Museum (Natural History) books catalogue but it crashed on two browsers. This is the report I've been getting:
java.io.IOException: Invalid DjVu File Format
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.read(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.init(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuBean.setURL(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuViewport.setURL(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.getDjVuBean(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.init(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Goulven Keineg
Information Assistant
The Entomology Library
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
ID:385
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 11 2008 Reported by:Goulven
From Robusta
I cannot print any of the PDF files downloaded from the Archive, or, they print very slowly.
I ahve no problems printing PDF files downloaded from other locations.
When printing, each page takes 2 minutes to be transferred to the printer. The printing dialogue box reads "Flattening" and sticks at 42%.
There is no fault with my printer (Epson Stylus C66 inkjet) or with Windows 98SE.
Saving and re-naming the file does not help.
It takes 10 minutes or more for 10 pages to be transferred for actual printing.
People who know about things claim the the fault lies with the Archive who have incorrectly modified the document to be converted to PDF files.
The Archive is a brilliant addition to the Internet - we have nothing like it in the United Kingdom - but if you cannot print the books the PDF files are useless.
Please advise if you know of a solution.
Thank You,
Robusta from England
ID:386
Priority: 5 Reported Aug 20 2008 Reported by:robusta
possible typo in the FAQ ... in the item titled
How do you protect my privacy if you archive my site
(item 26 I think in the left NavBar menu) ...
I see a question mark after the first sentence (or long phrase):
The Archive collects Web pages that are publicly available ? the same
... maybe it could just be my browser ?? (MSIE v6 on WinXP).
Is there any way to access the old player for the Music Archives ? For a while there was a choice.
The new player will not embed on either of the two message boards I am active on. Others with more experience have tried as well and cannot get it to work either - something to do with HTML.
A response would be greatly appreciated by several of us who are frustrated by this problem.
I can't download any files. I have a Mac, follow the instructions, do not geta menu when I hold my mouse button down over the link. All I get is a full screen playback of the file. There also doesn't seem to be anywhere to go with conventional requests such as this other than this forum and it doesn't seem appropriate. What do I do now? How do I get an answer back about my concern? garylsteffens@mchsi.com
ID:393
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 19 2008 Reported by:Mario Baeck
Summary: Various crawlers (seemingly, all of them?) grabbing robots.txt (and only robots.txt) for a single site.
Operational hit: None for me; others may get annoyed :)
Viewed: 103 GETs from 101 different IPs for robots.txt; two crawlers (207.241.228.230|207.241.229.164) getting it twice. (robots.txt is 404 on this site).
contextual lighttpd logs at
http://arpa.com/pastebin/archiveorg-robotstxt.txt
So, for some reason, the crawlers are either unaware of, or have multiply queued, this url.
Do with the info as you wish; just playing "fyi" if you're taking notes / looking to streamline cpu cycles :)
[ And, it probably doesn't get said enough. Thank you. Your work is invaluable.. ]
- j(amie) / arpa
ID:394
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 25 2008 Reported by:jamie.rishaw
PDF link, left column, first item, at http://www.archive.org/details/themayflowercomp00007gut should be Mayflower Compact, is actually a Western Novel.
ID:396
Priority: 5 Reported Oct 28 2008 Reported by:dougcouch
Pages 105 and 106 of Volume 2 of the Hyslop book on Fuller genealogy are missing. Naturally, I need page 106.
ID:397
Priority: 5 Reported Nov 09 2008 Reported by:RMau
search engine doesn't work
ID:400
Priority: 5 Reported Dec 03 2008 Reported by:Temps de Revoltes
A search for Arthur Sclesinger's "The Age of Jackson" (1953) brings up Robert Littel's "It takes all kinds" (1961). This will disappoint those who seek the former & cannot access it and those who seek the latter and are led to believe that it is not in the archive.
- rgds Mal Park
ID:401
Priority: 5 Reported Jan 20 2009 Reported by:MM Park
Hi, the "embed this" function is no longer working for my audio files. From the forum I gather that it isn't working for many people. The message reads: "Please first start playing the media so that we can get the HTML for you to use.
Then click embed this again." But after following instructions, it still doesn't work. My browser is java and javascript enabled, so no problem there. please fix ASAP!! Thanks!
ID:406
Priority: 5 Reported Feb 28 2009 Reported by:quiet.fyre
This Yours Truly Johnny Dollar link does not bring up an audio file. http://ia331320.us.archive.org/2/items/OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles/601030_712_The_What_Goes_Matter.mp3
New Statistical Account of Scotland. When searching for this book there is no indication in the title as to what volume it is. There are in fact 15 volumes and I ended up downloading them all only to find duplications and that the 01, 02 at the end of the filename did not in fact mean volume 1, volume 2, etc. So it would be a big help if the volume could be identified. Also you do not have volume 7 but I later found that on Google but there was no text version to download where there was a text file for all other volumes.
The speed is very slow (about 20 KB/s). Download stops often, not possible resume. For example, I tried 15 or 20 times the first (birdsofwaterwood00guth), without success so far.
For other books (the same files, orig_jp2.tar), I have no problem. The speed is high (about 300 KB/s) :
I noted that all downloads were slow have an http begin with http://ia.3015xx (like 301528, 301503, 301504, 301515, 301513...) The high speed with http : 331426, 310813, 360935...
Do you an idea ?
Many thank for your help.
V.
ID:413
Priority: 5 Reported May 15 2009 Reported by:Valerie75
There is lots of spam in the "open books," for example:
Suggest there should human review of new entries ... these do not require a lot of effort to spot.
ID:415
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 02 2009 Reported by:Karl Petersen
Password encryption is required for the files in this folder called "Casey Crime Photographer OTRR Cert V1 CD 1" at this page: http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Casey_Crime_Photographer It's the first of the four zipped files with the certification information. Pretty useless to users if you don't provide the passwords to open some of the files there. Thanks.
ID:416
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 04 2009 Reported by:barnkeeper
how do I change a test upload into a permanent one
ensuring that the link stays the same.
or is the test version really just a temporary upload in disguise as opposed to the permanent one.
thanks for brilliant resource. noemi
ID:418
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 08 2009 Reported by:Noemi&
The band Everything does not appear on the drop-down menu on the Item Details page (despite being allowed on the LMA).
ID:419
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 08 2009 Reported by:Fatah Ruark
http://www.archive.org/details/portraitbiographi00chic
The above book is for Kansas, not Northampton County, Pennsylvania
ID:421
Priority: 5 Reported Jun 21 2009 Reported by:MarthaAG
The book title "Herself Mrs Patrick Crowley A Romantical Tale" listed under a query for the Author Edgar J. Goodspeed is incorrect as it is truly "The Apochrypha: An American Translation".
Here is the link to the text details page: http://www.archive.org/details/herselfmrspatric012736mbp
Here is the query for Edgar J. Goodspeed as author:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Edgar%20J.%20Goodspeed%22
I have thoroughly been blessed by finding the Internet Archive. Congratulations on the addition of the Yiddish literature...over 10,000 texts -- Wow!!
