Major new feature - Media Gallery!

Photos • Videos • Audio • Documents

Is Now Open!

After weeks of testing, the new Media Gallery is ready to go live. The Media Gallery is a major new feature that will allow all members to create their own albums where they can upload and share photos, documents, embedded audio and video links - and more!

Media Gallery Features:

• Create albums and sub-albums with unlimited levels
• Decide who can upload to them (per user or per membergroup), choose who can view your items, or browse your albums. Allow or ban specific users.
• Supports Images, Audio and Video files, and embedding videos from Youtube, Dailymotion etc.
• Track which items you haven't viewed yet - displays the number of new items in the menu bar
• Search, preview, rate, comment and embed items!
• Approval/Unapproval system for comments, items and user albums.
• Powerful permission and security features, including password protection.
• Supports Exif data for photos.
• Highslide lightbox animations when opening items.
• Mass Upload, Profile areas, video thumbnails...
• Embed tag, allows you to post items into your messages.
• Per-album permissions - let's you control who can view your albums.
• Per-album or gallery-wide custom fields.
• Can upload any filetype, including documents and custom extensions.
• Mass downloads (zip file with selected files from any album)
• User Playlists: Give membergroups the permission to create user playlists.
• Create playlists by simply visiting any item page and clicking the Playlists drop menu and then select "Add to Playlist".
• Organize your favorites easily and browse them like an album!
• JavaScript + Flash Playlists: Show nice little Flash-powered playlists in these topics, or pretty much anywhere else, based on user playlists or anything you want (one or more items, one or more albums...)
• Linked topics: Create (or not) a linked notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.
• You can use this to close per-item comments and have everyone comment on albums instead, or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.
• Post button: Add a button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible.
• Embedding of remotely hosted pictures: Picasa, Photobucket, Imageshack, anything you can think of.
• Thumbnails and previews will be created as needed, but the main files themselves will always stay hosted remotely.
• RSS feeds: All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:

         •  Latest items - user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.
         •  Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.

• And much, much more... Why spoil the fun?

Improved Auto-Embedder features
You can now automatically embed video and audio clips by posting the clip's URL into your forum posts from over 200 sites (hundreds if you count the supported networks), including YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video, Google Maps, MetaCafe, MySpace, Facebook, Veoh...
No need for BBCode or messy embed HTML. And if you posts the embed html code for a site, it'll be turned automatically into a nice little furry, harmless link.

Just copy the URL from your address bar into a post (like http://youtube.com/watch?v=B8XC7idFyvE), and the website will do the rest. It's the ultimate user-friendly way of posting clips. YouTube videos will automatically appear in HD and Widescreen if available and enabled.

File limitations: currently 64MB per file (contact me to add larger files), photos: 1600x1200 max; larger images will be automatically re-sized.

Allowed File types:
    Image files: bmp, png, gif, jpg, jpe, jpeg
    Audio files: mp2, mp3, mpga, ram, ra, wax, wma, m4p, m4a, a-latm, ogg, rpm, mka, wav
    Video files: 3gp, 3g2, avi, mpg, mpeg, mpe, wmv, mxu, m4u, movie, qt, mov, rm, rmvb, rv, flv, f4v, mp4, m4v, mkv
    Documents: txt, rtf, pdf, xls, doc, ppt, docx, xlsx, pptx, xml, html, htm, php, css, js, zip, rar, ace, arj, 7z, gz, tar, tgz, bz, bzip2, sit
    Multimedia archives: zipm

If you have any questions or problems using the Media Gallery, let me know.

The Vinyl Audio Team

The permission issue has been resolved. All members now have access to all of the features of the Media Gallery.

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