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Wow, it's been two years since our last release!

Jinzora 2.7.5 was released on March 4 2007 and marked a milestone for Jinzora. It was supposed to be the last 2.x release and the start of Jinzora 3 development.

With over 5,000 downloads each month, Jinzora 2.7.5 is still a very popular release for everyone who is looking for a stable, mature and free web based media manager.

Unfortunately, a few small problems arised over time. We moved to a new server which rendered the integrated Jinzora lyrics and metadata retrieval services useless. The increased interest for Jinzora from countries with other character sets asked for better Unicode support, etc.

Since the new Jinzora 3 backend still needs a lot of work, we are not able to provide a Jinzora 3 release to solve these problems soon. Fortunately, Sören stood up and decided to come up with another Jinzora 2 release to address known bugs. As a result, the Jinzora Team is very proud to announce the immediate release of Jinzora 2.8!

Some major changes in this version include:

• Integration of Fred Hirsch's Custom Metadata Retriever to replace the non functioning Jinzora Metadata Retriever. This is the first user contributed OpenDevelopment Project that made it into a stable Jinzora release.
• Integration of the LyricWiki Lyrics Retriever by Jan Kleinhans to replace the broken Jinzora Lyrics Retriever. This is another OpenDevelopment Project that was contributed by a community member.
• Enhancements that make Jinzora fully UTF8-compatible.

For a full list of changes, please read the Jinzora 2.8 Changelog.

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release in any way. Specifically Sören who coordinated development and Wim who lead the test team.

On behalf of the complete Jinzora Team,

We hope you like this new version! Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Hi everyone,

For the last week or so, several of our users were unable to post to the forums.

They received an error similar to "You cannot make another post so soon after your last" due to problems with our server clock.

We've implemented a temporarily solution that has the clock running at the right time now.

This should enable anyone to post again, while we're working on a more definite solution.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience and like to thank everyone who made us aware of the problem.

Hey guys,

I just put out the first release of the Jinzora interface for Google Android. You'll want to update your server to the latest SVN version to use it. Any feedback would be appreciated :)

Also, I added a pretty undocumented feature: A zero-configuration jukebox. To use it, you'll have to have the jukebox enabled. Then, point a web browser to:

• http://[your_site]/jinzora/jukebox

and you'll be able to control the music coming out of that page remotely. You can set an id for the jukebox by visiting:

• http://[your_site]/jinzora/jukebox/?id=[your_id]

Smack me, I'm stupid: Publishing results from November in January!

I know and I'm terribly sorry. But better late than never.

In our never ending quest in getting to know our audience, we wanted to find out what your favorite player is.

101 people answered the poll. And again, I'm pretty surprised about the results. I'd expected to see that most people would be using WMP, iTunes or the like.

But, it seems our audience consists mostly of Linux/open source-fans. From our last poll I've learned that 57% of the respondents owned their own Linux server.

This poll shows another preference for open source and Linux based players, according to the top 5:

Again, thank you very much for voting! I'll publish another poll soon. It's about the platforms we're using!

Hi all,

As you might know, we're running a series of polls to find out how you are using Jinzora and what you would like to see improved.

Our first inquiry was 'Do you run Jinzora on your own private server?' and was answered by 45 people.

We were pretty surprised to learn that only 12% uses a shared hosting server.

57% of all respondents has it's own Linux Web Server, 27% runs it's own Windows Server and nearly nobody uses a Virtual Server at this point.

Thank you everyone for participating! Next up: What's Your Favorite Player for Jinzora?

Don't you just love it when pretty girls talk tech?

Especially when Jinzora is also briefly mentioned (6:10).

Hello everyone,

It’s good to be back, though we have never really been gone…

I hope you’ve noticed our sites are renewed since just over a week now! Thanks to eZ Systems, we now have a fresh new look and feel.

Our own team hasn’t been sleeping either. We’ve updated and added a lot of content to our sites!

Sören Bernstein joined our team a couple of months ago and translated approximately 95% of Jinzora.com into German. With me translating about the same amount of content into Dutch, we can now proudly say Jinzora.com is available in English, German and Dutch!

The ‘Development’ section is pretty much the last thing we need to improve at this time, adding SVN change logs etcetera.

Obviously, there’s always more to do. We are now concentrating on Jinzorahelp.com, updating the general English content. As soon as that’s finished, it will be translated before we continue with the documentation and FAQ that desperately need updating!

If you’re seriously interested in writing documentation about Jinzora, please use the forums to send a private message to user ‘maarten’. Your help is highly appreciated!

At this time, we are also testing and improving the OpenDevelopment Contribute pages. We have started with two OpenDevelopment Projects to test the new upload and management features for Jinzorahelp.com.

If you have created a cool theme or language pack for Jinzora, please contribute it now!

Unfortunately, our new server seems to have a problem, causing short service interruptions. We are trying to solve this as we speak!

Hi all,

As you might know, you can download untested, unstable Jinzora code from our SVN Repository.

Our developers use the repository to store the code they're working on. Because this code work in progress, it might contain flaws. For instance, we've removed some directories from Jinzora 3, since we won't need them anymore.

However, we have not yet changed the Web Based Installer, to reflect those changes. This means the installer looks for directories that aren't there.

As a result, users who trie to install the Jinzora 3 SVN branche, need to create the directories manually to continue installation.

Because it can take a while before we update the Web Based Installer, we've decided to re-add the missing directories to SVN, so you won't encounter this problem anymore.

But keep in mind, the code can still contain bugs, since it's definitely not a stable release.

Happy testing!

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your continued interest in Jinzora!

In the past, I've received several e-mails from people who want to help in developing Jinzora. This is something we need to think through carefully: Because we don't know how good (or bad) a coder might be, we can't guarantee the quality of Jinzora if it would be open to all developers.

We tried to manage this by letting coders send their code to us so we could merge it into SVN after approval. But this is a very time consuming job. And since we don't have a lot of time, some good code got lost because we never had time to test and commit it.

So we are now looking into ways to make the community more self-supporting, while maintaining the high quality Jinzora stands for.

Introducing OpenDevelopment

We're starting a test by opening up SVN to other developers!

We are going to add an extra writeable branche to the Jinzora SVN Repository.

To be able to guarantee the quality of Jinzora, there will be two Jinzora 3 branches: The classic Jinzora 3 SVN branche that's writeable to the Jinzora Team and read only to everyone else and a Jinzora 3 OpenDevelopment branche that will be writeable by the community.

Users can then choose to download the 'classic' or the 'OpenDevelopment' version of Jinzora. Perhaps we'll merge the two branches periodically, after checking the committed code. We'll have to wait and see how this develops, but it could certainly lead to a new boost for Jinzora!

Besides this, we'll open a new Projects Section at Jinzorahelp.com. Each OpenDeveloper can use his own section to publish packaged releases, documentation and changelogs for his contribution. Users can use the Projects Section to download individual projects, instead of all projects as is the case with downloading from SVN.

Sign Up!

Contributions can be language packs, themes or extended Jinzora functionality like the Custom Metadata Retriever ('extensions'). If you have created something like this, visit the Contribute section of Jinzorahelp.com to upload your contribution and become a Jinzora OpenDeveloper!

For questions, suggestions and discussion please use the forum topic 'Questions about Jinzora OpenDevelopment'.