Where is the existing band database?
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Topic: Where is the existing band database?
Posted By: TiddK
Subject: Where is the existing band database?
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 09:34
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I've read the guidelines for suggesting new bands for the database, but I can't find where the database is! I've hit the home button and read down the full list of forums, and this seems to be the only forum that deals with the issue. Shouldn't there be a 'sticky' at the top with the database in it? I'm probably being n00b st00pid here as no-one else has asked this, but perhaps you can help this particular bear of small brain?
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 10:03
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You're just overthinking it, the whole website is built on top of a database. There is technical difference but to everyone around these parts 'adding a new band to the site' and 'adding a band to the database' is the same thing. If you wanna suggest a band just make a detailed thread about them in this subforum and collaborators will check them out.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 10:49
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This reminds me a bit of scenes from The IT Crowd about the internet. Yes, the database is just a collection of electronic data that is organised and can be accessed, uploaded and updated in various ways. Only people with 5 stars here (Special Collaborators...) can can add bands to the database, but any registered user can suggest bands in the Suggest New Bands and Artists forum. We have teams to evaluate the suggestions. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 10:56
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There is no way to view the entire database that I know of, but any practical problem that this poses is solved simply by using the search function. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 11:05
| Shhh! The first rule of database is don't talk about database |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 12:05
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Just go to the main page http://www.progarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - www.progarchives.com (not the forums) you'll see an alphabet listed near the top next to the word Artists:. Click on any letter and you'll see all the bands in the database that start with that letter. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 14 2018 at 14:49
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Looks like I rather badly misunderstood the opening post, been one of those days. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: TiddK
Date Posted: August 15 2018 at 09:33
OMG. I didn't even know that page existed!! It looks completely different to the forums. How can I get there again without saving that link? For me, the only 'Home' button is the 'Forum Home' button which is the root directory top left of my screen. Until now, I'd thought that Prog Archives was the forums and nothing else!
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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: August 15 2018 at 10:28
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Tiddk - if you click or tap on the ProgArchives logo at the top of the forum page it takes you straight to the main ProgArchives database. Don't worry I couldn't figure out how you get there from the forum when I first started either, so you're not alone and it's not obvious to a newbie. ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: August 15 2018 at 15:02
 ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: TiddK
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 03:19
Thanks - yes that works for me. New question - when I click the logo and go to the main Home page, it's asking me to login. Yet I'm already logged in! which I can see if I 'go back' to the forum pages. What's going on there?
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 16 2018 at 06:14
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^That part really is unintuitive. Basically, the site where you browse bands and this forum are things that you need to log in separately, and being logged into one doesn't affect the other. So just use the same username and password to log into the site as well, you only need to do that if you want to review and add albums, you don't need to be logged in to browse everything.
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