Archived VocaDB Partnership... and Info Cards!

Hello, people of the internet! As you might know, as a wiki, our goal is to bring as much information to you as possible - and if you are following us on Facebook, you might have already found out that we have been starting a partnership with a site which will help us a lot with that goal.

VocaDB.net is a site by riipah, and is a community site open to everybody who can contribute information. Their goal is to collect information on Vocaloid songs, their producers, artists and albums - a huge database of information which is very useful to every Vocaloid fan. If you read the post on our FB page, this partnership might not be news to you... but the author talked about us being interested in using their database, and today we'd like to show what we did.

Introducing: VocaDB Info Cards.

[vocadb]Unhappy Refrain[/vocadb]

These Info Cards are a quick way to give you the most important information on a song: It shows you who sings it, who made it, and which albums contain this song. And perhaps most importantly, the two buttons in the top right allow you to instantly listen to the song, and buy it, if you like it and want to support the creators.
This feature is still in testing, since we don't know how well the filtering for the watching and buying links works. If you find that the links point to a different song, a cover, or a site where you can't even watch/buy it, please send me a PM and I'll work on it.

We will be retroactively adding these cards to our news posts and the Wiki pages, and you can also add them to your Edit Data topics if you want. The post below contains some information on how to use the cards for yourself.
Obviously, some of our team will also be in action over at VocaDB in order to do some Project DIVA-releated things - for example setting up tags like this to quickly find collections of the game songs. Remember, if you have anything to contribute, please register at VocaDB and help out!
Last but not least, I would like to give some special thanks to riipah for being very helpful and adding some new functions to the API just for us. Thanks for the great site, and thanks for the partnership offer!

 

The VocaDB card is quite simple to use: use the [vocadb
] tag, and add your song name.

[vocadb
]Chicken Steak[/vocadb]
[vocadb]Chicken Steak[/vocadb]

[vocadb
]想イ出カケラ[/vocadb
]
[vocadb]想イ出カケラ[/vocadb]

Did you forget the entire song name? Write just a part, and VocaDB's search engine can take care of it:

[vocadb
]end dancehall[/vocadb]
[vocadb]end dancehall[/vocadb]

Does the text search fail, because there's another song with a similar name and it gets picked over the song you want? No problem, you can go to VocaDB, find the song, and use the song ID from the URL to get the info card:

[vocadb
]19496[/vocadb]
[vocadb]19496[/vocadb]

Cards are cached for a week - that means, if you change anything on VocaDB, it will take up to 7 days to reflect here. If you found an important mistake and need the card to be refreshed instantly, drop me a PM. Do the same if you run into any problems - after all, these cards are new, so if anything catches on fire, it's likely my fault, but I can also fix it.

 

I didn't really want to limit albums, so I did something else. The scroll bar is now far more subtle and fits the ínfo card. I love jQuery.

In the future, I'd like to go back to this and clean up the code a bit, add some comments and make this open source. Right now, it's a mess, though. (Just like anything I code.)

 

I've already been working on it (see link in first post) - but yes, there is some problems. For example, the project_diva tag was just a bunch of loosely releated songs for the entire series. I created a new tag (project_diva_1st) to create a list of in-game songs only there.