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November 24, 2005
Media Manager
I'm in the process of updating my booklist software from BookQueue to Media Manager. Actually, Media Manager is an update to BookQueueToo, which I could never get to work because my ISP lacked one of the needed modules.
Media Manager is nice, but it's taken some effort to get it to work and when I find some more tinkering time, it'll take a while to get the templates to what I would like to have displayed. The biggest change is that MM ties the review post with the media entry, which allows you to have a scoring system and makes it a lot more easier to add the amazon image to your posts.
I did go through some pitfalls, which is to be expected with a Release Candidate. The documentation is a bit lacking. There's a few things you need to do, that were in the comments and blog, but not in the txt file:
- Make sure that you are using the mt-config.cgi file
- Add AltTemplatePath ./alttmpl to the config file
- make sure that mt-static is specified in the config file
- IE isn't displaying the layout and img options, but Opera does
- dumb mistake on my part, but upload img using binary
- Deleting a review causes a rebuild error
- Not all of my BookQueue entries imported
- Media Manager enters default Amazon Associate ID to each blog - global setting will not override so this needs to be deleated or changed in each individual blog that uses MTAmazon32
- No mention of Media Manager Modules that are added to templates - they look useful though.
Currently there's no way to tie in past reviews, but I'll force that through the DB when I start using the reviews. Unfortunately, until I can alter the templates, I won't use that feature.
Posted by Jesse at November 24, 2005 6:28 PM
Comments
I am pretty sure you can link existing items to reviews you may have written previously in your blog by simply going to the "Expanded" view of your queue, clicking on the "Edit" link, and entering in the id of the entry in the "Entry Id:" field.
As for the difficulty you are experiencing, my sincerest apologies. I am crazy-busy with the holidays and will soon refocus my efforts on Media Manager. I will do my best to make sure all of the issues you raised above are addressed.
Byrne
Posted by: Byrne Reese at November 30, 2005 8:09 PM