Collaborations only showing up on user who posted the song
18-Jul-2023 | 9:49 AM
Report by Dyl:
"I just added Petra as collaborator on my song : works fine for me, on the song page and my artist profile but the song is not appearing in her collabs (artist page)."
I designed it this way, but I see now that the design is bad. And furthermore, I painted myself into a corner. It will take a bit of work to have the collaboration show up for both artists. It will take a bit of time, but I will do it the right way.
I trying to remember how this worked in iCompositions. When you uploaded a song and specified a collaborator(s), and then you went to your Backstage > Music page, did the song show up in your regular "Music" list not in the Collaborations list? And if you looked down at the Collaborations list, was that a list of songs that other people uploaded and added you as a collaborator? If anyone can provide an answer, that would be cool.
I think that if i uploaded a collab, it would appear in my regular music with a little sticker "collab" attached to it, not in my collab list. But it would appear in the collab list of all the other artists involved.
It had two sections: Music (where my songs were) and Collaborations (where collabs with others were). Anything in my Music that was a collaboration was tagged that. Neither section showed other artists not he song; you had to click through to see them.
This is the Wayback Machine view of my page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170622224309/http://www.icompositions.com/artists/offbalance
You'll see a Photogenic Memory [collab] in the Music section which is one I posted after layering some lyrics on top of a song by Monkey. Then in the Collaborations section is another Photogenic Memory where Ed used mine to layer in some more guitar and effects/spoken word.
Doc... it's strange but now Petra uploaded a collab with me and it's not coming up in my collab list (it shows on the song page itself). Same goes for Ruby's "I Want Juan" with Clay Potts (it's not on Clay's artist page collab list)...It was working before (for the "Sunrise" song i uploaded)...
Thanks for the update, Dyl. I'm right in the middle of writing the reporting system (where you can report bad things). That might take me 5 more days. After that, I'll get back to these other issues.
