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'.

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 9 we'll be moving our servers to a new location. Unfortunately, this means our sites and services will be unavailable for a couple of hours.

If you experience any problems, please check back after 1 or 2 hours and everything should be fine again.

We are sorry for any inconvenience and try to move everything as fast as possible.

As you might know, we've got a Virtual Office in Second Life.

This is a great place to meet other users, hang out, enjoy the jukebox and ask questions about Jinzora.

Feel free to hop in and discuss your Jinzora ideas or just general chit chat. How very Web 3.0!

Wim spent the last weeks painting and decorating our very new HQ. It's all dusted, cleaned and polished now so you're all invited to the Grand Opening!

Use this SLURL to hop right in!

Last week German computer related magazine C'T, Magazin fur Computer Technik wrote an article on online media managers in which they explored the possibilities of Jinzora.

This will probably attract even more German visitors to our site, so I'd like to say 'Herzlich Willkommen!'.

We hope you enjoy your stay with us! Check back regularly. We have a German translation of our site planned for the last quarter of 2008.

Hey all,

I finally got my Windows Mobile phone, and have had good success getting Jinzora to play well on it.

I started work on a modified version of interface 'Slim', called 'Mobile' in the Jinzora 3 SVN branche. It looks great in Portable Internet Explorer (PIE) and includes good Stylus support. There are some issues in browser Opera right now.

To get everything playing well, I highly recommend the TCPMP player. It pulls M3U's in from PIE and plays them as well as my desktop, including support for seeking. So long iPod.

That's all for now, I have some solid features planned for Mobile, so stay tuned.

Happy New Year =)

Well, the good news for me is I just got myself a Chumby and will soon be getting a Windows Mobile-based phone. The good news for you is I just got a Chumby and will be getting a Windows Mobile-based phone!

I am a little busy through the holidays with work and grad school applications, but look for some new fun interface work soon.

For the Chumby, the first thing I plan on doing is adding an API call to pull dynamic tracks and playlists directly.

The Chumby's next software version will support web streams and hopefully M3U's from the net, and you should be able to plug Jinzora right into that. You should even be able to use Jinzora and Chumby as your alarm clock!

Keep checking in...

Wow, it seems I only have time to write for this blog when something bad happens. Remind me to post with good news more often!

Today we've had a power outage causing the Jinzora Server to power off. Our sites have been unavailable for the last couple of hours but are back online again. Thanks to Wim who spent his evening getting everything back online!

I'll ask Ross and Ben to post some good news about what they're up to with Jinzora!

Hi everyone,

Thank you very much for your patience with us!

As you might know, we've been working at our sites and servers for a very long time now. The last 2 years, we've tried and tested several options for our websites.

During this time, we've had some major setbacks, including a complete loss of our new sites, just before it was about to be released and a crashed hard drive, just last month.

But now, we finally solved 90% of the problems. We've moved to a new server for everything except the demos. Today, we've changed DNS to point to the new server, and released the new sites at the same time.

Jinzora.com and Jinzora.org both serve the primary Jinzora Website. Once we've fixed the last 10% of the technical difficulties, we'll be focusing on finishing the content of this site, since a lot of work is still to be done.

Jinzorahelp.com is the official home of the Jinzora Community. This is now your primary source of information (Wiki and upcoming documentation) and free support (Forums, Second Life, IRC etc.).

We hope to have outlined 2 sites that can now be filled with everything you'd like to know about Jinzora and can easily be expanded in the future. Feel free to browse around and let us know how you feel about it.

Thank you eZ Systems for providing the free and truly amazing CMS eZ Publish!

We should really integrate Jinzora into eZ Publish ASAP!

Besides eZ Systems, we'd also like to thank the numerous loyal fans that help out in several ways like the Forums and our Wiki, including people like Strebge and Quasimodo.

Stay tuned to this weblog for more updates!