myfavoritethings

One Time Downloader for small record labels

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Provides small record labels with the ability to add a download voucher to their vinyl record releases. This download voucher contains an URL + a One time code to download the whole record as ZIP file containing MP3 files.

The label owner can create new download projects and manage existing downloads by the help of a web interface. Creating a new download project as well as producing the vouchers is just a matter of a few clicks.

Further media:

• example PDF with download codes generated by myfavoritethings
• watch the 18 Minutes Video Presentation and Software Demo here

Update September 2020

New version 0.6.0. This version does not include feature changes. Instead it brings its own Perl environment so that myfavoritethings does not require a special Perl version installed (self-contained). This works around issues with former standard modules being deprecated and removed from the Perl core modules.

Release Page

https://github.com/samba2/myfavoritethings/releases/tag/release-0.6.0

Update

To update your current installation:

• ! backup your MyFavouriteThings folder in cgi-bin to an other location. Really, this is important as I don't guarantee a successful update !

• download the release-0.6.0.zip file and extract it

• replace all folders in your web servers cgi-bin/MyFavouriteThings/ directory with the folders extracted from the zip file:

  • cgi
  • html
  • lib
  • myfavCss

• also there is the new perl5 folder. Copy it next to the other directories.

After the update your new folder structure should now look something like this:

• cgi (updated)
• html (updated)
• lib (updated)
• myfavCss (updated)
• test (untouched)
• data (untouched!)
• perl5 (new)

! Now give executable permissions to the files in cgi and also to the Perl interpreter itself located at perl5/bin/perl.

Note: For those who have customized the CSS and HTML over the years: The only changes for this update where done in the lib, cgi and perl5 directories. You should also be fine to update only these and keep your custom content in html and/ or css.

Update May 2015

Moved to github.com since Google Code is closing down.

Update August 2014

New version 0.5d which also supports Perl 5.18