Additional stats in Collections

Ever wondered which styles and countries are more prevalent in your album collection? Well, if you have enough albums in your MS collection, this might make some interesting stats. Like, "holy shit, third of my albums are from Finland!"

Anyway, here's an example, based on Marcel's extensive arsenal. Enjoy the pretty pie charts!
http://www.metalstorm.ee/users/collection.php?user_id=207

Cooool!

Amazing! I love the new graphs and colours!!!

P.S.: Can you give us the code too, so we can post the stats for example in our myspace page?

Thats strange, I was looking for something like this on the internet just last night. Cool. I guess I'm an American Heavy Metal/Hard-Rock type guy. Big surprise. Cool addition.

Very nice addition. Really impressive
Sort music tastes by genre and also by country is really interesting, another great source of info here.

Those graphs are awesome! But, I'm wondering...is there a way to view all of your albums that are from Sweden, USA, etc.?

Written by Ivan on 25.01.2008 at 22:56

I'm wondering where the stats are taken from? I'm quite sure I don't yet own any black metal or anything from Denmark, so I counted the number for the wishlist too but it still doesn't add up. Even if I discount the stuff not featured on the site... at least I think...

Looks fantastic of course, awesome job

Written by Dangerboner on 26.01.2008 at 01:30

Those graphs are awesome! But, I'm wondering...is there a way to view all of your albums that are from Sweden, USA, etc.?

Yes, it's possible now!

Written by Syk on 26.01.2008 at 02:10

Written by Ivan on 25.01.2008 at 22:56

I'm wondering where the stats are taken from? I'm quite sure I don't yet own any black metal or anything from Denmark, so I counted the number for the wishlist too but it still doesn't add up. Even if I discount the stuff not featured on the site... at least I think...

Looks fantastic of course, awesome job

Panzerchrist and Artillery in your wishlist are from Denmark. I don't know where Black metal came from though... gotta do some more tweaking.

Written by Syk on 26.01.2008 at 02:10

Written by Ivan on 25.01.2008 at 22:56

I'm wondering where the stats are taken from? I'm quite sure I don't yet own any black metal or anything from Denmark, so I counted the number for the wishlist too but it still doesn't add up. Even if I discount the stuff not featured on the site... at least I think...

Looks fantastic of course, awesome job

Ivan explained the Denmark stuff in your wishlist and I found Obstest in your wishlist too so that explains a bit of the lack metal.

So the count is +1 for each album in the collection and each album on the wishlist, only for material featured on the site; if something is listed with two or more genre labels both/all of them will appear, and I just counted wrong the first time? Is that right? (thanks for replies)

edit - nothing seems to show up if I click to show Black metal, within both my collection and my wishlist sections

edit 2 - collection seems to be correct, just the wishlist genre-dividing doesn't work

edit 3 - country-dividing appears to work right in both

edit 4 - other people's collections function the same way as my own

When in the stats, and click on a country, some albums are appearing as double... wonder what's causing it...
For example in my collection, click on Germany and the first band appears with double album

Written by Syk on 26.01.2008 at 16:08

So the count is +1 for each album in the collection and each album on the wishlist, only for material featured on the site; if something is listed with two or more genre labels both/all of them will appear, and I just counted wrong the first time? Is that right? (thanks for replies)

edit - nothing seems to show up if I click to show Black metal, within both my collection and my wishlist sections

edit 2 - collection seems to be correct, just the wishlist genre-dividing doesn't work

edit 3 - country-dividing appears to work right in both

edit 4 - other people's collections function the same way as my own

OK, I think I more or less fixed all current issues. Black metal is Obtest and Immortal in your Wishlist. Links in the charts take you to the albums depending on where you are - in Collection or Wishlist. So to see your Black metal albums you need to first open Wishlist, and only then click on 'Black metal'.

Good Idea I like it, its interesting see genres and also country but it dont prove anything because i love more doom how blackk and it shood be
doom
heavy
others

and also 20/30 albums shood be in wishlist not collection,

Great idea Ivan
Those charts can give me a better explanation of what i'm listen

Cool it looks awesome and cute, generating that kind of graphics was extremely hard and a pain in the ass for me in my job!!!
So i must say

great

Written by Ivan on 26.01.2008 at 13:02

Written by Dangerboner on 26.01.2008 at 01:30

Those graphs are awesome! But, I'm wondering...is there a way to view all of your albums that are from Sweden, USA, etc.?

Yes, it's possible now!

Oh, nice Now, how about making it possible for user's to manually add countries to albums not in the database?

Written by Dangerboner on 27.01.2008 at 04:21

Written by Ivan on 26.01.2008 at 13:02

Written by Dangerboner on 26.01.2008 at 01:30

Those graphs are awesome! But, I'm wondering...is there a way to view all of your albums that are from Sweden, USA, etc.?

Yes, it's possible now!

Oh, nice Now, how about making it possible for user's to manually add countries to albums not in the database?

And styles?

Just to fix one thing. This new idea is Baz's baby. So good idea Baz

Someone might have already said something about it, but, Holy shit! There are bars and graphs!

interesting new feature, i like it and i agree with posters few up from here, i reckopn u should be able to manullay add countries, AND styles to albums that aren't in database

haha yes! thank you Jeff
yep, this is my baby - my idea but Ivan did all the programming and everything so he is the mother and I am the father.. sort of.. umm.. yes. hahahaha

Whoa kickass feature. It's always good to know that kinda stuff.
And it counts wishlist too. Great.

Ivan, perhaps it would be a good idea to place a copy of a users "Top Styles" graph in their profile under "stats", so that way when one of us looks at another one's profile we can view what their personal tastes of metal are.

It would be cool when clicking in the country or the genre, to be able to see the tradelist items too, like when there's nothing in the collection and you have the link to switch to tradelist

Written by Baz Anderson on 28.01.2008 at 16:36

haha yes! thank you Jeff
yep, this is my baby - my idea but Ivan did all the programming and everything so he is the mother and I am the father.. sort of.. umm.. yes. hahahaha

I'm not so sure we all wanted to know everything about your private (intimate?) life life ah ah !

So thanks to both of you, this new feature is great !

wow, i like it

About what I said regarding being able to manually add the country for albums not in the database, do you think it would be a better idea to have a drop down box next to one of the fields when adding the album? This will prevent spelling mistakes I guess...

Written by Dangerboner on 02.02.2008 at 02:27

About what I said regarding being able to manually add the country for albums not in the database, do you think it would be a better idea to have a drop down box next to one of the fields when adding the album? This will prevent spelling mistakes I guess...

I'll agree, I think it would be very awesome if there was a way to get the non featured albums incorporated into the graphs rather than just thrown into 'other'. For social sakes (perhaps I would like to have some straight up rock n roll discussions (discussions that cant be made into a thread or are a topic that wouldnt have the popularity to have a purpose as a thread) with some other ms'rs.