Creating a site with releases and artists
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Creating a site with releases and artists
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General settings
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Publishing your site online
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To get started launch Faircamp from your
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desktop environment. In the launcher you can
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click on "Create new site" and here you
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can select any empty directory or create
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a new one and this will be
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your site directory containing all the content
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for your Faircamp site.
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As soon as the editor has opened
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you can right-click on the site
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in the navigation and select "Create release
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from directory". Here you can locate an album
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folder and select that and as soon
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as it's loaded you can see that
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it has also loaded all the tracks
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for this album. Now you can preview
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the site. This will take few moments
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because it needs to transcode all of your
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audio files to suitable streaming formats or also
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resize cover images if you have any
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to make them suitable for usage on
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the site and when it's done it
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opens your final site in the browser
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and here you can see that it put the album
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right onto the homepage because there's just
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one album. If you want to add
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another album go back to the editor
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again right-click on the site,
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"Create release from directory", this time we're going
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to select a different album, click ok,
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and again you can see that it
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has loaded all the tracks for this
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album, again we can preview the site.
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This is again going to take a
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few moments. This time it will only
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transcode
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the audio for this new album.
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The other data is taken straight from the
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cache. Ok and it has opened again
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the final site and this time you can see that it
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presents two albums on the homepage versus
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before it presented the album directly
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on the homepage.
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Okay, and at this point we can
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also add artists so we can go
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to the navigation right-click on the
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site and click "Create artists". Here just
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type exactly the name that is specified
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in the tags for the album so
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it can associate that and here again
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we can create another artist.
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Then we can again preview site and
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what you will see now is that
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all the artists can now be clicked on
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the site and we can also find
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the artists in the browse and search
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navigation. If we go back to the
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previously generated site we can see here
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we cannot find the artists in the browse
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menu and
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we can also not click them where
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they are listed so you always have
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to explicitly create artists to feature them
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on your site.
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Last we're gonna look at how to
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modify the automatically generated homepage so here
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we can create a catalog and you
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can again name this anything you like
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and this will be picked up straight
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as title for the homepage. Build and preview
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the site, you can see now that it
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picked up the title
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and to change that you can always
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go back to the editor and edit
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the title in the settings for the catalog, hit
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save and then again preview the
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site
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and that concludes the first introduction video
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to Faircamp 2! Thank you for watching.
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In this video: Creating a site directory. Adding releases, artists, and a catalog page. Building and previewing the site.