We want users to be able to find their purchases and listen to them
easily via a "collection" pa...

Add track number to ID3 metadata

I've reused the formatted track position that was already being used for
the filename prefix in ...

At the moment the zip files containing all the transcoded tracks for an
album are created in `Al...

This sequence pre-dates the use of `acts_as_list` on `Track` and is no
longer necessary. Further...

We need to run a round of payouts again, I'm hoping this
quick-and-dirty exporter will make the ...

We're now using environment variables to set access tokens and other
configuration for stripe, r...

We eventually want to open up this repository. Despite the encryption
I'm a little nervous inclu...

We want to start using this file to store credentials in local
development environments in prefe...

We've had a report (#120) of errors uploading tracks which look like
they're being thrown from t...

Before this commit users who were signed in could not view published
albums belonging to other u...

A while ago we were seeing `ActiveJob::DeserializationError` exceptions
like this one [1]. We tr...

Previously the notice message was only being displayed on some pages.
This moves it into the app...

When I added the alert markup to the application layout in this earlier
commit [1], I hadn't not...

Display filename of existing profile picture in artist form

Unlike in this commit [1], I've used the built-in
`ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder#label` metho...

Redirect back to previous page (or fallback to home page) and display an
alert message.

I'm sur...

Prevent users accessing unpublished album pages

To reduce the number of actions in array.

Closes #111.

The `HealthchecksController` inherits from `Rails::HealthController` [1]
in order to add a check...

Require album to have cover

c.f. what we're doing for the track original files in the same form.

We might want to try to ex...

Although we were already displaying the validation errors at the top of
the page, I thought it w...

This record and the pm-bounces.jam.coop CNAME record (which already exists for sending emails us...

Add DNS records for jam.coop relating to CDN set up using AWS CDK.

The cdn.jam.coop & cdn-dev...

Closes: #85

To make a payment to an artist using Wise we need to know the "full
name of the account holder"....

Last month we ran the payouts to artists using wise. Wise supports a
number of different countri...

If the artist has already provided their payout details they can
edit/verify them.

I've added a PurchaseMailerPreview to help get the markup right.

- clarify that the fee we take includes processing fees
- set a minimum fee (20p) to cover Strip...

When running the payouts to artists at the end of the month we need[1] to
know the amount of tax...

These records are required by the SendBoard power-up on the Mission Patch Trello board to suppor...

These changes were generated by setting up email forwarding using DNSimple.

I believe the MX ...

This avoids slow responses from the web app and the user seeing an error
page if something goes ...

The default for the `retry` option is `true` which corresponds to 25
retries.

Now we've got the...

We'll need something better here soon, but for now this is more
accurate as we used Wise last mo...

This means that when an admin user is signed in, they can view the
Sidekiq dashboard at `/sideki...

We've seen an exception [1] where someone uploaded a PDF as the album
cover. This adds validatio...

We were seeing text including long words overflowing a grid cell [1].

This Tailwind CSS class [...

Sometimes Firefox asks me whether I want to translate a page. I suspect
this happens, because so...

I accidentally forgot to add this to the previous commit. 😞

I can't see why we'd want to report any of the exceptions which
ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions r...

I sent a test copy to myself and spotted a few fixes (subject line,
punctuation and some incorre...

I've updated the previous newsletter text. We should be able to send
this with:

Interest.wh...

We've seen a couple of exceptions[1] on this view where the `file` for
`track.preview` is `nil`....

In 8c5de8293 we decided to discard jobs if this exception occurs
because we thought they were on...

Render allows worker machines to have additional disks mounted to
them. We saw an issue in produ...

Render allows worker machines to have additional disks mounted to
them. We saw an issue in produ...

If a track has been deleted before this job is run, ActiveJob will
raise ActiveJob::Deserializat...

As per these docs [1].

[1]: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v7.1.1/active_storage_overview.html#...

I noticed that the JS audio player was no longer advancing
automatically after the end of the pl...

Add Rollbar integration for server-side exceptions

Add CDN

The new code in `config/routes.rb` is very closely based on the example
code in the "5.2.1 Putti...

This means that the Rails app generates permanent URLs for stored files
rather than signed singl...

This means that all files stored using ActiveStorage will be served via
the Rails app, rather th...

I ran the following command in a `<project-root>/music-coop` directory:

cdk init app --lang...

These are in a new "Music Co-op" AWS account which is in the same
Go Free Range organisation as ...

I may have set more of the `blockPublicPolicy` sub-options to `false`
than I needed to.

The permissions are based on this documentation [1] for public access:

> The core features of A...

The idea is that this will sit in front of the Rails app for images and
music that are stored in...

This uses DNS validation and so when deploying one of the MusicCoop
stacks, in order to see the ...

We want a page to group various actions that a user might want to
take on their own account (cha...

Add maintenance mode using rack-maintenance

The `rack-maintenance` [1] middleware is configured to display a basic
maintenance page if the `...

Fix TypeError on "click->player#play" action

I was seeing the following JS exception in my browser in development:

Error invoking action...

Given we use tailwind I think it's easier to maintain this page (and
similar) if we author it in...

- Replace Ampled with jam.coop in Terms
- Clarify that jam.coop is provided by Go Free Range and...

I'm basing these terms of use on Ampled's[1], a somewhat similar
co-operative music platform. I'...

When a buyer decides to pay more than the recommended price for an
album we want Stripe to know ...

Before this commit we were not showing albums that were in the pending
state to admins or artist...

I forgot to add the verified status to the null user.

We need to make sure we can contact users who have artists (e.g. to
run payouts) so we ensure th...