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06-28-08: Sorry about the extended downtime. Migrated to new hardware last night, and simply got too tired to restart everything properly. Stuff should be working now. Also, my apologies about the dearth of updates/adding new episodes/etc. It simply hasn't been a current priority. Some folks have e-mailed me with the idea to donate to the cause via paypal, and I'm thinking that may help guilt me into actually doing some stuff once in a while :) I guess I'll think about it, as if there was a regular income source I could also increase the max user count some as well - right now it's capping out during the day most days of the week. Otherwise, this service isn't going anywhere anytime soon - enjoy!
05-07-07: Stream went down due to yet another ices segfault. I've gotten literally thousands of e-mails since the Loveline Archive has went off the air. Unfortunately, I simply have absolutely no prayer to even begin to respond to them all. As such I am still looking for an archive maintainer or three. Duties would simply be to respond to e-mails to grab shows others have to contribute, organize the shows properly, and do basic shoutcast admin tasks.
If you posess basic unix administration skills and want to help out, please send an e-mail with the subject "loveline helper" and I'll give those priority reading. I don't think I will be able to open up the archives to everyone, as the bandwidth usage would be too much to support. As-is the shoutcast server capped at 200 users hits about 11Mbit/sec. This is currently comped, however any more usage would be excessive. This brings up another rquest.
For those of you that have a dedicated server, co-lo'ed box, work at an ISP, whatever - if you want to re-broadcast the stream please let me know. You must have a solid connection to the interent as a whole, and be able to serve at least 25 listeners. This would increase the effective listener cap that many of you have written in to complain about. Sorry - as is, there is nothing I can do!
So, that's about it. If this project is to grow and become more of a resource it needs volunteers to help out who possess the skills and connections neccessary to make it happen. I'm very pleased so many people enjoy the service, and plan to continue providing it as long as I possibly can. Additionally, I will NOT be adding non-adam era shows to the archive. The listeners have spoken!
03-11-07: Yep, another outage. Sorry folks! Still are some mp3's in the playlist which cause ices to crash. I'm simply too lazy to actually either investigate a better decoder, or setup any auto-restart script should it die. Can't believe it's been about a year from when I first put the stream up! I simply wish I had more time to devote to the project..
10-11-06: I've been receiving quite a few e-mails over the past 2 months or so that I simply have not had time to properly respond to. Some of them definitely have quite a bit to offer the community as a whole. As such, I'm looking for someone who would like to maintain the archive, site, and stream. This would entail some basic Unix administration knowledge enough so you can work with files on the filesystem, starting processes, adding users, etc. Basically you would be handling the upkeep and organization of the archive, ensuring anyone who wants to contribute to the collection gains prompt access. Also, getting the archive organized would be extremely helpful as well, so folks know what we do and do not have already in the collection. Send me an e-mail if interested, I will respond to those. :)
08-31-06: Stream was down due to maintenance today. Took the machine down to add some RAM and perform some other upgrades. End result should be a more stable stream for everyone. Thanks all for your comments, they are appreciated!
06-07-06: Re-restarted the encoder (again) during mid-episode. 113 new shows added, all thanks to users like you who uploaded a couple here and there (and some, more than a couple - thanks!). Hopefully as time goes on eventually the gaps will be filled in. If you e-mailed me, sorry if you did not recieve a timely response lately - been pretty busy and simply kept putting it off. If you have not recieved a response as of now, please hit me up again as I likely completely misplaced it.
On another note - what are your folks feelings on adding non-Adam-era shows to the lineup? Anyways, happy 4th everyone and have fun listening.
05-10-06: Re-started the encoder, sorry for the mid-episode restart. Restarted to add some new user-uploaded shows, 4 total shows added. MUCH thanks to all those who have contributed - let me know if you want your names up here, and I'll gladly give you credit. Also, if you have shows to add to the playlist, please let me know! Remember, anyone who contributes even one show gains access to the entire archive for their own use
04-19-06: Sorry if you got disconnected, server restarted to increase max users from 100 to 200. The popularity is a bit nuts, looks like I'll have to toss some more RAM in the serving machine.
04-18-06: New Connected user count graphs have been added, somewhat interesting.
Basic stats can be found Here or you can view the Connected user count graphs
Current playlist can be found Here. Currently randomly playing 35GB of content. Gain high-speed access to ALL of this for providing one show I currently do not have.
Contact phil21@phil21.net to trade shows and/or access the archive.
Enjoy!