TwangCity

Dear Friends:

We've been keeping TwangCity afloat with help from a few generous friends, and out of my pocket.

And truly, our expenses are small . . .  our monthly payment to keep us compliant with copyright laws, a dedicated DSL to get the signal to our servers, power, music to grow the library, server space for this website, hardware for backups and such.

But as carefully as we manage our expenses, we're still generally in the red. Unfortunately, there's a lot of that going around . . . times are tough, donations are down, and extra spending money is kinda scarce in our neck of the woods right now.

Can you help?  If you can spare a few bucks, or a few thousand, so we can pay the bills when they come due, please click the "donate" button on this page.

Thanks for listening. And thanks in advance for your generosity. Your help and generosity makes this thing possible.

-Roger

 

 

Follow @twangcity on Twitter and we'll tweet you every few minutes and tell you what we're playing.

Seems like the roger@twangcity.com email address is funky right now. You can use roger@lark.net for the time being to reach me.

While I work on re-engineering  the request functionality for this site, how about you just send me requests by email? 

Just drop a note to roger@twangcity.com and I'll do my best to schedule your favorite tunes.

We've switched DSL providers, after some bad issues with intermittent connectivity, and so far, so good. We've had a rock solid connection for our source stream for a few days now. Keep your fingers crossed.

We've been up pretty reliably for the last few weeks.

I expect a brief outage this week as we switch DSL providers, moving from Speakeasy to Raw Bandwidth.  I'll try to give you some more detailed advance notice, although that may not happen.

No, I have not given up on TwangCity. In fact, I've been spending lots of time reorganizing the files in the library , adding album artwork, etc.

Thanks for hangining in there with us.

Our music library, and our SAM4 automation system, is housed at my home. We connect to the stream servers via a Speakeasy DSL. And we've recently seen unacceptable degradation in our previously "pretty good" DSL connectivity. This weekend, it has gotten really bad.

I think that on Monday I may take the whole library, and a server, in to work with me and originate TwangCity from the network at work. It's not an ideal solution . . . I never like having personal computers at work . . . but I gotta have a more dependable connection.

I am also considering getting rid of Speakeasy (with whom I have been pretty happy until a couple of months ago) and replacing them with ATT Uverse. Don't really want to, but I think the Uverse "fiber to the node" approach might give me better results.

I'll keep you posted, This really sucks, and Speakeasy can't explain it and won't send a tech. Sorry for the outage.

On the todo list:

1) Restore the request functionality, in a way that is more secure, and is DMCA compliant.
2) Complete the stalled process of getting our nonprofit status
3) Move this blog to a platform that gives us more flexibility. I'm thinking Ning, which I like. OTOH, I may find some other solution. I'd like to build more of a community here, and I'm not sure Movable Type is the right platform for that.

Thanks to Rick in Hawaii for the recent generous donation (and everyone else who has helped out.) You support keeps us going.

Also thanks to Tim Pozar of StreamQ for our new Shoutcast stream hosting. Tim is the guy who got me interested in this streaming stuff many years back, and if you are looking for super-reliable, non-nonsense stream hosting at a good honest price, Tim is the guy to talk to. sales@streamq.net

And a belated thanks to Jay, who sent me a whole mess of CDs last year. I am just getting around to adding "the rest of them" to the library. The delay is a long story I won't get into here. But thanks Jay!

My sincere thanks to TwangCity listeners Joe and Peter for their recent donations.

Your generosity makes it possible for TwangCity to continue streaming.