Date: 2008-06-25, Submitted By: Doff Topic: Radio server crash.

While running a scheduled restart of the broadcasting server, it crashed while shutting down.
This is a remote server, so we are currently working on contacting the people who can manually restart it.
We strongly apologize about this, and hope it will be online again ASAP!
Note, do not rate the "currently playing song", this will be concidered cheating the ratings as stated in the faq, and a warning will be given.
Thank you for staying with us!

*edit: Everything is now back to normal.

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Date: 2008-06-19, Submitted By: Doff Topic: [Updated!] Password reset/Update your email!

Hello!

Today, 19th of June 2008, a 'little' problem occurred. This problem led to corruption of almost every user's password, if you can't login, this is most likely the cause.
Unfortunately, we cannot rollback this action; therefore, we've chosen to randomize all the effected passwords immediately. You should have recieved an email with your new password. Have you not recived such a mail to the adress you registered with on this site, please send a mail to Yhn(at)AnimeNfo(dot)com

Now, people tend to change their mail more often than they should. If you go to your profile page, you are now able to update your email adress, please do so.

Edit/Update by Yhn:
If you send me a mail, please do include at least your username.
Some mails got erased too, so I can't find everyone by their emails.
Now, if you have a different mail then before, please also include the old email (security check), or any other info you know about your account that can help me verify you.

Thanks in Advance,
Yhn

Another update (20-06-08):
it seems that around 40~50% of the mails got through the SMTP; which was throwing up on all the yahoo.com addresses... Since we can't resend the mails; we'd like you to try using the forgot pass first, before mailing me :P

If the forgot pass says it can't find you account, mail me with all details you can remember about your account.

Also some cases have been seen where the mail was received, but the random password didn't seem to work, in those cases, also mail me.

Mailing me can - thanks to supers - now be done to Yhn(at)AnimeNfo(dot)com

- Yhn

Small edit (23-06): Spam bots were finding my email, probably here; so I changed it a little; replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . :)

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Date: 2008-06-06, Submitted By: Doff Topic: June News!

And so I see it's time for another news update.

First, to all AnimeNfo Radio listeners who still have not registered, please do so, it only takes a minute! You don't know what you're missing!

Sheesh, the month sure flew by fast. I'll start with some general news.

The past month has actually been the most problematic in a long time for AnimeNfo Radio. This was only because of, I quote:

"Houston Datacenter 1 is currently experiencing a critical electrical outage. Resolving this is issue is of utmost priority. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please standby for further updates. Thank you."

This outage caused a fire which led to the downtime we've had on some of our servers. The problem should now be resolved, so hopefully we won't be having anymore annoying drop-outs.

In other news, I heard that Anime North was a huge success from some of our staff members that were there. I hope that was the case for the rest of you as well. We will hopefully make a bigger deal out of it next time.

There has been some back and forth about the 320kbps server for SVIP+. It has now been decided that it's going to stay for good. So for those of you who are able to, enjoy the superb quality, you sure deserve it.

I also want to remind people about a few things. AnimeNfo does NOT support linking or distribution of any kind of copyrighted material. I have been getting reports that users have been posting links to songs in our forums. I'm sure it was all honest "didn't know" cases, still, read the FAQ and learn what you can and can not do.

For those of you that use IRC, please visit our channel. We have an awesome bot there which enables you to do the exact same thing as you can do when on the site: rate, request etc etc. Give it a shot, the more the merrier!

Donators, thank you so much! Running a radio like this would be completely impossible without your help, much appreciated!

Stay tuned~

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Date: 2008-05-16, Submitted By: Doff Topic: Anime North!

If anyone’s planning on attending Anime North in Toronto, Canada on the 23rd to the 25th, be sure to look for Katybear and Freewind. They’ll be there all weekend handing out AnimeNfo Radio buttons and if you’re lucky, you may get a t-shirt! So don’t be afraid to say ‘Hi’ if you see someone walking around in an Nfo shirt ;)
We are also donating some prizes to their “Name That Tune” contest, so come and test your anime music knowledge and win some AnimeNfo stuff as well as VIP/SVIP status

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Date: 2008-05-07, Submitted By: Doff Topic: May News!

Hey all cute and cool listeners!
Instead of having random news updates about new happenings, we will now be doing one monthly news post.
In other words, the news from April is posted now in early May, the news for May will be posted in early June, and so on.

Now, for the latest news:
Things have been going great with the radio lately, we are nearing listener records every weekend, and things are generally going smooth. The current peak is almost 500, which means 500~ unique listeners tuned in at the same time!

FAQ: A few new rules and additions so please read it and find out what's new.

Site features: AnimeNfo Radio has affiliated with JaME, which is a nice site posting news about everything relating to Japanese music. They also have biographies about artists, concert schedules and a lot more, so check them out! Don't miss the JaME news box to the right, I like it a lot.

Now, a bit of sad news for the SVIPs: The TV is working ok and all, but after testing it for awhile, I have come to the conclusion that it will be simply impossible to cover the cost of something requiring that much bandwidth. Therefore, the TV will be taken down until further notice. In return though, if there is interest from the SVIPs, I can setup the 320k MP3 server again. However, this time, if you want to have access to it and you know you are going to use it, you need to send me a mail stating your username.

ULTIMATE VIP: We have added a new level of VIP status for our most dedicated listeners. It is intended to be very difficult to reach this level, and only the absolute most active listeners will receive it. Hopefully this VIP level will provide some motivation for those of you who were already SVIPs and had nothing more to aim for. Of course, this applies to all other users too.

There are currently no new privileges for this level, but when the new site we are working on comes online, we will have some nice things for you. Thanks for being patient until then.

I am NO longer taking mails about Favourite songs, instead, please post your request in the chatterbox when you see any staff online, may it be me or any of the Mods, and we will add it right away.

We have added a new block to the schedule called N/R 7+ which I'm sure some of you have noticed. It is only possible to request songs with a rating of 7 or above during this block.

I believe that should be it for now, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to post in the forums, chatterbox, or send me an email.

Stay Tuned!

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Date: 2008-04-07, Submitted By: Doff Topic: Fav Song NR1 Block, need more!

I just updated the Fav block list for week 15 & 16. But i still dont have enough songs to play the block for those respective weeks. So please if you still havent sent me a mail about what your NR1 fav song is, please do so asap! Read about how to send the mail a little bit down on this page. More info: http://animenfo.com/radio/favsongblock.php

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Date: 2008-03-27, Submitted By: Doff Topic: Updates!

Hi again!
Another 128k server has been added, i'm sure some of you experieced the old one being full from time to time?
I'm getting a lot of questions asking if they're too late sending an mail about the fav block, absolutely not! If you still haven't sent me a mail, please do so ASAP! I will post it here if i stop taking submissions, so keep them coming.
Now, i'm sure a lot of you have noticed that if you click the album pics, you get redirected to cdJapan. If you are considering to buy CD's or whatever, please do it at cdJapan after clicking the links. AnimeNfo Radio will that way get a few % of what you pay for the goods.
The 320k server for SVIP's were taken down because of lack of interest. We will try putting it up again in a few months to see if the situation has changed then.
About the ongoing poll; I am playing with the thought of putting up an AnimeNfo Radio TV channel streaming Japanese music videos. I have started testing it, and i must say i like what i see. This channel will most likely be up for SVIP's in not too long for a testing period. If all goes well (there are a lot of things to take into consideration) it will be online for everyone. So please vote to give us your opinion about it.
I guess that was about it for now, Cheers!

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Date: 2008-03-24, Submitted By: Doff Topic: New theme!

r0d3n7z made us a new theme, inspired by Pani Poni Dash!, please check it out if you're interested.

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Date: 2008-03-18, Submitted By: Doff Topic: Update

Hi!
Been a real good radio "week" i'd say. The listener number is steadily increasing, and things are going generally smooth! I just updated the fav song list for week 13-14, so we are covered for three weeks, but still, for those of you who haven't sent me a mail about your NR1 fav song, please do so. (read news post below)
The Fav block has been added on Saturdays as well, so that both EU and US listeners will be able to listen to it. We also modified the schedule on Wednesdays, added a few N/R blocks, please check the schedule for details.
Last, want to extend my thanks to those of you who donate, much appreciated!

Stay Tuned!

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Date: 2008-03-13, Submitted By: Doff Topic: New feature for SVIP's!

A new feature has been added for all SVIP's, please check "listen" page for more info.

Keep up the good work everyone! This is starting to become real nice.

Ps. I need you people to send me more mails regarding the FAV block

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