Update: Please thank Stephen for setting up a lo-fi stream stream for us! And remember, we're still looking for more relays for our regular stream!
Many of you have probably been wondering why the lo-fi relay server we use isn't working too often. Well, that's because we use a free third-party service that worked quite nicely for us before, however, the service seems to have degraded so much that they actually have to disconnect all free streams every midnight.
So, we're looking to see if anyone would like donate some of their bandwith to providing a lo-fi stream for WZMR. This relay will be streaming at 32Kbps and will probably need to hold no more than a dozen listeners or so. Like I said, this is a lo-fi stream that is made for dial-up or any other user that has slow Internet access, so you don't have to worry about having too many users connecting to it.
So if you're interested, e-mail me at alpha_link@wzmrradio.com. And don't forget, we're always constantly looking for anyone who would like to host a standard relay for us! If you think you can help us out, send me an e-mail! It would be such a big help if we had more than one relay for our stream! Thanks for everyone's help!
You likely noticed my server was out for roughly 24 hours. As a result, I feel it's only fair to offer an explanation. Yesterday afternoon at around 1:45 PM EST, my router died. Yes, completely died. I believe the reason is that we had a power spike yesterday and apparently it was a big enough one it cause the power supply on the router to blow up.
As a result, Verizon had to ship a new one to me overnight via UPS, which they did. The router arrived at my door this afternoon while I was at the mall. Unfortunately, the router they sent was a refurbished, slightly newer revision of the router (although not the new, uber-fancy Gen 2 I was hoping they'd send) than I previously had. As a result, my configuration file from my old router was not supported by this one and as such I had to reenter every single setting into my new router. I have finished doing so and my server is now fully back up and operational.
Sorry about not posting sooner, but I had no internet access at all. Feel free to yell at me now.
This post is a little late to the punch, but there may be many of you out there that haven't heard about this yet. Trusty affiliate Zelda Universe recently came out with a full collection of Spirit Tracks music that can be yours at a very low price of free (except for the 314 MB of HDD storage). Credit goes to Keith Alagha and Jason Rappaport for cataloging all of the tracks, sprucing up the songs (fade-outs), and for the album art.
This collection is really one of a kind... no others exist out there that is as comprehensive as this one. All of the tracks are of very good quality. I highly recommend it to any Zelda music fan! A definite must have if you loved Spirit Track's music!
Now before you go and confuse this project with Team Teamwork's Ocarina of Rhyme project, sit down and have a listen to this. The songs in this project were skillfully crafted by Sleaze, who also entitled his collection "Ocarina of Rhyme." Take a listen to the intro below and visit Sleaze's blog to download the mixtape for free, which can be found on this page.
Sleaze had set his album to be released on March 17th, so Team Teamwork decided to release their album on the 16th. Team Teamwork's album brought in enormous amounts of publicity for them, but left Sleaze's behind in the dust and largely unnoticed.
Sleaze has got some very good talent.. I would much rather sit and listen to these than those of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Props to him for waiting it out.
Hey everyone! Just wanted to say a quick thank you from both Writing Wind and me to everyone that sent in their spoof ads! Out of all the submissions we received so far, we picked five of them! And here they are (in no particular order):
- Minish Cap Spoof by Brooke Hand - Cuccos News by Josh B - Tingle Spoof by Alter Stevens - Lon Lon Ranch by Brooke Hand - Windfall Island by Brooke Hand
Tune in and listen in for our ad break to get a chance to hear them. I've also extented our ad break from two to four ads to allow for a more mixed break (because I'm sure everyone gets tired after hearing the same ad twice!).
However, we are still open and accepting more submissions of spoof ads from this set we have posted! So if you still want to make us a spoof ad, go right ahead! All of the ads can be found posted here and send your submissions to Writing Wind at writingwind@hotmail.com . Keep 'em coming!
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