Drive crash
As of saturday morning, everything should be working. If you're having problems playing or downloading something, please leave a comment here and indicate the download URL that's not working for you.
-john
Monday 3pm:
One of our main drives crashed today, so about 1/3rd of the music on Magnatune isn't available at the moment. I'm restoring from backup, and it might take a day or two to get everything back.
Monday 4pm:
I have everything except 23 albums now playing fine in the flash player. However, about 1/3rd of the catalog isn't downloadable, so please bear with me on this: that will be restored in about 10 hours.
The 23 albums (listed below) will take a bit longer and won't be playable for a day or two more:
Beyond 7: Revelations Per Minute
Eliyahu Sills: Eastern Wind
Ivan Ilic: Transcendental - Transcriptions by Brahms and Godowsky
Shawn Harris: Echoes of Autumn
Kitka: The Rusalka Cycle - Songs Between Worlds
Lara St John: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Paul Avgerinos: Love
Robert Rich: Alien Zoology CD1 - Live Archive Vol 4
Robert Rich: Alien Zoology CD2 - Live Archive Vol 4
Robert Rich: Cowell Theater CD1 - Live Archive Vol 5
Robert Rich: Cowell Theater CD2 - Live Archive Vol 5
Robert Rich: Due Acque - Live Archive Vol 2
Robert Rich: Ici et Maintenant CD1 - Live Archive Vol 1
Robert Rich: Ici et Maintenant CD2 - Live Archive Vol 1
Robert Rich: Lumin - Live Archive Vol 6
Robert Rich: Mycosphere - Live Archive Vol 7
Robert Rich: Shamballa - Live Archive Vol 3
Rocket City Riot: Saturday Night Angels
Shawn Harris: Echoes of Autumn
Solace: The Medusa Crown
Sulis: Sitting on the windowsill of Heaven - Celia Harper
The West Exit: Extra Century Perception
Tom Paul: Borrowed Time
Monday 6pm:
All but the 23 albums above now are playable and have downloadable VBR MP3 files (the most popular download format). The Wav zip download files are just a few hours away from being completely restored.
And, it looks like everything will be back to normal late tomorrow (tuesday)
Tuesday 5pm:
The backup is fully restored, and all but the 23 albums above are working as normal, with all download formats available.
These last 23 albums have now been uploaded to Magnatune and the various formats are being made now. This will probably take 24h to complete and then everything will be back to normal.
Sorry about this!
-john
Posted by John Buckman on November 9, 2009 at 02:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Magnatune iPhone app now available
Apple has approved our free iPhone app for listening to the entire Magnatune catalog from your iPhone.
You can install it by searching for "Magnatune" at the iphone store, or by clicking here.
This version lets you listen to all of the entire Magnatune catalog for free, but with my voice at the end of each song. We're submitting a new version to Apple today with membership support (as well as 128k mp3s over 3g), and I hope that Apple will that now that they've allowed us in.
More info about the app in a previous blog entry.
Android Phone users can use our Magnatune Android App.
Posted by John Buckman on November 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)
Rob Costlow's Reconstruction Project
Magnatune musician Rob Costlow today launched his Reconstruction Project web site.
The aim of the site is to start an musician's cooperative where fans can go an obtain free albums from the musicians, and hopefully (and optionally) choose to support those musicians by buying (or licensing) their music.
In Rob's words:
Posted by John Buckman on November 4, 2009 at 09:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
