Just a little something for June Show [06/08 10PM EDT]

Celebrating the month of all things magical, and well, it’s not officially summer, but this month is usually considered summer.

Normally an image would be here, but I figured I would let my lizard display summer.

"I be chillin' "

“I be chillin’ “

Gyromite loves this hot season, and so does AnimeAMAZE.  Not only did the donation goal get reached, but there is also some awesome music to play for in celebration of June!

Prepare yourself!  10:00 PM EDT.  We will be “chillin’ ” out in IRC as well as on the radio station with all you awesome people!  Hope to see you here!

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A few updates…

First Update:

WE DID IT! YAY!

WE DID IT! YAY!

We reached our minimum goal!  So far we are set for a while up here!  Please, if you really like this radio station and want to see it live on, please consider making donations!  A special thanks to all our donors for all they have done and a special thanks to all our fans and listeners for being our fans and…well…listeners!  We had a really rough patch and I am hoping we finally solved it now!  Thank you for your patience and support!  I also want to give a special thanks to all the help I had behind the scenes which prevented me from going bald trying to figure things out!

Second Update:

Ours looks just like this...

Ours looks just like this…

Comcast finally (after 4 years) changed our coax cable that goes from the pole to the house and also put it underground, and now we have a bit more of a stable connection.  The flooding did not help our situation any.  The disturbance in the radio station Yesterday (5/30) was result in the cable change.

Third Update:

New AAC Server address is 204.13.43.102:8005

New AAC Server address is 204.13.43.102:8005

Our AAC server, that is frequently used by mobile listeners, and limited bandwidth users alike, had a bit of a URL change and update.  The new server address is http://204.13.43.102:8005/  This server is once again, AAC 64kbps.  TuneIn Radio users should note that TuneIn connects to this one based on your speed by default.

Update 4:

HTML5 and CSS3 Time!

HTML5 and CSS3 Time!

Our Website will eventually be undergoing some changes, major changes at that.  Trying to keep with the times and be friendly to all those tablets and mobile phones.  With a new look, there will be a forum looked into in the very near future!  With all these changes, AnimeAMAZE is going to go through changes inside and out!  If you have any suggestions, use the contact system!  That is what it’s for!

Thank you for your time!

 

 

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Station downtime expected for cleaning

UPDATED: Time Window.
Finally!  Planned downtime!

The station will be going down for a few minutes for dusting, cleaning, and updating.  The whole downtime should not take too long at all.  In fact, it should be quick, but since There is also going to be cleaning and organizing behind the desk, it could take longer.  The time frame the station will be going off will be between the times of 8PM EST to 10PM EST (Very large window)

Your patience is appreciated in this time, I will see to it that it does not take too long!  Thank you!

Update: May take a few hours for the modem to boot back up.

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Donations <3 Please Show [5/18 9PM EDT]

Image by RenaissanceofChaos

Image by RenaissanceofChaos

As we are nearing the end of May, We are nearing the end of our donation goal, and well, we are not quite there yet.  We still have our goal to reach, and if we do not reach it, we will not be on air anymore making this close to our final show.

Now at this time, AnimeAMAZE has to pull out its stops to give you reasons to save us!  AnimeAMAZE has collected some amazing music, and now that I, your host, Sirby, have my voice back from the brutal cold (it’s been going around…) I can now offer you an amazing show!  I was originally going to call this show childhood memories that may be shattered, but now I will just call it the Donations Please show because, we need donations!

In this show lineup we have some amazing artists, and some amazing music lined up!  I think you will agree right from the start!  This will be a very large addition to AnimeAMAZE.  Without spoiling much, I will stop here!  Tune in Saturday Night, the 18th at 9:00 PM EDT!  We will also be in IRC.  Join us!

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Donations Please <3

It is that time of the year that AnimeAMAZE asks you for help!  Every year AnimeAMAZE struggles very hard to keep the music going and as many of you can tell, it is a very hard, demanding, and sometimes even physically exhausting task for everyone helping out on the AnimeAMAZE team!  My thanks goes out to all our helpers including all our listeners with your important feedback, and all our sponsors giving us some funds to work with when things go wrong, and also the people who helped us out most when our broadcast computer died and we were given two servers by separate donors so we could keep the music going!  My thanks goes out to both you! Another special thanks to the people working behind the scenes to keep our network safe and secure, a big thanks to them to keep everything safe and sound for all our visitors and listeners!  When you are on here or or network, even tuned in, rest assured, you are in good hands!

So this year, it is a little short notice, but we need donations to keep our radio station, and our website online, and I would also like to keep maintenance of the servers up so that if anything happens in the near future, we can be prepared early.

Web Hosting: $116.40

So our web hosting situation is a little odd!  Back in May of 2012, our previous host left a very sour taste in my mouth (not the kind my medicine left me…) and it made me so very angry that a company would treat a customer from way back in 2007 the way they treated me.  They also did not treat my site with the amount of care that was needed leaving my visitors in the dark when things went wrong, and leaving a very slow load time making all the visitors very frustrated to even navigate!  Not only that, the podcasts did not download fast at all.  So I did what any owner would do!  Made sure that I got us on a better host and so I did!  We got a 50% off deal, for two years.  So our contract expires in 2014-05-31.  that leaves us paying DOUBLE the amount I am asking for.  Therefore, we need $116.40 by June, -OR-  $232.80 by the end of May next year!  So if we get the total needed, we can forget about it next year, and pay the bill in full, or just get in parts like this!  I leave that up to the donors.

Shoutcast Host: $45.00 – $90.00

I am sure I can speak for everyone here that for the several years we have been with our host, we have been so very pleased!  We have had 99% reliable up time, and not a day goes by that I look at our host and love the reasonable price for a non-profit corporation running a non-stop, commercial free Japanese Radio station enjoyed around the world.  Our costs for 6 months if $45.00!  That is awesome!  Our cost for a year is $90.00!  Our minimum goal is $45.00! If we can reach that goal, we will be set until December!  If we can reach $90.00 we will be set until next June!  Either way, we need the minimum by June otherwise, no radio!  Dead air!

Domain Name: $23.50

With ICANN fees changing a lot more lately, I set a comfort zone limit.  How did you get to this site?  Thanks to Misty3000′s donation of the animeamaze.com name, we have been able to expose ourselves easily on the internet.  When we were given the name, we had a year on it.  We would like to be on it for another year if possible.  Without it no website!  So we need to reach $23.50 to cover the cost of the domain name!

All totaled up, we need a Minimum of: $184.90

Our Maximum ideal Goal is: $346.30

Now We do need at least the shoutcast host by June!  If we do not reach at least $45 by June, dead air!

Now as you all know, we have had a rough go of things the start of this year.  It almost decided the fate of the radio station, but I and several others have been helping me get the station on for longer than a few hours a day.  AnimeAMAZE, like anything else in this world, we need funds to run things.  What does AnimeAMAZE run on?  It’s not an over abundance of cat girls and pocky, but we use power, and we have cable internet service, and as you can tell, that costs money!  Keep in mind, every step AnimeAMAZE takes is to keep things as green as possible when it comes to energy efficiency. The UPS that was purchased back in December has been a huge help in keeping energy costs low.  With that in mind, we still have an energy bill to pay regularly.  It is increasingly hard to pay some here and there!  The real ideal way of keeping green would be to have several solar panels and maximizing lunar energy, but I don’t think we can do that just yet.  Another option is Colocation center!  But that costs money too!

Furthermore, our Internet connection is also very vital to the radio stations operations.  I have heard your complaints about not being able to access the request page.  I make several warnings not to flood the request page on a regular basis!  Our max is 5 requests!  If your IP goes 5 songs at a fast rate, Comcast blocks you as an attempted flood or some other attack.  I tested this myself! So it’s not me, it’s comcast, they are very well aware of what we are hosting, and sadly, I have no control over their decision, and they do not like me in breach of our “contract”.  Only option I can offer is to request a change in your IP if you are blocked!  Sadly that is all!  What I have learned with comcast is changing your mac address will get you a new IP!  Other ISP’s may work the same!  We have the same one we have had for a year!  AnimeAMAZE’s only other options is finding a new ISP that allows us to host webpages and the only business class ISP’s are also really pricy!  We can barely afford what we have now, we can’t afford a business class without regular monthly donations!  Again, Colo would be ideal, but again, cost money we don’t have!

Though we set minimum and maximum goals, it nice to have over that to cover costs along the way!  If AnimeAMAZE has been a fine station and you are pleased with it, please make a donation to help us out!  If you really want to help us out a lot, become a sponsor!  A little bit of help can go a long way, and if you are a site, store, or an awesome individual, we will do our best to let everyone know how awesome of a sponsor you are including our current top sponsor Yoji Mikuni!

If you want to help us out with parts for computers, with internet services, with colo’s with anything, send me an email via the contact page!  The emails go directly to me, on my phone or my PC, so I see everything!  If you just want to help out and donate anything PLEASE!  If you like this station and want to keep it up, send some donations and help us keep things running!  If we don’t reach donations, we will go down, and it will be more expensive in the end to get back up again!

Thank you for reading this, and your support!

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Forums are closed

The message bulletin board is now closed.  It will be back with a new one once I can get plans together for the new one.

The message board is archived and will remain where it is on the server.  What I am hoping will happen is that it will be able to convert it to a new forum I am planning on, hope to clean all things up, and just start new.

If you have any suggestions, about the forums or anything at all, PLEASE send me an email using the contact script.  As long as there is mention of Forum in the message subject, I will get it, and be able to keep in touch with you throughout the process! 

Also please note, I would love to use Invision boards, but the cost of invision boards is not suitable for our budget at all.  But if someone wants to donate AnimeAMAZE the gift of Invision boards, I will not be opposed to that!

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Megumi, Easter, and Whole lot of Bunny Girls Show [3/30 9:30PM EDT]

I am hoping for the bunny girls anyway!  If not, I will make it happen here.

First show in a long time, I know.  Studio has been busy trying to isolate the downtime because I hate that most of my posts here have been apologies for the station downtime.  So after several tries and fixes (Sadly a lot of it has been trial and error) I think the problem has been, at the very least, minimized.  Will not say until the station has been up for at least 10 days stable.

First mention of this show will be Megumi Hayashibara will be celebrating her 46th Birthday on March 30th, in Japanese time.  Since the studio and station are here in Vermont, we will celebrate on what will be March 31 in Japanese time, but if you go by my birthday rules, This entire week is your birthday!  For 46 years old, we will play 46 songs (probably more) in honor.

I <3 you!  Happy Birthday!

I <3 you!  Happy Birthday!

 

Next up, March 31st, in the US is Easter Sunday.  Easter has many meanings to many people but for me, its about the Easter eggs, and the awesome candy, and of course, sometimes families get together and have a good time!

They will be mine!

They will be mine!

But of course, I enjoy Easter candy.  Who can say not to those wonderfully chocolate balls filled with colorful sugar, and those milk chocolate eggs with the hard sugary shell…You know what I am talking about!  I also like the day after Easter…HALF OFF ON CANDY!  Ahem..sorry got a little excited there…

Next topic on this wonderful show…Bunny Girls!

Oh yeah!  Shield your kids eyes!

Oh yeah!  That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

 

Such lovely features!

Such lovely features!

Oh right, we are an Anime radio station...so yeah...

Oh right, we are an Anime radio station…so yeah…

 

Well then tune in, I got some wonderful bunny girl songs as well!  I know I’ll need more than this!

Show begins at 9:30PM.  Have your candy, and your bunny ready!  If no candy this time of evening, at least celebrate with me on Easter Sunday!

Requests will be delayed a bit, so when I say begin, I expect to see requests ready!  As usual, requests with dedications will take priority!  We will also be chilling out in IRC!  So head over to our irc at irc.rizon.net in #animeamaze .

Hope to see you all there!

Childhood memories, and truer words have never been spoken...or displayed.

Childhood memories, and truer words have never been spoken…or displayed.

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