Wed 26 Oct 2005
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We’ll be back in a couple of weeks with a new version and the beginning of the awards for the best mixes. Mixers are welcome to keep uploading mixes.
Update: b00mb0x is now running on WordPress, which is a lot faster and has better comment handling and antispam features.
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Thu 6 Oct 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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We’ll be posting more mixes at once this month so that we leave some time at the end of the month to upgrade the site software before we get busy with the awards in November and December. If anyone is sitting on a mix that they intend to upload later in the month, it would help us if you submitted it a little earlier this time around. Also, the front page now displays 12 mixes at once, instead of 7.
Tue 20 Sep 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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We’re back now, more or less. The attempted upgrades didn’t go as planned and the underlying problems they were meant to solve still exist as the site needed to be rolled back to a previous version. We’ll try upgrading again in a few weeks, with less distruption this time. A few comments were lost. The newest mixes will be up for another week, starting from today.
Mon 22 Aug 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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Hey there,
In the interest of trying new things, b00mb0x now accepts video mixes. If you want to enter into this time consuming and frustrating process we accept up to 250 MB per video mix in the avi and mpg formats. If two or more mixers make a video mix, it’ll be added as a category in this year’s awards. If you are familiar with Sony Acid, you can use Sony Vegas for your video content, it works along the same lines.
Tue 26 Jul 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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Welcome to version 7 of b00mb0x. Special thanks from assorted and I go to iluvaxlrose and ambientfusion, who contributed towards this update, which was a little overdue.
Changes from version 6:
All mp3 links should now be valid for those with access to the archive. That means there’s 21 GB of mixes from the last 4.5 years available to download to those with access as well as 800 MB of publicly accessible mixes – all on supafast HTTP servers. We want to hear about any that are not valid, but our link checker program reckons we are good to go. Thanks to iluvaxlrose who helped assorted and I fix these links.
New design. Thanks to ambientfusion who supplied a part of it with his site cover for this month. After three years of the old design, we were due a change.
New FAQ and tutorials. Contradictory tutorial and FAQ information has been removed and the FAQ has been trimmed down and updated with new details.
Donations. We had $202.30 in charges for this month and $89.00 in donations. 90 dollars in donations a month obviously kicks ass, but doing the math, we’d go down regardless. Donators from now on donate a set amount, which hopefully will keep us treading water. Anyone who’s already donated need not donate again, you still have access to the archives. The same goes for our superstar mixers. I tried to automate this, but couldn’t so the lag between donating and downloading archived mixes remains. If you can’t afford to donate, make sure to check the site often for public mixes and consider joining the mailing list.
Subscriptions and Notifications. We’ve had a join the b00mb0x email list for quite some time and theres a few hundred folks on it. Problem is, it’s rarely updated. We’ve automated this so members of the list will receive a notification when there’s a new mix. It’s where the old list was, at the bottom right of the page.
b00mbl0g forum. Mixers who haven’t regged on the forum may want to for some goodies.
Help requested. If you use an audio program not covered in our modest tutorials, please consider helping everyone out by making your own. If you need help with how to capture screenshots, let us know. We’d also like people to help out with our blog, as several of our regular bloggers are offline for an extended period.
That’s it! Enjoy version 7!
Wed 15 Jun 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
[13] Comments
Yeegads,
There’s a very large mix queue and both myself and assorted don’t have any net access at the moment from our homes. b00mb0x trundles along regardless of course but maybe some people may be wondering why their mixes haven’t been posted.
From now on we’re posting the mixes in the order in which we’ve received them. It’s nice if you made a mix for your grandmas birthday that you’d like posted before or on a certain date, but it’s not something we can do without leapfrogging some poor fucker. Besides, that might be the day I’ve chosen to spend snorting cocaine from the bellybutton of Welshman.
The easiest way to see your place in the queue is to log onto the ftp and sort by date modified. This is fair and you can rightly chastise us as the mean assholes we are if you are subsequently skipped.
I’d really like if folks got their covers in below 200 k in size and 1600 px in width because it really cuts down on the time it takes to post new content. Theres a mix with a 5 mb cover that I’ll have to post without a cover because i have no image editors on my laptop at the moment. If the cover is compressed and sized for the web before it gets here, I can post there and then, from where ever. Maybe we can include a link to print quality cd covers with mixes soon but not right now.
I’ll summarise this in the FAQ when I can.
P.S : Some recent mix links are dead temporarily while we rotate the mixes.
Wed 8 Jun 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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So that the right hand of b00mb0x knows what the left hand is doing, please use the contact email on the menu at the right to contact us re the site. This gets both me and assorted and it’s likely that one of us will be able to help should the other be away. Folks with new mixes need not contact us by email letting us know there is a new mix on the server unless they are completely new to b00mb0x. If you’re uploading your mix, its advisable to upload your covers, tracklists and descriptions to the FTP (preferably in a seperate folder).
Fri 8 Apr 2005
Posted by assorted under Uncategorized
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Thanks to a flurry of donations, we’ve been able to expand our webhosting plan and are now slowly putting the archive (all the mixes) back online. These mixes are available to mixers and/or folks that have donated money to our bandwidth which is fucking gigantic. Newer mixes are available to everyone, but just the front page at the moment. As it comes up I’ll be linking it here so you can know what’s now available.
As of today, April 16, the following months of mixes are back online:
July 02, August 02, September 02, October 02, November 02 and December 02.
As of today, April 14, the following months of mixes are back online:
January 2002, February 2002, March 2002, April 2002, May 2002, and June 2002.
As of today, April 13, the following months of mixes are back online:
February 2001, March 2001, April 2001, May 2001, June 2001, July 2001, August 2001, September 2001, October 2001, November 2001, and December 2001.
As of tonight, mixes from January 04, February 04, March 04 and April 04 are back online.
as of the 9th of April , mixes from January 05, February 05, March 05 are back online.
as of today (9th of April again) following mixes are on the archive: December 03, November 03, October 03, September 03, August 03, July 03, June 03, May 03, April 03, March 03, February 03, January 03.
Mixers and bandwidth donators can email us for a password if they have not received one yet.
Sat 2 Apr 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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our old forum is broken, so here is a new one.
Thu 31 Mar 2005
Posted by assorted under Uncategorized
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Thanks to a bunch of donations, we are very likely to have the entire mix archive up in the following week, as we have upgraded our web hosting plan and now have much more storage and bandwidth. So ALL mixes will be hosted high speed on stable servers. Whoohoo!
Space is going to be tight, it looks like the whole mix archive is about 12 gigs or so, while we have 14 gigs in storage now. That doesn’t give us much room for expansion once it’s up.
I’d like to put the first 2 years of mixes somewhere else. The mixes will take up about 2-3 gigs, and will generate nowhere near as much bandwidth as the newer ones.
So does anyone have 2 gigs of storage we can direct link to lying around? Again, this wouldn’t be a bandwidth burden on you, simply a storage burden.
Wed 16 Mar 2005
Posted by naz under Uncategorized
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Well it didnt take long for us to burst through the 160 GB a month bandwidth cap :p. This cap was TRIPLED in December and we’re already hitting it again. Mixes are offline until the billing cycle flips on the 22nd. I think folks can still upload, but please keep it under 100 MB or I can’t post em.
we’re back in business, I’ll be posting a new batch of mixes in a couple of days.
Tue 1 Mar 2005
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Thanks to lilione for this month’s cover.