July 26, 2005 - b00mb0x version 7
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!
Posted by naz at July 26, 2005 07:32 AM
it looks way better in FireFox than IE. IE sucks ass.
Posted by: naz on July 26, 2005 07:36 AM
I'll second that!
Keep up the great work guys!
b00mb0x RULES!
Posted by: solcofn on July 26, 2005 02:32 PM
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - it's free! So why haven't you got it yet, you idiot?
It's not said often on here I don't think - but there's a huge amount of respect & appreciation for the work naz (and any other admin type persons) put in to keep this site looking splendid & running smoothly.
OK, arse-licking over. Best get back to downloading some of these new mixes.
Posted by: mwude on July 26, 2005 06:30 PM
hey naz,
I'm going to keep a log here in comments so we know what we are up to.
I'm up to August 2001 starting from the beginning. I'm fixing the dead links as I see them. Remixes and electronic that is dead I am making "draft."
Posted by: assorted on July 26, 2005 09:57 PM
cheers mwude! assorted ill start working backwards from 2005 this afternoon. Folks may need to perform a hard refresh here, by pressing ctrl+f5 to update the site view
Posted by: naz on July 27, 2005 02:52 PM
links from 2004 and 2005 and from jan - april 2003 should be valid now
Posted by: naz on July 27, 2005 11:46 PM
axl and i did the rest of the links, everything should be working and valid now. Thanks axl!
Posted by: naz on July 28, 2005 01:35 AM
rechecked and 29 bad links are still there which ill clear tomorrow
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001305.html#001305
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001252.html#001252
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001170.html#001170
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001105.html#001105
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000624.html#000624
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001051.html#001051
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001020.html#001020
http://b00mb0x.org/front/001017.html#001017
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000897.html#000897
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000707.html#000707
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000591.html#000591
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000506.html#000506
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000486.html#000486
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000453.html#000453
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000437.html#000437
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000353.html#000353
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000935.html#000935
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000904.html#000904
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000300.html#000300
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000674.html#000674
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000113.html#000113
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000134.html#000134
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000918.html#000918
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000621.html#000621
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000140.html#000140
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000167.html#000167
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000183.html#000183
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000188.html#000188
http://b00mb0x.org/front/000777.html#000777
Posted by: naz on July 28, 2005 03:25 AM
i second what mwude said. i sure appreciate the work that naz and assorted and others do and have done here.
Posted by: riko on July 28, 2005 04:06 AM
Must agree...no one puts more into making a website as good as possible like naz and assorted and everyone who makes this site numero uno. respect to everyone involved with the b0x.
Posted by: Spiny Norman on July 28, 2005 05:10 AM
i'm gonna name our first child b00mb0x
Posted by: bong on July 28, 2005 09:13 AM
More praise for the Administrators Of Funk! - and other genres :-)
Posted by: DJ Dirk Danger on July 28, 2005 03:59 PM
My favourite site at the moment. All hail.
Btw, tried downloading Bong's North Atlantic Oscillation, and it has oscillated down to only 1K. Same for Waccy Baccy. The links used to be dead, is there now some other issue, or am I being an arse?
Posted by: Matrix on July 28, 2005 04:20 PM
Big respect for naz and assorted and their cohorts!
And big respect to the fantastic artists who make b00mb0x a point of contact.
All this great new music and so little time!!
Thanks to ALL!
Posted by: The Geez on July 28, 2005 05:55 PM
cheers for the props guys, its appreciated. I went through and changed all those links but haven't rerechecked yet.
I also found the problem with bongs mix( and a lot more), it was at the address listed, but b00mb0x.org wasn't on the whitelist of sites allowed to download from it. i deleted the fucking thing by mistake one second after i fixed the problem. this mix will need to be reuploaded. v7 shouldnt take long more.
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 12:03 AM
sorry about the whitelist booboo. Bong North Atlantic is back
Posted by: assorted on July 29, 2005 12:18 AM
whoohoo - the link checker program says theres no dead mp3 links on b00mb0x anymore
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 01:18 AM
just want to say thanks to all the mixers and other contributors to the site, blog, chat and forum, you've made the site what it is over the last 4.5 years. Awesome content. Cheers.
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 04:05 AM
shit!! that is a large amount of cash a month.. i was under the impression that this was a 20 dolla a month affair!
is it 200 dollas every month ??
Posted by: bong on July 29, 2005 11:49 AM
someones knicked my name on the forum.selfish
Posted by: H.al on July 29, 2005 12:54 PM
Excellent work though lads ;)
Posted by: H.al on July 29, 2005 12:58 PM
cheers hal. not every month bong. every 8 gigs added requires a new hosting plan (50 bucks once off)to be added ontop of what we already have, as is the case with this month (bootbox.org).
it should go down from 200 next month, but it will keep creeping upwards generally. As soon as we started adding the archives, the days of 20 dollar a month hosting were gone. Donations covered it up till now, and hopefully will see us through v7.
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 02:52 PM
H.al the email address for that name is emole_sears at hotmail.com ring a bell?
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 02:55 PM
shall send some more squids next jid ;)
Posted by: bong on July 29, 2005 04:14 PM
nah,but its gonna get some spam.
I need to donate as well,after knowing its that much a month.
Keep up the great work.. :D
Posted by: H.al on July 29, 2005 08:22 PM
If could spare a limb to sell and donate to the site, i would. This place is just what i need after a hard day's work. Gonna donate some more in a bit; cant have the site going down, that would be worse than syphillis.
Naz, you and all your merry men are the fuckin' bollocks!! Three cheers for Boombox............
Posted by: Stu on July 29, 2005 08:48 PM
hip hip
Posted by: H.al on July 29, 2005 08:57 PM
hal, don't bother, i can hijack it for you
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 09:20 PM
i deleted that account so you can use your nick
Posted by: naz on July 29, 2005 09:35 PM
To all the admins and others who contributed to all this: Keep up the good work :D
I really appreciate what you're doing!
Let's donate sum more....
Posted by: MightyMax on July 30, 2005 03:01 PM
B00mb0x is what makes the web worthwhile (apart from the porn of course!). Thanks for all of the hardwork by naz and assorted. There's some class mixing on this site!! thx all.
Posted by: Hidden Persuaders on August 2, 2005 06:31 PM
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