Hey everyone!

The weather is starting to get warmer AnimeNfo Radio is rolling a 100% (almost) can it get any better?

Main even for the news post this time around is our mod! First, i got to say it has not been easy, we've been looking for months and fell on Lorri in the end. Lorri, congrats and welcome to the team!

Why Lorri? What i/we look for in a mod is that he/she is dedicated, honest, and most of all, trust in that the person will do his "job". I know there has been some talk of this subject, behind the scenes and openly which i'm not going into detail about, so to the ones that it concerns, let it go.


Alright, new anime season= new and awesome songs, so stay tuned for the new additions! Especially like the Phantom OP by KOKIA.

Don't hesitate to send me or any of the mods a mail if there's something you're wondering about, read the faq and ask in the chatter first though ~_^

( So, what's up? Nice weather today........)

Stay Tuned!

~out.

Hello!!

What is great Tuesday evening this really is.

Alright, first out, of course, V2 was launched by Yhn at the end of the first week in this month! There have been a lot of talk about the "V2" for a long time now, and finally, there it was! It's still not complete, as you can read from Yhn's post, but we'll get there.

Now, on to the thing that just made me so happy. AnimeNfo Radio just settled a sponsorship with http://archonia.com/ , we have agreed on doing this for april at first and see how it goes, so please if you're looking to buy any anime stuff, please check them out ^_^ I don't like asking for donations, so hope we can lower the standards a bit. I have been working a lot with this, so its also the reason why i haven't been much active these past few weeks, the newest anime songs are on their way.

Finally, i can't thank you enough for the massive response i got from the feb news post, the goal was met the very same day, that's not something you would see i any online community.

Oh and, Our users rated a song 1,507,329 times, i really like that number, keep it up!

Like the new ads panda made for us btw? Stay tuned~

I... I am at AnimeNfo radio... right?!

Yes, yes... it might be the first thing crossing your mind after coming back to AnimeNfo Radio today. And yes, you are at AnimeNfo Radio!

So, what happened? In short, I finally put V2 up. Something which should have been done way earlier, but due to circumstances was not possible yet.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MOST IMPORTANT PART:
Go to http://www.animenfo.com/radio/convertaccount.php to enable your account on V2!
(you have to copy/paste it, due to a broken BBcode)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Things you should know first:
- BBCode (temporarely) doesn't work; so don't mind all the BB-tags around the site too much, this will be resolved asap.
- This is not a full implementation. As you might already see at the poll block, there are parts that still have to be implemented.
Why I chose to already put it up? Because V1 was horrible. And V2 should be better... At least the code is clean, and the queries should also be less heavy as before.
NOTE: Pages NOT implemented yet WILL redirect to the index!
- There is only one theme yet. This means I'm looking for people that are willing to make themes. I require those people to be able to at least update their template when needed for at least 6 months though; since complete custom skins can fail when new pages or functionality is added. If you are interested, mail me (Yhn [at] animenfo [dot] com) or get to me on IRC or the chatterbox.
- SVIP+ members (temporarely) can't see the SVIP+ radio url. If you are a SVIP+ and need the URL, email me (with your registered address) at Yhn [at] animenfo [dot] com.

What you should do if you find something you think works wrong?
- Go to the bug/feature tracker (top of the screen, in the menu), and post a bug. Please see if someone else didn't already post it though! Also, please specify on what page you've found it, and after which steps.

What you should do if you have a great idea we should implement in v2?
- Again, go to the bug/feature tracker, and file a feature request. I will then check if it's possible and useful. If it is, I will add it! (Can't promise yet when though, I plan on finishing V2 completely first!)

What should you do if you want more information?
Email me your question (Yhn [at] animenfo [dot] com), or try finding me in our IRC channel (#animenfo @ irc.animenfo.com) or the chatterbox.

For now, this is it.

Update for March 16th:
Some new functionality has been added (points at new songs page and the my favs page), but the most important:
We now have two new skins:
"Terminal in the Shell" By hellsatins
"A Tribute to Exit Trance" By Satoshi_Jiro
To choose them; go to your profile and switch your theme!

Update for March 22nd:
Another two skins have been added:
"Blood in the Shell" By hellsatins
"Winter Bliss" By Noctre

Update for March 24th:
New skin added:
"Yuri Tengoku" by kawaikunai

Update for March 26th:
New skin added:
"RideBack Red" by astrangerhere

Update for March 28th:
New skin added:
"Waki Miko Reimu" by CrazyAzn

Update for April 4th:
New skin added:
"Marisa Stole It Again" by CrazyAzn

Moar!! (April 23th)
"dot-hack slash slash, Enter the World" by Katana Steel
And the next day~ (April 24th):
"Fumoffu" by chiii

May 16th
"Don't say lazy!" by kawaikunai

May 19th
"Blood Ties" by Noctre

May 22nd
"Tribute to Hatsune Miku" by Ayashi

June 1st
"Saber" By Noctre

June 25th
"Fruit? Onigiri! by Ayashi

Enjoy =).
Last edit 2009-06-25 16:20 by Yhn [Webmaster]

Hello you!

There's actually a quite good reason why i'm so late with this month's news post.

I've run into a problem, it's becoming quite big now actually. I wanted to postpone doing this for longest possible, but seems i can't anymore. I'm sure some of you have noticed the "emptiness" on the top/middle of the site? Our main sponsor were having problems and couldn't afford staying with us any longer. I have for the past two months been trying to get a new sponsor, and was really hoping to get one before the March bill, but no luck.
This basically means financial problems for the radio, seems like the crisis is reaching even us :P Paying for the Feb bill worked out somehow with using the money saved up overtime, and 200$ from me, the March bill however won't be that easy. I have always been filling in some if we run a little bit short every now and then, but i can't continue with that kind of money every month.

Our status right now is as follows: The bill for March needs to be paid the 1st (i can delay it to the 7-8th). We are currently 330$ short including the donations received in Feb, which means that i have to set the goal to to 650$. I hate asking for donations, but there's really no way around it when we do it like this.

If you have ever considered donating, now is absolutely the time, we desperately need it! Greatly appreciated! If you're wondering if you get anything in return for donating, please read the faq, you actually do. I hear some users talking about how others buy themselves to VIP, instead of working hard with the rating system. There would be no radio without donations, at least not in this quality, and we would not have such a great rating database if it weren't for all the ratings, so both things are great in slightly different ways.

Alright, ill stop talking about this now, anyway, i'll work hard on getting a new sponsor, everything will hopefully be back to normal when the bill for April arrives, and, thank you! :)

Now, on to something more fun.

We had a "best dedication" contest a while back (sorry it's taken this long announcing the winner) i was live-dj'ing and told everyone to request a song, and dedicate it. The user with the best dedication would win a t-shirt from our shop.

http://www.cafepress.com/animenforadio I tried to decide the winner myself at first, but that would prove to me impossible, too many good requests. I made a file with all the dedications and sent it to the rest of the staff, everyone voted for their favorite hoping that one of the dedications would get two or more votes, that actually happened, so the winner was chosen. MoonLord dedicated a song with the following: "Fly to the sky, leave your worries behind. Find better tomorrow, and there's no sorrow."

Congratulations!! You'll hear from me.
To everyone that participated, thank you!
To everyone that missed it, there will be another time.

New listener record this month as well, 716! ^_^

Stay tuned~

Whoops.

Hey everyone, i must admit, it's not christmas anymore, it's actually Feb 2nd, but here's what happed in the first month of the year 2009.

First of all, we made a new listener record, 659 listeners were tuned in at the same time! That is something to be proud of, and it's all thanks to you guys!

A lot of new anime series has started airing this season, and what does that mean? Yup, loads of great new songs, some of the new op/ed's have already been added, and we're going to add the rest as they release the singles. I love the start of new seasons, always lots of nice new fresh music ^_^

I know i said that i was going to do more live-shows/dj'ing, but my microphone started to become unfriendly with me, a new one is on the way, so i hope to have that under control when it's here.

AnimeNfo Radio site V2 is really starting become something, we hope to have it finished by a month or two, without being able to promise anything. That is going to rock, so stay tuned.

Now, again to all donators, thank you so much, i'm not going to go on with the "how this wouldn't be possible without you :P" because you know that too well by now.

Cheers!

Hello! Merry christmas, happy new year and happy holidays from all of us on AnimeNfo Radio. We hope you have enjoyed the year that is about to pass as much as we have and that you'll continue to stay with us for the year to come!

Again, Merry Christmas, and stay tuned ~_^

It's Christmas time people!

Not sure if i'm supposed to say "finally, or about time!" maybe neither..

The only major update this month has been the Xmas theme which i hope boosts the xmas spirit a few notches up. Received a mail from a user that wanted the old themes back, that's just more work for us, so please bear with it for a month, our intentions are only good. Also added some xmas songs, it's not easy to come over many good ones btw.

I could also mention that Yhn is working is ass off on AnimeNfo Radio V2, it's not too far away so stay tuned for that, it's simply gonna rock! We'll keep the details as a surprise though ^_^

Ps. Bandwidth is expensive :)

Hey!
Once again it's time for a news update, a little late this month though, i've sent my computer in for repair, so haven't been much on. I'll hopefully get it back sometime next week.
Alright, so what's been going on since the last news update? First of all, we got a new listener peak, 607 listeners tuned in at the same time, not bad! We're still 393 from 1k though ^_^
I've been trying to do live shows as often as possible as i'm sure some of you've noticed, but more importantly, i hope you like hearing a voice on the radio from time to time. Will get back to the live show thingy when i get my computer back.
About the poll we're currently running, "Where are you tuning in from" the results aren't exactly surprising, but we got:
Nr. 1 Europe.
Nr. 2 North America.
Nr. 3 Asia.
It's kind of nice to know where people are sitting when clicking the play button.
Another thing i guess i could mention is that Christmas is closing up, so look forward to a refreshing theme during the Christmas days and a little more special playlist.

I believe that's it for now, be good, have fun, request songs, rate, and stay tuned!

Anime Music!

Hi, i noticed that the time has come to make a news post for Oct. There haven't really been many changes this month, we had a little downtime a few days ago, due to that the web server crashed, and had to be manually restarted which also caused the stream to go offline. The streaming program we are using requires to be connected to the sql server at all times.
We had to buy another 50 192k slots because of high server load, i kind of like when i have to do that, instead of having to get rid of slots, growth is always a nice thing ^_^

Now, i just want to thank everyone who are supporting us by donating, this might sound like a hint, which it actually is, but without you guys, it would be completely impossible to run a radio streaming at 192kbps, so thank you very much! I know i've said this before, but to those of you who are reading this, and still haven't registered, please do! You'll get a much better AnimeNfo Radio experience.

If you're wondering about anything, don't hesitate to ask me or a mod in the chatterbox, if it's not appropriate there, send a mail.

Be good!

Ps. Watch Wangan Midnight.

*edit, Chatter box has been disabled for non-logged in users to make site load faster.

Hello everyone!

I'm gonna use this month's post as an oppertunity to thank all of you who are listening to AnimeNfo Radio. We have achived some great things the this week, the first is that we finally reached 1 million ratings. The rating button has basically been pressed 1 million times, and that's ALOT, nice work everyone! The current user at the very top is Peltoilves with 9774 rated songs.
The second thing is that the radio just recently had a new listener record, 525 people were tuned in at the same time, which is not bad at all, we aim for 1000 trough, of course :)

Now, we are currently in the progress of "creating" a new genere, which basically means that we will launch a tehcno/trance/remix genere which will be called "JTTR". Some songs will be offline during the time it will take to move them etc.
A few other playlist/block feautres are also on their way, but we will get further into that when the time comes. Cheers!