Website and radio will be down for approx 2 hours while we do upgrades to the servers.

We aren't much for politics around here, except when it matters. Right now, it matters. On Wednesday, January 18, Animenfo Radio's website and radio streams will go dark for 24 hours in order to formally protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that will be debated in the US Senate beginning January 24th. If SOPA passes, it is possible that for our US users, Animenfo will go dark for good. We are, and have always been a legitimate and legal site, but that may not matter if SOPA passes.

We're not the only ones going dark to protest. We are joining Reddit & Wikipedia and many others who are also provisionally planning to shut down their services on January 18th.

Why are we doing this? To encourage our US users who know about SOPA to contact their legislative representatives and tell them not to support the bill. We are also hoping to raise awareness in any US users who were unaware of this bill to begin with.

So educate yourself HERE and HERE. You can contact your local representative by visiting http://americancensorship.org/. They have a widget that allows you to contact your representatives directly.

If you have questions, feel free to contact myself (astrangerhere@animenfo.com) or supers (supers@animenfo.com).

ast

ETA, please note, to conform to other blackouts across the web, we have changed the date of ours to January 18th.

I am now taking new submissions for the Tuesday Custom Block. If you are unfamiliar with the custom block, let me explain it to you.

Custom Blocks are 2 hour dedicated blocks that follow a certain theme or idea. Some past examples include songs that all have a particular word in the title, songs that are from anime all produced by the same studio or that have a seiyuu in common. A custom theme can be just about anything. There are some limitations (I won't accept themes if all the songs are particularly low rated, from one subgenre, or by the same or only a few artists), and creativity is key.

You don't have to be a chatbox user or a ranked member to submit a theme. If you are interested in submitting a theme, please email me your idea. If I approve it, you'll then submit a two hour playlist to me that reflects that theme. I'll then schedule a date for you so you'll know when it will be airing.

Please let me know if you have any questions at astrangerhere@animenfo.com.

Happy listening, and happy New Year!

ast

On behalf of our staff;

Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating it, and happy holidays to all others :). Have a great time!

It's time for the twice a year touhou block, we will be doing it based off a random game to pick the songs.

Hope you enjoy!

- supers

Edit/Additional info:
Server time is GMT - 5, for GMT the time will be Friday at 03:00 (AM), 04:00 (AM) CET. Depending on your timezone, this is the "Custom Theme" block in the schedule for Thursday/Friday (See here for the schedule).
- Yhn
Last edit 2011-12-15 18:14:42 by Yhn [Mehsi's Knight of Twilight]

On top of some Scarlet Weather fighting between me and supers I am going to be hosting a game streaming session every weekday morning this upcoming week except for wednesday - yay for a week of mornings off!

If there are any free games that you would like to see me suffering my way through or think would just be enjoyable for others to watch be played then let me know with an email. If all else fails I will pull random games from my doujin archive and play them, so no matter what it's a winning situation!

While there is no certain time as these streams will begin after I wake up and have breakfast I estimate most will go from 7-8 to 10-12 (PDT -8:00), depending on how many people tune in and if I get stumped/angry at a game or not! :)

Tune in and enjoy the gaming fun -

Minase

Edit: Oh, and for those of you who remember it fondly or those simply interested Animenfo Trivia 2 is being finalized and will be revived in the near future. Look forward to the next game being some time later this month!
Last edit 2011-11-06 00:28:46 by Minase [Sleeping Terror]

Earlier today, UVIP user Shiddo registered our 5 Millionth song rate! We're proud to have been on air this long and with this many faithful users. We also appreciate our listeners using the rating system. The ratings help us to decide what to buy and what to keep. So what does that mean for you? The more you rate, the better chance you have of hearing music you want to hear.

Thanks for listening, and here's to the next 5 million!

~ast

Please welcome with me the newest member of our staff Nostalogic. Since Sheepy's exit recently, we've been carefully considering his replacement and think we've found a good fit. Please make him feel welcome as a full administrative staff member.

Also, you will notice a tag color change for Mehsi who is responsible for our tagging database. She is not to be bothered about warnings or other administrative silliness - thats what me, supers, minase and Nostalogic are for. Please continue to send her your tagging comments and lyric submissions. Please make sure your lyrics comply with our rules before doing so.

Happy listening!

The FAQ has been updated to redirect folks as to where to send missing lyrics, album art and tagging errors. We are no longer using the forum threads at all, so if you wish to submit any of these things, please check out the FAQ for the new procedure.

As part of that, you'll notice that Mehsi has ever so graciously been helping us out with retagging and maintaining our massive tags database. Please feel free to mention tagging errors via email or chatbox to her as she is helping us fix all these. Please do not bother her about other things like warnings and whatnot. We appreciate her help and don't want her bothered with any of the other silliness you guys can come up with sometimes.

If you have questions about that or any other aspect of the FAQ, let me know.

EDIT: I have also updated the "Can you add this song to the site?" portion of the FAQ HERE. I wanted to make it clear we do not issue acceptance or rejection emails each time you request a song. There are simply too many requests. If you have questions, please address them to me.

~ast
Last edit 2011-07-25 19:10:45 by astrangerhere [Hataraki Man]

Ok, so, we have a 4-way tie for first place in the late Sheepykins trivia contest. Because of the tie, and the number of people who were one away from a tie (3 more people) out of a field of 18, we have decided to give radio based prizes to you all. The rest of the staff was not involved in writing sheepy's questions (or his cash prize offering), so we wanted to reward everyone who came close.

As such, the following members are entitled to have 2 songs of ther choice played at ANY time (except during oricon, custom themes, or faveblocks):
Scarlet Flame
Memsurs
PicoPico
Tsuboi

The second place entrants are entitled to have 1 song of their choice played at ANY time (except during oricon, custom themes or faveblocks):
Asunaru
Alfador
Casandra

All you have to do is ask a mod to add your song to queue whenever you want it. We will make a note on your account when you've redeemed your prize(s) so don't try to fool anyone into playing more than one for you, as this could have ugly consequenes for you. I've posted the answers to the questions below. Please don't nitpick the answers, as no one currently on staff wrote the questions or answers and were just going with what Sheepy gave us.

1. White Reflection
2. Fanclub
3. The Chase of Highway
4. Ievan Polka
5. Jewels (alicenine)
6. Yuumao
7. High and Mighty Color
8. HaliCali
9. Pokemon Theme Collection
10. Chicken Bone
11. A God that Loved Everyone
12. Ergo Proxy - Opus 1
13. Don't Say "Lazy"
14. Anna Tsuchiya
15. Gankutsuou




Last edit 2011-07-15 11:45:57 by astrangerhere [Hataraki Man]