New computer in the house!

With large thanks to many of you who made donations large and small, I have a new PC that I hope will serve me and SitG as long as the last one did (4+ years of 24/7 operation). 

It's up and running but I need to do quite a bit of program installation & configuration before the station will be back up. I hope to have music playing again later this weekend. 

I will be writing to each of you who made a donation, if I haven't done so already. Until then you have my great thanks and those of your fellow listeners. 

Stay tuned...

John

Update

Thanks to those of you who have made unsolicited donations! We may be days, rather than weeks, away from a new PC if folks keep this up!

John

My PC seems to have given up the ghost

Yesterday, after performing mostly-faithfully 24/7 for several years, my PC crashed and subsequently will not boot, cycling over and over without launching Windows. Even the Windows 7 install/repair disk crashes with a blue screen which makes me think it's hardware and I will likely end up buying a new PC. This will take me at least a few weeks to allocate funds, purchase and configure. So I would expect that Sugar in the Gourd will be down for a while, at least through early October.

Thanks for your patience,

John

SitG is down until Comcast fixes my home Internet

My home Internet is down, along with all Comcast customers on my block.

Yet Comcast tells us "there is no outage" in our area and they will send a truck out sometime next week.

I am working on a means of broadcasting during local outages, but it is not ready, and I can't enable it while my connection is down.

Stay tuned... (and away from Comcast)

John

Stolen Fraulini guitar alert!

Jack Klatt just posted on Facebook:

STOLEN GUITAR! My beloved Fraulini was lifted out of my truck last night in the Ottowa Tavern parking lot in Toledo Ohio. I've decided to not leave this town until I find her. She can't be far and with your help I might have a chance. Please share these photos with anyone you know that resides in the area. 

Let's help him find it! Please share this with guitar friends (esp in the Toledo area) and all of your guitar lists. 

I will ask Jack if he wants his contact info added to this post; till then contact me at john@sugarinthegourd.com

"Now Playing" now working better

I don't want to declare victory too soon, but the "Now Playing" feature on the main page (and playlist of recently-played songs) seems to be working much better after several more tweaks. 

 Fingers crossed... 

 John

"Now Playing" still buggy...here's a workaround

Until I get the "Now Playing" feature working reliably again, you can see what's playing via this link.

"Now Playing" screen may stop working from time to time

A few weeks ago, Yahoo! (which hosts the SitG web content) changed the way users must upload files. This broke the tried & true method I had been using for tears to update the "Now Playing" page. 

I have a new method of uploading the playlist file now, but it seems it's not 100% stable. I have been working through issues and it seems to be doing better now. But there may be times when the "Now Playing" frame is out of sync. If it seems to be stuck, feel free to drop me an email and I will fix it when I am able.

thanks all,

John

Up & Down again

Sorry, folks. The stream has been up & down lately. What's been happening is a lot of BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) crashes on my #*#*% Windows PC. I have tried a bunch of things and it seems to be better now, but still not 100% stable.

What I really need to do is buy a new computer (again) but I'm not sure I want to buy another Windows machine, don't have time to monkey with Linux, and not sure I can get SitG to run on a Mac without, again, a big time commitment. So I'm going to try to keep things up as much as possible while I look at a better long-term solution.

thanks for listening,

John