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'ZRN Down for extended time

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:45:37 -0400

ZTNET, our host, has begun upgrading our server. As a result, the libraries that IceCast2 required are now gone. As a result, the software needs to be rebuilt. While the upgrade is welcomed, it came at a bad time where I do not have much free time. As a result, it will take me some time to get the network back up. No ETA is available but I hope to have everything back in order by the end of the July 2008.

As I think about it, this wouldn't be a bad time to reorganize the network, hire some new fresh talent in, etc. Perhaps this is a blessing in disquise, like the Y2K bug forcing companies to upgrade their computers.

Speaking of which, I am in talks with TSSZ in regards to a come-back to 'ZRN! More to come!

Forthcoming...

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:21:06 -0400

A familiar face returns from the past. In a few weeks (possibly 2 months' time), I may require your services. Stay tuned.

Station Openings

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:53:29 -0400

Some of our stations are officially dropping dead for the last month or so, which means there's opportunities for people to take them over!
Some of these include:

Mario-Themed station (chan2)
Neo Anime Music Radio (chan4)
PCX Radio (chan10)

If ANYONE is motivated to challenge themselves and take full control of these stations, please drop me an email. I'm ONLY interested if you feel you can do this! Experience required? Html and php, but other than that I'll get you guys up to scratch:

greenyoshi[at]xiinet[d0tt]com

The GreenYoshi Network Launch Show

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:54:20 -0400

Ladies, gentlemen, Marios, Luigis, Yoshis and everyone else, The GreenYoshi Network is set to launch on Easter Sunday (March 23rd). We have prizes to give away, but I am going to keep that secret until the show itself, which will start at 1pm EST (6pm GMT). The show could go on for hours, don't miss out!!
Please spread the word
-GreenYoshi
Founder of GYN

Downtime on Xmas Day!!

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:01:32 -0500

What a bad time to go down! Ah well, not a lot could be done when no one was around....
All stations should be back online now, so continue enjoying your stations

SEGA Games Radio is back!

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 04:58:34 -0500

Hey guys,

You read and saw correctly! SGR is now open for business! I officially opened the site last night but left the formalities till today because I was so tired!

http://sgr.soniccagedome.com

The main site has been moved from 'ZRN for SCD's servers for web administration reasons. There will still be a mini site on 'ZRN, this will appear in the coming weeks.

OK, lets talk new features!

Home Page!
The home page has a new flashy news section (not made with flash though! ). This feature is designed to bring the latest stuff at less than a click from your fingers. I should be updating this regularly.

Currently Playing Revamp!
The currently playing box is taken from the last version of SGR. However, this time I have added two things too it. The first is a quick link to other 'ZRN stations. This updates on a refresh with another station. The second addition is the 'Next Shows' box. This displays the next four shows coming up on SGR!

Downloads
This is a totally new addition to the SGR site. I am taken advantage of the Downloads section on SCD I recently set up. The SGR site takes all the downloads related to music (and remix music in the future) and adds it to the site. This section will also house recordings from shows in the future!

Reviews
Same as before on this front! Totally new section, using SCD's reviews section. This takes the latest OFFICIAL soundtrack review from SCD. However, I have added a few things that you don't get on SCD. If you go to the SGR site you will find a music player with all the tracks from the latest review, and a load of download links for things relating to the game!

Shows
The real deal here! What everyone wants to know about! Here is a list of the shows coming to SGR:

* SoniCast is back! - Me and Ziz
* Louis' Show of Awesomeness - Louis
* Sonic's Tested - Sheza
* Slingerland's One-Sided Talk Show - Slingerland

Another show I did not list there is T-Time! Some of you will have heard of this show before! For those who haven't it is a show native to SSR from a guy called T-Bird (the guy who BirdCon was about). He has offered to have mirror his shows on SGR from now on! He's a good mate of mine, and I am so happy T-Time is on SGR. There will also be a show from CodeNameGammer in the future!

Shows will not be starting straight away as I have to train the guys up. We will let you know when the shows will air!

All the shows will be getting a topic (like the current SoniCast one) in the SGR forums. So look out for some great discussions in there! If a show is going to on, or not, you will know here.

SGR is back and better than ever! Items like Downloads, Reviews, Shows, they all should be updates reguarly. When ever we do do something, we will tell ya!

SEGA Games Radio is Coming Back!

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:22:50 -0400

You read it right guys! SEGA Games Radio is coming out of a huge slumber of inactivity to return 10x better than ever.

I can't say too much now because it's all a secret.

There are going to be loads of new features and shows!

The date of release - 3rd of November. The time - Midnight GMT.

For now I leave you with this teaser... CLICK HERE!

DNS Issues

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:25:20 -0400

The domain name of Emulaionzone.org had expired. As a result, anyone trying to access this site or the audio streams would get an error saying the server could not be contacted.

ZTNET has addressed this problem and has just renewed the domain name. Our users may experience a temporary "blackout" period while the old DNS info expires and is updated with the correct information.

If you are able to get in but a buddy on a different ISP cannot, have them use "ftp.ztnet.com" as the sever address to access the audio streams until the correct info is updated.

This "period of inconvinence" may last as long as a few days for some, but may already be resolved for others. (It all depends on the DNS caching mechanism at your ISP.)

Sorry for any problems this may have caused.

Server Reset

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:52:59 -0400

The server was recently reset. All 'ZRN stations are now back online. Enjoy!

New E-mail address to for DJ / station operator requests

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:37:17 -0400

To make a long story short:

if you have sent in an application to be a station DJ or a station operator over the past 3 months, please resend it to this new email address:

wacko413 Att emulationzone d0tt org

My old email box has been overrun by spam, and many legit messages have been mistakenly erased. We'll be updating the content on the site to reflect it in the near future.

24 Hour Live Show on Radio Nintendo!

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:11:46 -0400

That's right, between Saturday and Sunday, Radio Nintendo is being taken for a spin to celebrate Xiinet.com's 1st birthday, called the Xiiniversary! Do remember to tune in from about Midday GMT on Saturday all the way to Midday GMT on Sunday!

-GreenYoshi

Forums moving to XiiNet.com

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:46:55 -0400

Anti-spam, captha checking, admin checking and all that other jazz doesnt seem to stop these bots coming....so ZRN's integrating the forums at XiiNet instead. News will be posted in a different way, and such.
This is the first part of zrn's major modifications I plan to do over the summer. Ask me for more details via msn philpal99 att hotmail d077 com.

Another server reset.

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:54:12 -0400

The server went down for a few hours earlier today so I had to reset it. All stations are now back online. Enjoy.

Server Reset

Sun, 27 May 2007 13:18:59 -0400

Our host had to reset the server for maintenance reasons. All stations are back online.

"Station formally known as WTMK" takeover

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:11:20 -0400

'ZRN would like to welcome it's newest member to the staff, Shawn "AutoDMC" Boles. Shawn will be taking over the Mario-themed station for 'ZRN and will be reviving it back to its previous glory.

Please join me in giving Shawn a warm welcome!

I'm alive...again

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:35:42 -0400

Sorry guys, I know there's been a drought of new stuff happening at ZRN, but life can be awkward.
Anyway, right now I'm going through some updates, which includes staff openings, detailed listeing page...all that jazz. If you have any suggestions on what to change just reply to this post and I'll look into it.

The Moshroom Pit

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:06:48 -0500

This is DJ Metroid's new show that completely replaces Metroid Prime Time. Instead of just concentrating on Metroid tunes, The Moshroom pit brings together some of the best Nintendo music. This show is starting TONIGHT on Radio Nintendo!

EST: 7pm
Central: 6pm
Pacific: 4pm

Hope people tune in for this, and enjoy the show

Bad User

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:21:20 -0500

Will the person connecting to Sega Sonic Radio (SSR) with an IP address of
67.72.98.* please read the following:

whatever client you are using to connect to the station sucks. It is making mulitple connections to the server, which in turn eats resources. Please select a new client to tune in. For more info on "proper usage" go to this link:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/faq/prop_usage.php

If you have any questions, please get in touch with NO CARRIER or GreenYoshi. Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.

Flywheel In the News

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:56:15 -0500

Viking Woman (Lila Wolan) of Flywheel & Flywheel Radio was recently interviewed for the Western Massachusetts publication “The Buzz”. You can read the interview and learn more about Flywheel by either going to

http://www.masslive.com/localbuzz/

and clicking on "Valentiine for Flywheel", or by entering the link below. (Was broken into parts so it would fit the screen.)

http://www.masslive.com/localbuzz/stories/index.ssf?/base
/buzz/116966527436350.xml&coll=3

SoniCast - t3h_p1lot - Ep1

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:13:26 -0500

Well, at last! I am guessing that is what you guys are thinking.

Myself and Zizou have finally recorded our first episode for SoniCast. However, you are going to have to wait a bit longer for it as I still need to add some final touches to it.

The show is going to broadcast for the first time:

Sunday Jan 28 2007 - 21:00GMT - 16:00EST

The episode will then be available for download from:

Sunday Jan 28 2007 - 22:00GMT - 17:00EST

As you probably have gathered, it is a recorded show, so people won't be able to request!

HOWEVER! Myself and Zizou will be in the IRC chat room during the time that the show is being aired! So you will be able to fire abuse and critism at us LOL.

Hope you guys are looking forward to an hour of me and Zizou!

Radio Nintendo: 3 Hour Live Show

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:00:53 -0500

Tonight isn't really only about Radio Nintendo. It's about the relaunch of Xiinet.com. There's a big amount of updates that will be revealed all over XiiNet between 7-10pm GMT.
Also in this show, I'll be talking about ZRN's future. I mean, I AM the new head....might as well say something to everyone.
Make sure you tune in at 7-10pm GMT (2-5pm EST, 1-4pm Central, 10am-1pm Pacific). Hopefully there's some interesting stuff to hear.

Changes to PC Gaming Radio

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:34:22 -0500

Just to let everyone know, I've come up with a new design for PCX3: PC Gaming Radio, so please bear with me as these changes are implemented.

Over and out.

Server Crash?

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:30:58 -0500

I'm not entirely sure what has happened with the server, but it managed to close every single station while I was going through the normal day. Nevermind, most of the stations are back up again, enjoy!

2007 and Beyond: a plan for the network's future

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:25:17 -0500

Well, the show was a bust, but the forum is not. In any event, I have started a thread that introduces some new ideas we are toying with on 'ZRN, and we want your feedback. At the very least, we would like to know what ideas people like and don't like.

To read an unoffical draft release of our proposed changes, please check out the following thread:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/scripts/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=366

You may also email suggestions to NO CARRIER via email:
wacko413 atY emulationzone d0tY org

Flywheel Radio Undergoes Major Changes

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:42:59 -0500

Vikingwoman, station operator of Flywheel Radio, has put the station through a major change in show format.

The FM channel, which was limited to a crappy playlist of a hundred or so songs has been replaced with an in-studio recording of her weekly radio show over at 103.3 FM. This show is two hours in length and will be replaced every week.

The AM channel of FWR will be brought back from the dead and will contain a playlist of new tunes that will be updated weekly.

Vikingwoman, who is in her second year at Valley Free Radio in Northampton, MA is also happy to announce that she has teamed up with James Fiore from Valley Independent Artists (V.I.A.). So not only you will hear the latest in new music from Flywheel Performance Arts Space but you will now get on a weekly basis LIVE IN THE STUDIO performances from musicians from the Connecticut Valley. How cool is that!!!!

If you want to hear a few of the bands from V.I.A. go to
www.myspace.com/valleyindependentartists

VW also also has a website: www.myspace.com/dj_alduru so anyone can see what I wrote down for playlists.

To check out what is going on at Valley Free Radio goto:
www.valleyfreeradio.org/

Finally, to learn more about what is going on with Flywheel Radio, checkout the stations' website:
http://radio.emulationzone.org/chan8

** Editor's Note: **
The show listing for "Viking Woman Presents (103.3 FM)" has been renamed to "Music of Flywheel & the Valley (103.3 FM)". It's link has also been changes to point to VFR's web stream so listeners can tune in directly.

New Staff Openings

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:51:46 -0500

Station Operators / Affiliates
We at 'ZRN would like to start the following two stations:

1) A Mario-themed station
2) A Zelda-themed station
3) An Anime-themed station

Currently, we are looking for people to join the staff as a station operator. However, if you or someone you know has a similar themed internet radio station and they would like to become affilated with 'ZRN, please get in touch with NO CARRIER directly via email: wacko413 Att emulationzone d0tt org

Other Staff Opening
In addition, we have an opening on the 'ZRN staff, namely a "Linux Server Administrator".

For more information on these openings, refer to these links:
http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/joining/vacant.htm
http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/joining/staff.htm

WTMK Departs from ZRN

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:23:36 -0500

After being a member of the ‘ZRN for several years, Deezer (station operator of WTMk and TMK owner) has decided it was time to part ways. As a result, WTMK and its programming have moved to its own server. The new address can be found at the TMK website:

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net

WTMK joined ‘ZRN as an affiliate back in the days when Live365 would host stations for free. The station moved to ‘ZRN’s own servers after Live365 started to impose fees for all hosted stations. For a few years, ‘ZRN was the host of WTMK. Then, in late Oct, for an unspecified reason, Deezer decided to move his operations to a different machine.

At this time, WTMK and ‘ZRN will remain affiliates of one another. Deezer declined my repeated requests to continue to promote one another directly. Personally, I think his decision was foolish, given that WTMK would be the clear winner in such a system, but he has spoken. We wish WTMK the best of luck.

A link to WTMK will be made on the “Affiliate Listing” area of the site.

Migration Complete: All station back online

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:33:48 -0500

I am pleased to annouce that our "forced migration" to Icecast2/Ices 0.4 has been completed. All member stations are now online using the new software. In addition, all stations have been properly configured to conduct live programing. (*knocks on wood*)

Many cosmetic things still needs to be done, such as reporting listener counts, customizing text shown in the player, displaying thecurrent song title on webpages, etc. These will be hammered out over time. I also need to tackle numerous things behind the scenes. But for now, it's just good to see everything back in operation!

URGENT: DISASTER STRIKES

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:46:48 -0500

Good news: Disaster did not hit ZTNET or one of its servers
Bad news: Disaster struck my USB Memory card.

Every since I moved from my old apartment in late August, I’ve been “living” off of my USB memory stick. By living, I mean I’ve ran and stored data right on the USB memory card. As why not? I had a portable version of Thunderbird, Putty, Miranda and a slew of other applications that I needed. Since I am stuck with dial-up at home for the time being and since I was taking a class at a local university, keeping my personal data on a speedy USB thumb-drive meant no data synching, no uploading and download of files on an FTP server, etc. Things worked well…

Until today. For some stupid reason, when I doubled clicked on a local XML file via WinSCP, it decided to enter an infinite loop where it would:
-   “download” the file (even though it was stored locally)
-   try to open it in a web browser
-   close the browser window
-   redownload the file
-   try to open it in IE once again,
-   close the browser window
-   … and repeat.

Since the XML file was on my USB memory stick, I figured “hey, just pull the thing out to make IE shut-up.” I did. Now my USB memory card, along with several months of email messages, personal files, and my course work, have been shot. (Thanks WinSCP.) Windows reports the USB memory stick as “not formatted” or “not accessible”. I’ve tried it on two separate computers to no avail.

So, what does this mean? It means that if you sent me an email message over the past week and I have not responded, please email me again. ZRN is fine since a copy of my work is kept on the server. I just need to redownload things.

In the mean time, if anyone knows of any good undelete applications or a program that will allow you to access a drive with corrupt data, please let me know. Remember, I have a USB thumb-drive, not a hard disk drive.

XML Help

Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:52:03 -0500

Hey everyone. Now that we are moving over to Icecast2, the scripts that we used to use to parse data, such as determining the number of listeners, are now out of date. With Icecast2, parsing should be easier, now that everything is stored in XML "tree" format. If anyone has any experience in parsing XML files with PHP, please reply to this post. I'd like to get a quick crash course in this subject matter to return functionality to these scripts ASAP.

Stations returning online

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:05:29 -0400

I am pleased to report that a slew of member stations have been converted over to the new software configuration and are back online! In fact, the only stations that are not online using the new software are:

Sega Sonic Radio
Sega Games Radio
Radio Nintendo

The only reason why they are not up using the new format is because we need to further research how to mix live and automated programming with a station. (We can right now, but you won't be directed to it automatically if you connect... which stinks.) I may put-up a temporary solution for these stations in the mean time. (Just need to contact the station ops on what is acceptable in their eyes.)

EDIT
Information pertaining to the temporary change in the URL for each station has been removed. Leaving this up only confused people.

Continue to use the same URLs to connect to your favorate stations that you have used in the past. Only add a trailing "/ices" to the URL if you are looking for trouble.
END EDIT

Notice anything wrong? Contact NO CARRIER or post a responce to this thread. NOTE: A bunch of things are "broken" at this moment because many things need to be reworked. Regardless, feel free to task and I'll let you know if I can correct it quickly or not.

Wheew! Long morning. Time for lunch.

Status Report

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:35:29 -0400

Good news. We got Ices 0.4 to compile. Despite what the documentation says, the "optional" library of "liblame" is actually a "necessary" library needed to compile the tool. Once that was figured out, we were golden. Thanks to Zac for tracking that down.

Currently, only a "test" station is up using the new software. It can be heard at this URL:

http://ftp.emulationzone.org:26100/ices

It only plays a short loop of Sonic 1 2 tunes, but it serves as a "proof of concept". In the mean time, I hope to relaunch a few stations using the new software by sometime tonight. These will most likely be those stations that don't host live programming. (Mixing live and automated programming with ICecast2 will take some time to remaster.)

Server reconfiguration required

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:42:27 -0400

My attempts to get IceS to run correctly with newer SHOUT.LIb libraries has failed. As a result, 'ZRN will need to be redone from the ground up so it will be designed for Icecast2 and Ices 0.4 instead of Icecast 1.3 and IceS 0.2.3. I've tried to postpone such a move for as long as I can because the effort required, but it has become apparent that this delema can't be avoided forever.

So, what does this mean? Its means we will not be streaming automated programming until we make the upgrade. How long will that be? A week? A month? Longer?? Hard to say. I need to read-up on Icecast 2 and Ices 0.4 (the latter will be the move troublesome... I can feel it.) If all goes smooth, perhaps sometime next week we can resume restore most of our services. There is a ton of backend stuff that needs to be rewritten and that will take time. (Hense why I avoided such a move for so long.) In the mean time, station operators can stream live shows to their stations. (At least that capability still works!)

We appologize for the down time and hope to resume operations soon.

Stations partically up...again

Sat, 7 Oct 2006 20:16:03 -0400

Sorry that we've been having troubles for almost a whole week now, but we're finally moving a step forward in the right direction. Basically all the config files work differently on our new server, so it 'only' took us a week to work it out. We'd like to thank NO_CARRIER for spending a lot of time working on this.
However, over the course of the next few days, you won't have 24:7 music on any station. This is because Ices is still not functioning properly. That aside, DJ's can now connect happily to their stations and host their scheduled live shows.
If any station admins have any issues connecting warn NO_CARRIER straight away.

-Phil

Meet the new DJs on SGR!

Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:06:18 -0400

The recruitment process has been done, and SGR, for the first time, has a full line-up.

Show: 'Nutty Nawing' with Shorty The Sqireal
Time: Tuesdays 17:00-19:00 GMT
Desc.: 100% Sonic.

Show: 'Andytime Live' with AndyTheSkanker
Time: Fridays 20:00-21:00 GMT
Desc.: Classic SEGA music with great listener interaction!

Show: 'Friday Night Fizz' with Fizz
Time: Fridays 21:00-22:00 GMT
Desc.: Total SCD topical show. Catch up on Emerald Challenges, Time Trials, and recent Hookup News.

Show: 'Louis Saturday Evening' with Louis
Time: Saturdays 19:00-20:00 GMT
Desc.: Fan art, ficiton, and games discussion. With some quality music! Also, a real focus on SCDTi.

Show: '(Sorta) Late Night with Gerkuman' with Gerkuman
Time: Saturdays 20:00-21:30 GMT
Desc.: An easy listening Saturday show. Where Gerkuman will discuss current issues with guests, while playing some sweet tunes!

Show: 'SoniCast' with mike_taylor & Jared + Guests
Time: Sundays 21:00-22:00 GMT
Desc.: SGR's prime show / podcast. This will air every Sunday sometimes LiVE, sometimes just recorded. This show will be avaliable on iTunes and all other podcast programs. We will be discussing SEGA and Sonic, interviewing guests. We will have features like 'Sonic fan site of the week' and 'mySonic Space of the week, along with other competitions.

So, there you have it, the new line up for SEGA Games Radio and Sonic Cage Dome. I now have to train my staff to broadcast LiVE. So, hopefully, the schedual will begin within the next two weeks.

There will be an annoucement when LiVECasts will begin.

Services Partially Restored

Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:50:02 -0400

To make a long story short: we have icecast running. Problem is, no one can connect to teh server because it won't recongnize passwords correctly. :evil: We're still working on it. In the mean time, nothing is up.

We managed to recompile and get Icecast back in operation. However, we were not able to get Ices 0.2.3 recompiled. We are still working on the issue and hunting down missing libraries.

In the mean time, station operators and their DJs can once again host live shows at their regularly scheduled time. Expect to see that resume in the mean time. Some may opt to stream a playlist from their machine until we can restore automated programming on our end. If you see a station up, tune-in: they might be back at full strength. If it's listed as "offline" it's not up.

URGENT ALERT: ZRN WILL BE OFFLINE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS

Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:31:43 -0400

I will make a long story short:

Good news: 'ZRN will be moving to a newer and hopefully more reliable server. (Faster processor, more memory, newer GNU/Linux kernel, new "toy" applications and tools to better the 'ZRN experience, etc.)

Bad news: 'ZRN will be down for as much as several days during the relocation process.

Hopefully, things will occur smoothly and we will have no troubles after the move. If we do encounter problems, we will deal with them on a one-by-one basis.

We apologize for the inconvenience and expected down time but we feel it will be for the better in the end.

Extreme server hiccup

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:49:29 -0400

Most of the common listeners will have noticed this on all stations. emulationzone.org has suffered something huge between Monday to Wednesday. We're not entirely sure what...but everything seems to still be here.
So, with that aside, we're back. Hopefully with no more problems.

......I'm quite sure our server is in a wide open field where hurricanes and lightning are common place....

SGR Refresh

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:47:01 -0400

In the 9 months I have been operator of SGR, there have been lots of constant changes, but now I think SGR has found it's feet.

SGR is the radio station of a new online SEGA gaming network called Sonic Cage Dome. Formally of the Sonic Stadium, SCD has just left to create it's own network called 'SCD Hookup'. We have worked hard on this all summer to get a release on SCD's first birthday!

For 9 months, I sort of did all the SGR stuff on my own, but now I am going to be hiring staff to help me out.

One show has been confirmed, and that is SoniCast. This show won't be broadcast live on the ZRN servers. It will be downloadable as a Podcast. Thats right, SGR has jumped on the Podcast band wagon. SoniCast is ava. to download on iTunes, Winamp, and also for your PSP (plus every other podcast program). Look out for episodes of SoniCast, every Sunday.

Hope you guys like the new site, and enjoy everything to come from SGR.

Partial Downtime

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:40:22 -0400

As you may know, all webpages on 'ZRN were inaccessable for about a week, even though every member station was up and running. So, what was the cause? Spammers. Some retard posted thousands of spam message to channel 8's message board. It was too much for the server to handle and caused the web server to die. 'ZRN is on a separite server from most other sites on ZTNET because, well, we do things differently and so 'ZRN is placed in it's own sandbox. The stratagy worked for this incident did not take ZTNET down, just 'ZRN and perhaps a few other websites.

In any event, web services for 'ZRN are back up, death to all spammers, yadda yadda yadda and continue to enjoy 'ZRN!

Remix Radio reset

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:36:43 -0400

The streamer went haywire today I don't know what happened, but anyway, Remix Radio is reset and should now be working fine. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Playlist Update for Remix Radio

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:30:13 -0400

The playlists for Remix Radio (AM and FM) have been updated with 149 new songs. However, according to my records, 69 were already in the playlist. My guess is that OC Remix posted updated versions of many existing songs, I don't know.

In any event, there are at least 80 new songs in both the AM and FM flavors of Remix Radio. Enjoy!

E-mail backlog

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:47:52 -0400

If you sent me an email over the past month and I have not responded, I have not forgotten about you. I'm currently dealing with some personal issues, but once I get through that, I'll tackle my massive inbox of messages.

PCX3 Update

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:20:06 -0400

Hey everyone. Chris Hedgie here. I'm the station operator of the newest station, PCX3.

Just an update to let you know I have added more songs to the playlist, with more music coming constantly. And, once I figure out my live show settings, my live show Hard Drive will start airing every Monday night.

Stay cool!

SGR Update

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:19:07 -0400

The Sonic Olympics start this week, with some of it being broadcast on on SGR. So look out for that.

Also, unexpected news, which I am sure Remix Radio knows about, Project Chaos is close to being released. At SGR, we are going to be making a big deal about this over the next few weeks till the release!

Check the SGR Homepage for news!

Radio Nintendo station reset

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:42:24 -0400

Sorry if there were anyone listening to Radio Nintendo this morning. I had to reset the station because it was obvious that I can't have 28 listeners for 12 hours :? So resetting ices cleared the listener count and put it back to 0.
It's all up and running again now.

Site Updates

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:28:31 -0400

The following general updates have been made to 'ZRN's website:

1) Staff page
The layout of the page has been changes to make it easier to locate people. Also, the content of that page has been corrected so it's up to date.

2) DJ Listing
(NEW) With the gorwth in popularity of Live programming, we at 'ZRN felt it would be wise to list the DJs of these live programs as well.
(Site Info/Contributors/DJ Listing)

3) About page
This page now only contains "About 'ZRN". "History of 'ZRN" and "Technologies Used" have been spin-off into their own pages.

4) Technologoies Used
(NEW) Every so often, I get an email asking what software we use and what not. This page will hopefully answer those questions.
(Site Info/About 'ZRN/Technologies Used)

5) History of 'ZRN
(NEW) A work in progress. Spun-off to it's own page for now.
(Site Info/About 'ZRN/History of 'ZRN)

SSR: Summer of Sonic LiVECAST Special CANCELLED

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:45:07 -0400

It appears that while I was well in the land of nod and the Summer of Sonic SSR special was going on, the ZRN apparently went down about an hour in, knocking off the show with it. The reasons for this are still being investigated, but unfortunately the special has been cancelled, and will not be rescheduled in its current format. I understand there are plans for a replacement show (or shows), so keep your eyes and ears set on SSR for further details. Apologies for the inconvenience; it probably couldn't have come at a worse time for both you and us.

Outages

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:43:10 -0400

The server has had some funky intermittent outages all day on Thursday. As a result, people could not only access the website, but they could not access any stations either.

Let's hope it clears out on Friday. Everything appears to be up as I write this post.

UPDATE:
All ZTNET servers (web server, radio, etc.) were up the entire time. The main router at the ISP where ZTNET houses it's machines started acting up. Same thing happened earlier this year. We could change ISPs to try and eliminate this problem, but since they give us such a good rate on bandwidth, there is no incentive.

General Annoucements

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:30:32 -0400

Listener Caps Increased
Due to incresed popularity, the listener caps for Sega Sonic Radio (SSR), Radio Nintendo, RPG Radio and Rockman Rush have been increased. The new values are show below:

Sega Sonic Radio: 20 (AM) - 35 (FM)
Radio Nintendo: 10 (AM) - 20 (FM)
RPG Radio: 10 (AM) - 20 (FM)
Rockman Rush: 10 (AM) - 20 (FM)

New Station
In the coming days, 'ZRN will be adding a new PC-Game themed radio station to our line-up. More information to come.

Want Ads Updated
We have updated our "want ads" for 'ZRN. Open opening for Remix Radio is now available, as is a staff/DJ position. For more information, refer to these pages:

Vacant stations - http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/joining/vacant.htm
Staff openings - http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/joining/staff.htm

(NOTE: these pages will be available starting June 20.)

SSR: Summer Of Sonic/15th Anniversary Special: Get Ready...

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:02:55 -0400

Hey there. Hawkz would probably be posting this but his account got nuked, so I'm throwing this up instead. As you might be aware from the site banner, Sonic's 15th anniversary and the upcoming Summer of Sonic initiative are both standing in the way between us and the end of June. As part of our contribution to the biggest bash yet seen in the community, starting Friday at 4pm UK time (11am US Eastern, 1am Saturday AEST), SSR's special 15th Anniversary Weekend kicks off...

And what a cracker of a start it is, with a four-hour LiVECAST featuring Hawkz and Roarey Raccoon on the day of the anniversary, celebrating "15 years of speed" in style. With any luck, they'll be able to get Dreadknux on the line too (c'mon, we all know how much you miss him! (-: ) They'll be playing the best tracks of the past 15 years, culminating in a "15-year countdown" at the end of the show. It's one LiVECAST you won't want to miss...!

And that's only just the start, with our LiVECASTs continuing over the weekend, culminating with the Aussie Monday block, where I'll be chipping in with my contribution to the celebrations.

So, finally Sonic can start acting his age, and you guys and gals can join in the party. It all starts on June 23rd - that's just one week away, believe it or not! Mark it in your diaries now...

Update: The time has officially been changed, as you can see, it is now 4pm UK time - after Falc's show, I believe.

SSR: If show downloads aren't working...

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:52:05 -0400

You might have noticed that the show downloads aren't working in the LiVECASTs section of the SSR site at the moment. It seems the directory structure of FastFeet Media's FTP service (which we use for the show archives) has been changed a bit without us being told, which means that all the links have changed. Bugger. They will be fixed in the next update (and I'll update this post when it's fixed up). That's all.

SGR: New site, next LiVECast!

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:34:48 -0400

With the Summer of Sonic coming into full swing, celebrating the blue man's 15th, and especially with the Sonic Olympics coming soon, we thought at SGR, that a new site was in order. However, it took a bit longer, and other stations have beaten us to the punch. On the other hand, the 'homepage' is now a 'splash page' for the new site!

SGR will also be hosting Sonic Cage Dome again in 2 weeks time, LiVECasting a STH3 tournament, headed up by me!

Also, look out for the Emerald Guardian Hour from Timper. More information about that soon aswell!

Check out the new homepage for all the latest news.

SSR: Five Hundred More Reasons To Like SSR:FM

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:46:28 -0400

G'day there. If you've been a keen flicker between the FM and AM channels of SEGASonic Radio, you would have noticed that the variety of games that were played on the FM stream was a lot narrower than on AM - only about half the AM playlist, in fact. Well, here's more reasons to tune into our premier stream, because all that has changed...

I've added a HUGE update to SSR:FM over the weekend, with more than 500 new tracks on board for your listening pleasure - or more than 16 hours' worth. So not only do you now have music from the classics in better quality, but also the newest titles from 2005 and 2006, such as Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Rush and Sonic Riders.

With this big bump for SSR:FM, and with our new SSR LiVECAST season continuing to gather steam - leading up to the big "Sonic 15th anniversary" weekend two weeks from now - I can be confident that SSR is able to continue to cater to your evolving Sonical music tastes. So, tuck in now - I'm sure you'll like what you find. (-:

Update: False start. :? Methinks the ID3v2 tags are causing a small amount of havoc again, because it's crashed twice in the past 10 hours or so since the update. I was warned about this. So, back to the old playlist for now. Re-upload shouldn't take more than a day. Stay tuned for further updates.

Update #2: Re-upload complete; the new playlist is back on. Hopefully there should be few bumps in the road from here on in. If it goes down again let me know.

Server hick-up

Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:01:56 -0400

The server was down this morning. The cause is unknown to me at this time. While some stations are coming back up, others cannot be restarted at this time. (Odd, I know.) I'll try again later today. Until then, try your favorite station's AM/FM counterpart if one station is down.

UPDATE: All stations are back in operation.

The new Radio Nintendo Layout is here!

Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:01:02 -0400

So it's finally here, the new Radio Nintendo website!! Whaddya think of it? Take a look by clicking here. I made some obvious changes. One is getting rid of the long menu. Half of the stuff didn't have a meaning. Hopefully all you need are the butons up top.
However, if you have suggestions then feel free to email me at greenyoshi att theodl d0tt com and I'll respond to you as soon as I have time.
As for now, there ARE still some minor bugs that need fixing, like the listener count up top. Hey, the last site wasn't 'coded' by me. Sure the graphics were mine, but this time this is MY coding (the majority anyway...), my first to be out of all PHP actually.
So that's all I have to say for now but like I said. If you have ANYTHING to comment on about this new look you can email me OR just click the comment button and I'll read it. As for now, I have GCSE exams to get back to . :?
-Phil

Chan 2 and 3 reset

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:05:21 -0400

Both Channel 2 (WTMK) and Channel 3 (Radio nintendo) were reset. If your connection droppped, you know why.

Huge Remix Radio Update

Mon, 29 May 2006 09:48:48 -0400

The playlists for Remix Radio's AM and FM stations have been updated. The FM playlist has been updated with the latest tunes from OCRemix. The AM playlist, on the other hand, has received a huge update.

To be honest, while the FM playlist was kept up to date and fresh, its AM counterpart was pretty much neglected, only receiving very minor updates. In fact, the AM library of remix tunes has not had a real update since when Jarel Jones retired from the station back in 2003!

Well, all of that has changed, for the AM library of Remix tunes has been infused with hundreds of missing OCRemix tunes, along with a few hundred tunes from other sources. I doubt you will recognize the playlist today, so tune in for a treat!

SSR: New management, new site, new LiVECAST season...

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:02:25 -0400

G'day, Spiky here letting you know about a few changes afoot here at SEGASonic Radio. Firstly, as you may or may not know, there's a new team running the station - Hawkz and myself - taking over from FastFeet and SpawnofSonic before him (thanks guys for your effort). We're gradually starting to get things moving again SSR-wise - and as you can see, we have a fresh look to things as a result...

If you take a look at the SSR new site, you'll notice has been given a face-lift for starters, and a number of new features have been added - the first of which you might be seeing now: integration between the news system and the 'Zone Radio Network forum - so you can discuss the updates to SSR right here (obviously you'll need an account to post with, but once you're done with that, you can fire away.) Another is the ability to view the SSR LiVECAST schedules in a time closer to you - either UK time, US Eastern time, or Australian Eastern time. Show downloads are now also available from the site, through our FTP service from fellow TSS network members FastFeet Media.

Last but by no means least, this site upgrade is also to coincide with our brand new LiVECAST season, which will liven up what has admittedly been a rather thin LiVECAST block for the first part of this year. You might have caught up with some of the new guys (including myself and offsider Hawkz) on-air already; the rest I expect to start up within the next couple of weeks, if they haven't already. They're positively raring to go, so make them welcome as they come on-air - they'll definitely welcome your support.

Despite all the changes, there's one thing that hasn't changed - we're still the station playing 15 years of pure Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Team music for you all, and that's one thing that won't be changing.

So... here's to a new era eh. Enjoy it.

Big News on SGR! First LiveCast - Sunday!

Mon, 15 May 2006 21:02:31 -0400

This sunday, we are having our first LiveCast, since the station came under new management. What makes this occasion even more special is that the show is being done to broadcast Sonic Cage Dome's Virtua 32X tournament on Sunday. If you wish to take part in this event, sign up here.

The likely hood is that the show will be presented by myself, and Zizou. Other guests on the show are possible going to happen as well. The details of the show and tournament are;

Show: The show will kick-off at 6:00 P.M. GMT (7:00 P.M. BST), 2:00 P.M. EDT (1 P.M. EST) on the (Sunday) 21st of May. You will be able to listen in on both channels, FM and AM. The chat room for the show hasn't been decided yet.

Tournament: The tournament will take place at 6:00 P.M. GMT (7:00 P.M. BST), 2:00 PM EDT (1PM EST) on the (Sunday) 21st of May, 2006, and will be held in the SCD Kaillera Server New York, USA (82.165.178.145:37888).

They are all the details you need to know, if you need to know more, click here to be taken to the SSMB forum topic for the tourney.

Looking forward to Sunday!

E3 Daily Roundup on Radio Nintendo

Sat, 6 May 2006 19:52:08 -0400

So guys I presume most of us are very excited about E3 this year, with the Nintendo Wii being presented fully etc. Well for this whole week, Radio Nintendo are going to bring you daily roundups for what's going on! Check out on Radio Nintendo's homepage for more information on this.

Please Refrain from using Mozilla

Sat, 6 May 2006 17:50:10 -0400

I would like to ask that people refrain from using Mozilla to tune into 'ZRN. The reason why I am making this request is because for some people, their Mozilla client is making multiple connections to the station they are listening to. This is not happening for everyone, just for some listeners using Mozilla.

If you you have any questions or have any ideas as to why this is happening, please contact NO CARRIER - wacko@emulationzone.org (Subject your message "ZRN: Mozilla Issue" so it does not get dropped by my spam filter.)

New Station Operators

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:59:27 -0400

'ZRN would like to welcome the following new station operators to the 'ZRN team:

Hawkz & Spiky:
The duo will be taking over the ever popular SegaSonic Radio. The two have worked at TSS (The Sonic Stadium) for some time and will continue the tradition of live broadcasting for SRR. Dreadknux will continue to oversee operations and continue Tss's affiliation with SSR.

Delta
Delta will be taking over Rockman Rush Radio. As some of you may remember, Jennifer, the current RR operator, took over the station after MutantMidget resigned a few years back. She sucessfully started an FM counterpart for the station. She now feels it's time to hand it off. Delta, with his affiliation with http://www.atomic-fire.com/ should fit the bill.

DJ Metriod
Radio Nintendo's newest DJ. Tune in to his show for great Nintendo music and news pertaining to the video game industry.

SGR;Open

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:09:29 -0400

SGR;Website has been opened officially. SGR;AM Channel has been opened officially.

Enjoy!

Forum to come soon!

SGR; Opening

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:21:49 -0500

The grand opening of Sega Games Radio (SGR) is soon. Important dates regarding this event is given below.

Website Opening: 1st April 2006
Playlists Switched Online: 1st April 2006
First LiveCast: 7th April 2006

These are all the dates set at the moment. Get ready though, because SGR is starting!

mike_taylor

SRPGA Download Issue Corrected

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:44:48 -0500

I had been made aware that some files of the Super RPG Adventure website could not be downloaded. The problem was due to a web server restriction that restricts files greater than 10 megabytes to be downloaded off the server.

To get around this limitation, I've split the large files into managable 9 MB chunks using "The File Splitter". A tiny program has also been included to combine the files into the original file.

If you experience any other difficulty downloading the files form that page, please let me know ASAP. Thanks goes out to Arjak for alerting me of the delema and to Marc Bjorklund, creator of File Splitter. (http://www.dekabyte.com/filesplitter/)

Working With Music Document Released

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:06:15 -0500

A year ago, the 'ZRN staff and I work begin working on a document that would capture out best practices in terms on creating, preparing and encoding music for use on 'ZRN. School got in way and I never got time to peice together the document.

Today, I finally pieced everything together. The result is the first ever edition of 'ZRN's "Working With Music" document. Topics covered include:

- how to best record from an audio source.
- CD ripping
- audio format conversion
- ID3 tagging
- volume normalization
- encoding
- live broadcasting
- ... and much more.

If you thinking about starting your internet radio station or are a music enthusist looking for some great info, then check out this document.

This document can be found on the "Internet Radio Newbee Guides" page under "Other Areas" menu up top.

Servers down - ETA unknown (UPDATE)

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:10:54 -0500

Everything is now back up.

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All 'ZRN stations are down at the moment. An ETA of their return is unknown because the server which they run off of is down and inaccessable. More news to come when I receive it.

This marks the four period of major downtime in the past month after experiencing only minor disruptions over the past several years. (Like someone tripping over a network cable, someone cutting power to the wrong cabinet for service, etc.)

SGR; Update!

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:27:08 -0500

First of all, congrats, SGR has now become the station for SEGA 'Produced' Games Radio. Thats right, I have ended the polls, and that was the result. From now the playlists are going to be gathered! Got any SEGA produced favourites? Please suggest!

Second, SGR has linked up with The Sonic City network (TSC). SGR now has a section over on their forum. TSC is currently being revamped and new sites added to network constantly. This will be a great fan base addition to SGR.

Third, that is all for now. Look out, because I am planning a 'Grand Opening' of the new SGR. Finished site, playlists and the first LiveCast! This should be in the next month or so.

Talk to you guys soon!

Super RPG Adventure Released!

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:03:12 -0500

After many years of procrastination, ‘ZRN is proud to announce the re-release of SUPER RPG Adventure. Originally released in 2002, this audio play by Johnny Wallbank (of STjr fame) takes a humorous look at the RPG genre. In this play, Bob, the protagonist, must overcome the evil wrath of the evil emperor, Lord Gitbucket, whose acquisition of “IT” threatens the current balance of power in the kingdom.

If you think fighting monsters and solving puzzles are the only challenges that await Bob, then you are wrong! Annoying characters, poorly translated dialog, plot holes, GameShark-ateers, and painfully long full motion video clips and just some of the challenges that await Bob.

Will Bob be able to stop Lord Gitbucket in time? What is “IT”? Why is the villain so evil? Download and listen in to the exciting audio trilogy to find out! I am confident that you will enjoy this comedy, so confident in fact, that I once dumped a girl because she refused to listen to it. True story! (Or did she dump me because I like this kind of stuff, I don’t remember.)

The cast of players includes VGMusic station operator Jarel Jones and former Blazefire Radio station operator Blazefire.

You can access the site here http://radio.emulationzone.org/sections/srpga or by accessing it from the menu up top, under “Audibles / Super RPG Adventure".

FYI:
In Jan of 2004, I obtained permission from Johnny Wallbank to release this trilogy on ‘ZRN. It was to be released shortly thereafter, but I never found the time to do it right until now.

Site News

Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:44:44 -0500

A few things to report

1) Menubar Update - The menu bar at the top of most 'ZRN-related areas has been modified. The changes are based on feedback that has come in over the past year.

2) New sections - With the release of the new menu bar, I finally released some new sections on 'ZRN.

The first is the "audibles" section, which contain sites that have, well, audio files for you to listen to. Content ranges from original music scores to audio plays. You'll find some the old favorites in here, namely the "Stallman Lecture" and "VGMQ", along with some new one: A^5 and , the TSSZ|SEven New archives. SRPGA is still in development.

Also released is the "other" section, which contains area that don't necessarily fall into a certain category. You'll find some the "Upcoming Program" listing in here, along with some new pages, namely iCEPiCK, the Internet Radio Newbee Guide and a Links section. The later two are still in development.

New Template Colors for the Forums

Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:34:30 -0500

When we installed the new forums back in 2005, the forum admin at the time was suppose to convert the default skin to match that of 'ZRN. Unfortunately, this request was far more time consuming than anyone of us realized at the time. Simple put, the 'ZRN "master template" is designed differently from phpBB2. Trying to port one over to the other would be extremely time consuming. and would require a lot of work to ensure the new layout fit the 'ZRN template scheme. As a result, the forum layout has been in a "half finished" state for over a year.

So today, I personally tried to port things over but gave up after quikly re-realizing how time consuming it would be. (Not only that, I figured I could spend my time more wisely doing other things on 'ZRN.)

So instead of spending two days editing every little feature of phpBB's template, I've downloaded and installed the "Zed" template skin from phpBB.com. (This template came to the closest to 'ZRN's scheme.) Some minor adjustments were made to it and it was then released. I also made it the default skin on 'ZRN so all users (current and new) will be able to use it instead of the sloppy one currently in place.

Check it out and let me know what you think. I realize that it's not a "perfect fit" of 'ZRN's layout, but I personally think it will do nicely.

SGR Playlists

Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:39:41 -0500

Soon the new playlists for SGR are going to be produced, so I have just added a new page to the SGR website; http://radio.emulationzone.org/chan1/playlists.php. On this page there is a form, with which suggestions for the new playlists can be made. Any suggestion (considering it is a valid one) will be added to the playlist . What makes a suggestion valid? There have been discussions about this, for example, why I have put a picture of Super Street Fighter characters on the site when it is not SEGA. Therefore, with this post there is a poll! The same poll is going to be added to the SGR site; 'Should the music played on SGR be limited to SEGA produced games. After adding the votes from the polls together, the majority will get their way.

mike_taylor

p.s. If your viewing this message on 'ZRN main page, click 'comments' to vote.

Particle Reset

Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:51:33 -0500

Several stations were reset so I could enable some new configuration settings. Expect a reset of all stations sometime tomorrow. Downtime should only be a few minutes, depending on the load to the server.

SGRS Takeover - Hello

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:37:45 -0500

Hey guys,

I'm Mike Taylor, and as you have just heard I am the new station operator of SGRS. However, the name of the station has now changed from SGRS (Service Games Radio Station), to SGR (SEGA Games Radio).

The station is having a complete over-haul, and this has started with the name, and now has moved to the site. The new format of the site can now be viewed, and is going to be tweaked with until we feel it is sufficient.http://http://radio.emulationzone.org/chan1/

Just like Eclipse, I am new to this. This is my first go at running online radio, so comments good or bad are much appriciated.

Look out for the new site, new playlists, and finally new live shows on SGR.

mike_taylor

Hello guys

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:11:32 -0500

Hiya. I'm Eclipse. As you now know from the previous news post, I will be taking the helm of the former station known as TSSZ. I'm not exactly changing it, it's more of a 'reinvention'. We will be playing great ol anime and video game music just as usual. We also will be playing some live shows for you guys. The station will be called X3|Radio and if you'd like to learn more, visit www.x3gen.com

Since I am an amateur at this, comments and suggestions are GREATLY appreciated. Just post a comment

See you for now!

~Eclipse

Station Changes / Additions

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:04:16 -0500

There is a lot of news to report on this front, so I’ll discuss them by station in order of their channel number:

Chan 1 - SGRS Takeover
Due to lack of time, (and perhaps interest,) the old station operators have been removed and Mike Taylor has taken over. The station has been on life support ever since Darkwolf, the original station operator, retired a few years back. Mike, a member of the Sonic “Scene”, should be able to inject new life to this station. First order of business for him: correct the station website, which is have good, half “yuk!” :-) Also, the name of the station has changed to "SEGA Games Radio".

Chan 3 - Radio Nintendo Changes
Ethan Allen, a co-operator of “Radio Nintendo” and head of “theodl.com” has vanished from his post! As a result, GreenYoshi, the other co-operator, has been promoted to station operator of Radio Nintendo. GreenYoshi has made a commitment to not only promote Radio Nintendo on “theodl.com”, (which he now runs,) but states that he will now do a regularly scheduled live radio show on the station. Should be exciting.

Chan 4 Reborn as X3|Radio
As many of you may recall, Tristan of TSSZ used to run our anime / talk station on ‘ZRN. He resigned from the post for personal reasons. Since his departure, the station has been idle… until now. ‘ZRN is proud to announce the formation of a new anime / talk station entitled “X3|Radio”. This new and improved station will be run by Eclipse, a staff member over at www.x3gen.com. We feel that Eclipse will be able to reintroduce this popular genre on ‘ZRN.

Chan 8 – Flywheel Radio
To better promote it’s pending affiliation with the “Flywheel” performing arts space in Easthampton, MA, Channel 8 will now be called “Flywheel Radio”.

Radio Nintendo Revived!

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:53:09 -0500

After a lack of time I've had, Radio Nintendo has finally got the updates it needed. Both AM and FM channels now have a new playlist, along with one weekly live show! Yes, L!VE Nintendo will happen every Sunday with all the latest gaming news you need! Have a listen whenever you can (chan3)

Playlist Updates

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:59:42 -0500

Quick annoucement:

the playlists for RPG Radio, Remix Radio (FM only), Radio Nintendo, and Flywheel Radio (Channel 8 ), have been updated. Tune in to hear what's new.

New FAQ Section Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:00:34 -0500

After much work, a new and improved FAQ section has been released. It includes answers to common questions asked here at 'ZRN, along with other information that you might find useful. You can find the new and improved FAQ section over at:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/faq/index.php

Station Vacancies / Openings Updated

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:24:39 -0500

The listing of station vacancies / openings has been updated. For more information, refer to the following link:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn//joining/vacant.htm

Server Reset

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:36:46 -0500

The file server that contains our music library crashed, causing all our stations to go silent. All stations were shutdown during that time as a procaution. The fileserver is back up, and thus all stations are back up and running.

Channel 8 Update

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:09:57 -0500

Channel 8, our Rock / Heavy Metal / Alternative music station, has finally received a badly needed update. Viking Woman, who has been on a hiatus since the station first went on the air, finally got around to updating the station’s play list, adding a over 350 NEW songs. If you are looking for a fresh selection of rock, heavy metal or alternative music, then tune in.

http://radio.emulationzone.org/extern/m3u/chan08_fm.m3u

Server Reset

Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:10:50 -0500

The server was reset again for whatever reason, making all the stations inaccessable. Everything is back up. Sorry about that. Thanks goes out to everyone to emailed me, letting me know that things were down, include John Paduch and GreenYoshi.

Technical Note: for security reasons, the server is not allowed to activate our network start-up scripts. That is why we must do it manually after the machine reboots.

'ZRN BBS - I'm alive

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:56:08 -0500

Alright, After my brief (by brief I mean very long) vacation from the net, I am back and ready to undertake the task to fully skin the forums, as I did half-bottom'ed attempt last time.

So, if you have any issues with the forum or need help, feel free to PM me.

Richard Stallman Lecture Recording Added

Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:15:58 -0500

Richard Stallman (known for the GNU-Linux project and the Free Software Foundation) gave a lecture at a "nearby" college. A recording from most of his lecture is available on the site.

http://radio.emulationzone.org/features/stallman

Video Game Music Quiz (VGMQ) Unvailed

Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:39:52 -0500

Darkwolf, former station master of SGRS, has annouced the opening of a new site called "Video Game Music Quiz" or VGMQ for short. Simply put, it's at site that allows people to test their knowledge of video game music. Think of the game show "Name that Tune" with an emphasis on game music and you have VGMQ... except there are no cash prizes and no trip around the world that you can win.

You can find the site under "features" or at the link below. Enjoy!
http://vgmq.garoux.net/

Network Downtime

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:52:59 -0500

The server was reset on Saturday, which killed all of our stations. Odds are, the ISP lost power to the server room... again. (Hey, they rates are good!)

Sadly, the server failed to kick-off the 'ZRN start-up script so the stations remained down after the machine came online for about a day until I was informed of the downtime. Thanks goes out to fellow staffer GreenYoshi for alerting me of the downtime.

WRMX To Undergo Some Changes

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:16:18 -0400

Hopefully by the end of the weekend, WRMX: Remix Radio, will receive a MAJOR update. What I will be doing is converting the station around so it only plays remixes that are a certain age, like 6 months. This will keep the station's content fresh and less repetitive. (As if the 1,000 song playlist was not longer enough. )

I also hope to fix the website after Jarel Jones messed it up by mistake. (You thought I won't notice, did you? :wink: )

Working Hard to Spam

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:05:02 -0400

Ok, some people are REALLY working hard to send me spam. Someone actually took the time to go to the post a private message containing spam. Funny thing is, the message is not in English but in some unicode-compatible language. One would think that if a site is in English, the guy running it would speak English as well. Here's the message:

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Ironically, over at EmuLinks.com, we receive messages from spammers who submit "spam" by submitting links that contain an ad or some offer that I can care less about. It probably took the guy a minute to submit such spam message and only a sec for me to delete it. (Ok, I laugh at the message for 5 seconds, so 6 sec total.)

Just a general comment: why would someone buy medication from some back ally pharmacy other the net? We know the medication is fake, and may even kill. If I want cheap drugs, I'll do what everyone else does: go to Canada. Afterall, would you trust a guy by the name of Mr. "phfoshsdg" who can't spell the medication that he is selling?

Radio Nintendo AM playlist up and running again

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:06:53 -0400

After about a month or so, we have finally come over the problem with Radio Nintendo's new AM Playlist. Sorry for any inconvenience that we might have caused but you can now enjoy listening to our new playlist on the AM channel.

Soon to come...a new FM playlist

Remix Radio Suggestions

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:46:17 -0400

I have started a thread on the message board asking for suggestions on how to improve Remix Radio. If you have any ideas or comments, please visit the forums or go to this link:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/scripts/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=103#103

Minor corrections

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 05:36:34 -0400

My Good Friend Phil Whitehall wasnt given proper credit in our introduction. I just wanted to say that he has been taking care of making huge awesome playlists for all of you hopeful listeners and he will not disapoint. Also SGRS is on chan1. So yeah we should have it all setup soon enough thanks for your patience and cooperation.

Radio Nintendo and SGRS Under New Management!

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:59:55 -0400

Radio Nintendo (Chan 3) is back in bussiness. Ethan Allen & Co, the new station managers, re-did the look of the site and we are currently in the process of making new longer and higher quality nintendo playlists.

Also on tap for rework is Darkwolf's legonary SGRS (Chan 2). Etahn & Co. have just started work, so pleace be patient for the time being.

Ethan asks that you forward any comments or suggestions for either station to him via email at Atsuisofu AT theodl D0TT com

Chan3 and Chan2 news

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:48:39 -0400

I was gonna post this in news but I dont have the forum access to do so. Chan3 is back in bussiness we re-did the look of the site and we are currently in the process of making new longer and higher quality nintendo playlists. As far as Chan2 SGRS we also are working on this one. I havent had the chance to work on the look so far so we currently have a construction page up, but that is still allowing users access to listen to teh AM radio. Well if anyone has any Q's or sugestions feel free to Email me at Atsuisofu@theodl.com

Thanks for your time.

VGMusic Radio Reset

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:35:02 -0400

VGMusic Radio was recently reset to correct a formatting bug. Sorry to everyone that was suddenly dropped from the station!

VGmusic Radio

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:38:54 -0400

VGmusic Radio has finally officially affiliated with vgmusic.com. With the station site finally seeing updates, and an official link on the front page of VGmusic, things seem like they'll be pretty prosperous soon.

Speaking of prosperous, vgmusic.com gets around 8000 unique hits a day, so I hear. Don't be surprised if ZRN gets popular rather fast in the next few days.

Rockman Radio Station Operator Wanted!

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:16:52 -0400

Jennifer of RPG Radio and Rockman Radio fame announced to me some time ago that she would like to hand over Rockman Radio to someone interested in running the station.

As you may know, Rockman Radio was founded by Mutant Midget, who successfully ran the station for a few years. Jennifer told over operations in 2005 and aided in the most recent transformation of the station, which consisted of a new layout and the introduction of an FM station!

Due to lack of time, Jennifer would like to hand off control to someone with the time to give the station the attention it deserves.

If you or someone you know would be interested in running the station, please visit the following link. People affiliated with a popular Megaman website will get priority in the application process. (Hint hint … a great chance for a Megaman-themed website to pick-up a free Megaman-themed radio station.)

http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/joining/vacant.htm

"CF Radio" Signs Off For Good

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:05:56 -0400

I have learned that CF Radio (formally tssz|2, B/W Radio, & WEMU) will not be returning to the airwaves. Andrew Chantler, station operator of the Live365-based station, informed me that he simply lost interest in the station.

When 'ZRN was first established in 1999 or 2000, our first station was a Live365-based station named "WEMU". At the time, Live365.com gave away free Internet radio hosting with 365 Megs of free diskspace!

We later moved to a locally run solution first consisting of Shoutcast and later Icecast so we could be independent of Live365's control. It turned out to be a good decision because Live365 abandoned free hosting after some time.

WEMU was passed between many hands, starting with NO CARRIER, then Tristan of TSSZ fame, and later Andy Chantler. A.C. took over the station after Tristan’s ambitious project to expand tssz into a huge media organization.

When TSSZ announced that they would be halting operators, A.C. said he would continue the station under the new name, CF Radio. However, computer problems both at home and at Live365, a monthly fee of $10-$20, and a lack of interest in running the station lead to the ultimate demise of the station.

We at 'ZRN wish Andy Chantler the best of luck with his future endeavors.

Weather Damage

Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:08:07 -0400

Due to damage caused by the weather, the launch of CF Radio has been put on hold until further notice.

EDIT

It has also come to my attention that during a LIVE365 servicing, they deleted all my files.

More wood for the fire...

Oi Oi, from the 'burbs

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:55:31 -0400

CF Radio is on it's way. If you wanna listen, join us on June 30th at 3pm BST. Playing videogame stuff, rock stuff, gah you get the point.

http://cf.andrewchantler.com

Red Hot Remixes Show Delayed to 10:30

Fri, 13 May 2005 09:31:58 -0400

I am going to delay the start of the Red Hot remixes show from 9:30pm to 10:30pm. The reason is quite simple: tonight is the 2 hour series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise and I won't miss it for the world. :-)

To make up for the delay, I do plan on running the show for a longer duration of time than normal.

Red Hot Remixes Show Postponed

Mon, 2 May 2005 18:29:00 -0400

This Friday's edition of "Red Hot Remixes" on Remix Radio will be postponed until Friday May 13th. This move is being done because I won't be around to conduct the show.

DO NOT USE XAudio!

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:15:24 -0400

It has come to my attention that the audio client "XAudio" does not work well with our servers. In fact, all it does is make multiple connections to the server, draining resources and preventing others from tuning in. For example, two listeners on SSR’s FM station have sucked-up all 15 listen slots on the station due to multple connects from Xaudio.

From this point forward, XAudio is banned from our servers until further notice. Given the number of great clients out there already (such as Winamp, jetAudio and Windows Media Play) this ban should not affect anyone.

Violators will have their IP address temporarily banned!

"What is 'AM' and 'FM'?" Doc Updated

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:39:14 -0400

In a moment of inspiration, I update the "What is 'AM' and 'FM'?" document to include more background information, and to clarify matters betters. The document can be found here:

http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/stations/am_and_fm.htm

TSSZ News Ticker Replaced with SN Ticker

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:37:59 -0400

As many of you already know, Tristan of TSSZ has called it quits on his ground-breaking Sonic and video game news site earlier this year. Because of that, the feed which we use for the news ticker was out of date.

To replace it, we recently installed the brand new news ticker from Sonic Stadium's "Sonic News" service. As you may know, the web masters of Sonic Stadium are also in charge of SEGA Sonic Radio (SSR).

Expect to see the same great news headlines you have become accustomed to seeing from TSSZ with SN. We hope you enjoy the new news feed!

SSR Back Up

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:56:51 -0400

Sega Sonic Radio (SSR), for whatever reason, was hung-up. The stations have been reset so they should be back in operation. If you were having trouble connecting to these stations, try now.

RPG Radio AO contest Winner

Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:30:05 -0500

I received one entry into the code giveaway on RPG Radio. The automatic winner is Brandon! There wasn't much competition I know, but I hope you enjoy the game!

Rockman Rush AO Contest Winners

Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:28:31 -0500

Well, I ran a contest for AO codes, and I received one entry. Manuel is the one and only winner of an AO code for the Rockman Rush giveaway!

I can't say there was much competition, but congratulations all the same. I hope you enjoy the game! :lol:

Red Hot Remix Show Postpomed

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:55:04 -0500

Due to a recent increase in workload at work, this week's edition of "Red Hot Remixes" show will be postponed until April 8th.

Original SGRS Playlist Restored

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:47:22 -0500

It came to my attention that the playlist on SGRS had been changed and contained mainly Sonic Team music. This was a bit redundant since there is already a Sonic themed station. Thus, I have restored the original playlist for the time being.

Staff Page Corrected

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:38:38 -0500

A bug on the staff page has been corrected. This bug caused the listing to be layed-out improperly on the screen.

Rockman Rush: Now in FM!

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:16:47 -0500

I'm happy to announce that all of you Megaman fans out there can now enjoy great Megaman tunes in FM quality! The FM playlist currently includes music from Megaman 1-8, Rockman X7, Megaman X8, Megaman Battle Network 4 and 5, and Mega Man Network Transmission. That's over 300 songs! Check it out!

In celebration of the release, 3 Anarchy Online codes will be given away. Check out the web site for more details.

Above all, enjoy the station!

Edit: I've noticed the station going down repeatedly. Random songs just don't encode correctly and crash the station. I think I've gotten most of them out of the playlist, but I'm not sure. The fastest way to get the station back up is for you to email me! If you're listening to it, and it stops working, let me know so I can fix it as soon as possible.

Remix Radio Update

Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:31:58 -0500

The playlist for Remix Radio FM has been updated with 40 new songs. The grand total is over 1,000 songs.

And a programming note regarding last nights "Red Hot Remixes" show: I accidentally connected to the wrong channel last night. :oops: So, when I went to shut-off the automated streamer, I essentially disabled the station.

Fortunately, I realized my mistakes and salvaged the show, but that was after 20 minutes of "downtime"... well, more like "screwed-up time". I apologize for the screw-up and to anyone that I might have scared off.

Rockman Rush - New Layout!

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:51:33 -0500

My first order of business in updating the Rockman Rush station was the layout. Check out the revamped layout, and be on the lookout for an FM version.

If you have any friends who like Megaman Music, make sure to direct them to Rockman Rush!

Various Network News

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:36:14 -0500

Downtime
Due to a configuration error, the 'ZRN network had to be taken down for a short time this morning. (Like 10 minutes.) Everything show be back to normal by now.

Remix Radio FM Issues
I've noticed that Remix Radio FM has shutdown own twice last week. The problem was caused by a few songs not being encoded properly. Hopefully, all the suspect files have been identified and dealt with. If you nitce Radio Remix FM, please contact NO CARRIER ASAP!

Management Changes
We did some shuffling of staff members. First of off, I'd like to welcome "Zeke" as the new station operator of SGRS. SGRS was orignally started by Darkwolf at the conception of 'ZRN. He later quite due to lack of interest. Zeke will also be helping RustyLikeAFox with Radio Nintendo as well.

Finally, Jennifer, station operator of RPG Radio, will help supervisor SGRS and Radio Nintendo until these stations get back on their feet. Also, Jennifer will be taking over Rockman Rush Radio for the time being in light of MugenMidget's retirement from the station in late January.

Remix Radio: FM Now Online!

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:24:14 -0500

You asked for it, so now you have it! After numerous requests for a higher quality audio stream for Remix Radio, I am proud to unveil Remix Radio FM. This station plays all your favorite remix tunes, but now in higher quality. Check out the stations website for more information and enjoy!

Funcom Anarchy Giveaway

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:19:24 -0500

To celebrate ‘ZRN’s upcoming fifth year anniversary and the release of our new layout, Funcom and ‘ZRN are teaming up to present the Funcom Anarchy Giveaway!

From now until March 31st, we will be giving away free copies of the expansion packs for Anarchy Online. Winners will have a choose of either the Notum Wars, Alien Invasion, or the Shadowlands expansion pack. Not only that, winners will also receive a free 30 day online subscription! (The game normally comes with a 7 day trail subscription.)

For more information, visit http://radio.emulationzone.org/zrn/features/funcom.php

NEW 'ZRN Unvailed

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:58:10 -0500

After a year of on and off planning, tinkering and designing, we at ‘ZRN are proud to unveil the NEW ‘ZRN! Over the past few months, we incorporated a slew of changes, modifications, and enhancements.
The most obvious change is the new layout scheme for ‘ZRN. It’s more stylish, more functional, and just flat out cool looking!

Other changes include a new message board, new station websites, new site features and high quality streaming options. Believe it or not, there are other new features and changes that will find their way on the network in the coming months, if not sooner. So stayed tuned!

I'd like to thank OcRemix and GameKast.com for inspiring our new layout scheme!