I know you folks have been through the mill and I am sorry I have not
spoken before now.

I met LeFlaw around a year ago and that is when I learned of dmusic. Somehow he roped me into managing this exodus from ancient infrastructure to a shiny new platform.

The December disaster involved not one, but two, drives failing in a RAID 5 array. But wait, LeFlaw had a backup - ooops sorry but it was really old and a little funky ( -- some ex-employees responsibility no doubt - ed.) LeFlaw has fearlessly, and at great personal expense, engaged data recovery specialists to get back the lost music.

We got some sample files last week and eight out of ten of them were usable but they weren't organized in directories so the true yield when we get the full recovery back may be even lower. I don't have high hopes for the process but it is underway and we are doing it.

January was a disaster. We spent February making all of the vital functions of the site work on the new platform. Now we will spend March finding all of the parts that were left mangled by the move. Come the spring, I want to give dmusic some new features that will
make all of your patience worth it.

I know you are all asking what can I do for dmusic (except for the ones that are asking what can dmusic do for me). Here is a really off-the-cuff list of what you can do:

1. Be patient, in technology, everything takes longer and is harder
than you imagine it to be.

2. Put up your best music. Things are improving, sing, dance, rock out (but always backup your own stuff!)

3. Report bugs well. To report a bug, test it twice to make sure it
isn't those mushrooms fooling you. Give the url of the page where the
bug occurs and (if applicable) the url where the bug ends up. Be very
specific, what was the sequence of clicks that caused the bug? What
version browser and OS were you using? What other programs were running?

4. Help your brothers and sisters here. I have to focus on making
sure this stuff gets fixed the right way so we don't end up here
again. Can you PLEASE continue to help and guide one another to make
dmusic awesome again?

I have a ton of stuff going on in addition to dmusic so I can't post
and respond as often as I would like. Please don't take this wrong.
I do, in fact care. You are all welcome to contact me at Dmusic (justanotherclue), or at
justanotherclue@yahoo.com


Thanks!
A note from Dmusic's CTO - Lawrence Greenberg, (justanotherclue)

Constantly fighting with my own pc to convince it to do the simplest thing, I can symapthize. The fact is that I've seen things being fixed, little things some of the members may not have noticed. And I know that leflaw has been monitoring, too. But there are times when there's just nothing new to say. For this update, and all the hard work that has been done and will be done, not to mention the amount of love that goes into this place-- thanks... to all of you up there in that city in the clouds.

thanks for the update man and thanks for all the hard work

and there you go......

Thanks - all it takes is a visit every couple of days and even if nothing else is new, just acknowledge it and the natives will be much less restless. We know that it hasn't been easy, nobody would voluntarily go through this much stress and expense, but we do hope that everything gets fixed soon so we can really make this something special. Glad we're not talking new features before getting the core working too. This is the right way to do things, and in the software and computing world is often ignored, which leads to major problems down the road. Best.

Make sure there's a database backup at least.

If it's going to keep going kaput, consider restarting it... Sounds extreme but look at the mess already.

Oh... And welcome. I'd also like to point out you never phoned and you haven't emailed. I haven't heard from you about rejoining the team so I assume I'm no longer needed. And thanks for the DMusic email address, it's only a couple of weeks old and has around 400 spam emails in it...

:tx:

bugger.

Tx for the update!!

thanks for the update! i joined the site site during the outage, and now that things are getting fixed i'm glad i stayed!

"so you see that as they say is that"

Please add my "thanks" to the list.
If I'm able to reupload everything on my artist page, would that help or hurt? Would this be an especially good time to do something like that, or an especially bad time? I'm willing to continue waiting...no problem...but as I've seen folks upload new material recently, I couldn't help but think, "Well, hey, I've got all my old files; I could make a trip to the libray and re-up..."
I say this just as I'm about to take my 'puter in for service tonight, but I shouldn't be without it for long (famous last words).

Thanks for a nice write up and nice to meet you Larry... Wow whats with the Larry name

As I have stated to LefLaw any help needed I am willing just ask

I know I can't ask you to do this but, yes, anyone who uploads files that were lost is doing everyone a favor. Let us know if you need more space.

... and upload a better mix, if you have it.

I would if I could. Upload, that is.

Whats a CTO

My stuff didn't come back, so do I need to upload it again or not?

"Reggaejustanotherclue
Date: March 5, 2008 @ 5:18 AM
I know I can't ask you to do this but, yes, anyone who uploads files that were lost is doing everyone a favor. Let us know if you need more space."

i got Pop Dolls files that were missing updated it, simply by uploading the song file again with the same tittle dont delete or edit anything just upload the track again same tittle

thanks to ShadowMom and the instructions in her journal!

Go DMusic!!

please keep doing all the cool stuff you're working so hard to do for dmusic - but do the other things in that busy life you spoke of, too. a good chill is worth a whole lot of code ever tapped out.