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Follow-up post: you're in luck! Ravon still had all of them, and here they are for your pleasure: http://rainwave.cc/~rain/ormgas_jingles.zip

You're very welcome.

We don't have them, unfortunately. I can check to see if ol' Ravon still has them kicking around, though, but I have a feeling it's a slim chance.

Thanks very much. Some big and exciting changes coming this year to Rainwave. I intend to make turntable.fm obsolete, more or less.

No, we're not yet listed in the Shoutcast directory. We just moved over to MP3 streams and will be adding ourselves to Shoutcast and TuneIn. You can use a third-party player and add the URL http://ocstream.rainwave.cc:8000/ocremix.mp3 though. (Fstream will let you do this)

I'm not sure what you're asking. If you mean "can you tune in like SHOUTcast", then yes, you can. If you're asking about DJing - things got a bit too busy for me so the DJ-ing stuff is on hold for now while I get things in order.

Total balls! I've tweeted at YouTube from the Rainwave account, for what it's worth. I also know someone who works at YouTube, and I forwarded him this info. He said he'd be reaching out soon. That might be worth more than my tweet. [edit] The YT account is back up!

I'll ping Ravon - they wouldn't be appropriate for the current OCR Radio due to references to ormgas.com as well as the name "Ormgas." But yeah I loved those old things. For reference, you know, we are fully capable of playing ads on Rainwave/OCR Radio. I just need some! If you guys make them, I'll play them! So please make some and give them to me. I have big plans for Rainwave over the next couple of months. Hopefully by the end of September, Rainwave will be incorporating a bit of Turntable.fm functionality. I'll assign DJs to OCR Radio, who can then upload their own music and DJ the air waves on OCR. Should be good times. So far this year, we've launched an entirely new website, added support for DJs, ads, scheduled live shows, made a stable public API, and soon we'll have 2 new stations: Bitwave, all chiptunes, and Omniwave, a mix of all the other stations combined. We've also got MP3 streaming coming next week, so you can easily tune in on any media player or device. (i.e. Android) Speaking of Android, there are Android apps in the works, too. I'm hoping once I nail down DJ support and letting DJs upload music from their browser for easy command of the station, Rainwave might get a bit more acceptance around here. Oh! I should mention, I will be at PAX, and I do plan to be at the OCR and video game music panels. If you see a guy with a Rainwave shirt, that's me, say hi!

You're very welcome! Going to be some big enhancements to the site coming soon, stay tuned.

Yes, they're both the same station, just different relays.

Hahah, glad you enjoy it. With the new server I should now be able to focus all my efforts on the next site version. I'm excited to finally have a clean slate to do it.

OC Remix should be 100% OCR only. If you were hearing VGM, it's very likely you were listening to one of the other stations.

No and no, this is entirely independent.

That's really difficult for us to do right now (we only have it working on the alternate station, V-wave) but we're working on it.

Yes, that's documented in the help page. We stream in a format that's not supported by major media players. It does, however, sound better at lower bitrates, which allows us to support a lot more listeners.

I got the help I needed from TehDonut, and I spent this afternoon fixing the updating script so that nobody's got an extremely tedious, continuous task.

It would require some maintenance and work, but we are capable of live show hosting. (but not recorded shows) More work on this is being done to make it smoother for the next site version. Still require help getting remixes up, though.

Hey everyone, I need a little help running OCR Radio right now. I need some grunt work done: the program that used to keep the radio auto-updated with the latest remixes broke, and I don't have the time to rewrite the program, since I'm hard at work on the next version of the site. (and the new site version would make any fixes to the program completely obsolete) I need help with: 1. Keeping the site up to date with the latest remixes (and there's a backlog of remixes that need to go up) 2. Posting the OCR albums to the site. It's my understanding that some songs on these albums are also numbered OCR releases, meaning you'd have to weed out the numbered ones off the current radio playlist before posting the albums. It's tedious, largely thankless ID3 tagging grunt work, but until the new site version is ready it needs to be done. All the other Rainwave staff is too busy with tasks for the other stations or their own personal lives to do this job, we have nobody dedicated to OCR Radio. Couple side notes, we've added a 3rd relay graciously donated by a listener. It acts as a failover relay in case the primary one has difficulties again. (those difficulties were resolved in under a day, but still...) I've also gotten email notifications of 2 replies to this thread, that should appear after my last post, and yet I can't see them here. (edit: I can see my own post appears here, so really, this is a mystery)

The US relay is experiencing some difficulties right now. Don't panic - it'll come back online eventually. Unfortunately the US OCR relay is our largest relay, which causes a chain reaction of people going to the Ormgas Swedish OCR relay or to Rainwave or V-wave. And we simply don't have the capacity on those servers to handle the load, making all stations problematic. Patience, please.

Thanks very much.

Hotmail rejects our emails at the server level. I've tried, and tried, and tried to get them to not reject our emails, but it never gets through. I send the email, their servers says "OK it's delivered" and it never shows up in anyone's inbox, bulk mail, or spam mail. It makes users furious that they can never sign up, so instead of dealing with people popping in the Rainwave chat all the time, I simply banned it telling them to use a different mail service. It's frustrating. Believe me, I wouldn't ban it if I could get it to work. It's not my intention to stop people from signing up for my site. Can you not sign up for gmail? It works, and it's free. If you don't want to, I don't ban Mailinator, which doesn't even require a signup to receive email. I probably should make it the default, but try http://rainwave.cc:8080 . If you can open that web page, you can edit the URL of the m3u you download from Rainwave to use port 8080. Some people find this gets around their work firewall. (note that this doesn't work for OCR, since they're hosted on different relays)

Well, in case nobody noticed, Ormgas was renamed to OCR Radio last week. We've become the official station, and I'd expect some interesting results in the near future as a result of the better partnership.

Haha, you'd have to ask Ravon, the guy who started it. I have absolutely no idea.