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Looking back over the news for the past few weeks, it's just all been about problems and difficulties. Well not this time. This post is to say that everything is working great on the technical side of things. We moved Organlive.com to an entirely different web host, one that gives us much more control over our situation. Since we've moved it, we haven't had any of the recurring problems we noticed with communication between the old host and our server. We don't know if everything is completely resolved once and for all, but we're certainly breathing much easier, now.

September is upon us, and that marks Organlive.com's official birthday. It was on September 1, 2003 that we made our broadcast of organ music open and free for the public to tune in and listen. We've come a long way since then, and we still feel we have father to go! In addition to seven years of broadcasting, just this month we added the 10,000th regular track to our library. We have 830 albums online, plus about another 40 of seasonal music that shows up at the end of the year.

We have a huge backlog of albums to go online, as well. We're working our way through them, but as we go we want to take time to point out some of our favorites, however we don't do that here. That's in our monthly email newsletter. If you're not getting that, then you should sign up for news and updates about what's going on at Organlive, and to get information that's not available on our website. To sign up, go to our Contact Page, fill out the form, and check the box at the bottom of the form to receive our email. Also, if you've created an account on Organlive.com, just go to the My Account tab at the top of the page, and select which emails you'd like to receive. In addition to our newsletter, you can also sign up for our New Album updates which will notify you of new recordings as they are added. These actually haven't started to go out, yet, but we hope to begin sending them this month.

Thanks to all of you for tuning in. We know we have some new listeners out there. We always appreciate hearing from you! Please send us a message via our Contact Page or just email us at comments@organlive.com.

We are aware that our website is not currently functioning properly. It appears that our Internet host is no longer allowing our website to communicate with the server that provides live data about our broadcast. We are taking steps to correct this, but however our options are a bit limited in this area. It may be a few days before things are back to normal.

Until then our broadcast will continue normally. Your patience is appreciated as we sort all of this out.

Our web host dropped the ball on us yesterday and our website was out of commission for several hours. This morning when it came back up we had several items to fix in order to get it back to 100%. It looks like everything has been found and repaired, so you should be able to fully browse our playlist and request tracks again. Thanks for your patience!

The long wait is finally over, the new website at www.organlive.com is finally up and running! A year in the planning and nearly three months in development and design has finally paid off. Many thanks to those individuals who did testing for us and helped us work out all the bugs. We couldn't have gotten it done without you. We think this new site adds many new features that will only enhance your listening experience, and make it easier to browse our playlist and find music you want to hear.

This was a major upgrade from our old site, one that had been around for a few years. While it's very different, much is still the same, so it should be easy to get around and find what you're looking for. We still have more expansion planned for the future, so if you have comments, suggestions, or even possibly find a bug we missed, let us know!

One final note, this new site does not support Internet Explorer 6. We tried and tried to make it work, but it would have been at the sacrifice of usability in other excellent browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, or even Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7 or 8.

Thanks to all of you for your patience while we put this new site together, and as always, thanks for listening to Organlive.

Testing of our new website is going well, many of you have volunteered to test things and have helped us make parts of our website work better than we had planned. It looks like we'll be on schedule to go live before the end of the week.

Until then, here's something else you can look forward to on our new site: Better Photos!
Our standard album artwork photos have been this big:

It was a standard set up about 6 years ago for a very different website. Now, however, in addition to those album thumbnails, you'll also be able to see the album artwork close up:

As of this post, almost 3 quarters of the albums in our library have larger artwork. It's something you asked for, and we've been working on it for a long time. We'll continue to work on it and you'll be seeing more and more on our new site.

But that's not all, we're also including Organist Photos.
Soon you'll not only see the name and biography of the organist you're hearing, but you can see faces, too.

Jonathan Dimmock
This is also something we've been working on for a while, and we're still working to find images of all our organists. If you notice a photo is missing of a particular organist, and you have one to share, or if you are one of the organists and have a better photo, please send it, we'll take it!

We appreciate your patience while we put the finishing touches on the new site, although, once it's live it won't really be finished. We still have more things we want to add later. Keep watching here for updates, although when the new site is up, you won't miss it!

We're still cleaning up a few minor details, but we're ready to start beta testing our new website. If anyone's interested in helping check it out, please use our contact form to let us know. We'll send you back an email with instructions on how to access the site.

If you're a regular user of our current website, and you use it to browse the library and request tracks, then you're qualified. We'll give you a list of the things we'd like your response on, and hopefully use the information to get everything all tweaked so we can roll it out for good at the first of August.

One of the new things we'll need to double-check, and hope will be working perfectly soon is our new Track and Album Comments feature.

If you have something to say about a track, you can post public comments about individual tracks or albums on the new site. We're also hoping some of our artists and producers might add some insightful comments about the recordings as well.

Thanks for all your help, patience, and input so far. And as always, thanks for listening!