Website Interruptions, Upgrades, Backer Archive+ Easy Listening Link (Patreon)

TLDR: New website coming. Soundgasm has increasing amounts of free content with file descriptions, should be up to date within the week. Megaupload free archive link will be populating over the coming week. Backer folder, here, has an added free mp3 folder, populating over same time period.

Summary:
Planning to get at least the beginner content and certain popular works posted tonight ,with the rest throughout the week. Will continue to have new releases and soon have a descriptions document/spreadsheet to help make it more searchable/manageable. New website will have similar convenience and player features. Keeping these updated will make it easy to see what changes or gets added month to month, but I'm also going to be better about monthly release recaps and linking to the last recap in the first general post of each month.

Long-form follows:
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I am in the process of upgrading the website. New one will have features like an on-site player, playlists, easier tagging and searching. Also an easy place for me to post reviews, or link to things by authors people might like. Maybe revitalize the youtube channel with some easy-listening ASMR and public domain audiobooks. It'll be a lot more modular overall and let me host other artists more easily.

We are having intermittent outages on the old service and so I will be focusing on updating and uploading everything to the new server over the holidays in hopes of just launching to the new site early next year. All new postings will of course go here, and you can access the backer folder as normal at the appropriate tier. That post also features a link to a Mega archive, which might be easier to download all the backer files at once from, than google drive?

I will also be preparing an archive of all the free audios, but I want to include descriptions, and it's quite a large collection. Within the backer folder, there is now a folder for all the Free releases that I will be populating (mega folder too, here!) as I update the new site (slowly, but steadily).

Another resource is the free audio uploading service Soundgasm.

And if you ever need to read descriptions of any particular mp3 in your collection, that's the place. Sorry the older descriptions are very rough, I only recently learned I could put html paragraph breaks and stuff into it. It's a resource for the free ones at least. See above about starting to include a descriptions document with the backer folder. It wouldn't be THAT hard for me to keep it updated, and I could have people remind me. The new website will have that feature and a downloadable text database, too by the end of this. Though maybe not on launch.

AND, again my soundgasm is being updated with easy listening versions of stuff that don't depend on my main site being up. The new site is going to be like that, tho - with the player right in the browser. For now, soundgasm is an option if you're on a device where you don't want to bother downloading and managing mp3s. Doesn't let you playlist though. You can even use it to preview inductions without having to download 10 inductions and find 9 aren't the right one - for example.

I'll post these archival links to my socials and elsewhere later this week.

Most of this is stuff you'll see if you browse the backer folder anyway.

I've got someone working on some remixes/edits of older content, and I'm working on more diverse content now including accompanying writing and a zine or two about writing this stuff.

For now I'm getting back to work because I don't like having the website be patchy, and I've seen the need to upgrade coming for a long time.

Seems what I get for Christmas is a kick in the butt to get to work on it.

To anyone else typing a lot, remember to stretch. Remember to hydrate. And check back in early january for announcements on the new site. I'll try to not make the design TOO different from the classic. Maybe a BIT more modern. If enough people hate the redesign I'll hire a professional to just replicate the old site.

-E.