A lot of people have asked about the archives, so I feel an explanation is owed. So here it is ...

In order to get the archives up, we need some disk space, and some bandwidth. The disk space is no problem - we're working on getting some hardware to get a lot more bytes available (what we need to get is a sata raid controller for our ibm e-servers, and it's just been a matter of some cash and an ebay purchase).

The bandwidth is a slightly different story. Right now we've got a DSL connection to the Internet. LISCO has generously upped our upload speed to the max possible, but that still gives us only about 1Mbps uplink. This is not bad, but basically the problem is that if we make our archives available, and lots of people start downloading from our site (which we're hoping for, of course), we max out our uplink for the regular live stream. Basically not good. I've been thinking about options - everything from bittorrent seeds of our shows, to community mirrors (where multiple people around town can help out by hosting the content on their servers as well, which would mitigate our bandwidth issues).

One other thing is that we need to actually get all our archives organized. Jimmy does an amazing job of getting the archives together for the rebroadcasts, but we want to actually tag all our content with a Creative Commons header, and an indication that the content was produced by KRUU-FM, and a bit of a bio about the show host. That way whoever downloads the show at least learns a bit about the show host (assuming they don't already know everything :) ).

So, what does this mean? We'll get the archives up soon. Very soon. We may just start by experimenting with how many downloads we have, and if the bandwidth becomes an issue throttle it back or something.

BTW, if anyone reading this has suggestions, please contact us (go to the contacts page, and send a message to grease-monkeys). And thanks to all of you for your incredible patience and for all your support :-)