Well Open House has returned after an unofficial break throughout the entire month of December. Unfortunately our hiatus was not by choice though, it was in fact due to "technical difficulties." To make a long story short, in October when the file hosting website that we paid for, EZ Archive, decided to "upgrade," it also decided to downgrade the quality of our mp3 files, making them muffled and slightly distorted. We did not realize this until the end of November, resulting in our month long break. When we inquired about the loss of clarity in our files they said that they "found in the past that allowing people to download files when shared was primarily being used to share copyrighted materials and that created infringement concerns, which was not the intention of the service." In spite of their obvious "concerns" about copyrighted materials, they for some reason still provide the same service that allows people to download files, but now it is the subscribers that are getting screwed. Everything that was posted prior to this post probably sounds like crap. Whatever.
At any rate, we are moving forward with a free service called Filexoom. In most cases you will probably still be able to simply right-click, and save-as. For some reason though, it will also occasionally make you click on the link and actually go to the Filexoom site. If that happens, just simply scroll to bottom and wait for about 15 seconds until it says you can download the file. This does seem like a hassle to me, but at least the sound quality will be up to snuff.
There is yet another change in the works for Open House, this one is less annoying, we have a new contributor named Drew. His first post will be on Tuesday.
For now, since there’s going to be a crapload of New Years Eve parties tonight, I’ve decided to return to the Sunday Singles format with a song by the New Year about a party.
Sinking Ship (mp3)
Bonus
The End’s Not Near (mp3)
Sorry about all the problems, please check back on Tuesday.
We hope everyone has a Happy New Year.
-Popkoff
