Earbits
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| URL | http://www.earbits.com/ |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Saved! |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #earbite (on hackint) |
Earbits is an independent music radio station with no commercials. The website was shutdown on June 16th 2014, but was brought back online on June 19th, 2014. As the shutdown was announced 4 days before the due-date, Archiveteam was in a hurry to get as much as possible of the service archived.
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Archive
Archiving was mainly organised by Schbirid, with Arkiver, ByMe, db48x, deathy, garyrh, joepie, midas, Mithrandir, zyce and probably others collaborating, downloading, uploading and being awesome. We used a mix of Bash scripts, duct-tape and alcohol.
Website
Arkiver did a Heritrix crawl of the following domains:
- http://www.earbits.com/
- http://www.earbits.com/artists/
- http://metalunderground.earbits.com/
- http://help.earbits.com/
- http://blog.earbits.com/
- http://logging1.earbits.com/
- https://dashboard.earbits.com/submissions/bandpage-connect
- https://dashboard.earbits.com/
- http://cdn-1.earbits.com/
- http://streaming.earbits.com/
- http://api2.earbits.com/
- http://cdn-100.earbits.com/
- http://media-http-prod-0.earbits.com/
The warc's are uploaded to the arkiver packs.
Music
We discovered that http://streaming.earbits.com/api/v1/track.json?slug=TRACKTITLE would give us a download URL for the mp3s, so we simply did that for all the ~130,000 tracks.
Assets (Images mostly)
We discovered that their "assets" s3 bucket was publically listing its files. So we grabbed the list and downloaded them all. We excluded private and personal files from this, there were spreadsheets...
Finished Archive
You can find the archived files at https://archive.org/search.php?query=earbits
The MP3s have hashes as filenames, you can find the corresponding metadata in the metadata item.
"Back online indefinitely"
After we were done and Earbits displayed their "we're gone" landing page[1], they came back online a few days later.
You spoke. Someone listened. Earbits is back online.
by Joey Flores
| June 19, 2014 | Online Radio News
Dear friends, listeners, artists and labels,
It has been one hell of a week, and we could not be more excited to bring you some truly unbelievable news.
On Friday, we announced that we had run out of funding and would be shutting down the Earbits service. We received countless emails from artists and listeners showing their support for the Earbits vision, and they spoke up on Twitter and across the web. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to go offline two days ago.
The sentiment of the community did not go unnoticed. Since then, a strategic partner has stepped forward and provided the necessary funding to bring Earbits back online indefinitely. The web service and mobile apps have been relaunched, effective immediately. Seriously…go look!! —> www.earbits.com
As is the nature of these things, I can’t provide much more information at this time. What we can say is that we feel truly blessed by the support that we received this week. With the help of our strategic partners, we look forward to not only continuing the services that our fans and artists have come to love but positioning ourselves at the center of a music industry revolution.
We will be sharing any further details with our partners, users and the community just as soon as we can.
Thank you to everyone who came out in support of Earbits and our team. It was the most heartwarming show of support anyone could have asked for. Thanks to you, our future is now looking brighter than ever.
Joey Flores
CEO, www.earbits.com[2]
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