undermybrella

Brella is down for Server Maintenance

So chances are, if you're in either of the two Discord servers for my projects, you've seen the latest bit of news from me - my main server hard drive has probably gone kaput... I go to power it on, and all I'm greeted with are beeps and clicking - so it's not sounding good so far.

Why am I telling you this? A few reasons, actually --

This has actually coincided really awkwardly with everything, because not only has the Jukebox gone semi-viral (again), but I was plannin...

Google, YouTube, and where we are now

So, for those of you who don't diligently check every single thing I post on the EternalBox server...

Google has suspended our quota for the YouTube API. This is, to put it one way, not great. To put it another way, it's completely killed song resolution... for now.

As I said, currently new songs will fail 100% of the time. I need to work out a solution for this, which... is going to take some time. Now, while I don't have an exact solution rig...

Invoice for May 2020

Hey everyone, so the invoice for May has come through, ending at A$500, which is $100 ahead of where we were last month, which is good!

Other payments to note here:

• Cloudflare load balancing + workers: $30 USD (~$43 AUD)
• SSDNodes CDN pricing (converted to a monthly cost): $12.50 (~19 AUD)

Due to some really funky technicalities the CDN server wasn't actually functioning a lot of this month, so that's something that will be interesting to see in the comin...

EternalBox - Local Client 2, Opus Boogaloo

(This is an update to my last post which you can view here)

After *several* days of painstaking searching through reference documents and specifications, it's finally here - an encoded loop that *doesn't* take 100 MB.

That's right folks, the attached ogg audio file was generated directly with a testbench version of the EternalBox's upcoming local client. It still n...

EternalBox - Local Client

So a lot of people have been asking for a local/app version of the Eternal Jukebox, and it's something that I want to facilitate when possible. Unfortunately, it's a very large undertaking, and it's something that I want to get right if I'm going to do it.


So, when I began work on the latest rewrite, I made a decision to switch to using Kotlin/JS for the front-end code. This means that there will be a slightly heavier initial load, but considering we're loading megabyt...

April 2020 Invoice

In the interests of transparency, I've elected to start uploading Google invoices to better demonstrate how money is getting used each month.

This last month was much more expensive than I had anticipated by far, clocking in at around $600 AUD. I really want to emphasize that I'm eternally grateful for anyone and everyone that chooses to support these projects, no matter how much you donate.