Emergency Maintenance
As many of you have realized, our database servers have been overloaded for several hours now. We've place the site into emergency maintenance mode in order to get things sorted. We estimate that this...
View ArticleCrowd Sourcing Search Results
Why Crowd Source? Tonight's maintenance includes the first phase of something we're really excited about: crowd sourcing search results. Most of you have probably experienced the frustration of finding...
View Article80 Million Blips, 1 Million DJs Strong, and Content Update
Hey Blippers! We know it’s been a while since you’ve last heard from us, but we wanted to give you an update on changes to our content sources due to our licensing arrangements. You will continue to...
View ArticleApologies - We are Still Working on The Update
We just wanted to let everyone know that we are still working on integrating the new content into the site. We are testing the new search results and the playback in our staging environment and we...
View ArticleGrooveshark Integration Arrives
UPDATE: Site is back up. Also forgot to mention that the -video search flag is also working again. Hey Everybody, First off, we'd like to thank everyone for their patience. We know this transition...
View ArticleBlipping and Propping not Properly Working
We understand that there are currently problems with blipping, propping, and re-blipping. Please bear with us as we sort this out. UPDATE: Yan has found a temporary fix and we will continue to...
View ArticleALO at the Sessions TODAY (February 24th) at 11AM Pacific
Hey everyone! One of our favorite bands, ALO will be playing at the sessions today at 11AM Pacific. Check it out here
View ArticleAnnouncing FUZZ: Calling All Blippers in the US to Test New Product
Jeff here from Blip.fm. As some of you may remember, we started our music efforts with an artist marketing product called Fuzz Artists back in 2006. Despite our efforts, it never really went...
View ArticleBlip.fm YouTube Search Should Be Working (Hopefully)
Hey everyone, We are working to fix the broken search functionality when blipping a new song via YouTube. In order to fix the problem we needed to upgrade from version 2 of the YouTube API to version...
View ArticleCan we Work Together to Keep Blip.fm Alive? (I think so!)
Team Blip, I wanted to move this to a separate post. I can't thank you enough for your outpouring of support and kind words. Quite honestly, it's the community of wonderful and diverse diehard music...
View ArticleServer Changes
We are making some changes to the Blip servers. There may be some greater than usual glitchiness as a result over the next 24-48 hours. Apologies for any headache this may cause.
View ArticleMoved the servers - now what?
We've finished migrating our servers to a new provider - sorry for the pain, delay and downtime. Up next we want to look into any new bugs that have arisen in the past week, as well as long standing...
View ArticleThanks for the feedback!
Thanks very much for the robust response to our request for feedback and bug reports at support@blip.fm. Please keep them coming! Wanted to let you know what is in the current development/bug fixing...
View ArticleQuick update on servers
Several of you have been kind enough to point out that we did not include server stability in the list from the last post. We are experimenting with some configurations to try to get both performance...
View ArticleMigration Migraine
Hi All! The good news is all the recent activity you have seen means that real live human developers are once again working on Blip. The bad news is we managed to break a few things along the way....
View ArticleBug Infestation, and a Question…
All, thanks for continued feedback. We are aware a major issues under the heading of 'missing blips' (home feed, all stream, etc.) and we are actively working it - not that that makes anyone feel any...
View ArticleThank you, again! And a word on the golden rule…
Thanks everyone for your patience and support - sometimes its been more generous than we have deserved. As I said before, the devs are figuring out how this excellent but dinosaur-era code works, and...
View ArticleBug Fixing Update
Thanks everyone for letting us know about the bugs you are seeing on blip. Please email us at suppoart@blip.fm if you are still experiencing these bugs or have other issues. Be sure to identify the...
View ArticleScheduled down time
Just to mix things up, we decided to break the site on purpose and use that time to update some server software. So around 1:30 a.m. Friday (e.g. late Thursday night) the site will go down and...
View ArticleBreak Down
Sorry folks, we've clearly screwed some things up in the latest server changes. Our devs are digging into it and we will provide an update as soon as we can. To be completely honest here, it may be...
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