User:Subtlecoolness/InProgress/Rainwave
Rainwave is an interactive radio website that allows users to request, rate, and vote for songs in real time. The site hosts three separate radio streams and focuses completely on video game soundtracks.
The Rainwave back-end was written by Robert McAuley. The initial version was called "Raincast" and was announced to the Icecast mailing list in November 2004[1].
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/2004-November/007849.html
"On June 04 2008 the page and stream oc.ormgas.com were permanently shut down. ormgas has moved to http://ormgas.rainwave.cc
Time and dedication has faded for me and w-ber a long time ago, and when an apartment switch left us with the belief that we were going to end up with ADSL instead of 100/10MBit fiber, we took the decision to shut ormgas down. LiquidRain later on decided to take on the task of merging ormgas into his existing page, rainwave.cc. He has really done some wonders, both with his implementation of rainwave and the huge task of migrating the existing ormgas user base, songs and votes into the rainwave platform.
The user name and password you members have used on ormgas will work on rainwave as well. If you forgot your password there's a password reset function which allows you to generate a new password. Note that there has been numerous issues with Hotmail accounts not receiving any mails from rainwave. If this is the issue I suggest you contact LiquidRain via IRC (irc.accessirc.net) in either #rainwave or #ormgas.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the users that stuck with us for all this time, despite the fact that very little happened site-wise for the last 1-2 years. Thank you, w-ber, for all his work on the backend streamer and playlist manager; Dice. It's a shame that most of his work went on behind the scenes. I don't think people realize or appreciate really how much work he has done for ormgas. Ormgas was nothing before he took on the task of writing the playlist backend and redesigning the database. I would also like to thank Tanaric, Dracoirs, AyakoKiyomizu, kuroikaze, Salty, efiloN, Liontamer, all the donors and ormgas moderators who helped the site staying sane and running.
Thank you /ravon"