New Streaming Addresses; You May Need To Force Stop On App

TheBlast.FM stations are migrating to new streaming addresses.  The new addresses are on our websites, in the HTML5 players, and in the apps.  They were added just ahead of Midnight USA/Canada Central Time last night.

As of this writing, about 40% of our current-listening audience is on the old stream addresses.  You may need to force stop on TheBlast.FM app and re-open it.  You may also need to clear the cache in your webpage.  If the 32k stream is gone, you should be on the latest incarnation of the app/webpage.

The 32k stream is gone, at least for now.  

This streaming address change is due to the Sound Exchange royalty reports generation issue.  We are trying a somewhat DIY approach, still streaming with our long term legacy streaming provider that required certain add-on software, and required different streaming addresses.

HolyName Debut Album Drops On Facedown Records

Holy Name’s self-titled debut album has just been released on Facedown Records.   HolyName is  composed of Tommy Green of Sleeping Giant and Joe Holt and features guest vocals from Brook Reeves of Impending Doom, Eric Gregson of xDeathstarx, Joe Advent, Danon Saylor of Nothing Left, Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter, and Mike Felker of Convictions.  Their single Creed is in current rotation on The Blast and The Implosion.

New Android And IOS Apps Coming; New Roku App Is Here

The story is on our brother station, The Blast’s page.

https://www.theblast.fm/home/2023/01/03/new-android-ios-apps-are-coming-new-roku-app-is-here/

 

Alternate Stream To Implode To After Car Accident Sheds Power At Main Stream Host Site

A car accident near the San Diego data center where our main streams are hosted caused a block-wide power outage, knocking our main streams off the air.

Use this stream address in Winamp or VLC Media Player to Implode in the meantime:

http://208.85.240.82:80/128

This stream is now in our Android, iOS, and Roku apps in the third position, notated as 128k!!!

So the others may have dead air, but this is hosted on the other side of the USA and has live streaming audio.

The Implosion Streaming Address Changes

TheBlast.FM stations recently changed streaming addresses for better connectivity from our main encoding site in Portland.

Streams are now hosted in San Diego and are much smoother, as internet routing changes had made the connection from Portland to the Washington, D.C. metro much less stable.

If  you are listening on a third party media player, app or system on which TheBlast.FM stations don’t seem to be working anymore, and you can load our new streaming addresses manually, those are found here:  https://implosion.theblast.fm/home/other-streams/

Please notify us of any stream aggregators you use that need to be updated with streaming addresses.

War Of Ages Interview on The Blast Wednesday

On our brother station, The Blast, Colin Cruz interviews War of Ages on Wednesday.  The band enjoys airplay on both The Implosion and The Blast, with the heaviest tracks landing only on The Implosion.   On the Colin Cruz Radio Show, Colin will chat with lead singer Leroy Hamp.  Listen at 12 Noon (USA/Canada/Mexico Central Time) on https://TheBlast.FM

HTTPS Streaming Is Here: Stream On Chrome, Brave, Etc Again With HTML5 Players

If you had trouble recently listening to TheBlast.FM radio stations with our HTML5 players labeled 128k, 64k and 32k on our websites, those troubles are gone, as we have upgraded our streams to make them HTTPS-compliant. 

The streaming addresses have also been updated in our Android, iOS, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Blackberry apps so you may need to restart those apps to make sure the new stream addresses are loaded.  The old streaming addresses will go away soon. 

We have a request in to our Windows/XBox/Alexa Skills app developer to change the addresses in those apps.

Chrome 80 Won’t Blast; Here Are Plenty Of Other Browsers And Options That Will!

So, Google has decided to make life difficult for streaming radio and its listeners.  The station won’t play in our HTML5 players on Chrome 80.

Well, guess what?   You CAN listen to TheBlast.FM radio stations via our HTML5 players in these browsers: Brave, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Microsoft Edge, and probably a host of others.

On on any Windows 10 desktop or laptop computer, download the free TheBlast.FM Windows 10 app.

The Windows 10 app now supports our lyrics, album art and song ratings features!

If you are trying to listen on a phone or tablet, use Duck Duck Go, Firefox or download TheBlast.FM app in lieu of using the HTML5 players.

TheBlast.FM Stations Featured In Sioux Falls Argus Leader Newspaper

TheBlast.FM group of stations are featured today in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader online edition:

https://www.argusleader.com/story/entertainment/2018/05/15/blast-fm-sunny-radio-sioux-falls-blastozoic-era-christian-music-colin-strombeck/570794002/