Happy 4th of July!

Overnight, our team updated the database and site code to enable the most popular Studio functions, "link to audio on the web" and "upload". These are now integrated into the new site as "Producer Tools". For now, these functions are only available to users that already have a channel on the old Studio product. In the near future, we'll deploy the "Add a Channel" feature and allow people to again start creating new channels at Odeo.

Some of you might be asking, "What about recording"? We are working on that as well and recording will be part of a larger suite of tools that promote the communication between Producers and Viewers. Audio/Video commenting and Podcast recording will be the main components of that new service.

We are working on a data merge to automatically re-claim everyone's feed and restore their privilege level but if you can't wait for that, please open a trouble ticket and send us your channel link and we'll do it manually for you.

Thanks so much for your patience on this. I know that it took a couple weeks to make the changes, but the getting the tools over to the new architecture will make for a much more stable product. Something that we all can appreciate.

eric@odeo

Just a quick blog update on our migration status. Work progressed over the weekend on the data migration. We moved the records and data associated with about 2.5M MP3's. We still have some more to go and we are working on two other activities related to the migration - restoring existing user's starred audio, subscriptions and friend relationships as well as ensuring that producers who had previously claimed a channel, don't have to claim it again on the new system.

In addition, the dev team is working feverishly to move the Studio's upload and link to file functions into the new site within each producer's channel page. We've talked to a number of producers about the planned workflow for upload/link and have developed what we believe is a major improvement to the episode creation function.

eric@odeo

Hey blog readers and Odeo users, Eric from Odeo here with a quick status update on our migration.

As you can see by using the site, the migration to the new site for finding, subscribing and playing content has gone extremely well. However, a couple areas have not gone as well as we would have liked and we are working hard to get 100% of your old Odeo functions here along with the new.

We are still working on migrating the old user data and the two most popular Studio functions over to the new site. We had anticipated just running the Studio in it's old form for several weeks until the new features were ready, but complications with running the sites in parallel made it difficult and we lost the ability for Studio users to create new episodes.

We expect to have this functionality restored in just a couple more days. The "producer tools" will be integrated into the channel page of the new site and the Studio product will be retired. Again sorry for the delay, we are working hard to support those of you who use and participate in the odeo community. Please, if you have any urgent matters, just contact me directly. eric at odeo dot com

eric@odeo