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**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0
News of changes in the Spinitron app or other things we are doing. --- ## [Push to Twitter is going away](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/push-to-twitter-is-going-away/1856)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/push-to-twitter-is-going-away/1856 "2026-11-08T20:14:10Z")
The feature to push artist - title to Twitter will be removed from Spinitron soon. This is the special feature in Metadata Push channels. You had to authenticate in Admin: Integrations and then use the twitter: pseudo-p… --- ## [Degraded service today Oct 27 around 11am eastern](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/degraded-service-today-oct-27-around-11am-eastern/1852)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/degraded-service-today-oct-27-around-11am-eastern/1852 "2026-10-27T15:07:46Z")
There’s a network outage at the hosting company. I moved the www workload to another server. That should help soon. This appears to be the problem Bare Metal Cloud Status - \[BHS7\]\[Dedicated Servers\] - Rack B713B10 icid… --- ## [College Radio Wrapped - RIYL.fm](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/college-radio-wrapped-riyl-fm/1795)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/college-radio-wrapped-riyl-fm/1795 "2026-05-11T15:18:44Z")
Presenting A collaboration between Emily White &co. and Spinitron College Radio Wrapped A kind of end-of-semester per-station and per-DJ data summary on the world wide web at RIYL.fm Read about it on Emily’s substack: … --- ## [Spintrion at IBSNYC 2025 - Badge Giveaway](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spintrion-at-ibsnyc-2025-badge-giveaway/1518)
**Author:** [@daviddk](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/daviddk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spintrion-at-ibsnyc-2025-badge-giveaway/1518 "2024-12-19T23:53:25Z")
Hi everyone- David from Spinitron here. I help out with our Spinitron Search work and our music industry connections. Wanted to share something we’re excited to announce! Spinitron has been a proud supporter of the I… --- ## [Outage 3 PM Mon May 13 2024](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-3-pm-mon-may-13-2024/1298)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-3-pm-mon-may-13-2024/1298 "2024-05-13T20:20:53Z")
Spinitron was down from 2:49 PM eastern time for about half an hour. Our server hosting provider OVH reported a major outage at the datacenter where our servers are located (see below). One of our servers stopped respon… --- ## [SSL cert expired this morning. Oops](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/ssl-cert-expired-this-morning-oops/1261)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/ssl-cert-expired-this-morning-oops/1261 "2024-04-09T14:10:23Z")
Tom, the world’s worst sysop, here. I allowed Spinitron’s SSL certificate to expire. You may have seen a browser warning this morning. Sorry. It’s so dumb. We pay Godaddy for an Extended Validation (EV) cert and the ren… --- ## [Outage June 1 2023](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-june-1-2023/964)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-june-1-2023/964 "2023-06-02T13:13:21Z")
There was an outage of some sort at our service provider OVH for about 12 minutes between 7:11 pm and 7:23 pm eastern time yesterday, June 1 2023. I’m guessing it was to do with networking. During this time hardly anyone… --- ## [New: Public display of EMPTY future playlists](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/new-public-display-of-empty-future-playlists/937)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/new-public-display-of-empty-future-playlists/937 "2023-04-24T20:40:28Z")
Empty future playlists are now displayed in Spinitron public pages including in the calendar, in lists of playlists and as a playlist page, so long as the Display as a future public playlist checkbox is checked. Until n… --- ## [Archive recording loss around the new year](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/archive-recording-loss-around-the-new-year/844)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/archive-recording-loss-around-the-new-year/844 "2023-01-01T16:26:29Z")
We lost some archive webcast recording audio files around the new year. There is an error in FFmpeg, the software we use to make the recordings. As soon after the new year began, in UTC time zone, FFmpeg started writing… --- ## [Widget.spintron.com outage?](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/widget-spintron-com-outage/840)
**Author:** [@Ray\_Charbonneau](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/Ray_Charbonneau)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/widget-spintron-com-outage/840 "2022-12-28T14:27:06Z")
Last night, widgets were inaccessible via “widgets.spintron.com”, though they were still there through “spintron.com/widget”. This problem was resolved earlier this morning. Was there an outage, a DNS misstep or someth… --- ## [Outage last night on 54.39.125.196](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-last-night-on-54-39-125-196/827)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/outage-last-night-on-54-39-125-196/827 "2022-12-15T14:21:07Z")
We had an outage starting late last night and ending this morning on the IP address 54.39.125.196. A few stations use that address in their automation systems to send now playing updates to Spinitron. And we use the sam… --- ## [DB maintenance today (Nov 14 2022) between 9:30 and 10:00 AM eastern](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/db-maintenance-today-nov-14-2022-between-9-30-and-10-00-am-eastern/797)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/db-maintenance-today-nov-14-2022-between-9-30-and-10-00-am-eastern/797 "2022-11-14T16:15:15Z")
We’re doing some maintenance jobs on the servers today that will interrupt Spinitron service. It should be offline for only a few minutes but might take longer if unexpected stuff goes down. The following display should… --- ## [Maintainance and service interruptions Aug 17 thru 27 2022](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/maintainance-and-service-interruptions-aug-17-thru-27-2022/732)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/maintainance-and-service-interruptions-aug-17-thru-27-2022/732 "2022-08-17T13:48:15Z")
We’ll be doing various upgrades soon. Some of work will disrupt service. I don’t expect any of outages to last more than 10 minutes, they should be shorter, but if things go awry it could take longer. A full service in… --- ## [Archive server problems June 13-14 2022](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/archive-server-problems-june-13-14-2022/702)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/archive-server-problems-june-13-14-2022/702 "2022-07-14T13:37:36Z")
Starting around noon eastern time on June 13 2022, some of the archive server functions stopped working. Recent archive streams became unavailable. I believe we have now repaired the broken stuff but some stations are mi… --- ## [Spinitron outage Apr 20th and 21st 2022](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-outage-apr-20th-and-21st-2022/641)
**Author:** [@Amanda\_Shauger](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/Amanda_Shauger)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-outage-apr-20th-and-21st-2022/641 "2022-06-09T18:01:15Z")
When we go to KXCI 91.3FM Tucson AZ – Real People Real Radio we get the error message An internal server error occurred. --- ## [Web integration tutorial Tue Feb 15 2022](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/web-integration-tutorial-tue-feb-15-2022/569)
**Author:** [@eva](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/eva)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/web-integration-tutorial-tue-feb-15-2022/569 "2022-02-16T16:32:08Z")
Join us as we demonstrate our most advanced web integration: using your own website’s page layout and styles in Spinitron. This allows seamless navigation from your web site’s pages to pages with Spinitron content, throu… --- ## [Spinitron down today?](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-down-today/505)
**Author:** [@KCSMtech](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/KCSMtech)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-down-today/505 "2021-11-26T20:03:32Z")
DJ reported he got kicked out of Spinitron today around 10:45 Pacific time. Could not log back in. Came back at around 11:00 Pacific. Anybody else? --- ## [Server upgrade, IP address changes affect some automation and metadata push users](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/server-upgrade-ip-address-changes-affect-some-automation-and-metadata-push-users/104)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/server-upgrade-ip-address-changes-affect-some-automation-and-metadata-push-users/104 "2021-02-26T17:13:02Z")
We’re moving Spinitron to a new cluster of servers each with of 8-cores with 128 GiB memory. This is necessary to cope with the growth of database tables and search engine indexes. The IP addresses of our servers will ch… --- ## [Spinitron Webinar Today at 3pm Eastern](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-webinar-today-at-3pm-eastern/183)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/spinitron-webinar-today-at-3pm-eastern/183 "2020-06-26T18:53:22Z")
NFCB are hosting and are very kind to make this webinar an open invitation. No need to be an NFCB member to join. https://nfcb.org/spinitron-webinar-this-week/ Spinitron Webinar Today Are you a Spinitron user? Have you… --- ## [Notifications in Spinitron](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/notifications-in-spinitron/102)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/notifications-in-spinitron/102 "2020-02-20T00:53:54Z")
We have a new feature in Spinitron that allows us to send you notifications in the app. They appear on every page until you dismiss them with the × button. The app makes a note of when you dismiss a notification. So f… --- ## [Auto-complete now has live indexing of new spins](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/auto-complete-now-has-live-indexing-of-new-spins/36)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/auto-complete-now-has-live-indexing-of-new-spins/36 "2019-11-01T17:13:25Z")
Until now it took up to a day for a station’s spins to start appearing in auto-complete suggestions. Now it should take less than a minute. For example, in this video I enter a song that neither auto-complete nor Did-yo… --- ## [The map is back!](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/the-map-is-back/41)
**Author:** [@eva](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/eva)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/the-map-is-back/41 "2019-06-17T19:19:58Z")
--- ## [Do you like the logo?](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/do-you-like-the-logo/37)
**Author:** [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/do-you-like-the-logo/37 "2019-06-13T20:50:55Z")
What do you think of the logo in the nav bar of spinitron.com? We’re trying out different looks. The old look (below) needs a refresh but we’re not artists or graphic designers so it’s kinda hard. We focused on functi…