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Small update: Sleep radio is back online

Posted Thu, 22/10/2009 - 23:05 by Tom

Our online stream of sleep music is finally back. What's more, there is an MP3 stream now available. You can either listen to the radio stream in high quality OGG format or lower MP3 format.

At the moment the playlists for the MP3 and OGG radio stations aren't in sync. I guess you can alternate between them to choose which track you prefer to listen to :) Hopefully they will be in sync in the next few days.

In other news we welcome a new artist, MBW, and their new album MBW with some deep chill out minimal ambient sounds.

Polybonk has reached an important milestone - the site is out of beta and is now version 1.0. (were ahead of google:) There is still a lot of work to be done, it feels endless. What is very exciting is that we are releasing music again, that long gap of no music has finally been closed.

I would like to say thank you to everyone for their support and all the wonderful feedback that has helped us along the way!

MP3 radio station is now available and we have a new artist MBW...

Back on track

Posted Sat, 10/10/2009 - 02:05 by Tom

I'm not sure if you've noticed but it might seem like there isn't much happening at Polybonk.com. Sadly this has been true with regards to new releases but things are looking up.

As mentioned in a previous post we have been working on improving our sound quality. At Polybonk's studios it seems like we are having breakthroughs nearly every week in sound quality and music production.

To give you a taste of what's to come, here's a sneak preview of a new track from the new album by The Pleasure. This awesome album will be released very soon!

Direct link to mp3

New releases and some exciting new developments...

Crazy tunes from Exo

Posted Sat, 18/07/2009 - 19:40 by Tom

Looks like Silverdale has been removed from Youtube, damn.

Heres a track from Exo and some game footage from Every Extend, did you ever end up beating this score exo?

New audio mastering

Posted Sat, 20/06/2009 - 13:48 by Tom

We have recently got our hands on some rather unique audio mastering equipment which has improved the quality of our sound dramatically. Thanks to our brilliant audio mastering engineer, I can proudly say that we have reached a new level of sound quality that has surpassed any previous improvement and I also feel it has entered a truly professional level. It's simply amazing!

In order for you to experience this change I have quickly setup tree samples of "before and after" tracks for comparison...

The Funk by Stalker

Amazing improvements in sound quality...

Still hard at work

Posted Wed, 04/03/2009 - 09:38 by Tom

It may seem like very little is happening but rest assured, there are a lot of exciting things going on. Just to name one of a few new things coming, Polybonk is getting involved in an exciting new project code named Project Audio Libra: PAL - This project is about pushing the boundaries of the Open source world of audio software. We at Polyobnk are huge fans of Free software and I have convinced one of our artists at Polybonk, Kavafortet to agree to this experiment.

Save the net!

Posted Fri, 07/11/2008 - 12:47 by Tom

Online Advocacy group, GetUp! has said the Federal Government needs to re-think its plans to censor the internet and consider the impact it will have on thousands of Australian households and businesses.

Less than one week after Federal Government said it would press ahead with its internet censorship plans for December 24, GetUp! has attracted the support more than 75,000 thousand Australians who fear it will slow internet speeds to a crawl and fail to stop unwanted content.

Checkout troubles

Posted Mon, 08/09/2008 - 19:22 by Tom

Apologies to everyone who attempted to checkout over the past couple of days. We had a major problem that went unnoticed until today.

The problem was our shopping cart wasn't able to communite properly with PayPal during the checkout phase.

We have fixed the problem, everything is back to normal.

Once again we are very sorry for any inconveniences we may have caused.

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New media player

Posted Mon, 02/06/2008 - 18:17 by Tom

Today I made a mock up of our potential new media player used to listen to our previews. I felt from the very beginning of designing the way Polybonk plays you our previews for each track was a total overkill and literally kills browsers.. most frequent in one particular dreaded browser.. *cough* IE6/7 *cough* (If you are using Internet Explorer of any kind please stop now. use Firefox.)

Here is a Sneak Peak at what the player might look like.

Mock-up media player

Job's almost done Mr Polybonk

Posted Wed, 21/05/2008 - 22:12 by Tom

I'm about to release the revolutionary subscription to the public for the first time ever! This is extremely exciting for us since it's been such a long road to get where we are now today. Plus I have been working on a few extra features and updates to the site such as:

Featured album on the front page
Polybonk's theme has been given a big clean up
The front page is now a lot cleaner and includes some actual useful information
many minor bug fixes which you hopefully never noticed ;)

I hope to put these changes into effect later tonight.

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So You Think You Can Dance!

Posted Wed, 09/04/2008 - 15:20 by Tom

This post wont be very relevant to you if you live outside of Australia but one of my friends Vanessa has made it in the show So you think you can dance! and she has made her way up to the top 8! I feel very slack since I keep missing the show but I at least I can watch the show on her So you think you can dance! profile. On the up side to this I guess I get to cut through all the TV ads and get straight to Vanessa!

Also If your into facebook she has a pretty good group supporting her here, I get lots of frequent updates on her through there. Anyway thats my part on Venessa, Good luck!

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