After doing an overhaul of our website, the regular donation links are having some coding issues that our web team needs to solve. In the meantime, we have a temporary Donation button now on our website that will work. It is on the right side, just under The Blast Map.
Got A Request? Use the Request Portal in the Multi-Stream Flash Player on our website.
Let's face it, the Android operating system is extremely fractured. App A may work better on one phone type; while App B may work better on another. Some app developers have "this" figured out but not "that", and for other app developers, it's the other way around. And on what is generally regarded as the latest and greatest Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S-4, the metadata on our new app is showing up as very dim and hard to read. That is being looked at by the app developer. Well, we have a solution for our Android users who have any trouble with our new Android app. You can now download our original Android app and have both our new app and the old one in your Android device! This gives you even more stream choices, too. Here is how to get it. Go here and download it. You will probably need to temporarily tell your Android device to accept apps from non-market sources long enough for this app to load.
Get the old Blast Android App, just click here! You may need to change the settings on your device to allow it to download and install from other sources first. After you have loaded the app, change the settings back the way they were before.
Or here: http://www.theblast.fm/wp/downloads/
Huh? Beaver hats? It's a different take on what is otherwise, a very dark, serious song. Love And Death has released a funny, creative video for their song Meltdown. Here it is: http://t.co/NOhyvAFqwy
Thousand Foot Krutch has been added to The Winter Jam Tour, which jams in 8 states in the southwestern and western USA in the last part of 2013, with early 2014 dates to be announced soon. The Winter Jam Tour, as always, is mainly a pop and adult contemporary music mini-festival. While TFK will be the notable rock band this time around, the tour also includes the likes of Plumb, Newsboys, and the heavily-bearded David Crowder, who is now marketed simply as Crowder.
We've been talking about it all year, and it is finally here! The Blast's new Android app! It starts with 8 streams, from 96k AAC on down to 16k. And yep, AAC+ streams are FINALLY supported in a Blast app! Just search for "The Blast" or "TheBlast.FM" in Google Play.
If your phone took the automatic update this morning, clear the cache on the app, and force stop, then open it and the 64k AAC+ stream will work.
Update: On our Samsung Galaxy S-4, the metadata display is very dim and hard to read. Hmm, maybe we need to put on Google Glasses to see it. We have also heard feedback about no metadata from Blasters. Odd, because metadata worked great in the test app from this new developer.
So, if you took the app update and feel stuck and want to know what is Blasting, we have a solution. We can email you the .apk for the old Blast Android app. It has 4 stream choices besides what is in the new 8 stream app and is a nice collector's item for you phone, anyway. Just hit up ColinCruz <at> TheBlast.FM
Is The Blast on FM radio?
Yes, you can hear us on 94.3 The X in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, Sunday mornings on 8-9 am. We've had a syndicated show on that mainstream/secular active rock radio station since Spring 2009. They chose us over all FM Christian rock stations due to the way we program The Blast.
We've also had unconfirmed reports that FM stations in various places have carried The Blast. If you know of a station doing that, or that has done that, we'd sure like to know about it. You can send your Blast "QSL" report here: http://www.theblast.fm/wp/blastbacks/
We've had tons of requests from Blasters to be heard on FM and/or satellite radio. In other words, these Blasters want us to start an FM or satellite radio station.
Well, guess what? That takes a lot more money than we currently have. Radio station owners that would like to carry our programming on FM, LPFM, AM, HD-2, 3 or 4, DAB, DAB+, shortwave, medium wave, or satellite radio, we are open to the idea. Or, if you don't currently own a radio station, you can form a group in your community to raise funds to start a radio station and carry our programming. If you own or run a radio station and are interested in carrying Blast programming, write to our President and Program Director: ColinCruz <at> TheBlast.FM. We are open to adding terrestrial radio affiliates worldwide.
If you'd like to see The Blast get added to XM Sirius, don't just write to us. The request to be carried means a whole lot more coming from you than it does coming from us. You can call XM Sirius about this at 1-866-528-7474. If any of our Blasters know of a better way to contact them, please share it here: http://www.theblast.fm/wp/blastbacks/
If you'd like to donate to help us expand our worldwide outreach, you can give here: http://www.theblast.fm/wp/donations/
Blasters, we want to buy new Blast T-shirts with a new design and a different color of shirt this time. We've been raising money to do that this week and we are needing about $200 more to get them ordered. We want to fund these on the front end as we don't really make much off of them once postage is figured in. If you can help, please visit: http://www.theblast.fm/wp/donations/
The Blast has spent a heap of money lately…several thousand dollars on new apps and on another sound card/processor/encoders unit (this one for our coming, second radio station). We are still building the new apps, by the way, and those will be out soon. If you can, please help replenish The Blast Stash of Cash so we can stay debt free AND have money available for other upcoming projects. No amount is too big or too small. You can give here, as a Paypal guest, as a Paypal member, or through the postal mail: www.theblast.fm/donation.php
Android Blasters: our Android app has been updated. The high bit rate stream has been upgraded to a 192 kbps mp3 stream for transparent CD quality audio in wi-fi environments; and 80k and 48k Ogg Vorbis streams. The 64k mp3 stream has been retained. Let us know what you think. One way to do that is in the 2013 Blast Mobile Apps survey.
