Keiichi Anime Forever Blog

We at Keiichi Anime Forever hope you the best of luck for the next year!

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We wish you Merry Christmas!

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While we have always kept our members up to date regarding changes and updates through the forum or chatroom, we realize that there are many visitors who have not opted to join the community. We’ve created this blog to solve the problem. Plus, lengthy posts about our plans and progress do not fit well in the forum and surely not the chat, so this blog will be a great place for those.

For those who are curious, we do have another blog. However, that blog has always been for documenting our downtime rather than to inform visitors about ongoing development.

The Japanese name translator has been fixed.

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After a month of neglect, the uploaded OSTs have been published (sorry!), and the donations information has been updated.

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Check out the new website design.

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Try out Otaku Karaoke! I made it two or three years ago as an experiment, and so it wasn't really intended for any real use. Regardless, here it is! There are only three songs. Please submit subtitle files to us!

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Since Java applets can be problematic, we have added a simple upload form option to Contribute-an-Album. However, you can only upload file at once with no queuing support, and you won't see a progress bar.

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For those who wish to upload tracks to our library, you can now use our brand new Contribute-an-Album website. Uploads are all done in the browser; you'll need Java 1.5+ installed. If you do upload, we'll be thankful!

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Progress is being made towards allowing members and visitors to upload entire albums to the site. We’ve chosen to use a Java applet because it would be the easiest for users to understand (versus FTP) and use, and allow us to integrate it with the login system with relative ease. So far, most of the work has gone towards finishing the server-side portion of the upload application. From what has been finished, uploaded files will go through a checklist before they are accepted. The obvious one, file type, is there, but the application will also check to see if the file has a sufficient sample rate, a sufficient bitrate, a few other properties, and verify that the file is not protected/encrypted or lossless (we wouldn’t want a user to upload a protected WMA file on accident!). We have decided to use JUpload for the applet.

In order to upload an album, a user will enter the series and album titles for what they wish to download. When the necessary folders and records have been created, users will be given the option to upload directly to the album folder. Once they are finished, users “publish” the album and we review it over before finally making it available on the website. Presently, the OSTs system that KAF uses is very primitive, and so all of this involves just creating new directories. Unfortunately, this means we may be unable to credit uploaders, especially if different portions of an album are uploaded by different users. We’ve considered storing a text file alongside each upload, but this would severely clutter up the filesystem. Until then, we are still considering what we could do. (Then again, maybe most people would not care about being credit with a simple upload.)