Sparta Old Time Radio

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News

20-July-2008

You Can Now Request A Free Membership, There Are Some Download Limitations.

1. Limited To 18 Megs Per Day (About 2 30 Min Shows)

2. Max Download Speed Of 4.2 Kbps (Dialup Speed)

04-April-2008

In The Past Three Months with the Help of Some Users We Have Added Over 107,000+ MP3's To the FTP Server.

To View The New Files Check The "New" Folder

We Have Also Added Two New 2 Terabyte 800 Firewire Drives To The Server To Hold All Of The New mp3's

Thanks for All Your Support.

25-Mar-2008

Since I Recently Added 80,000+ Mp3's To The System The System Was Running Low On Storage. So Today I Ordered A New Drive Array, This Should Bring The Storage Of The Server Up To 7.5 Terabytes. (It Should Be Here Tomorrow).

16-Dec-2007

To Make More Room For New Shows The FTP Server Now Has More Than 4 Terabytes Of Storage, 4 Terabytes Of Backup Storage, And There Is Over 500,000 Media Files Online. Over 51,000 Of The Media Files Are Free For Members.

24-Nov-2007

Updated Some Menus, And Button Submenus Now Have Small Images Too

28th July 2007

The FTP Server Was Moved To A Larger Room, So It Was Down For A Few Hours.

30-March-2007

New: Spring 2007 Pricing!

01 Gig Is New Reduced From $7.25 To A Historically Low Price Of $5.90 Per Gig, And As Low As $3.00 Per Gig.

New: Google Shopping Cart

SpartaOTR.Com Now Accepts "Google Shopping Cart" And "PayPal"

New: Storage Arrays

The Site Is Growing By Leaps And Bounds So Also In March We Added A New 2 Terabyte Drive To SpartaOTR's Drive Arrays.

New: Cleaning House

Many Folders Have Been Cleanup With The Help Of My Users, Thanks Gents\Gals

21-Feb-2007

Today I Upgraded My Server So Downloads Should Be Twice As Fast

13 November 2006

Changed FTP Server From BulletProof FTP To Gene6 FTP Server

The Server Should Be A Tad Faster, And Some Of The System Messages Are Changed.

There Are Now Over 51,658 Free Files For Members On The FTP Server.

Free Files Are Not Counted Against Your Download Credits.

All Folders And All Sub Folders Marked With "(Free Download For Members)" Are Free Files And Are Not Counted Against Your Download Credits.

14 October 2006

I Updating A Subject On The FAQ Page "The Spoken Word" With A Side By Side Visual Comparison Of A Clip From A Old Time Radio Show, Then It Was Converted By The Same Encoder To Four(4) MP3 Quality Settings 160Kbps, 128Kbps, 96Kbps And 32Kbps

You Will See Visually In This Short Clip There Is Virtually No Difference In The Wave Form Of All The MP3 Files. So To Listen To A Old Time Radio Show In 32Kbps You Can Not Tell The Difference Between Them.

For A Serous Collector That Obtained Any Format Of Audio Directly From Source Would Never Use The MP3 Format. MP3 Is Not A Lossless Audio Format Where Flac Or Ape Audio Formats Are, And Would Be The Best Choice. With Quality Comes A Price, And That Is File Size Using More Disk Space And Vastly Extended Download Times With No Real Increase In Quality.

22 July, 2006

The Web Site Now Has 213,749 Downloadable Files.

I Added A Page To Download Some Media Players

06 July, 2006

Added Subject: Encoding Files And The "Spoken Word" To The FAQ

Someone Asked About Advertising And How Much I Spend. After All Expenses Are Paid (T1 Internet Connection $399 A Month). $74 For Electricity, Hardware Upgrades Etc... What Is Left Over Is Spent In Advertising. The More Users I Have The More I Can Spend On The Site. As I Said Before I Do Not Make Money Off Of This Site It Is Merely For Fun For Both Me And For My Users.

A Few Months Ago I Emptied The Hardware Piggy Bank And Spent $3,000+ On Two New 2 Terabyte Hard Drives. One Is Used As The System Drive And The Other Is A Backup Of The System Drive With All The Radio Shows.

If You Remember A Few Months Ago I had A larger List Of Other Site Links, But Since They Did Not Have A Links Page Or They Would Not Place My Link On There Pages (Maybe Because I Have A Huge Collection Of Radio Show Files). I Decided Why Should I Keep Them On My Listing. If You Happen To Be A Operator Of A Old Time Radio Or "Golden Age Of Radio" Site And Have A Links Page And Wish To be Placed On My List Just Let Me Know. I Would Like To Exchange Links With You.

June 17, 2006

Updated The Free Credits Page

June 5, 2006

There is Now 169,914 Media Files On SpartaOTR.Com

May 31,2006

Added Vista Type Buttons (Aka Microsoft Windows Vista) To The Left

Menu.

May 28,2006

Added Links To Allow Users To Buy

Audio Books And Old Time Radio Shows On Disk From www.2ThumbsUpMall.Com That Has Over 2,700,000 Items For Sale.

April 22, 2006

It Seems Like "Buying By File Count" Is A Huge Success I Have received 20+ E-mails Now Users Thanking Us For Adding The "Buying By File Count" Option.

April 15, 2006

There Is Two Ways To Donate Now "By Bytes" And "By # Of Files"

March 25, 2006

Fixed My "Thank You" page used when a customer buys from PayPal and is returned to the website. The link was broken recently when I was doing some cleaning up. Sorry For Any Inconvenience This May Have Caused.

March 13, 2006

There Currently Is 20,000 Free Downloads On The FTP Site, When You See A Folder With The Words, (Free Download For Members), Everything in That Folder Is Free, And Will Not Count Against Your Download Credits.

March 10, 2006

I Put The New Drives Online That's Why You Will See All Of The Folders When You Log-On Now Without Needing To Change Drives. I Am Still Working On Sorting Thru A Bunch Of Files To Put Online. Here Is The Latest Scan Of The Files On The Server. We Have Also Added 20,000 OTR Files As A Free Downloads For Members.

The Sparta Old Time Radio Library
Now has 150,071 files.
The Search and update took 01:11:19.
49,610 new files were imported.

Friday, February 24, 2006 18:45 -0500

Updated And Added To The FAQ Page

You Can LogOn To The System Now Using A Browser. Just Replace "UserName" And PassWord Below With Your Own LogOn Information.

ftp://UserName:PassWord@Ftp.SpartaSoft.Com

To Test You Can Click On The Below Link To Login As A Guest

ftp://guest:guest@Ftp.SpartaOTRFTP.Com

All The Money Donated To SpartaOTR.Com Pays For New Equipment And Internet Access. I Am Currently Installing 2-Each New 2 Terabyte Raid 0 Drive Arrays (One Will Be A BackUp Of The Other), And I Should Have More OTR Shows (About 79,000 More Shows, Some Maybe Duplicates, But May Be Different In Quality) On The System. So In March They Should Start Showing Up.

I Own A New Web Site Called

DialogueExchange.Com

It Is New So Not Much There, But There Is A Forum For Old Time Radio

1 January, 2005

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