castalbums.org

[binau]

Posted: 6/6/09 at 8:45pm

wtfff...did someone forget to pay the bill?

Does anyone happen to know the owner(s) of this website, what is happening?

thanks

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 6/6/09 at 9:10pm

weird... I was JUST using it yesterday

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/6/09 at 9:18pm

Me too! I hope this is just a temporary glitch. I spent a lot of time the last year or so updating recordings, correcting catalog numbers, release dates etc.

[binau]

Posted: 6/6/09 at 10:48pm

I was also literally just on it last night.. Slightly off topic but I was looking at the recordings for Bounce/Road show and I noticed there is a recording listed for WISE GUYS with Victor Garber, Nathan Lane etc..

Was this a studio recording? I heard there was a promotional recording of the show, was this it?

Now on topic, there has been SO much work put into castalbums.org it would be devastating if it was all lost.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:46am

The site allows for listings of certain bootlegs (If they are of historic/important shows) but also may collectors catalog their home-made CD's and sometimes to get them past the admins try to make them look like limited edition releases.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:55am

It's working for me.

[binau]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:03am

Press Ctrl+F5...

It still is a generic splash page with the title "music download mp3 player" etc.. at the top, as if the domain has expired.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:04am

well I have a mac... so I can't do that :/

[binau]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:08am

Command+Shift+R for OS X.


Again, I can't see how it is working for anyone (If they are aware of the site that is, it still loads to as I said a generic splash page)

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:28am

You mean to refresh? F5 works. On a laptop you would just hit fn + F5.

[binau]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:34am

The difference between CTRL+F5 and F5 is that CTRL+F5 will completely reload the page while F5 may still keep some items cached (AFAIK), hence if for some strange reason people are seeing the old page even after refreshing CTRL+F5 should fix it..

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:52am

Still it does look as if the domain has been highjacked. Does anyone have the e-mail address for the moderator?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:05am

Isn't it hitormiss? Would it be inappropriate to post his e-mail on a public message board?

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:11am

I think Hitormiss is his castalbums.org name, but not his address. And, yes it probably would not be cool to post it publicly with some of the "good and crazy" characters we have running around here.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:41am

Now it's not working for me. I wonder if it had to do with the time difference? Not sure.

[binau]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:53am

You can access his e-mail through the WHOIS data of the domain. I e-mailed him (no response yet), though it looks like it is still registered (expires in 2010), so there could be other issues.

[divarobbie2]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:14am

According to Matt, who runs castalbums.org (via CASTRECL):

Long story short, I'm worried we may not get the castalbums.org domain back, so the site is now running on a new domain: http://castalbumcollector.com

-Robbie

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:38pm

Thanks! It was working for me ALL DAY yesterday. And when I tried to go on this morning, it didn't work. lol.

[soubrette]

Posted: 6/16/09 at 11:21pm

Thanks so much Divarobbie2! I don't think I realized how much I relied on it until it wasn't there. Thanks for the info; much appreciated!

[ducdebrabant]

Posted: 9/11/10 at 2:03pm

Could somebody explain to me how this site is supposed to work? I clicked on an album to add it to my collection, but I don't get an order form or a download or anything. I can't find anything that explains what is supposed to happen, or how this is to be used.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/11/10 at 2:28pm

You don't get albums from the website. It's a website to keep a catalogue of the albums you already own.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 9/11/10 at 2:39pm

There are links that take you to Amazon and other sites to purchase currently available titles, but older Lp's and 78's must be sought through private dealers or E-bay.

What it is is a terrific resource to find out what shows were recorded and released. They also list a lot of bootlegs, which probably should not be listed because they are not generally available but after all they do exist.