Wud Records: Twitch streaming on pause

Due to technical issues, all Wud Records Twitch streaming has ceased. For now, at least. Hopefully normal service will resume soon.

Unfortunately the old and rather dodgy laptop we’ve been using in the control room of our studios has become exceedingly poorly and will need some care to make it run again, if that is even possible. It was about 20 years old and not terribly good, so in actual fact it is wonder that it has lasted as long as it has.

As such, it means that our studios are now completely offline and all Twitch streaming is on hold. Also, it means we are unable to refer to engineering documents, download samples, meet our musicians on live Skype, and all kinds of other inconveniences. So, all in all, this situation is rather confufulating.

Due to the very secure location of our studios, we had to install special equipment to allow studio internet traffic to pass through the main electricity supply cables. It is unusual, but certainly effective.

If the old laptop can be repaired, we shall resume streaming after setting everything up once more. This may take a while as our nearest computer repair specialist (who is a genius!) is about 30 miles away. One of the few disadvantages of being in a tiny village in an enormous forest at the edge of national park near where Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic all meet.

Should it turn out that the old laptop cannot be repaired, we have a potential contingency plan involving building another desktop. We have almost enough parts lying around from previous computer upgrades to the various machines in our organisation to make this a possibility. However, it will take time and work, so please bear with us on this front.

Instead of streaming, we will attempt to upload more videos to the Wud Records YouTube account for you to see and hopefully enjoy. New video is more likely to be announced on BlueSky and Twitter rather than in our News service, so please be sure to follow us on those platforms.

When we are able to stream again, we shall make a further news post as well as announcing it on BlueSky and Twitter.

During our dark screen time, feel free to follow us on Twitch now! Then you will be ready for when we are back up and running. You can follow us on Twitch by clicking here.

In the meantime, here is some music.

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/

There’s the old laptop which has died. :-(