Weenradio.com
Weenradio.com was a website devoted to live-streaming Ween and related songs over the Internet. The stream ran for 24 hours a day, seven days a week while it was active, and was broadcast through SHOUTcast, a service used for broadcasting audio and video over the internet.
Overview[edit | edit source]
Weenradio.com was started by Jeremy Carr in conjunction with Dean Ween and Ian C. Rogers, developer of SHOUTcast and the website. Jeremy came up with the idea and Deaner got in touch with him, registering the domain and sending some audio for use on the site. The site also allowed users to upload audio to the site, including audio of live shows.[1] The station was originally accessed on Jeremy's personal website, www.goatman.com, around June 5, 1999,[2] before moving to weenradio.com in early September 1999.[3]
On July 25, 2001, Dean Ween hosted a broadcast on weenradio.com, playing several previously unreleased songs.[4] Although some of the songs featured have since been officially released, many only circulate from recordings of this live broadcast.
On July 22, 2003, Ween streamed a live concert broadcast on Weenradio, with the setlist selected exclusively by fans online.[5] This performance would later be released as All Request Live in November 2003. The entirety of Quebec was streamed on August 1, four days before its official release, and again on release day.[5]
In the fall of 2003, WeenTV was launched, a internet livestream set up by Ween and WinAmp that streamed Ween music videos and TV appearances twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.[6]
On July 28, 2010, the Ween iPhone app was launched on the iTunes app store, allowing listeners to listen to Ween Radio on their Apple device.[7] Around February 2012, the site was redesigned to act as a merch site, [8] and around spring 2012, was made to redirect to Ween's official website ween.com.[9]
Brownloader[edit | edit source]
There were plans in 2003 to create a software that would give fans easy one-click access to WeenRadio, their website, chatrooms and message boards, and a peer-to-peer service for sharing and torrenting Ween concert recordings. This would've been a free download on ween.com, and went under the working title WeenAmp.[5][10] The program's name was changed after they received a cease-and-desist from AOL Time Warner, who owned WinAmp.[11]
Despite Ween's hopes, no development was done in 2003, and the project (now named Brownloader) was given to a new development team in early 2004 after the departure of Jeremy Carr.[12][13]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Weenradio.com in the year 2000
Weenradio.com in 2001
Weenradio.com in 2006
Top 25 requests of the day from 4/11/2000
Top 25 requests ever, accessed 4/11/2000
See also:[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010208131446/http://www.gavin.com/music/0101/ween.shtml
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.ween/c/4cReThIeOzo/m/YY6LcTyI-W8J
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.ween/c/jHfMS_RxwHY/m/7cANJV_ciHMJ
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010902120309/http://pub51.ezboard.com/fweendotnetforum16662frm1.showMessage?topicID=647.topic
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://books.google.ca/books?id=KBEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&dq=%22Gene%20Ween%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=%22Gene%20Ween%22&f=false
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20031002011817/http://www.chocodog.com:80/chocodog/ween/ween_new/noflash_fr.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100808041133/http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ween/id380613886?mt=8
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120215192100/http://www.weenradio.com:80/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120512195347/http://www.weenradio.com/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030618123537/http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/ween/ween_new/noflash_fr.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/07/arts/the-pop-life-ween-thrives-on-the-web.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060247/http://www.chocodog.com:80/chocodog/ween/ween_new/noflash_fr.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040603094615/http://www.chocodog.com:80/chocodog/ween/ween_new/noflash_fr.html