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July 6, 2010:

Video Player Upgraded (now, is it fixed?)

I wanted to offer a status update on the most recent change I’ve made to our site, specifically our free online lesson library.

Reports have slowly been pouring in from visitors telling us that the videos on our site have been freezing. Problem is, it’s a sporadic issue that I have not been able to recreate it on my computer—on any web browser—which makes it a very hard-to-debug bug!

After a couple weeks of racking my brain trying to find a solution, I went ahead and ripped out the player I was using and installed a different one. My hope is that the problem will be gone now—and that a larger problem won’t take it’s place!

So if you had problems before, please try the videos again and let me know how they work for you. And please, please, keep the feedback coming! This website is run by one person (me) and try as I might, I can’t catch all the bugs myself!

Cheers,
—Luke

p.s. – I was thinking I would also post a recap of all the website upgrades and changes we made (by choice or necessity) in the past couple months, but I am getting exhausted (again) just thinking about it. So let’s just say, I am hopeful that we’re entering another period of website stability now, and can turn our attention to bigger and better things—like new videos and products!

June 29, 2009:

Welcome to the ToneWay Project!

If you’ve been to our web site before, you may notice some changes. For starters, we have a new name: The ToneWay Project. Our “Mountain Music for Everyone” moniker will still be used on our materials and elsewhere, but the main name was changed to reflect the ongoing nature of our work.

In addition, we have a new, short, easy-to-remember website: ToneWay.com. I’ve been working on the new site since early 2009; much of the changes are “under the hood”, but there are some significant improvements to the JamPool so I hope that makes it even more useful going forward. There are also more changes on the way; more videos, some enhancements to the song collection, perhaps… suggestions welcome!

Finally, we have the new blog. What will show up here? Who knows. Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Luke and the gang