Support for Speex

media.io now supports the open-source Speex low-bandwidth, voice audio codec (files ending on .spx). This was a suggestion that I actually found easy to implement for once. In other words, you can now convert Speex to MP3.

New Dedicated Server

I’m currently setting up a server dedicated to media.io. The server is very powerful with an Intel i7 950 CPU, 24 GB of RAM and two SSDs. The VPS media.io runs on the at the moment is under very high load and the new server will ensure fast conversions and will also help against people being unable to connect to the site. Downloads should be faster, too.

Bug Fixes

• A regression in the program execution code caused very few conversions to fail. This was resolved.

Apologies for today

Because of a configuration problem, uploads and downloads were saved to directories that weren’t cleaned which caused the disk on the server to fill up. At around 19:00 CEST, the last bits were allocated and it took me about half an hour to clean up the mess.