Dallas City Police 1 Central Archives Disabled?

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Dallas PD is currently dealing with an active shooting situation where (2) people were injured. The feed archives are not updating. As a *paying* premium member, I'd like to know if there is another "server problem" like there was during Orlando, or if the archives have been disabled?

Twice is a coincidence, as many times as it has been now over the years is suspicious.
 

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Dallas PD is currently dealing with an active shooting situation where (2) people were injured. The feed archives are not updating. As a *paying* premium member, I'd like to know if there is another "server problem" like there was during Orlando, or if the archives have been disabled?

Twice is a coincidence, as many times as it has been now over the years is suspicious.



I can access them all on the Broadcastify app
 

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I accessed it. But that stream is painful to listen too. I know Dallas isn't trunked, but, gosh.
 

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Dallas PD is currently dealing with an active shooting situation where (2) people were injured. The feed archives are not updating. As a *paying* premium member, I'd like to know if there is another "server problem" like there was during Orlando, or if the archives have been disabled?

Twice is a coincidence, as many times as it has been now over the years is suspicious.

Come on man... I think you owe us an apology.

http://forums.radioreference.com/br...-dallas-police-shooter-incident-archives.html
 

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I guess the OP isn't going to give us the apology that we deserve...

Quick question for the man in charge.
RR shows CH 12 as law - tac and TOS are set up so we dont broadcast tac channels. However DPD 12 is a Special Events channel.
So if something happens in the future is it ok to add 12 to a feed?
CH 8 in Dallas is the official swat channel so for sure thats off limits.
Just curious.
 

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DPD 12 is definitely classified as a special events channel and could be included on a feed.

I'm pretty disappointed in the OP though. This is a gentleman that has repeatedly asserted in multiple posts that we've censored archives in the past, yet I can definitively claim that we have NEVER censored an archive from our service. Ever. Never, Ever. Never ever never ever.

The ONLY time we have ever removed an archive from the database was in instances where the feed Broadcaster accidentally broadcasted their computer's open mic or accidentally broadcasted the audio from their computer (i.e. porn audio etc - hey it happens).

Mr. RadioDitch owes us a public apology.
 

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Thanks. Might be time to do some upgrades to the Dallas feeds in light of what happened and how they sound.
 
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The ONLY time we have ever removed an archive from the database was in instances where the feed Broadcaster accidentally broadcasted their computer's open mic or accidentally broadcasted the audio from their computer (i.e. porn audio etc - hey it happens).

That's why you should have a dedicated porn, ahh, "scanner" computer. :)
 

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I've been in the middle of nowhere for three days, so give me an opportunity to respond. Not all of us live/work in front of a computer.

I apologize for being wrong this instance where it was slow to update. However, I will not apologize for stating its happened before. There are other users that will testify to this that there have been oddly timed "server errors" or the archive is just plain missing segments during a major incident. As a paying user, I feel it shouldn't happen.

If it's not something that Radioreference is doing intentionally, then it's certainly something you need to look into. Cause it has happened. There's been multiple threads in the forums to that effect. And respectfully, the admins know that cause they've responded to them.
 
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Ever think of the possibility that a feed may be down because of the sheer amount of users trying to listen to it at one time such as an incident as this.. The bandwith is only so big.
 

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There have been instances where the number of listeners get into the thousands and the servers can not handle the load, and it will effect the archives.

That has not been the case for a few years.... The last time we experienced a server load issue due to traffic was during the Boston Marathon bombings. That was 3 years ago. The San Bernardino shootings drove far more traffic and we didn't so much as hiccup during that incident.

The simple reality is that the vast majority of our feeds are delivered over consumer grade internet connections which are notoriously unreliable for 24x7 constant streaming. Couple that with consumer grade equipment providing the streams and you have a recipe for archives that aren't going to be guaranteed available 24x7 365 days a year.

Granted, we have a lot of feed providers that provide excellent professional level streams with significant investments in equipment who's streams have for all intents and purposes never gone down.

And yes, there is the rare instance when we have an outage. But seriously, those are extremely infrequent. If you are expecting 100% uptime from any online service, you won't find it. Not on Facebook, not on Bank of America, not on the Wall Street Journal, and not on Broadcastify.

...and finally, and I'll say it again for the 100th time because some people just don't seem to get it. We have NEVER deleted an audio archive at the request of any agency. Meaning, there has never been an instance where we censored an audio archive from Broadcastify.
 
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