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It seems like the domain returns an empty A record, i.e. the domain name doesn't look up to an IP address. I would like someone who can still access the site, to do the following in order to get me the IP address:
Start, run. "cmd" This opens the command prompt. Run the command:

ipconfig /displaydns > dnslist.txt

This creates a file called dnslist.txt which contains all currently cached domain names. Open this file and look for wayfar.net and tell me the IP address.

Does the device show up in the Windows device manager?

edit: Oh, you mean ucp.ept. Yeah, teh zip files are both called ucp.zip but they are different. ucp.ept is the aforementioned configuration file. You can try to do the mprog procedure if you want. But first, again, see if the cartridge shows up in the device manager.

Bandcamp prefers a lossless format because the user has the option to choose a compressed format to download. Transcoding from one lossy format to another potentially degrades the audio quality, so they prefer a lossless source to derive the lossy formats from.

48/24 and 96/24 make sense for storing an original recording and processing audio, if you want to avoid artefacts or so. For distributing audio for listening, there's really no reason to go above 16-bit (if your format can use bits; the concept of bits typically doesn't exist for lossy formats), or 44.1 kHz/48 kHz.

*Hu-hum*
48 kHz.
And you should probably avoid this for online use, as Flash tends to prefer 44.1 kHz. (Maybe this was only true for older versions of the player, though.)

This is like those jokes on dubstep videos on YT, about needing to take a shower because the drop was so dirty, only the whole song, and actually dirty.

So, how should I put this... I'm in the camp that supports there being some form of active rating mechanism. (Likes, 5 star rating or similar.) I think the idea behind the current system is that everyone should have equal opportunity, and preventing favoritism. However, there are two problems. For the listener, if you don't have the time and will to browse through 20 songs, it's practical to have some form of quality screening. And if you're an uploader, some form of reward is an incentive to upload good music. As unfortunate as it is, 90% of music uploaded is going to suck (or at least not blow anyone's mind). A rating system can help bring attention to those other 10%.

I can see certain specific problems with a rating system, which could  be solved with some tweaking of the rules. Sockpuppet accounts: restrict voting to people who have a certain amount of activity in the forums or similar. Favoritism: If a person reaches the top 3, restrict them from reaching top 3 for the next x weeks. And so on. I do think some form of rating system would be good for the site.