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Points: 19 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 08:55
Originally posted by Eetu Pellonpää Eetu Pellonpää wrote:

So you can't stream music to your computer, unless you have a broadband? How does that feature work?
It's not a "feature".  Simply put, you CAN stream music without broadband, but it takes forever, and you can only listen to bits and pieces of the song in 20-second segments with long pauses between, since the bits and bytes can only be sent to the listener at the rate that the dialup connection is physically able to provide.  If it takes 15 minutes to download a 5 minute track, you will be listening to ~20 seconds of song followed by ~40 seconds of silence followed by the next ~20 seconds of song, etc., for 15 minutes.
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Originally posted by Citanul Citanul wrote:

This means that people like me who can't stream the files would still have access to them (Marillion playlist still loading after 5 hours).

You cannot load the Marillion playlist ? can you load other band's ?
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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 09:40
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Originally posted by Citanul Citanul wrote:

This means that people like me who can't stream the files would still have access to them (Marillion playlist still loading after 5 hours).

You cannot load the Marillion playlist ? can you load other band's ?



I actually hadn't tried other bands, thinking that if the Marillion one wasn't working, none of the others would be.  However, I've now randomly selected a few bands with the following results: the playlists for Nightwish and Porcupine Tree don't load, while the Jethro Tull playlist loads, but I can't get it to play.
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Download (Stream) Free Italian Symphonic Prog MP3
(Free streaming by Progarchives.com)

< name=xspf_p pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashp align=center src="/Progressive_rock_discography_includes/xspf_p_nodownloa d.swf?playlist_url=/Progressive_rock_discography_includes/ge nre_playlist.asp?genre_id=28&autoload=true&repeat_pl aylist=false&info__text=Album Details" width="100%" height=300 =application/x-shockwave-flash quality="high" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" allowaccess="sameDomain"> 

^^ GREY SCREEN RECTANGLE ON THE BROWSER!!!
 It's only a grey screen, what's that about?



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I changed something , pleas retry

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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 10:11
I only used the mp3's on the site as a barometer for music that I wasn't familiar with.Most were dl'd,listened to,and deleted,so I don't mind the streaming at all.I listened to a few tunes this morning and had no problems with the stream,and they started playing instantly.


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The Marillion playlist now loads, but I can't get it to play anything.
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Your browser is ?
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Your connection speed is ?
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Points: 1777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 11:47
Well, just played Marillion fine using Firefox 1.0.7.

Still not really a fan of streaming but if those mega rich b*st*rds who run record companies feel they are losing SO much money by people downloading a few sample tracks then i guess there isn't really a choice is there...!

A lot of these media companies (TV, Film and Music) will have to adapt to the internet sooner or later.

BTW, I think you did a good job implementing the streaming function, it's one of the better one's I've seen.
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 12:07
Works fine here  and looks good  but are you going to change the look a bit to fit in with the rest of the page?
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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Works fine here  and looks good  but are you going to change the look a bit to fit in with the rest of the page?

maybe later ....

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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 15:47
OK, that's cool
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Points: 441 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 16:35

So, Cuneiform objected? Rather silly of them considering that I mail ordered many of their releases in the past and only a few remains in my possession. More importantly, they are amongst the reasons why I won't buy through recommendations anymore - unless I can sample what's on offer....

Sadly, Cuneiform is off my agenda as it is.
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Points: 2373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 19:19
 Of all companies, Cuneiform would be one of the last I'd suspect of objecting to this.
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Points: 148 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2005 at 22:38
at least with streaming i can listen to stuff on the Uni library comps nice and easy. that's about the only benifit though.
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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2005 at 03:29
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Your connection speed is ?


Sorry for not getting back to you M@X, I'd left for home before your messages came through.

I'm using Firefox 1.0.7, so I don't think that's the problem.  The connection speed could be the problem.  I've no idea what it is - I'm working at a university, and using their internet connection, so I suppose it's faster than the average South African connection, but it's not blindingly fast.  Although I was able to listen to Welcome Home from Coheed and Cambria's official site, so I don't know why that works, and PA doesn't.
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Points: 71 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2005 at 11:34
Can't you simply cater for the complaining labels?  I hear if you snip 10 seconds off a song, that makes it a sample - therefore it's legal.  Could you do that for the bands in question and leave the other bands as it is?
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Points: 21185 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2005 at 11:58

Originally posted by Bionic Commando Bionic Commando wrote:

Can't you simply cater for the complaining labels?  I hear if you snip 10 seconds off a song, that makes it a sample - therefore it's legal.  Could you do that for the bands in question and leave the other bands as it is?

There is no such rule ... even a 1 second clip doesn't automatically qualify as a legal sample. Although it's very unlikely that someone would complain about it.



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