Sometimes I wonder if I should leave them alone over at WMR. And then they go and up the level of suck so far I can’t help it. While cranking out some work tonight I thought I’d get around to listening to the interview with my friend Dick Masterson. I hoppped over to his site to listen to the interview. The player skipped so much it was painful. No big deal, I’ll just grab the MP3 url and download the MP3 and listen locally, that way I can skip commercials too. That’s when I saw why it was so slow. Are you guys fucking kidding? 16K/s? The bottom 2 downloads are from machines on god knows how much bandwidth. 3rd from the bottom is also on an obscene pipe. Top is my home cable-modem. What the christ Daron? This is NOT that hard.
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7 Responses to “Webmaster Radio Still Fails at Technology”
It’s pissing me off that they aren’t letting you listen to full episodes anymore either. Those ones your downloading aren’t the full episodes.
Yeah it’s been painful lately. It seems as though they almost try to be bad with making the site hard to use. It takes about a year to either roll something back or make a simple correction. You point an error out and they bite your head off instead of saying thanks.
I think they are trying to make people pay for a subscription with slow downloads, screwed up audio files, etc. The problem is, many don’t want to pay for something that is messed up in the free preview. Files are hard to download for mp3 players, filenames don’t have dates or show names, many shows just don’t happen regularly at all, the list goes on. Going into 2008, it can be done better.
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Just use cURL. It works like a charm
Call me crazy but wouldn’t it be easier to fire off an email with suggestions in the same time it took to write this post, Dave?
I think Daron has someone developing this for him so he probably doesn’t know the technology.
I was a long time listener and chatter over at WMR. I used to tell people to chill out when they came in wondering about when a new episode of a show was going to come up or when that show would be available for download. For the three years I stuck around this has always been an issue with WMR.
It took awhile but I eventually grew tired of that. The subscription base idea was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I had slowly stopped listening to the shows (mostly rerun after rerun anyways) to begin with so why on earth would I pay for commercial free archived shows simply because I wasn’t around for a new episode?
WMR was a great resource for me once upon a time, it is unfortunate the path they appear to be heading down.
Is anyone else doing it better… or I should ask if ANYONE else has other webmaster radio type services?
JJ
Thank you for that useless piece of advice.