Dellanave » WMR http://www.dellanave.com/blog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Webmaster Radio Still Fails at Technology http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/27/webmaster-radio-still-fails-at-technology/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/27/webmaster-radio-still-fails-at-technology/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:36:04 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/27/webmaster-radio-still-fails-at-technology/ 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.

]]> http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/27/webmaster-radio-still-fails-at-technology/feed/ 7 Webmaster Radio is a Bunch of Morons http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/05/23/webmaster-radio-is-a-bunch-of-morons/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/05/23/webmaster-radio-is-a-bunch-of-morons/#comments Wed, 23 May 2007 21:36:51 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/05/23/webmaster-radio-is-a-bunch-of-morons/ Over six months ago, everyone’s favorite online marketing “radio” station switched their content delivery to Akamai. They gave various public reasons for the switch, but the reality was that Limelight was sucking at it. I’m not sure how it can be that hard to stream out the 3-4 listeners that WMR has, but apparently Limelight couldn’t hack it.

So they switched to the #1 fastest growing tech company who also happens to be the #1 content delivery company in the world. Akamai basically invented the CDN and they do a god damn good job at it. So good are they that Amazon, MTV, Apple, Fox, Clear Channel, IBSYS, Adobe and countless others use Akamai. Apparently they aren’t good enough to figure out how to stream to 3 or 4 listeners for Webmaster Radio.

Since the day of the switch, all Mac and Linux users, and PC users who use Winamp were unable to listen to Webmaster radio. At first WMR claimed they were working on it. Then they started to blame Akamai saying that support wasn’t helping them. They even issued a press release asking for users to help figure out their issues. Now they’ve gone so far as to run commercials on their own shows begging people to tell them what is wrong. Now it seems they’ve switched to some no-name company called Mediacast1, yet they run a commercial touting that they use “AKAMAAAAI”.

When you have to run a commercial begging your users to help you fix your stuff, you suck.

Listen you idiots. You were streaming Windows Media 9 streams. Macs don’t support Windows Media. Neither does Linux, or winamp. All along, it was your fault, and I tried to tell you that but you didn’t want to listen.

You guys aren’t that big, in fact its probably much better that you switched from Akamai. They’re too big for YOU half-wits to figure out. There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t be able to host your own content in-house. I know how many listeners you have, and its not many. All you need is a $60/mo hosting machine.

Stop acting like you’re Clear Channel and fix your system. You have the head start, but your competitors are going to decimate you.

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