what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by Martyritaville »

Being 'an IT guy', I somewhat agree. It's a very lame solution to a problem that's been around way too long. BUT, the Flash player sounds BETTER...and works fine...and they're still giving it away FREE...so, hell, it's ok by me. The budget for providing the 'freebies' prolly isn't real high right now. I'm still getting more than what I paid for.

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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by phjrsaunt »

At least I still get to listen for free. I just don't appreciate the lack of communication. But I'll probably pheel better about it all after I have coffee. [smilie=battingeyes.gif]
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

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Martyritaville wrote:Being 'an IT guy', I somewhat agree. It's a very lame solution to a problem that's been around way too long. BUT, the Flash player sounds BETTER...and works fine...and they're still giving it away FREE...so, hell, it's ok by me. The budget for providing the 'freebies' prolly isn't real high right now. I'm still getting more than what I paid for.

Great? No. Ok? Hell, yeah.

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could probably fund it for life out of a week's worth of sales from paper products in the KW M'ville..
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by chippewa »

I've always used Winamp to stream RM, this url works for Winamp and Windows media player.

http://radmarg.ic.llnwd.net/stream/radmarg_razorback

Sounds good at 96 kbps, the old low bandwidth stream used to be something like 32 or 40.
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by Martyritaville »

A local PH friend of mine had emailed RM last week asking 'what up' with getting the Windows Media stream fixed and he got a reply from them late yesterday. In it's entirety:

Gary,
WMP is no longer available. Use the Flash player.
Chris
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

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If you have flashplayer...click HERE

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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

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Martyritaville wrote:A local PH friend of mine had emailed RM last week asking 'what up' with getting the Windows Media stream fixed and he got a reply from them late yesterday. In it's entirety:

Gary,
WMP is no longer available. Use the Flash player.
Chris
RM
Well. At least they didn't take too much time or effort in writing the reply.
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by SharkOnLand »

They must have got a bunch of complaints.

They brought back the little box for the Windows Media Player and it says this now:
ATTENTION: Okay! We're working on bringing this stream back. In the meantime, please try the ablove Flash stream. It works and sounds great -- and the download is easy.
The Flash stream has a decent quality, but it's not as smooth to listen to over long periods. It'll just drop out for apparently no reason and skip quite a bit. The WMP stream had a nice buffer that would eliminate most of those issues.
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by labatt1876 »

Is the flash player working this morning? This is the first time I have tried it and it isnt working. I wasnt sure if it is just me, or everyone.

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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by Hula Hoop »

labatt1876 wrote:Is the flash player working this morning? This is the first time I have tried it and it isnt working. I wasnt sure if it is just me, or everyone.

Thanks
Not working for me either. :cry:
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by jwhite »

Not working on my end either...a couple co-workers were also unable to bring it up. Bummer, was looking forward to the concert replay today!!
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by familyof5parrottheads »

10:15 on the east coast
Its up and working now
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by jwhite »

Thanks much, Family...we are all in here at work and smiling again!!
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by familyof5parrottheads »

Very strange
stopped working then i Xed out and then back in and it started right back
stange or is it an April fools joke.
Strange?
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by jwhite »

I don't think it's an April Fools joke...it's been happening this week a lot. It just stops working; you have to X out and go back in to get it playing again.
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by RinglingRingling »

jwhite wrote:I don't think it's an April Fools joke...it's been happening this week a lot. It just stops working; you have to X out and go back in to get it playing again.
Jimmy must have signed a deal with the code-writers who supply the flash-player...
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by jwhite »

Not working again today...anyone else having problems?
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by sailorkid94 »

Not working for me either :(
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by RainTree »

me neither - no matter how many times I X'd out and tried again.
Guess I just have to play a CD this morning. :cry:
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Re: what happened to Radio Margaritaville?

Post by jwhite »

Ugh...can't play CD's here at work...missing my RadioM badly!! Too quiet here and am going mad!!!!
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