HELP:Songs stopped Playing;(

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:11 am

Hey ya,
Since upgrading our subscription none of our song`s will play in aol`s media player say`s there`s no playlist & when it try`s to play them in WMP we are getting the send error message, any one got any idea`s as they were all working fine before the upgrade it`s a mystery to us so if anyone has any idea`s or if any of the site mods read this can you check our page to make sure there are no bugs coursing this problem thanx.

Spank

http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/music/bands/3731/

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:51 am

play all works for me in winamp.

I like what I hear btw Smile

ubw newbie Joined: Mar 31, 2005 Location: London Posts: 16

Thanks for the reply & glad you like our stuff but we are a bit peed off really as we said every thing was fine untill we apgraded now none of our stuff we play can one of the mod`s please look into this for us.

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:17 pm

Hi Spank...

We are working on the issue right now. We added some functionality to make sure band names & song names show up when streaming songs, and for some reason Windows Media Player (and apparently AOL's player) are having troubles with this. All other players are working fine. The problem seems to be confined to hi-fi streams too, which is even more odd!

Just so you know, it's across the site, it's not just your songs. (FYI some bands songs will play hifi depending on the bit rate they were coded at) We should have this fixed this weekend.

Sorry for the problem....
Ron

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:26 pm

Ok I think I just got things sorted out. Let me know if all is well with AOL player now.

Thanks!
Ron

ubw newbie Joined: Mar 31, 2005 Location: London Posts: 16

Hey ya Ron,

Sorry for sounding a bit off but it was frustrating not knowing what was happening.
They are now streaming fine in WMP but still not playing in aol`s player but thats not a problem thanx again for looking into it Wink

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:25 am

Hey Ron, what would be the ideal bit rate for the hi-fi songs to upload to the site. I seem to have the same problem continuosly for any hi-fi song I try to listen to with the aol player. It's not just my site but most of the other pages as well. Help!

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:25 am

mistazell..

The 'ideal' bit rate for hifi (in my opinion) is 128kbps. There are certainly those that would argue for 'higher' bit rates, but I think for most internet connections, 128 streams very quick and the sound quality is very good.

For what it's worth, I have heard of some issues with AOL player, and Real Player with streaming .m3u files (which is what all of our songs are streamed as). I am looking into it, but if you have another streamer, would you mind testing to see if it's only the AOL streamer.

I'll let you know when I figure out why those 2 streamers are having problems.

Ron

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:02 am

it's only the aol streamer and real player. I have musicmatch jukebox and that works fine. I thought my files were corrupted but that's not the case. Please let me know when or if you have fixed the problem.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:17 pm

mistazell..

Alright... I'm fine playing with realplayer from here on windows xp. You may need to make sure it's setup to play .m3u files. (mine was set correctly by default)..

Regarding AOL Media PLayer does NOT support mp3 streaming. They support downloading of mp3's to your local pc and then playing, but not streaming through an .m3u file. I'm sure this was an oversight on their part as ALL media players will stream. I'll see if a a patch is available that will allow AOL media player to stream. Until then, I suggest you use another player.

Ron

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