At 7:18 PM -0700 8/11/2012, a1 wrote:
[top posting onto an already bottom-posted thread corrected]
On Aug 11, 9:05 am, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could be temporary. OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Apple
> doing it intentionally. I've noticed more and more dead listings in
> the radio section.
I'm using iTunes 10.6 on my G5 running Leopard. I use it for streaming
radio stations, a lot. This past week I noticed no station in my
custom playlist for radio would play! Yet, when I created a new
playlist and added the stations from the iTunes master list, all the
stations played. At the /same/ time, the same stations would not play
from the previous playlist.
grrrrrrrr. Ok. Just tried playing the other stuff in my playlists.
Everything I'd dragged in from the iTunes "Radio" category is now
broken. The only ones that work are the ones I'd manually created
via web sites. So I tried the current ones in the "Radio" category;
most of those work.
Dug deeper... Looks like Apple has changed ALL the entries. You can
see the difference by selecting an entry and doing a get-info. Old:
The url pointed to kts-af.net, which did an indexed redirect,
probably for tracking purposes. New: The url points to the
station's stream directly. And the redirecter at kts-af has been
*deleted* -- which is why iTunes fails to connect using the old url.
eg --
Old BBC 6:
http://pri.kts-af.net/redir/index.pls?esid=e7da5c9b54feee9d28e7733c5ddc876b&url_no=1&client_id=7&uid=68efed4d03ec7e45fd3978262c107180&clicksrc=xml
New BBC 6:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r6_heaacv2.pls
If this stays as is, it means we have to manually rebuild our playlists.
What a retarded Apple move. Bad enough that they made the change,
but to do it without any sort of announcement / warning !!!!????
How does that say, in any way, that Apple has any respect whatsoever
for their customers? Disgusting.
- Dan.
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