Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?
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. g. 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=e7da5c9b54feee9d28e7733c5ddc876burl_no=1client_id=7uid=68efed4d03ec7e45fd3978262c107180clicksrc=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. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?
On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Dan wrote: 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. I agree, totally bad move for Apple. I suspect if we bitch to the radio stations, the stations will bitch to Apple with more clout than us? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?
At 8:16 AM -0500 8/12/2012, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Dan wrote: 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. I agree, totally bad move for Apple. I suspect if we bitch to the radio stations, the stations will bitch to Apple with more clout than us? Sounds like it's worth a shot. I've sent email to the three stations I haunt. sigh. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?
On Aug 12, 9:22 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:16 AM -0500 8/12/2012, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Dan wrote: 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. I agree, totally bad move for Apple. I suspect if we bitch to the radio stations, the stations will bitch to Apple with more clout than us? Sounds like it's worth a shot. I've sent email to the three stations I haunt. sigh. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. That solves the mystery. I only had about 50 stations to rebuild in a new playlist, but still. That's like a Microsoft move. I am also suspicious why there is no obvious, simple way to add internet radio stations on my iPod. Is there? Seems like Apple would prefer to view my iPod as their personal ATM. I've gotten an older [2.5 generation] iPod touch and honestly I've grown to detest the thing. Wifi is incredibly slow, the touch typing is annoying and slow, and not uniform across apps, no streaming internet radio by default. It does nothing *well*, and what it does do--play music I already own---so did my Walkman from 1986 [except that Walkman had also had simple access to free radio]. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
