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Tue, 15 Nov 2005
News flash: Internet radio still sucks.
I'm in my office and decide to drown out the external noise with some music. Easiest way is via web radio. So.
First stop, AOLRadio.com. Asked to sign in with my AIM account. Do so, no problem. Plugin doesn't seem to want to work with Firefox. Okay. Try Internet Explorer. Not asked to sign in, but right after getting their Player window (which is a pop-up, which the Google toolbar blocked, as did FFox earlier), am told that the plugin is too old to work and I have to download it again. Give up.
Tried Yahoo Radio, Launch, whatever it's called. Asked to sign in, do so. "We don't support Netscape" (although I'm using Firefox). Annoyed enough to decide I don't even want to bother using IE or download their resource-hogging Yahoo Music Engine.
Next stop: the typically reliable shoutcast.com. Tried to load a playlist on another PC, but Winamp chokes. Download new version of Winamp, with built-in radio browsing. Winamp chokes. Uninstall Winamp from that machine and decide to deal with it later.
Finally resort to Winamp on my laptop, which has crappy speakers and isn't well positioned in the office in terms of group listening, but at least it worked.
This is way too complicated. The truth is, if it were just me, I would've gone straight to Webjay, but the differentness of the music there can sometimes be off-putting to the uniniated. Still, listening to a stream should simply not be this complex. I would have tried Rhapsody, but I'm trying to ween myself off of that since it's not free.
If AOL, Yahoo, and the rest want to get ad money by offering free streaming media (and that's exactly what they want) they'd better try and actually use some of their services before inflicting them on the rest of us.