The Gods Of Irony Are Having Their Little Jest

[filkertom]

Who is having difficulty hearing this week's iTom song? I've checked the links every which way but loose, and get 'em fine, but other people can't. It's an utterly vanilla MP3 file, and the .m3u playlist (which likely will work best in WinAmp) is a text file with one line consisting of the URL of the MP3 file (which is the simplest "streaming" method I know of). There's nothing hidden or mystically high-tech going on here. And I can't believe that it's caused so much trouble.

Comments

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

The 'Can't Get the File to Play' song? I got it just fine. Though the irony of having trouble with that song in particular is amusing.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd think it was hysterical, if I weren't the web master, if I hadn't had The Week In Screwed Up Tech that I've had, and if the darn thing hadn't been posted a day late because of it....

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

It worked fine for me.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

I downloaded the 128bit version fine. Are people having trouble with one or with both?

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

listened to the live link just fine in Windows media player behind a gov't firewall. oh and that was in firefox 1.0.7 under xp sp2.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Apparently the 128 Kbps version, both listening and downloading. I'm having no trouble; I specifically called Anne this morning to try it, and she had no trouble with either version (using Safari on her Mac).

[sdelmonte]

It worked fine for me.

And then I followed it with Weird Al's new "Don't Download This Song."

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

I had no problems listening to it this morning. Wolf listened to it sometime yesterday and didn't say anything about having problems with it. Great song. :)

[whytelyon.livejournal.com]

This is weird for me then, because I just tried it and neither the listen or download links will work.

[bardicwench.livejournal.com]

LOL.... I can get it to play, but I find it ironic that some people can't.

You aren't supposed to curse your songs, tom...

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Works fine for me...at least, the free download does.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

No prob here.

/shrug

[whytelyon.livejournal.com]

Well...its working now...sometimes I just don't get it... :)

Re: /shrug

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Why d'you think I've got these fistfuls of hair!? :) This is just nuts.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

It worked fine on my husband's computer, which is brand new (as of last Christmas) and on a wireless high-speed DSL connection.

He was highly, highly amused by the "Death by Wubbie" song, by the way. Any chance of hearing that at Dragon*Con?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Decent to good. ;)

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

And it works fine on my work computer, as well. That's a T-1. (No, I'm not bragging, I just figured it would be helpful to know.)

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Excellent. ^ v ^

Hurrah!

[argentee.livejournal.com]

Yesterday it was 404 for me, now it's playing and downloading fine! Hurrah!

Re: Hurrah!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad. You were one of the ones I was most worried about, not merely because you didn't have it but because you had such a vanilla setup.

DNS?

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

Could it just have been more DNS propagation issues left over?

Re: DNS?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm thinking. It does all seem to be resolved now.