Xm's online stream Schtinks!

[uncut_rican]

Fucking thing keeps cutting off...buffering. It blows. Show's better than ever though. Anyone knows how to solve this. I have Verizon Dsl.

[jpc165]

Are you on a LAN with dsl or hooked up directly? Also are u having problems with internet browsing or other streaming audio/video on other sites?

[Weldhelmet]

I'm having the same problem. But it is ONLY on 202,. I have no problems with the other channels.


Anyone else having the same problem???
Please post if you are.

EDIT: It has just started occuring on the other channels also.
This is the first day I've had problems with the streams. Been listening for almost 2 weeks online now.

[boombots]

Im having the same problems, ive been listening online the last 2 days w/ no problems and jsut when things are getting good its starting to crap out!

[gir]

Fucking thing keeps cutting off...buffering. It blows. Show's better than ever though. Anyone knows how to solve this. I have Verizon Dsl.

I've been listening all week online and havn't had any problems. Quality could be better but the stream works fine for me over my cable connection.

[Weldhelmet]

It's cleared up for me. It hasen't dropped for about 30 minutes now.

Damn gremlins,..

[roche]

Haven't had any problems here at work, or at home with the streaming.

[kloraferm]

I'm having the same problem. I'm paying an extra $4 a month for this?

[JoeyDVDZ]

One thing some of you may be able to do is optimize your tcp/ip settings. there's a site that offers reg mods for ip. http://www.speedguide.net/articles.php?category=93

[Bill]

You're more likely to have dropouts if you are running the high bitrate stream than if you are running the low bitrate stream. If you are listening through plain old computer speakers, it's unlikely that you can hear any difference in audio quality between the two streams (especially for talk radio).

I found that just going to the low speed stream eliminated dropouts for me.

[stubadub]

Fucking thing keeps cutting off...buffering. It blows. Show's better than ever though. Anyone knows how to solve this. I have Verizon Dsl.


at least you were able to hear something...it doesnt support mac!!!

[NiceHeadDeek]

Yeah, it fucking blows. It's choppy as all hell. They actually expect people to PAY for this? It's not my connection to the Interweb that is the problem, because I'm plugged into a gigabit pipe which gets ridiculously fast speeds everywhere else.

[uncut_rican]

I listen to other radio stations online and its not like this. Theres was one day It wouldnt even load up. I was pissed. I called and they told me they couldnt help me. all the help for the web stream is done through email. So if you have a problem, get ready cause they didnt even answer me. They Sccccchhhhhhtink and I dont like em!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stinkysteve]

I listen to other radio stations online and its not like this. Theres was one day It wouldnt even load up. I was pissed. I called and they told me they couldnt help me. all the help for the web stream is done through email. So if you have a problem, get ready cause they didnt even answer me. They Sccccchhhhhhtink and I dont like em!!!!!!!!!!!

The only thing to do is reverse the charge when it comes on your credit card statement.

[mainliner]

had the same problem but it was just yeaterday, the two or so weks were fine todays fine just yesterday

[boombots]

I'm still having the same problem's today, verrrrrry annoying.

[Hummercash]

XM really fucked up here... what they SHOULD have done was partner with Apple/iTunes/iTMS... apple could have added "XM Streams" to the current Radio section of iTunes (that would only be enabled if you paid for them)... and if you were listening to a music station, there could be a button in the interface- "Like the song you're listening to? BUY IT NOW" and when clicked it would automatically launch iTMS and search for that song (and maybe even other songs by the same band, genre, "people who bought this song also bought these..." type thing). XM (hands down satrad leader) and iTMS (hands down online music store leader) = TONS AND TONS OF $$$. plus they could have "XM Featured Song" on the iTMS homepage, XM would get a ton of subs from the deal (especially if they advertised the NPR/bob edwards angle... like 90% of the mac users i know listen to NPR). then they could further this partnership with an iPod/XM portable unit (would have that sleek apple design that nobody else seems to be able to achieve), could eventually expand the "Buy NOW" feature to the units themselves, apple would provide the content, then the songs would be streamed down via the XM sat receiver... which would mean future car systems would have built in hard drives to store this downloaded content. i could go on and on....

ugh, fucking tools @ XM... dell? dell is great if you're too fucking stupid to build your own computer... oh, and they make some nice LCDs (but i like Apple's LCDs better... too bad they're so fucking expensive). other than that, fuck dell. fuck siruis. and fuck you.


.//chris

[NorfCal]

You're more likely to have dropouts if you are running the high bitrate stream than if you are running the low bitrate stream. If you are listening through plain old computer speakers, it's unlikely that you can hear any difference in audio quality between the two streams (especially for talk radio).

I found that just going to the low speed stream eliminated dropouts for me.
I have been havng the same problems, and it cuts out on both low and high speed streams. Since it only happens on channel 202, I smell the lil' vienna sausage digits of the Oompa Loompa...

[rmathus]

Totally agree, HummerCash. Teaming up with Dell by far the dumbest move. Sure, they probably have the market share in # of computers sold, but that doesn't always equate to the best choice...

Teaming up with iTunes would be awesome, you're absolutely right. I like the idea of the "Featured XM song of the week" and the buy now button that many people have tossed around at xm411.com ,but like you, I seriously doubt it'll happen now :(

[NorfCal]

still cutting out...this is really starting to piss me off. I am on DSL and all other media streams, including the XM stations, work fine. WTF?

[Smoke]

at least you were able to hear something...it doesnt support mac!!!

I thought it was in flash?

[uncut_rican]

fixed it. change the buffer to 5 seconds in the preference menu of windows media.

[stubadub]

I thought it was in flash?


I dont know what the deal is...I tried it through different players, as well as 2 different computers. It would come up...but never buffer, and get sound.
But my buddy has it on his PC...no problem...

i think I may just say F it and save my pennies for that new walkman style that just came out.

[armymad]

it works good on rood runner,

[mainliner]

how much longer will the be pllaying OA online cause i know it says limited time under the channel name?

[kloraferm]

This keeps happening! It just did now (twice today). I'm really starting to dislike this company!

[cableone12]

i got a "this channel is experiencing technical difficulties" message for 1 hour yesterday, anyone else had this problem?

[Stinkysteve]

i got a "this channel is experiencing technical difficulties" message for 1 hour yesterday, anyone else had this problem?

Yeah!

It was around noon.