You Get What You Pay For

I pay a grand total of nothing for Last.FM's services, which helps explain why I don't make a fuss about their service, which is sporadic at best, but I had to laugh when I saw this today:

If you investigated further, you'll have noticed that Last.FM's servers were completely fubar'd and even their website was down, which is forgiveable. Every service has outages, even high profile ones like Last.FM, and it's not like they're making batteries for pacemakers, so life goes on even when Last.FM goes tits up. But the thing that made me speak up is that they blamed me for their power failure. DynamicRangeDJ was, indeed, playing tracks. They simply weren't being recorded by Last.FM's free playlist doohickey.

Man up and take the blame, Last.FM.

On a related note, I pay absolutely zero to be listed on the SHOUTcast radio directory, which is why I've learned to live with the fact that it doesn't always work properly. I don't rely on SHOUTcast to find listeners anyway, but simply consider SHOUTcast listings a nice bonus. When they actually work, that is.

For several weeks now, I've noticed that my SHOUTcast listing has been malfunctioning. The listen button rarely works, and more often than not it shows the same song title over and over again.


Luca Mundaca himself would get sick of that song if I played it as often as SHOUTcast has been claiming.

If you discovered the station via SHOUTcast but haven't been able to tune in through their website, bookmark this page and tune in via one of my links, or simply bookmark the audio stream in your media player of choice.

And, finally, the rule of "you get what you pay for" also applies here at Dynamic Range Radio.

If you're listening for free, that means you're hearing 64k mono sound. It sounds pretty decent on cheap laptop speakers, but if you spent $100 or more on speakers for your computer, why not spend a little more to hear vastly superior 128k stereo sound?

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