INDCJournal: Tech Complaints<strong><em> (UPDATED)</em></strong>

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April 19, 2005

Tech Complaints (UPDATED)

Posted by Bill

I've gotten a couple of e-mails from individuals complaining that the embedded radio show file automatically plays whenever they open INDC Journal in their browser. This is not intentional, it's not happening in my browser, and I have no idea why it may be happening in yours. If anyone has a clue, let me know.

In the meantime, go for the "stop" button.

UPDATE: Yikes!

I would have posted this in the comments but I can no longer effectively access your site from my Opera browser (running on W2K).
The stop button doesn't help either. I still get the audio feed. And even if I close out the window where I brought up INDC, It doesn't stop hitting the net connection until I close out the entire Opera application.

And whenever I leave the INDC page and try to access any other page in that particular Opera window, Opera crashes. Every time.

Sorry for the bad news, but "that's the way it is", April 19th, 2005.

Opera browser? Is that like some sort of Chinese technology?

UPDATE: And I've gotten several huffy e-mails like this:

what in the hell is with the audio blasting out from your website??? You have just been erased from my list. What arrogance!

No, "arrogance" is probably making the assumption that it's intentional.

I took the post down until I can figure out why this is happening.

Posted by Bill at April 19, 2005 09:46 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Bill, even the stop button doesn't work. I'm running Moz 1.6 on Win 2K, SP 4.

Posted by: rbj at April 19, 2005 10:14 AM

I am using Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0.2 (viewing the site from Thunderbird's RSS feed reader) and I'm not having that problem.

Posted by: Hans Mast at April 19, 2005 10:16 AM

Firefox on my system at home play the audio too. Annoying.

Posted by: Dan S at April 19, 2005 02:43 PM

If you're using <embed> to put it in, I think you can do autostart="false" in there to prevent auto-playing.

Alternatively, the Wimpy Flash-based streaming audio products are highly recommended.

Posted by: Mark J at April 19, 2005 08:23 PM