[Orions Radio]

@idobi I prefer to be listed, I just don't want my stats to show that 30 people connected to my station and listened for 10 minutes when it was 1 person that listened for 5 hours straight. I don't think that's too much to ask. I use my logs to find and ban abusers of the station and it becomes much harder when they get lost in hundreds of legitimate reconnects caused by this flash issue.

Anyone know why ... if there has been a problem with flash since 2004 that obviously wasn't going to be fixed and effected only the use you plan on using it for ... why would you choose to use something like that? I just can't figure out the reasoning behind it. Why take something that works and replace it with something you know doesn't work properly?

Oh well, I guess I will figure out a way to write the script myself. Still need to find out why descriptions don't show up in the listings anymore... I really want people to see my disgust with the SHOUTcast player. Maybe other stations will see my description, wonder why I ban people using the SHOUTcast radio and they will start questioning it. Then maybe AOL will get off their ass and fix the problem. (get on Adobe to fix flash, find a replacement for the 'flash based' player, go back to the original one that worked or write their own if this is an aesthetics issue and they just want their name on the player... flash doesn't need to be used!!)

Judging by the votes here, I'm dealing with people that will not be able to help. Their intelligence is just not at a level where they can understand a simple concept. Like I said before "You have to be seriously mentally challenged to vote "no" on this poll" and what happens... I get two more no votes which just furthers my opinion. Please don't reply to this if you are going to tell me this is a flash problem. Ill break down this simple concept one more time. AOL took something that worked and replaced it with something that has a defect that effects the indented use of the product. I used Toyota as an example and Nick@ss didn't get the concept. He brought in the "Price" issue so I won't use that example. I will let you come up with your own example. If you had anything that you found useful and worked fine (free or paid for) and someone took it and replaced it with something that was defective and had a known problem with the use it was intended for wouldn't you be a little upset?

Most people seem to keep replying that its a flash issue... they just don't seem to understand that it is NOT a flash issue. Yes flash does have a problem but that's not the real issue the real issue is that AOL chose to use flash even though there is a known problem with it! This problem effects anyone who wants to keep any idea of how many listeners they get or how long the listened for. This problem effects anyone who doesn't want logs that are 30 times bigger and filled with 80% duplicate entries.

Sure I could write a very complicated script to look at the times of login and disconnect of each entry and if they are from the same person and in the same second have it merge those entries so maybe I can get a more accurate connect time but if I was that good at writing scripts I would be able to write one to ban SHOUTcast player users and I wouldn't have to write such a complicated one.

Since no one seems to understand why there should be thousands of yes votes and zero no votes on this poll lets just forget about the simple concept of AOL taking something that worked and replacing it with something that doesn't and use this post to help me get some answers to two problems I need resolved:

1. Does anyone know how to get a description to show in the SHOUTcast directory?
2. Does anyone know how to write a Linux script that will query the SHOUTcast server, look for MPEG OVERRIDE and then preferably kick them 3 times if they connect a 4th time add them to the ban list?