Streaming Pet Peaves

[tmay]

This part of the forum looked a little neglected...

Ok, here's another one. Broadcaster sets a timeout on streams, the bandwidth being sucked by listeners that simply turn off their speakers and walk away is taking food off the broadcaster's table. The timeout is set to something reasonable like 3 hours. Listeners complain. Broadcaster changes it to 6 hours, listeners still complain.

[leaderofthefreeworld]

This part of the forum looked a little neglected...

Ok, here's another one. Broadcaster sets a timeout on streams, the bandwidth being sucked by listeners that simply turn off their speakers and walk away is taking food off the broadcaster's table. The timeout is set to something reasonable like 3 hours. Listeners complain. Broadcaster changes it to 6 hours, listeners still complain.

No matter what you do, listeners complain.

I had one that said she could not receive our Gospel station. After talking to her a few minutes making recommendations on how to get a better signal, she said the Methodists were blocking the station (station is Gospel)... so in her mind she was calling to complain to me about not getting the station when it was those darn Methodists doing it the whole time.

[BroadcastDoc]

This part of the forum looked a little neglected...

Ok, here's another one. Broadcaster sets a timeout on streams, the bandwidth being sucked by listeners that simply turn off their speakers and walk away is taking food off the broadcaster's table. The timeout is set to something reasonable like 3 hours. Listeners complain. Broadcaster changes it to 6 hours, listeners still complain.

We get those too. We politely tell them to deal with it!