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Radio Station Upgrade!

It took two full days of work to get the stations on to a new server, and a number of frustrations as well. Because the stations are integrated into the site, it takes a site recode as well as setting up new playlists, etc. for the new server.

However, there are some nice improvements that have come out of me banging my head on my desk in frustration!

1. The Eclectic Acoustic Station now has port 80 streaming. This means that it will not be blocked by strict firewalls of the type often encountered in the workplace and various other locations. Nice!

2. The playlists will now be more varied throughout the day than ever, with very little work on my part to keep them that way. That's more than fine with me!

3. The lists on the radio pages of the "Last 10 Songs Played" now display correctly on the page, instead of all crammed together. I had given up on ever getting that right, but I gave it another go, and this time I got it! They should be much easier to look at now, for those of you who use them.

If you use a bookmark in your player, you can create a new one from the radio pages. However, if you want to create a bookmark that will follow the stations wherever they may go, you can edit your bookmarks with the following addresses.

For the rock station, replace the url with:

http://indieheart.com/rockplaylist.m3u

For the acoustic station, replace the url with:

http://indieheart.com/acousticplaylist.m3u

I don't know if that work in all players, but it works great in WinAmp.

As always, thanks for tuning in!

Jill

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