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[Tharikifa]

It is a combination of the following three things that have changed everything about how people listen to music. They are: iTunes, iPods, and Satellite Radio. -MetalAlexa

And don't forget streaming web-radio stations like AR.
iTunes is rather new, as are iPods and Satellite Radio, but audio players on computers actually predate most forms of streaming web radio. I remember having my old computer running Windows 95, I did the same thing on that as I do on my current computer, importing music into my library and listening to it via playlists and whatnot.

MP3 Players and Satellite Radio are new, and they seem to play a role in the problem, but listening to music via computer is nothing new. So why is it a big deal now?

If your listening to music on an iPod you are most likely away from your computer and unable to tune into AR anyway, unless AR had its own podcast or something...

Satellite Radio is a different story. You can listen to it into your car while you cannot do so with AR, but whats stopping you from choosing Satellite Radio over AR when your sitting at your computer in your home? Absolutely nothing.

And programs like iTunes vs. AR. You can listen to your music OR listen to AR, it's your choice. If you don't have the internet for AR, fine... but if you do have the connection... what the f*** are you complaining about then? You didn't tune in when you could and now It's gone because of you and everyone else who just didn't tune in.

What I'm trying to say here is iTunes and iPods had very little, if anything, to do with the demise of AR. Satellite Radio, however, may have been the straw that was too big. Actually, if it wasn't for programs like iTunes there wouldn't be any way for the listeners to even tune into AR, so...

[Blizzard]

I agree - iTune, iPods and Sat Radio all played a part of the end of the internet DJ. But I think sites like pandora.com and last.fm both programmed to fine tune the playlist to each person's own tastes is what finished them off.

[Doc]

lack of nudity on the Alliance Radio website.

/thread

[NightBreed]

I did not fail to read your post Alexa. I actually referenced podcasts etc in my tirade.

I truly appreciate your input, (my lust for you aside) but I think you completely and utterly missed my point.

Where were you when I was on the microphone?

That, genuinely, is the only question. 

That, genuinely, is the reason that Alliance Radio is now dead. .

Your iPod is there every f***ing day, all day, but I was only on the mic for a short blast.

Every single person who posts on this thread.....

When it was 10pm on Saturday night (cental time that is), when I told my lovely wife that she was going to be a WMA widow for the next 4-5 hours, where were you?

Did technology stop anyone here from checking out the custom banners that Minister tossed up to advertise Alliance Radio? Did technology stop anyone from clicking "PLAY" at the AR link?

Technology did not stop anyone from clicking "listen now" at Alliance Radio dot com.

Next excuse?

[Tharikifa]

The only real excuse, bud, is "I have better things to do".
Too many metalheads who had things better to do than sit there at their computer blasting AR.

[MetalAlexa]

I did not fail to read your post Alexa. I actually referenced podcasts etc in my tirade.

I truly appreciate your input, (my lust for you aside) but I think you completely and utterly missed my point.

Where were you when I was on the microphone?

Your iPod is there every f***ing day, all day, but I was only on the mic for a short blast.

When it was 10pm on Saturday night (cental time that is), when I told my lovely wife that she was going to be a WMA widow for the next 4-5 hours, where were you?

Did technology stop anyone here from checking out the custom banners that Minister tossed up to advertise Alliance Radio? Did technology stop anyone from clicking "PLAY" at the AR link?

Technology did not stop anyone from clicking "listen now" at Alliance Radio dot com.

Next excuse?

Where was I? At work. I work part time weekends and the one weekend I was off, I did stop by to tune in and there was no show. I'm not trying to make excuses. I'm simply trying to point out one of the biggest reasons people have stopped tuning in to all web radio stations, not just AR. And the only reason I went to the trouble to point it out was because it looked like the people like you that put so much time into it were driving yourselves nuts trying to figure out why. This is not some theory I made up, it's general knowledge on many major news sources. For instance the following is from BBC News, not just some dumb blonde chick who felt bad for everyone involved.

Ever since radio stations started broadcasting popular music, they've employed disc jockeys to tell us what songs they are playing and to generally keep us entertained. Formulaic stations with unvarying playlists and inexperienced DJs are increasingly unattractive to the rising generation of listeners. With the home computer now the preferred device for storing music collections, many are choosing to be their own DJs, programming their personal listening by downloading (or "ripping") the tunes they like to iPods or MP3 devices they can use on the move.

People want to have a custom station of their own and they can't do this if a DJ is in control. Then the only control you have is to change the channel. Engaging, celebrity DJs may always have a place on traditional radio, especially at drive time when we are getting up or returning home from work. But it could be that the days of inexperienced local presenters may be numbered in the battle for the ears of the iPod generation.

[Jimi Bove]

Sorry that I do not have enough time to read all of these posts, but all I need to know is already known:

1. Almost every WMA legend did a ****load of sacrifices to make us all have an actual pure metal station for no cost, and anyone who doesn't appreciate that must be... Nevermind. No sense offending anyone.

2. Stupid Internet Royalty Rates ended the greatness by putting too much on these hardworking guys, and the listeners shrinking in smaller numbers before this via iPods, or whatever else it could be, did a great deal of damage too.

[Tharikifa]

2. Stupid Internet Royalty Rates ended the greatness by putting too much on these hardworking guys, and the listeners shrinking in smaller numbers before this via iPods, or whatever else it could be, did a great deal of damage too.

The new Internet Royalty Rates did not affect AR, as they have not been accepted in put into use yet, as the petitions across the inter-web against it are still active and collecting signatures.

Had nothing to do with iTunes, Realplayer, Winamp, Windows Media Player, or any program, or iPods or any type of mp3 player. NB did his shows for a FEW hours ONCE a week, if anyone ditched out on that for their iPod... I do not even want to think about that.

[Jimi Bove]

Oh.

BTW, I did say "or whatever else it could be," meaning I didn't know if it was iPods.

[NightBreed]

Alexa darlin' I think you still misunderstand me.

I am not all about "poor me " and bitching about the time and money and energy I put into AR.

You made it in a general "why people don't listen to web broadcast" type of topic.

I was just adding to that. Pointing out that those of us who wore the yoke could not have tried any harder at all.

Nothing more, nothing less.

My "where were you comments were general and rhetorical. I was not asking where YOU were.

Please just let it go gang.

We worked very hard for a very long time and it is now over.

That's it.

[Pbirv]

I said this before here, but in the event it got lost in the merger, I'll say it again one more time; at least nobody here can accuse me of not doing my part. I tuned in at least a couple times a week and every Saturday when I was home.

[Jimi Bove]

I tuned in at least a couple times a week and every Saturday when I was home.

I forgot to say that I did the same. I also tuned in on weeks when I wasn't home.

... Although, in those Saturdays, I was at my dad's, which has a great internet connection...