7 Comments on “Nick of Time: Bonnie Raitt”

1. katry Says:

   
   September 26, 2010 at 11:31 am

   yousendit link:

   https://rcpt.yousendit.com/955210313/3e7ef37071de51eeec4ee874895ed1df
2. Rick OzTown Says:

   
   September 26, 2010 at 4:51 pm

   I hope they come through for you soon on the player and am sorry that you’re having to wrestle with them on it.
   • katry Says:

     
     September 26, 2010 at 11:20 pm

     Rick,
     We have been trading e-mails since Tuesday, and they keep telling me they have fixed the problem. I keep telling them they haven’t. Now I’m beginning to try to find a music hosting site as easy to use as Hipcast was.

     Using WordPress doesn’t cost me any money, but I find it inconvenient for my readers to have to go to a different page from the link. I’ll keep looking.
     • Rick OzTown Says:

       
       September 27, 2010 at 11:36 am

       Hmmm. I think at THIS point, I would point them to a blog post that DOESN’T work (URL) and ask them to fix it so it DOES work. If they are successful, then ask them to either
       a. give you the code to make it work
       or
       b. describe, step by step how they got there.

       What did you do differently in those days where you/we can see the very different sort of player in the space BELOW where you tell us to play. (They may have a point…you may have fixed it and don’t realize/know it.)
       I’ll give you an example of what I mean.

       Lady of Autumn: Beggar’s Velvet

       
       shows your old slider/player (when viewed with Google Reader) AND says you have the usual single comment.
       BUT, when I use Google Reader software to snag your blog posts and look at

       When Fall Comes to New England: Cheryl Wheeler

       
       I see a slider/player below the text shown here:
       ==
       Rick asked that I post this song as it never did make it last week.

       When Fall Comes to New England
       1 comment
       ==
       That slider/player is very nice compared to the old one you had (that used to contain the HIPCAST.COM text in the little bar graph portion that shows how much of the piece you’ve played so far, but it required me to LEAVE the Google Reader site by clicking to view your actual blog in order to play the piece). It also has a popout feature that lets one click there and play the piece in a separately movable sub-window.

       HOWEVER, when I click on the Google Reader link and actually go and read your blog at

       When Fall Comes to New England: Cheryl Wheeler

       
       I do NOT see that player. It seems to be only viewable inside the Google Reader site that points to your blog. The same is ALSO true of another music blog post shown here:
       http://townfulloflosers.com/2010/09/27/bono-bloody-bono/
       When I read the post with Google Reader, the slider player is there. THAT’S why I normally do NOT read their blog on its own. I use the Google Reader to view it with the much better slider/player. Yours has not had that until this recent “fix” by Hipcast. I suspect that blogger also uses Hipcast and might think their songs are “fixed”, too, if they only view them through Google Reader.

       That is verbose, but I truly hope it lets you point the Hipcast folks to what is frustrating you that they do not seem to see. (By the way, I am using Windows XP Home and Firefox browser for this experiment, if that should make a difference. I realize that different OS and browsers do NOT always render an image or code the same.)
     • katry Says:

       
       September 27, 2010 at 11:56 am

       Rick,
       I went to Google Reader and was amazed to see that slide. I can’t figure out why it is there and not there when I view the post through the url. I haven’t made any changes in either of my accounts, wordpress or hipcast. I too use Firefox and Windows Home XP. The support department at Hipcast has been given the before and after url’s so they could see what I was talking about as well as the operating system and browser I use. I will give them the information about Google Reader to see if that helps them.
       Thanks for all of this.
3. J.M. Heinrichs Says:

   
   September 26, 2010 at 5:49 pm

   Apparently, Nick was the magazine’s rotary press operator?

   Cheers
   • katry Says:

     
     September 26, 2010 at 11:21 pm

     Minicapt,
     You’re on a roll.

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