Now the computer's working, getting on with a massive clearup of the flat and other general chores which had fallen by the wayside when I was obsesssed with trying to get it working. Also the break is over, it's back to the jobs too.
For the first time in six months I remembered to record both my radio shows so I can at least listen to those in the background whilst I'm working.
Yeah, now that it's working and established after six years let's hope they don't screw it up by combining it with the iPlayer...
It's the Essential Mix with a different DJ each week which was moved to overnight on Saturday morning last November, and John Digweed's Kiss 100 show which stopped clashing with it, also at 3am but on Sunday mornings.
The problem was, I just kept forgetting the Radio 1 show, even when I was up that late to listen to it! Glastonbury must have helped me remember.
To be fair there was the whole Realplayer vs Media Player thing which the Listen Again service had to sort out, so it's had its ups and downs through the years. In Vista it works automatically for me, in XP it's 50/50.
It's all about bit rate though, I know that Kiss's streamer has better sound quality even though it prefers that you use IE only and not Firefox. Whatever they've done it doesn't keel over whenever a browser gets a patch.