June 2, 200322 yr I can't listen to the draft tomorrow without plunking over 10 bucks to listen to s***ty radio for a year. My God.
June 3, 200322 yr If I'm not mistaken, mlb.com has free live audio and video streams of the draft today. I checked the site this morning cause I was pissed about that too, but it looks like it's free today for the draft.
June 3, 200322 yr MLBradio has been just about worthless for me all season. I don't mind the $15 for a product that works. But the RealNetworks player is the most bug-ridden piece of crap out there. Of the three computers I spend my days on, only one of them has even a slight chance of successfully pulling a live stream from MLBradio. Funny thing is that things worked really well for the FREE spring training games. But as soon as the season started and you had to plunk down cash, they try to roll out some new features that killed nearly half of their streaming audience. The techline phones were ringing off the hook and you couldn't even get through to them for the first three weeks of the season. Just another sign that MLB is more interested in gouging the few remaining fans the game has left for every last cent instead of fixing their own problems before the whole league goes bankrupt.
June 3, 200322 yr MLBradio has been just about worthless for me all season. I don't mind the $15 for a product that works. But the RealNetworks player is the most bug-ridden piece of crap out there. Of the three computers I spend my days on, only one of them has even a slight chance of successfully pulling a live stream from MLBradio. Funny thing is that things worked really well for the FREE spring training games. But as soon as the season started and you had to plunk down cash, they try to roll out some new features that killed nearly half of their streaming audience. The techline phones were ringing off the hook and you couldn't even get through to them for the first three weeks of the season. Just another sign that MLB is more interested in gouging the few remaining fans the game has left for every last cent instead of fixing their own problems before the whole league goes bankrupt. Every season the first two weeks I have problems with MLB radio and then they seem to fix whatever bugs it has and it works fine the rest of the season - I play it off of 3 macs: a G4, an iMac, and a powerbook, and no problems what so ever with real network or anything. Sorry that you have the bad experiences because I really rely on MLB radio to keep in touch with the games
June 3, 200322 yr I get no joy of of either a mac G3 tower or G4 Powerbook, but the root of my problem may be that they're still OS9 since much of the development software I use is just now being put out on OSX. Real Player 7 and 8 have been forced to obsolescence, but RN is apparently not putting out an OS9 version of RealOne. I can get the thing to work on OSX machines. Interestingly, I can get archived material from MLBradio to come through fine and it's only live streams that choke. My sad solution at work is to run VirtualPC on the Powerbook and get the streams using RealOne under Win2000 emulation. A very roundabout solution but the best I have come up with so far. On my wife's PC at home I can get the streams about 75% of the time, but I think that is a traffic issue.
June 3, 200322 yr I am using OS 9.01 and 9.02 and it works - I suspect by next year I will have to upgrade to OS10 - no idea why it works for me and not you - ?
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