XM Online problems (1 Viewer)

[Charlie-W]

Since XM will be offering XM Online to everyone atarting Saturday, I thought I would try it out before hand. I signed up for the free 3-day trial this morning and opened up the player, but it's been 2 hours and I still can't get any streams to play.

How are they going to make this work when ALL the subscribers try and access it? For this they raised the monthly rate?

-Charlie

 

[MikeHU]

Charlie, I did the 3-day trial a while back - with no problem. I have since subscribed and have not been able to get the online version to play. It launches the player, but no music. Have you had any success?

 

[TheLongshot]

I've had no problem getting on to XM Online, but it drops out often.

I think XM has a lot of work to do...

Jason

 

[Chris]

Right now, XM is offering two completely different stream sets.. one for AOL users and one just across the internet. The one exclusive to AOL subscribers is a much higher bitrate - something they advertised when they signed the agreement. Keeping two different streams active can be a trick, I'm assuming this will be worked out, but may take a bit of "playing around with"

 

[Jeff_CusBlues]

I stumbled onto this the other day. In the lower right hand corner of the on line player, there is a settings button. If you click on it, you can select low or high bandwidth. Mine was set to low bandwidth so I changed to high. I'm only using my computer speakers here at work so I can't say if it sounds a lot better. I don't get many dropouts though.