Comments on: The NPR Media Player

By: Web 2.0 The Humanity! (aka NPR Media Player Epic Fail) « Airbag Moments

Web 2.0 The Humanity! (aka NPR Media Player Epic Fail) « Airbag Moments — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:24:28 +0000

[...] not actually overreacting here. The problem is one I expressed concern about in my original positive review of the NPR Media Player (which I am now dubbing the “NPR Media Gatekeeper”): it’s [...]

By: sensorrhea

sensorrhea — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:59:46 +0000

I’ve been having it alot recently too. In particular I have been completely unable to play Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me no matter how many cookies I delete. Meanwhile they tend to be a week late updating their downloadable podcast, so this is a bad thing. As I mentioned in my post, the media player is only good to the extent that it doesn’t displace downloadable versions of the content.

By: JCollum

JCollum — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:56:29 +0000

@smerball: lighten up, npr has to pay for it’s servers somehow. Listening to a 15 second ad for 45 minutes of content is a small price to pay.

By: JCollum

JCollum — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:55:14 +0000

The “buffering” issue happens to me all the time. Might be because I’m behind a proxy server, but most videos play just fine so I don’t know why NPR would have such an issue.

By: sensorrhea

sensorrhea — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:06:57 +0000

That sounds pretty annoying. I haven’t experienced it. Have you had this in different locations?

By: Swanberg

Swanberg — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:23:15 +0000

This Media Player has been having the “hung on buffering” problem for several months now. The NPR workaround to remove cookies does not fix it for more than one or two segments. I have no problem with Media Player playing me an ad, but this ongoing hanging situation where you get only the first third of a story, then have to intervene to maybe get half, maybe get a fifth next time, is really aggravating. I may have to give up NPR online if this doesn’t get fixed real soon . . . .

By: Free the Internet

Free the Internet — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:05 +0000

Replay Media Catcher can grab content from the NPR player. Free demo will save the full mp3 track you are trying to grab (I was grabbing a concert that will not end up in a podcast)
http://applian.com/replay-media-catcher/index.php

By: smerball

smerball — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:25:56 +0000

thanks for this explanation. i’ve just discovered this stinking media player with one of npr’s stories and i am jumping, flipping, flaming, fuming, angry that i was forced to listen to an ad and was unable to block it. i’m about one more angry spasm from uninstalling this stinking adobe flash plugin from my browser so that i’m never tempted to view any flash content ever again. adobe flash plugin is nothing but a spyware, malware infection. it’s bad enough that i need to visit adobe website to delete their local shared object / flash cookie spyware and now i’m forced to view ads. this is nothing but spyware.
i’m really flaming angry at NPR for using this malware delivery method and i’m gonna let them know i’m angry. i am also considering putting npr.org in my hosts file block list.
webmasters and advertisers really, really need to figure out a way to design a website without trickery and deception if they want me visit. i will not support sponsors, i will simply not return.