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On or about September 28, 2010 FM5280 will close forever.

What a hard post to write. I have put so much of my life, heart and soul into FM280 Smooth Jazz and with everyone's help have made a listening portal that I believe is second to none.

On or about September 28, 2010 FM5280 will close forever.

6 years is a long time. I think back to the early days when I struggled because I had no listeners. A lot has changed in the Smooth Jazz landscape since those early days for me. Over the air FM Smooth Jazz stations are closing and more to go. New Smooth Jazz Internet choices are poping up everyday. It has never been about competition with other stations, I had a dream, I worked hard to make it a reality. I envisioned 'features' that I wanted to offer the loyal listeners of FM5280. I learned how to code, taught myself through trial and error - a lot of error - along the way. If I could imagine anything, I brought it to life on the web pages. I truly think I succeeded. FM5280 is a destination listening portal like no other on the internet.

I know this is similar to the 3 years ago when we closed for 3 months, but this situation is different.

So why close the station? This was a hobby of mine that I wanted to share with others. I did so by soldiering the burden of all the expenses month-after-month, year-after-year. There are those that donated and helped along the way,with cash donations and with CD donations, Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Unfortunately sporadic donations just aren't enough.

It's purely financial, my reasons to close the station. That's it. My personal situation has me retiring in 5 years and as I look down the road I feel that the $300 a month that I am spending now on the station could be put to better uses as I get my personal finances in order.

So it is with a heavy heart that I have decided to close the doors on what to some of you has been a 'place of refuge' where you could come and talk about smooth jazz, request your favorite songs and sit back a relax to our smooth jazz

If anyone has any interest in purchasing the FM5280 brand let me know. All inquiries will be kept confidential.

Once the station closes, there will no longer be a hosted domain for fm5280.com. I will not have an e-mail address at fm5280. Those that wish to reach me after we close may do so at royler AT q DOT com. (put it together like a normal e-mail address).

That makes a lot sense Taichifist. You would think that so much money is spent on a 'producer' to guide the artist's finished product and to polish it that those things just would not happen. Also it comes to mind that an artist may have a deal that on the CD he is guaranteed free reign or at least he has his pick of the tracks that have been put down for the CD. They should all just say sometimes ---OY VEY!!! what are you thinking???????

Are you saying this one does not work?

You are not using paranthesis.

Try this ArmorBearer,

When you see that page, click on Account (near the top above red bar) and log in again. This will probably display the entire website in WMP. Then close WMP and re-open it again using the WMP listen link. I am thinking this is some sort of cookie issue.

You need to be logged in on the Web site and on the Now Playing page first before you launch WMP . After that the now playing lite page is what should be delivered to WMP html view area. That is the way it works for me and others. This is what you should see:

Please login to see this image.
Get registered or Log in

Sorry to hear about the issues ArmorBearer. Our streaming server and web host is on the east coast of the US which may contribute to the buffering, a long haul to Indonesia.

There is a now playing lite page available to Wndows Media Player users. Might want to give that one a shot to see if it makes a difference for you. It appears within the player itself when you launch the listen link. http://fm5280.com/fm5280.asx You can still rate songs but the other functions are not available. It's best to be sure you are logged in to the main site first and then launch the player. You can then log out of the web site and stil have the now playing lite page in WMP.

It seems to me that was a feature of early php-nuke. I do not think it is in the latest versions.

I get asked a lot about this especailly from our new listeners. There are a few different ways to gain points to be used for requesting tracks. The base number of points to request a track is 10 points and 20 points for tracks 10 minutes or more. Those that contribute $25 or more in cash donations to the station get that reduced by 50%.

New listeners are awarded 10 points when they complete their registration and visit the Now Playing page.
Rate songs as they play - 1 point for each song rated. Re-rating a song does not give you more points.
Listen to FM5280, be sure you log into the web site and visit the Now Playing page while listening to FM5280. At the end of each day you are awarded 1 point for each hour spent listening up to a maximum of 10 points.
Daily bonus - one listener each day is awarded 25 bonus points just for listening, selected at random.
Add lyrics to Jazz Vocal songs earns you 5 points for each one.

Refreshing this topic. Adding Lyrics to our Jazz Vocal tracks gets you 5 bonus points that can be used to request tracks.

How to add Lyrics.
When a Jazz Vocal track is playing, and there aren't lyrics
1) Press the + to expand the lyrics section
2) Select the add link.
3) You receive a pop-up that displays a space to enter the lyrics
4) Just above the lyrics box is a link to a google search for the lyrics
5) Click it and follow a link to copy the lyrics (somne sites protect against copying by disabling the highlight and right click feature - move on)
6) Copy the lyrics and paste into the box
7) Select submit
Cool

I will see the submissions and view for appropriate content and authorization.
9) You receive your 5 ponts after the lyrics are added.

I guess that would depend on the settings you have in "Your Account" in the Modules Admin section of Extreme. Make sure you have gone through those and updated them from the defaults and they make sense. If that doesn't change anything I'd suggest posting at the extreme forums for support.