Just wanted to log on to see if that section of the system was up.

Bring back Maron and Seder 5 days a week.

Congratulations!
Barb

I am a premium subscriber and my downloads on Itunes are getting an error. Do I have to resubscribe to the podcasts? How do I do that? Can't find anything.

Thanks,
Rachel

to bring back Morning Sedition and put you on every day, it would really kick ass.

1. Navigate to http://airamerica.com/ondemand.
2. Choose the "Shows" tab and pick the show you want from the drop-down menu.
3. There are two icons below the picture of the show, one of which looks like a tiny iPod; click the tiny iPod.
4. A bar drops down that says, "How would you like that?" - from there you can choose RSS or iTunes to get your feed.

NOTE: If you use a product like Juice (which I do) you can right-click the RSS feed symbol, open it in a new window (or a new tab in FireFox or IE7) and copy/paste the URL of the feed into the URL location of your old subscription.

Good luck.

I also need the MP3 files. AAR wouldn't change the file availability w/o telling the paid users in advance, would they? I sure hope not, but have tried nearly everything w/o success. So what's up with this Sam ? PLEASE HELP !

btw: Not Everyone uses Apple

btw: The site was down till 2:00 AM EDT Tuesday morning. Streaming Audio wouldn't stay up for more than a few seconds at a time on Monday.

Thanks Sam. Great update to the site. Looks great.

"The Truth is an offense, but not a sin" ~ Bob Marley
http://www.911blogger.com

I cannot access the ex-Premium, now Ondemand, direct without downloading. How do you listen to the Ondemand direct? Where is the help button? Is there a condensed layout of the Premium anywhere? Help, help help.

This site went live without being properly tested. Cross-browser compatibility is basic for any website design. This new AAR site does not work in Firefox, the preferred browser for 36.5% of web users!!!! The following features, at least -- and I'm not going to fully product test this website --, do not work in Firefox.

1. Live streaming is totally dead.
2. Cannot post to a blog.
3. Helpdesk tickets vanish when sent.

In both IE and Firefox:

1. Help butons get 404 errors (file not found).
2. "Preview comment" on blogs go and hang on a white page.

You need to redirect to the old site until the new site is fully tested and working.

Until now I found it easy to download the podcasts for loading on to my MP3 player. I can now download them on to my computer in some form but they will not play on my MP3 player. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this.

I can't figure out how to find yesterday's shows. The new site is slow and without logic.

How could you launch the site with the help "coming soon?"

The MP3 section of the web site is a joke. It takes 50sec to reload the page at 5am EST, what will it be like at midday. Every time you navigate to download a mp3 you have to wait to while the page reloads. This page may work great for people whom use a IPOD but not everyone has an IPOD.
Also what gives with the names of the file now when I download my daily fix of 3 to 4 shows, I have on ideal what show they are its just a number. Can you rename them and use a link from you number to the name for the itunes.

The rest of the website looks great Sam, but think about the growing number of people that use a phone or another mp3 player.

Why do we care how pretty it looks if we can't download the podcasts. It's Air America RADIO not Air America pretty website.

This new site won't work properly in Firefox. Open another browser to get the feed (Safari worked for me).

Air America web team:
Next time you do major changes, maybe you could launch the new version as beta next to the old one. That way you could find out what the bugs are in the new one while not denying (PAID FOR) content to users.

I do like the new look, but usability is still paramount.

ipod dont work niether

that ,even though we have some cool changes to the AAR website, I am still the same loveable Antillectual you have grown to adore.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.-Joseph Joubert

One of the reasons I love AAR is because it reminds me I'm not the only liberal in America. Looks like I'm not the only one who isn't happy with the new site either. It's slow and I can't find whole show podcasts. It no longer updates on itunes. I don't want clips, I want Rachel.

This totally sucks. before - 2 clicks and I'm done. now - lost and very slooooowwwwww

Save the ad blocks that this post will address (and the stream links others have addressed), I've got no gripes on the layout and format, It'll take some time to adjust to the new digs. That's to be expected.

My only gripe would be the inability to read posts (not comments, but posts) in full, as the ad blocks to the right cover half of the content. It makes for users being unable to clearly grasp the poster's message, as readers are left with trying to guess what the content is that they are unable to see.

I was excited to see the "Ask A Liberal" section which includes commentary from none other than the always-hilarious General JC. So, I clicked on through... only to be unable to enjoy the content as half of it is simply hidden by the ad blocks.

Frustrating, to say the least.
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Seriously ya'll, what's the story? Being down all weekend for maintenance, sure, I can understand that. A little annoying, but at least the live feed was going so I didn't miss anything. Now I can't even get that! I have a hard time believing that, with a vast community full of intellectuals, there weren't enough people involved in this project who could actually code and troubleshoot a website properly (not to mention this entire endeavor should've been beta-tested long before it was ever dropped on the customers). I'm a long-time subscriber and I love your programming--this is one of the few remaining outlets for actually important news and meaningful commentary--but this is just ridiculous. My patience is wearing thin.

AP BREAKING NEWS FULL STORY:
Hillary Clinton to announce withdrawal from Democratic presidential primary.

Say it ain't so!
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but the downloading is sooooooooooooo sllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwww ...

"Bitch may be the new black but black is the new President, bitch."
Tracy Morgan, SNL

Very current design... very Web 2.0 .... It's a treat for the eyeballs!

Besides listening, I'll be coming to the site a whole lot more!

I did, and got some guy's disinterested voice mail.

At the very least, you should indicate when the podcasts (that we Premium subscribers have paid for) will become available to us.

or the kitten gets it...

OK, sooooo.... It works when you "post a new comment"
But, when you click "reply" to a comment, not so much...

"Reply" linkees need fixxies...
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GREAT NEW SIGHT/SITE!!, ARE THE ARCHIVES ON DEMAND NOW? Oops I didn't mean to yell!!
Keep up the great work my friends....

The new site is very handsome and permanent-looking and I hope in a couple days my frustration will be a fading memory but right now I'm very unhappy. I've been looking for almost an hour for my shows! I can't find f-all and it's not like I'm stupid or have never been on a website before. And boy, oh, boy, talk about s-l-o-w. Geez.

I NEED TO SAVE MP3 FILES TO MY LAPTOP! It will also be nice if it doesn't take a year and a day once this feature is restored/created. I can't believe it's not here when accessiblity to content should have been the top priority. Podcast software is worthless to me. I have to have MP3s so I can move them to my Rio Karma. Why on earth can I not find the MP3 files? Do they even exist now?

Also, I tried to update my account twice and the Air Amer. server kicked me off. I'm so unhappy about this I can't tell you. I hope you know about these bugs and iron them out soon.

I found this link in some commented-out HTML on the "AAR Streaming Window":

http://winmedia.voxcdn.net/aar

It's not the old address, which started cutting out yesterday.

Podcast mp3 files are downloadable under the "RSS" option, after clicking on the "iPod" icon under the "Full Show" option for your selected host.

To download mp3s, click these (must be Premium Member):

Thom Hartmann:

http://www.airamerica.com/ondemand/podcast/6624/full

Randi Rhodes:

http://www.airamerica.com/ondemand/podcast/6621/full

Rachel Maddow:

http://www.airamerica.com/ondemand/podcast/6618/full

Sam Seder:

http://www.airamerica.com/ondemand/podcast/6622/full

Hay guys, get real. This New site is quite a ways of being ready for Prime Time. It is going to take weeks to get to that point. So step back, reload the old site so that LISTENERS can hear AAR and get files of shows that have been missed.

Then when the new site has been fully tested and debugged, loaded with help files, etc. Make sure you include all the old content and files. Continue to support the file types you have always provided. Then put the "new site" up on a beta address and let those who have the time/patience try it out for a FEW WEEKS. Listen to the comments, and get everything fixed. Only then relaunch it live as your main site. AAR is a big business now, start acting like it. Please!

Otherwise, you are just contributing to the anger and frustration of your paid members (and other casual visitors to your site).

Have been trying over an hour to get my podcasts back.
I'll try now using the old IE on my PC.
And yes indeed things are very slow with all the dancing ad banners needing to do their thing.

AAR - has greviously annoyed this premium member of three year's standing.

One would think a RADIO station would make EASE OF LISTENING to the broadcasts a top priority but wow, I can do everything but that on this website. Wait - I take it back - I can't. The other whiz-bang features are all kluged up, too. It takes forever and a day to get onto a page (if you're lucky to get on at all), buttons don't work, menus are overlapping and generally AFU, and it's frankly irritating to wade through a new layout that takes a long time to load, all in a futile effort to dig a simple MP3 format show out of the archives and I say "futile" because there doesn't seem to be archives or even an MP3 of the day's show. And there is no simple list of working downloadable radio programs - a thing that should be the first option a user encounters. I want my Lionel! I want my Rachel! I want Thom!

I sure hope AAR gives me a prorata extension of the premium membership I've had for almost three years.

The new design is:

* virtually unworkable through Firefox.
* remarkably slow, with pages appearing at dial-up speed even though we have high-speed access.
* riddled with error messages, javascripting problems, buttons that don't work.
* repeatedly counterintuitive, at least to this user.

Was this new design beta tested in the slightest? Was it alpha tested? Please, put this re-design out of its misery. Restore the old website, which was a little clunky but at least worked.

The stream does work with IE. The graphics are all messed up, but at least I can listen.

Goddamn liberals using god damned open source software like Mozilla Firefox. Get a nice proprietary code program like IE® and Debold®.

There are menu choices like threaded or flat list and number of posts per page to display. But no button to click to implement the change.

I can select "oldest first" for instance but I can't make the page reload into that format.

AAR states that even if the Programming Director, his wife and his dog were the only Lionel listeners left, they would still carry Lional M-F.

Dump Lionel and fill that time slot with Sam Seder again, or AAR is going to continue to loose listeners.

Another example of AAR "Fixing" something which worked well.

AAR states that even if the Programming Director, his wife and his dog were the only Lionel listeners left, they would still carry Lional M-F.

Dump Lionel and fill that time slot with Sam Seder again, or AAR is going to continue to loose listeners.

Another example of AAR "Fixing" something which worked well.

I agree with the "Karl Rove re-design" comment. Looks bright and chipper but doesn't get you anywhere-- spins you around in limbo... Still takes ages to load any click. Still can't get the podcasts. So sad the redesigners didn't make sure the premium subscriber base were well-served before launching. Even instructions on a script we could use in iTunes to resubscribe to our podcasts again would be helpful. And now when I click "Post comment" it will take umpteen seconds to process that simple command.

When I try to get streaming audio, I get two or three audio streams. Seems like there is a 15 sec delay betwen the first and second. Over the weekend, it happened, but there was a play/stop icon. If I hit stop, it eliminated the second stream. So I got to listen to some of it, when it wasn't cutting out.

Now, with a second and maybe a third stream cutting in, if is impossible. Oh, I have IE, and Explorer XP, so it isn't a Firefox problem.

I got the subscription so I could listen to Rachel when I got home from work, and now I can't. I don't have an ipod, and am not sure how to just open a show and listen. A ten or fifteen minute clip isn't what I wanted.

Please, please, please get the site fixed up!