[SOLVED] Yahoo Launchcast

I have been using Launchcast for about a week. Today I went back and much to my disappointment, I was not able to activate "My Station". This is what happens:

When the Launchcast dialog box appears it says "Tuning...".
At the bottom it says:

Stations:
My Station
Opening...

The process goes no further than this. At this point my system is frozen. When I move my cursor over the internet icon in the system tray, there are no I/O's. Bytes sent and received do not change. After waiting over an hour I closed the dialog box and web page. When I get back to my desktop, a launchcast icon remained in my system tray next to the start button. If I right click the icon to close it, it will not close. The only way to clear it is to shutdown my system and reboot.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

 

....just a few thoughts here....

-did you try another "streaming audio site" to see if it plays ?

-could a firewall / A.V. setting/ security setting be blocking you?

I use Launch to watch streaming videos all the time with no problem (once in a great while it will freeze up but ctr-alt-del to end task gets me fixed and I reopen browser and am usually OK)

I don't use the Launchcast radio player myself but am curious as to what is happening in your case....keep us posted on this,OK?

 

Hello Phoneguy,

Thanks for responding. Here are the answers to your questions:

All other streaming audio stations work perfectly.
Have no firewalls installed, all security settings are set to medium, and do not have a clue what A.V. settings are.
Ctrl/Alt/Delete does absolutely nothing.

That's about it. Hope to be hearing from you again.

Jack

 

Hey Eddie,

Welcome back! Glad to hear you're feeling better.

Tried all your expert recommendations and guess what?
Launchcast is operating better than ever. I don't know
exactly what fixed it, but I do know it's working great.

Tell me something? Are you using Launchcast Plus? If you
are let me know if you like it. Other than more stations to
choose from, how is it different from the free version?

Thanks again Eddie. YOU'RE THE MAN!

Jack

P.S. I still think Bill Gates can use you at Microsoft Headquarters.