Streaming DRM
I'm sifting through a new batch of music at the moment and it's tiring because most new music is bad. After a day spent programming and deleting files my brain was tired and I decided to take a break by bringing up a link from an email I got from John Flansberg of TMBG advertising his online radio show
This is it! https://www.mixcloud.com/radiocatskill/low-stakes-w-john-f-oct24/ Flansy’s next radio show will be broadcast Friday night on www.wjffradio.org, and will post at https://www.mixcloud.com/radiocatskill/ the next day.
I tried to get the link working in my locked down browser but after unblocking 5 different external sources in umatrix I got tired of guessing which 3rd party script they wanted me to run next and I brought up my insecure firefox profile.
firefox -P insecure
I have several firefox profiles with a variety of security settings and plugins and I keep one called 'insecure' which has ublock and nothing else. I use this profile when I get shitty but critical requests from work or online when I'm willing to sacrifice my privacy for stuff like, earning money to live.
I brought up the mixcloud stream in this browser and after watching all the elements move around for several seconds as all the unnecessary scripts wrestled for position, I started the stream. It was nice for a while then he played a song I didn't like so I skipped forward a bit. Then there were several good songs followed by one I really wished to know more about but when he started listing the artists and song titles I missed the name of the one I liked and when I tried to scroll back to hear it repeated the click didn't register. I clicked some more thinking it was a window focus issue or an issue with my new mouse and a few seconds later a popup appeared on the screen for a few milliseconds and I realized they were deliberately preventing me from rewinding the stream.
I guess this is some very stupid DRM preventing me from rewinding their livestream over and over again, illicitly listening to that one good song and robbing some poor record executive of the fruits of a middlemans labor. Of course since I'm not allowed to rewind I don't know the name of that artist so I couldn't give my money to a record executive even if I wanted.
You know browsers make it really easy to play media these days. You can basically just serve a mp3 and it will show a nice media player.
<audio controls>
<source src="horse.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
<source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio tag.
</audio>
Here's what it looks like in your browser.
Sorry John, I like you and your taste in music but this sort of bullshit is the reason I will never listen to your audio show again.
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