As of about a week ago, the average time since stations had been tested rose above 90 days. That’s the average… many have not been tested for 4 or 5 months. Testing stations has fallen way behind testing schedule items due to the new testing method I’m using.
This is a page that previously was available only to experienced testers. It is designed to test stations quickly using different groups of things to test.
The group that needs the most attention are “Maybe Broken Streams”. The “TestingBot” can’t be sure if some types of streams are working or not – it needs a human to test.
If you decide to help, it’s important that you actually complete the test. With this page, there are only two options – you can do the test and mark it as working, or you can mark it as broken, and it goes away. You don’t have to explain what is broken or send me an email or a text message. By testing the 90% that are probably working just fine, that makes it easier to deal with those that are really broken.
The one thing that is really, really, really important is that you listen until prestream ads finish. Many times a station will switch providers, but they leave the old player up that shows the prestream ads, but then fails to play an actual stream. If you click Worked on a stream like that, it defeated the purpose of testing.
If there is any interest in helping this way, I will add more features if you wanted to test only certain specific types of stations.
The link does not appear to be working. :-)
D’oh!…. it was pointing at the test system….
Try again :)