There are a number of different flavors of Liquidcompass players – a standard flash player, custom players, a few still probably using their older player…<\/p>\n
Salem’s player is generally very fast – IF- it doesn’t load a streaming video ad at startup.<\/p>\n
Going to KSKY-AM<\/p>\n
http:\/\/den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net\/player\/flash\/audio_player.php?id=KSKYAM&uid=124&referringsite=johngalt.streamingradioguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n The stream started being received at the player in 9 seconds.<\/p>\n It began by loading about 10 pieces of javascript concurrently – with no lag in offering them up.\u00a0\u00a0 The javascript loaded up a 113k Flash app, which then loaded up about 10 more tiny pieces of flash in parallel – very good strategy.\u00a0\u00a0 AFTER the stream started playing in continued to load some other javascript and facebook related stuff.<\/p>\n Along the way, it talked with Facebook,\u00a0 DoubleClick, 2mdn (google), and andomedia (Ando Media does real time web ratings, but isn’t directly involved in ad targeting).\u00a0\u00a0 since it is showing a banner ad\u00a0(possibly), that’s a pretty reasonable list.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it adds in extra “stuff”, it makes up for with very fast servers and a very smart design.<\/p>\n Does that match your experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are a number of different flavors of Liquidcompass players – a standard flash player, custom players, a few still probably using their older player… Salem’s player is generally very fast – IF- it doesn’t load a streaming video ad … Continue reading