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[DonOmite]

I have been trying to get to the website for the player for 2 days and instead just get routed to Google doing a search for Slacker. Google comes up with the Slacker.com site but even that doesn't work.

This is from multiple locations. It usually means a dns server has crapped out.

[DonOmite]

Well, since slacker is dead, what other good music sites are out there?

[fullbug]

The web player was working for me all day yesterday (Monday, 9/14).

Michael

[MikeV]

The web player and Blackberry streaming have been working fine all day yesterday and today for me too.

[RomeE]

I have been trying to get to the website for the player for 2 days and instead just get routed to Google doing a search for Slacker. Google comes up with the Slacker.com site but even that doesn't work.

This is from multiple locations. It usually means a dns server has crapped out.

What happens if you go to www.slacker.com on your browser?

We've had a really great day in users today, and I haven't heard of anyone else having problems accessing the site...

Thanks,
Rome E

[siegel1999]

Rome e, Webplayer does not fully load with AOL internet explorer ,please tell them and fix that. It works with internet explorer 8 perfectly.

[Vlaktor]

Rome e, Webplayer does not fully load with AOL internet explorer ,please tell them and fix that. It works with internet explorer 8 perfectly.

That browser still exists????? Might as well ask Slacker to make the G2 8-track compatible while you're at it.

[siegel1999]

This is the browser (aol internet explorer) that the latest AOL 2009 uses so Slacker has to make a fix for it.

[gooberface]

Seems to be down for-reals today? I can't access it via web player or iPhone app and various other people in different geographical locations are having the same connection problems. Website requests are being forwarded to outage.slacker.com which also seems to be unreachable.

Any idea when I'll be able to connect again?

[ulfius]

Down for me too. Both miniplayer and website. Last time this happened for me was a few months ago.

[Hank666]

Down for me too as of 2pm today . I used it all day yesterday and no problems , i hope it gets fixed or i will have to kick a kitten or something

[Hank666]

We are sorry.
The page you are looking for is not here.

An error occured while processing your request: 404 Not Found

[Pop1967]

Traceroute stops at americanis.net. Not necessarily Slacker's fault. ;)

[DoublEE]

This could be the reason:

http://cyberinsecure.com/malware-torren ... -services/

"Some of the web’s bigger websites were flooded with a torrent of malicious banner ads after cyber crooks managed to sneak them onto syndication services operated by Google, Yahoo, and a third company, according to a security firm.

The ads - which attacked previously-patched vulnerabilities in Adobe’s PDF Reader and Microsoft’s DirectShow - starting appearing on sites such as the DrudgeReport, horoscope.com and lyrics.com last Friday, according to ScanSafe researcher Mary Landesman. They were delivered over networks belonging to Google’s DoubleClick; Right Media’sYield Manager (owned by Yahoo); and Fastclick, owned by an outfit called ValueClick.

End users visiting sites that used the ad syndication services often saw nothing more than a brief flash as the malware-laced ads caused their browsers to open - and then close - a booby-trapped PDF file. But behind the scenes, the payload installed Win32/Alureon, a trojan that drops a backdoor on infected machines.

The malicious ads, which also appeared on slacker.com, ended on Monday, when the website used by the malware purveyors abruptly vanished. During their three-day stint, the attacks accounted for 11 percent of pages blocked by ScanSafe, a service used by businesses to prevent employees from visiting malicious sites."

[Hank666]

Down again today at noon , any word as to what is going on or if a fix is happening soon ?

[MikeV]

Working fine for me right now... 12:56p Eastern...

[Hank666]

Working fine for me right now... 12:56p Eastern...

yea i just trried it again and it is working now . weird .

[leighhannah]

Its down again!

[Hank666]

Its down again!

went down for me again around 2pm .

[leighhannah]

i sent support an email yesterday about it, but only got an automated response. sent one today too. of course now web player is working.