Mercoledì 30 Lug 2008, 13:27

I've not been keeping-up with LAUNCHcast gossip of late but, today, got word from Steve (its product manager) and thought that - in light of Last.FM's recent streamability & audio usage licensing here - it'd be of interest to some here: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/1902980.jpg

Let me start by thanking you all for the postings and continued feedback. I'll do my best to provide as much information as I can.

We are still deeply committed to LAUNCHcast!

We maintain a dedicated programming team as well as continued engineering support for the product. We continue to add new music to the catalog and update all the popular programmed stations every week. Additionally, we have recently rolled out a fix for one of the top bugs that was causing an error with audio playback for some users.

Over the past year, we have been sidetracked by issues related to increased royalties and have spent time and resources putting mechanisms in place to help reduce costs. We continue to slog through royalty issues and have our eye on an end goal where LAUNCHcast will be available on all platforms. Unfortunately, it's taking us longer to get there than we would like. Mac and Firefox support will not happen in the next few months, but we will get there. I understand the current frustration and will keep the group posted on new product developments.

Hope this helps and thanks for speaking up…(and listening)

However, the general pithiness of the announcement makes it sound as if life's recently been a little uncomfortable for LAUNCHcast users - Ian My.Mashable.com/Scrawl