Okay, I didn't used to think that ReverbNation was homophobic or would sabotage someone like me, but perhaps I was wrong. As many of you have found-out, my 1st song in my player, Estranged, won't play. It's even holding-up the player initialization on the widgets. Then, to add insult to injury (how many of you'd be tiffed, if not totally distressed over it?), there's no way to contact ReverbNation to try to get an answer or get it fixed...a "forum"? Really?!? You've got my promo song all jammed-up and you refer me to a "forum"? Alright, to spite this obvious blatant disregard or sheer sabotage, whichever the case may be (can't ask them), I ask that anyone who wanted to check-out Estranged to NOT let ReverbNation have the satisfaction of depriving you of it and that you simply click on our SoundCloud or Myspace links and check it out there. If ReverbNation addresses and fixes this problem, I'll remove this post since it'll be a non-issue at that point.
In update to this post:
I re-uploaded Estranged on ReverbNation and moved the initial, broken upload from the top of the player down to the bottom, which messes with my 5 song EP number (6 uploads to equal 5 songs). I'm not concerned with the loss of (count) statistics so much as I'd like for my promo song to actually PLAY when someone clicks the play button.
Not too long after doing this, and renaming the initial upload with "BROKENupload" added-on to the title, it started playing again. But this was after I already stopped trusting ReverbNation's player to properly rep me and switched-out all of their widgets for SoundCloud player widgets on the various websites I'd embedded to. That, in itself, was a major unexpected inconvenience and hassle. But I couldn't leave my fans at the mercy of a ReverbNation music widget that simply refused to initialize or play, now, could I? I had no idea how long it was going to hang in limbo or if it was ever going to work again. I know people are checking out my sites and expect to hear a song when they hit play and that simply wasn't happening with ReverbNation, all of a sudden, and it was all due to one song (the top one) hanging-up; the rest played fine.
So, in short: I'll stick with the SoundCloud widgets for now, since they're there already.