To play the audio webcasts, you'll need an MP3 player capable of doing streaming audio to listen to our webcasts. We recommend these free players:

There are two versions of the video webcast. To play the Flash version, you just need a recent version of Adobe Flash installed in your browser. It's probably installed already.

If for some reason you'd rather watch the RealVideo version instead of the Flash version, you'll need RealPlayer. (There is a free download: look for the "RealPlayer: Free" button hidden somewhere on that page.)

We recommend against using RealPlayer or Windows Media Player for listening to the MP3 audio streams. They just don't work very well, and the error messages they produce are often baffling.

The video feed is always running; however, the audio portion will be silent when the club is not open.

Unfortunately, RealVideo is a little flaky, and sometimes the audio portion freaks out. If the club is open and you are getting video but no audio, or if you're hearing static or chipmunks or something, please send us email to let us know, and we'll reset it.

If you just want to listen to audio, and don't care about the video portion, then listen to the MP3 stream instead: MP3 is higher quality anyway.

If you see that message, it really is true! It's very, very expensive for us to do these webcasts, so we can't support too many connections at once. If it says there are too many people listening, it's true. Keep trying!

It costs us over $20,000 per year to provide these webcasts to you free of charge. If you'd like to give something back, the best way is to come down to the club and have a drink! But if that's not practical, how about buying a DNA Lounge t-shirt?

That probably really means "too many listeners" (see above.)

First, try a different MP3 player. Some players don't understand the "too many listeners" response, and give you some other confusing error message instead. RealPlayer tends to say "General Error" and Windows Media Player tends to say "Request Not Understood" or even "Stream Not Found."

If you have the same problem with one of the recommended players, it might be that you are on a network that doesn't allow connections to ports 8000 and 8001: this might be the case if whoever controls your network is trying to prevent you from listening to MP3s. Check with your admin.

It's also possible that there's been a network outage, and the stream is, in fact, down. But that's not very likely. (It does happen, but not very often. One way to check is to look at the images on the webcast page: if you see colorbars, then we're experiencing network problems.)

The archived webcasts will sometimes have half a minute or so of silence at the beginning of the night, if the opening dj started a little late. Give it a little while to see if it starts.

The Live webcast only has sound when the club is open, so if we're not open yet, you won't hear anything.

But sometimes, the live webcast gets confused and will just go silent, or play too fast (like chipmunks). We're not sure what causes this bug... If you're pretty sure that we're open and you should be hearing something, or if you just hear noise, please send us email to let us know, and we'll fix it manually!

This means that your network connection isn't fast enough to keep up with a 128k audio stream. The silent delay is while it buffers up audio; then it plays what it has, and waits for more. Unfortunately, there is no other solution than for you to get a faster connection to the internet. We only offer our audio webcasts in high quality 128k MP3 streams.

Unfortunately, no. The law requires us to go out of our way to make that, and basically anything else that is interesting or useful or convenient, as hard to do as possible.

There are no MP3 files here, only streams: you can't download them as files, you can only listen to them in realtime. The streams are available for two weeks only.

You can read all about the absurd laws we have to comply with in our Webcasting Legality document.

If you're talking about our archived webcasts... we have no idea, since the DJs on any given night don't don't provide us with playlists. We wish they did, but it would be like pulling teeth!

If you're talking about DNA Lounge Radio or the mixtapes... your music player should be displaying (and updating) the title and artist of the song that is currently playing. If that's not working for you, try a different MP3 player.

You pretty much have to just make an educated guess. The archives list the artists in billing order (as the names were listed on the calendar and flyers.) This is usually the opposite order in which the artists perform. Except that if the event goes very late, sometimes the headliner will go on second-to-last instead of last.

It's all Linux and free software (with the exception of RealVideo). You can read the details in our source code archive.