{"id":3993,"date":"2011-01-10T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2011-01-10T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T22:39:52","slug":"why-is-hold-music-so-bad-sounds-like-am-radio-with-reception-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/why-is-hold-music-so-bad-sounds-like-am-radio-with-reception-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is hold music so bad? Sounds like AM Radio with reception issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning; this is a &lt;rant&gt;!<\/p>\n<p>Ok really, I call Comcast and after going through I don&#8217;t know how many loops; and looks folks sometimes I JUST want to talk to a representative; anyway I finally get connected to &#8216;somewhere&#8217; for technical support. I get put on hold and hear this crap music that sounds like an AM radio that has a hard time keep reception.\u00a0 Really ComCast??\u00a0 Your a cable company!!\u00a0 HOW can you allow on hold music that gives me static 25% of the time?\u00a0 I did a quick check on the interwebs and yes, there are devices that will get AM\/FM and play it as on hold music.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 You cannot afford the CD playing one?\u00a0 They are only around $400 bucks or so.\u00a0 Gezz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And its not just Comcast, I&#8217;ve heard this a number of times.\u00a0 I have to assume ComCast has subed this out or something because the accent on the recording of the woman saying how important my call is; and to please wait;\u00a0 was so think I did not understand it the first time.\u00a0 Sigh..\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 I can understand a small company trying to save a dime here and there, but a MEDIA company???\u00a0 Get on it!<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/rant&gt;<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Filed under WTF; Comcast has turned 50,000 routers in to public hotspot WITHOUT permission\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/wtf-comcast-50000-router-public-hotspot-without-the-owner-permission\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Filed under WTF; Comcast has turned 50,000 routers in to public hotspot WITHOUT permission<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon you get Skype through your TV\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/soon-you-get-skype-through-your-tv\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon you get Skype through your TV<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/watch-live-tv-on-your-ipad-or-other-tablet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning; this is a &lt;rant&gt;! Ok really, I call Comcast and after going through I don&#8217;t know how many loops; and looks folks sometimes I JUST want to talk to a representative; anyway I finally get connected to &#8216;somewhere&#8217; for technical support. I get put on hold and hear this crap music that sounds like&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/why-is-hold-music-so-bad-sounds-like-am-radio-with-reception-issues\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,44],"tags":[949,963,962],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-rant","tag-comcast","tag-customer-support","tag-on-hold-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-12p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}