Absor has asked everyone to switch to a different thread on this:

http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum3/HTML/003015.html

I'd have to agree with Lago on Verant's reasoning that this is to keep us
from going AFK indefinitely.

---Windleaf

At 12:58 PM 10/31/00 -0700, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

>Of course this will make Aria and Clouding instant death songs in many
>situations. I'm hoping this is a bug and not a change or I will be done,
>trade skill changes or not. Maybe I won't uncancel my account next week
>after all, sigh.
>
> Kit
>
>I just came across this thread in whineplay, which I think all of you should
>take a look at. Evidently there has been a change to the mechanics of bard
>song on Test:
>
>http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum2/HTML/027490.html
>
>It appears that this change is to keep us from indefinitely playing a song
>while AFK. The message received is evidently "Your song ends abruptly", and
>has a chance of occuring on every pulse. Once again, Verant seems to be
>putting the screws to us. We can't take a break at all from the keyboard if
>we want to keep two songs up, now I have to stay at the keyboard to keep one
>song up as well. I guess bards dont need bathroom breaks.
>
>All this will do is encourage more use of a macroed gamepad.
>
>Lago Bardoon of Bertoxx, 48th Composition, Defenders of Aleria
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