It is my understanding that the 1500 songs that most stations have on their rotating play list are downloaded from special websites that are set up by the record companies and are simply inserted into the daily play list, thus eliminating this particular function. At one time I was a music librarian for a Canadian public broadcaster. It was my job to order and catalogue all of the music into a national database with a number of different information fields to be filled in by the person doing the cataloguing. Back then we had physical compact discs that we could actually hold in our hands. Today all of that music is on a hard drive. If you are an oldies station there are companies that will actually send you a physical hard drive that is preloaded with any type of music that you desire. The drive costs about 200-dollars. This is far less than actually going out to buy all of that music. In most stations that I have visited in the past year or so, you would be hard pressed to find a compact disc fullof music. The most recent station that I visited was nothing more than a computer, a small control board, and a 125 watt transmitter that was about the size of an average toaster. I have also worked at stations that had a transmitter that was about the size of a house and was water cooled. Believe me I have been there and done that. All that I can say is that one has to be nuts to be in this business. You either love it or hate it. There is nothing in between. The shifts, well there something else! Getting up at three in the morning to go into work isn't my cup of tea. As they say, "take this job and shove it."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:29 PM Subject: Re: broadcasting question >I know one thing related to broadcasting, sort of indirectly, that needs to > be done is the massive CD ripping project stations go through on every > format flip and ongoing as new music arrives. Unless they have CD-Rom > changers for the computer (would be nice also for backing up large drives > on > DVD RW if they could burn) it would take a lot of manual work depending > how > many systems were around to put disks in to do several at a time. That > would > be a sort of entry-level job blind people could do with a copy of JFW if > the > project really was as big as one would think figuring 2 minutes apiece to > rip and compress. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denny Daughters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:04 PM > Subject: Re: broadcasting question > > >> Hi Brandon, >> Sounds like that broadcasting school doesn't want to deal with you. >> Yes >> you can do it. Although when I did it 4 years ago the college couldn't >> afford the expensive software that the commercial stations were using. >> We >> still used cds, mini disks and some carts. I brailled up all the cds and >> brailled out all the public service anouncements I read. If they're not >> willing to buy the equipment, see if they'll let you braille up any cds >> they >> have. It also depends on what computer software they're using and if it >> works with Jfw or window-eyes. There's a way to get experience at a >> basic >> level. Keep bugging them. >> Denny >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we >> offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
