Creating new Shows - i need your suggestions

[RolandRadio]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Please! Don't do a show full of my abominations! Use the time for a proper musician; Jason C Brooke, Tiny Williams, Dave Rogers or anyone... basically!

Really! No-one wants a whole hour of ear-piercing rubbish from me!

I like it. It's playing at the moment.

[tastefulmrship]

I like it. It's playing at the moment.

I have just over 24 hours of converted (and some original) abominations of sound.
Trust me, after a few weeks you will be trying to gouge your own ears out with a blunt spoon! ^_^

[Targhan]

I have just over 24 hours of converted (and some original) abominations of sound.

I personally like most of your songs, don't be ashamed of them .

Two things:
- Are they are recorded on the real hardware? This is important to me.
- This is debatable and no one may agree with me, but I think we should limit music (I didn't say remove) that is not from released productions (games, demos, music disk). Basically, I believe that a lot of the charms of the radio comes from music you heard, or can be heard, on released productions. Memory is important. Maybe that's just me? Basically, I think the radio shouldn't broadcast too much conversions. We already heard them before...

[RolandRadio]

I have just over 24 hours of converted (and some original) abominations of sound.
Trust me, after a few weeks you will be trying to gouge your own ears out with a blunt spoon! ^_^

As artists only shows are only twice a week the more titles we have the More Variation will be. One show is played in the morning. One in <thenevening to reach also listeners in different time zones.

[tastefulmrship]

As artists only shows are only twice a week the more titles we have the More Variation will be. One show is played in the morning. One in <thenevening to reach also listeners in different time zones.

I appreciate that, it's just that artists like McKlain, Jason C Brooke and Tiny Williams are getting close to the 1:30:00 threshold. I, personally, would prefer to hear their original tunes than my abominations (I have an AYEmul playlist so I can listen to them all whenever, anyway! ^_^)

The last thing I would want to see is 90% artist shows and 10% random (proper) radio! Again, a personal opinion, but I much prefer the random radio and tend to switch off for an hour or so during artist shows!

[RolandRadio]

I also prefer the random or the underrated shows. But some users liked the artist only. And due to the threshold of 1:30 it's not getting toooo much. Most of the better known artists are played in the top 15 show anyway

[BSC]

I think it would be great to have a show "Newest tunes", playing only tunes that have just recently added to the database.

Like the ones currently on your FTP server ;-)

And maybe a show for "underrated" tunes, if that does not already exist.. Anyway I think newer tunes should got more
exposure like those that are part of any regular show like the charts or the artists-related ones.

PS: Why on earth does the editor widget add \[font=Verdana\] tags to my stuff?

[Targhan]

>I think it would be great to have a show "Newest tunes"
Good idea, or "tunes from recent games" (but would represent a huge amount of work, as title aren't related to a year yet, to my knowledge).

... Is it me, or the web-player only streams Mono at a fairly low quality? Maybe offer more streaming choice?

[seanb]

Have a show that plays the chip tune versions of real songs or TV and film themes found in Amstrad games.


Copyright willing.

[villain]

Have a show that plays the chip tune versions of real songs or TV and film themes found in Amstrad games.


Copyright willing.

That's what I already intended some years ago... ;-)

[Targhan]

The "Dizzy special" is nice, but the same song keeps playing again. Either find a better random algorithm (which discards the already played song), or shorten the show to half an hour?

[RolandRadio]

The Show is only half an hour if i remember the settings right. Problem is that even the dizzy brothers dont have any more original amstrad cpc songs than we do on RR itself. But i migth check the settings once more and maybe we can do two half-hour-shows right behind each other.

[tastefulmrship]

The Show is only half an hour if i remember the settings right. Problem is that even the dizzy brothers dont have any more original amstrad cpc songs than we do on RR itself. But i migth check the settings once more and maybe we can do two half-hour-shows right behind each other.

May I make a suggestion for your second 30-minute show;
DAVE ROGERS TUNES!
There is just over 1-hour of his music, so why not play half of them! ^_^

[RolandRadio]

Artist only shows should be one hour. And so we need a minimum of 1:30 of material

[tastefulmrship]

Maybe so, but surely a 30-minute show of DAVE ROGERS' music is better than no DAVE ROGERS show! ^_^

[BSC]

Artist only shows should be one hour. And so we need a minimum of 1:30 of material

Why not shorter shows? One hour is pretty long anyways. 30 mins would be just fine, I think.
Again - if you live by the claim that RR is supposed to be a community:

Why don't you poll your users on decisions like this instead of just fixing things the way you like them?

[RolandRadio]

Radio automation software Works with hours per definition because of news Jingles time announcements ans so on. Technology has nothing to do with voting rights.

[tastefulmrship]

So... why not upgrade "The DIZZY Show" to "the OLIVER TWINS Show", incorporating all of the other amazing Code Masters games, as well! Thus making it an hour show again! -yay-

[RolandRadio]

Thats a good idea

[BSC]

One thing about the schedule: Sometimes, two or even three shows are played in a row. I think it would be nicer to have one or even two hours of pure Roland in-between.

[RolandRadio]

The reason for that is the freetime of people potentially listeing to the shows. once oin the morging and 12 jhours later again.


But i will rethink the arrangement and maybe spread it more wide across the week itself and reduce shows .