Hello Robert,
Thank you for these thoughts. I totally agree with you : setting cut
markers for our (only) 10,000 songs (yet) took some time, but this is
something that is done one by one, each time new songs are added. People
who add their songs know them, know how they should chain, etc.
We are a very small student radio, with currently no money to pay
someone to do that job day-by-day. All this work is benevolent, and so
even if the machine will never replace a qualified personel, we *need*
to have making this kind of "decisions".
Although my case is rather hypothetical : I'm not even sure it happened
on our station yet, but I'm convinced that the odds are here, and it is
likely to happen, so I would like to take measures to prevent it, even
if it is not a big deal if it does.
Hoggins!
Le 25/05/2014 01:57, Robert Jeffares a écrit :
> when I started in radio in a small regional market we had 4 guys in
> the programmes department who spent all day working through the
> library to construct programmes for two stations. One really, because
> the second one was a relay we dropped out of locally for an hour or so
> for what Les Nesman would call the Hog Report.
>
> Over time we have replaced that combined musical knowledge [ those
> guys had degrees in music, taught music, played in orchestras brass
> bands gregorian chant choirs and Saturday night dance bands] with
> computer programs, eliminating the final filter, the DJ who also had a
> knowledge of music and could pick the clashes or laugh at the musical
> puns. Read the song titles for an hours programme to reveal a deep
> dark tale or some eyebrow raising juxtaposition. This was when Radio
> was FUN.
>
> No matter which system you use, and they all have 'if this; then don't
> do that', you have to sit down and plug in all the options, and yes it
> will be a lot of work.
>
> And if it seems like it's the work of half a dozen people, it is.
>
> It's taken me a lifetime to appreciate just how talented those guys
> were, and how a classically trained musician could sort a Top 40
> schedule so that every track segued perfectly into the next, tempo,
> key and all of that.
>
> Getting a machine to do the same thing requires a lot of instructions,
> and there is no easy way. Does the end of this match the start of
> that? No? Then play the Fast To Slow Jingle between the two. Stuff the
> Jock does instinctively [or gets let go] we have to TELL a machine to
> be ready for.
>
> Setting the intro, outro, segue, scheduler codes, and groups for
> 40,000 songs is going to take time, and needs someone with the
> knowledge to foresee the clashes.
>
> The scheduler programs all do the same things but music is beyond
> machine.
>
> Thats my thought for the day!
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