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David Buckley
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 525
From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand
Registered: Aug 2004

posted 08-18-2014 06:49 PM

quote: Steve Kraus
Is it really random or weighted in some way such as by quality or popularity?

I didn't know, so I asked.

When a DJ is in command, they get to play what they like, so they tend to play some tracks preferentially. When the Robot is playing, it is given free run of the collection, which is organised a series of directories, each of which contains tracks, and the robot works it's way through the collection of directories, so it plays the "first" track from every directory, then the second from every directory etc.

There are a significant number of duplicate tracks amongst the collection, because a good chunk of it is made up of compilation CDs. So there are a number of copies of the track "Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing" so it gets played relatively a lot.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-18-2014 07:11 PM

I would love to know how Sirius/XM Radio playlists work.

When XM first came on the air I would listen to the 70s channel for months at a time at work, because you truly never knew what you would hear. They'd play big hits, obscure tracks, album cuts, you name it.

Then when Sirius bought XM out, they tightened the screws on all the playlists. Now, if I listen to any one channel for more than a few days at a time, it gets irritating since they play the same 3 or 4 songs by an artist and totally ignore the "deep" cuts. And on the "Deep Tracks" channels, it's the same, except they play the same "deep" tracks over and over (and also mix in a few hits, which you're already tired of from listening to the hits channels).

Then they'll take a channel like Classic Vinyl and dedicate it to some specific artist for a period of time (currently, Tom Petty) which I'm sure is basically a gambit to make you switch channels and try out some other bits of the service. I mean, Tom Petty is great, but after about an hour it's more than even a fan may want to hear, you know?

They appear to have deleted about half or more of their music when the buyout happened.

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Steve Matz
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Billings, Montana, USA
Registered: Sep 2003

posted 08-18-2014 10:35 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
On our local station a DJ once announced "Here's Barbara Mandrell with 'You Can Eat Crackers In My Bed'....but you have to leave the zucchini in the fridge!"

After all these years, why I remember these two things is a mystery to me.

Mike;You didn't happen to be one of the Guys from back in the 70's who use to come to the BABCOCK with the Long Trenchcoats with the Pockets cut out of them [Eek!]

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