Sunday, 22 April 2007
Christopher England <...> said:
An anorak will scream and shout about how terrible a (Borg) radio
station is if it plays a limited number of songs on high rotation.So, why when he contacts a station (such as Caroline or Big L), does he
always ask for the same old song from a narrow selection of old songs
again and again?
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No I hate narrow casting.
Chris, can you play for me Pearly Spencer followed by Memories by Earth and Fire? And can you do the talkover over Rinky Dink please?
Christopher England <...> said:
Oi mate?How come WNKR ain't gotten a Twitter, eh?
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I don't know!
Oh I have! It's all set up you should know your my only friend/follower. I sent a message a while ago but haven't had much time to set it all up as I've been setting the new WNKR server up and trying to get my RX on the web now that DXTuners.com have closed down.
dave
I have a large number of 1 hour long lecture that I have bought in MP3 format.
I'm having no difficulty burning these to CD for use on the in car CD player. The problem is that they record as a single track. It it possible to put "markers" on these such that the 1 hour lecture is divided into five minute tracks?
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
I have a large number of 1 hour long lecture that I have bought in MP3 format.
I'm having no difficulty burning these to CD for use on the in car CD player. The problem is that they record as a single track. It it possible to put "markers" on these such that the 1 hour lecture is divided into five minute tracks?
I don't think there is a easy way to just put markers in but what I do is use a program such as Cool Edit/ Adobe Audition or the free version Audacity to split the track into smaller sections.
If you have one 60 minute track and you save each 5 minute section as a separate file you will be left with 12 tracks that can be burnt to disc in cd format and played in order.
dave.
Christopher England <...> said:
An anorak will scream and shout about how terrible a (Borg) radio
station is if it plays a limited number of songs on high rotation.So, why when he contacts a station (such as Caroline or Big L), does he
always ask for the same old song from a narrow selection of old songs
again and again?
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Some, possibly Christopher, but not all. The main reason, for me, and perhaps others, for liking the Caroline 70's format of albums was precisly because there was no strict rotation of a narrow list of tracks. Sure there were favourites that were played frequently, but for the most part it was a chance to hear tracks that were just not played anywhere else and unfortunately are still not heard on the 'mainstream' stations. It certainly was a period in my life when I spent the largest proportion of my income on music purely because there was an outlet for me to hear what was out there. Regards – Tim
Dave Martin <...> said:
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:I have a large number of 1 hour long lecture that I have bought in MP3
format.I'm having no difficulty burning these to CD for use on the in car CD
player. The problem is that they record as a single track. It it
possible to put "markers" on these such that the 1 hour lecture is
divided into five minute tracks?I don't think there is a easy way to just put markers in but what I do
is use a program such as Cool Edit/ Adobe Audition or the free version
Audacity to split the track into smaller sections.If you have one 60 minute track and you save each 5 minute section as a
separate file you will be left with 12 tracks that can be burnt to disc
in cd format and played in order.dave.
There's also a programme called 'Music Cleaning Studio'. I've used it for making up CDs and it gives you complete flexibilty to put in chapters – fade ins and outs etc. The only thing is I'm not sure about using it on MP3 files. Mine's an old copy and I don' think I've seen MP3 mentioned anywhere – a newer version may do it. It wasn't expensive, either.
Regards – Tim
Quoting a previous Dave Martin contribution:-
It's all set up you should know your my only friend/follower.
Aha. Others will follow! You will notice your Twitter feed is now loud and proud on the Anorak Nation front page thingie. (It polls for feeds only every 60 minutes or so, so it's not an 'instant' update, btw)
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Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
Are Anoraks mad? (question 1)
Yes. But a few have been successful in life.
Name them!
Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
Chris, can you play for me Pearly Spencer followed by Memories by Earth
and Fire? And can you do the talkover over Rinky Dink please?
Phew! That was close. I thought you were going to ask for Caroline by The Fortunes, or maybe Stairlift to Heaven. Nearly had to eat my own intestines then.
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Richard Sharpe <...> said:
Didn't show them in a very good light did it? Chis Vezey came across as very arrogant and wasn't going to go with any ideas put to him to improve the station, If this was Caroline instead of Big L i can imagine Peter Moore being exactly the same,
The idea's of Goldsmith were embarrassing, growing old disgracefully
and the mile high club, no wonder they ignored him.
Quoting a previous smellofdiesel Tim contribution:-
The main reason, for me, and
perhaps others, for liking the Caroline 70's format of albums was
precisly because there was no strict rotation of a narrow list of
tracks.
Aha, but to a degree there actually was. I mean, Camel was always on high rotation. Golden Earring. Vangelis. I mean, that was really heavy rotation, man. However, they were all current at the time, which is important. I don't really have problems with 'current' radio having high rotation of 'current' stuff, because as soon as it's no longer 'current', it's gone (Well, more or less).
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Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
I'm having no difficulty burning these to CD for use on the in car CD
player. The problem is that they record as a single track. It it
possible to put "markers" on these such that the 1 hour lecture is
divided into five minute tracks?
What you using to burn the CDs? If you use Nero or Roxio, I know that you can put markers in those without physically breaking up the track into smaller tracks. Not sure of other programs.
Whatever program you use, make sure to switch off any automated 'gap' placing inbetween the tracks, otherwise when you try to listen to it continuously, it'll have a 2 second gap every 5 minutes.
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Quoting a previous lloyd A contribution:-
The idea's of Goldsmith were embarrassing, growing old disgracefully
and the mile high club, no wonder they ignored him.
The mile-high thing was well naff, but I was particularly excited by the 'growing old disgracefully' strap. It would actually fit a stonking rebellious rock'n'roll or punk type oldies service, imho.
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Steve Martin <...> said:
Yes it has brought this list back to life.
It hasn't done Big L any harm either!
Non stop emails since the programme, plus the website must have taken a
hammering as it took ages to load up last night.
This site may have gone quite due to access difficulties.
Having been away for a month without checking in on AN
I returned and found the website no longer recognised my
existance and have only just been able to re register.
I wonder how many other non contributors have had the same problem.
Christopher England <...> said:
The mile-high thing was well naff, but I was particularly excited by the
'growing old disgracefully' strap. It would actually fit a stonking
rebellious rock'n'roll or punk type oldies service, imho.
Roger Day has been using "growing old disgracefully" for a number of years.
Christopher England <...> said:
Quoting a previous smellofdiesel Tim contribution:-The main reason, for me, and
perhaps others, for liking the Caroline 70's format of albums was
precisly because there was no strict rotation of a narrow list of
tracks.Aha, but to a degree there actually was. I mean, Camel was always on
high rotation. Golden Earring. Vangelis. I mean, that was really heavy
rotation, man. However, they were all current at the time, which is
important. I don't really have problems with 'current' radio having
high rotation of 'current' stuff, because as soon as it's no longer
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Well if these artists were on 'high rotation' I don't think it worked with me although I admit I have an album by one of those you mentioned. I suppose the difference is that I have spent the 10/15 years having to listen to 'mainstream' radio stations at work and being diven 'nuts' by hearing the so called most popular records 3,4,5,6 & even seven times during a 12 hour shift. When at home and when Caroline were running a day time service, I can't ever remember feeling that I was peed off from hearing something too often. When I was mildy involved in the fringes of music radio broadcasting I went out of my way to make sure that I didn't play anything that had been aired for at least 2/3 hours. How things change!! Tim
I don't remember you joining and even if you did there are, as Richard clearly stated, ways of changing how messages are received. Nothing difficult about using new technology.
The good thing about Twitter, unlike spam, is you can control how and when you read or receive messages. But that has to be balanced with, possibly, learning something about the way radio will be in the future – nothing so bad as a person who swaps from blinkers to a blindfold. Don't you know. Eric
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A perfect example is Clarkson – he started as car anorak and seems to have turned back into one is a big way, or it could be marketing hype I guess. www.topgear.com is full of stuff about what should be in the next series and hey out come the purists/anoraks. Don't they like fun? I posted a comment, if it is included there'll be flack, but do I care – NOT ONE JOT. The reason TG was nearly axed was because it's anoraking days were over!!!! It became boring. There's a serious message there.
Eric
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