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Re: Song length quota?

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Originally Posted by Yesspaz (Post 28465)

There are two kinds of people: those that can do math and those that can't.

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Originally Posted by Yesspaz (Post 28465)

Anyway, I've always thought that the delay between requests could be related to the length of the song. For example:

song less than 10:00 = 1 hour delay between requests
song between 10:01 and 20:00 = 2 hour delay
song 20:01 and over = 3 hour delay

With just a handful of requesters, this is already realized without any programming effort at all.

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Originally Posted by Yesspaz (Post 28465)

Here, there's no "quota." No one's stopping anyone from requesting any length song. Want to request "Tubular Bells, Part One?" Go for it. Just know it'll be three hours till you can request again.

Careful there. MO's Tubular Boils has been festering too often of late. I am tempted to give it and all its brethren a sabbatical from the playlist.

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Originally Posted by Yesspaz (Post 28465)

NOTE: the one hour delay till it goes in the queue stays the same, just the delay until you can request again changes.

If this is a good idea (I vote for it), great. I don't know how much programming that would take. I know nothing about it. Anyway, that's my two cents.

Do you want any change? :D

I don't think the current request scheme is going to be modified anytime soon. I've coded changes that, IMO, have put a real damper on the over-requesting. Long tracks are, however, the nature of prog and I'm not going to give a 5 minute track any preference over a 25 minute track. I say I'm not as it will likely fall upon me to code it.

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It's just an idea if there are a few who "monopolize" the time by requesting 5 epics a day while others request 5 short pieces. Proportionality is the idea.

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VaxMan, help clear something up for me:

"With just a handful of requesters, this is already realized without any programming effort at all."

Does this statement imply that if enough (a handful) requesters (to make the change) ask, you will make the change that includes a 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour delay between requests?

Or does it mean that there are only a handful of requesters (being song requesters), so the issue is "not an issue" and doesn't need to be addressed?

I hope it is the latter. I would be disappointed if Joe Shmoe could request a 9 minute track every hour, and Sue Shmue had to wait two hours after requesting an 11 minute song. I'm a fan of the CURRENT system. :boxing:

Re: Song length quota?

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Originally Posted by SnardLivesHere (Post 28471)

VaxMan, help clear something up for me:

"With just a handful of requesters, this is already realized without any programming effort at all."

I read it to mean that if 5-6 people request 20+ minute songs you would inherently get a 2 hour delay.

Another kind of person, "those who say they can't do math" when they really can. "Oh I was never good at math"....I hear that all the time...

Re: Song length quota?

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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll (Post 28473)

I read it to mean that if 5-6 people request 20+ minute songs you would inherently get a 2 hour delay.

Exactly Rick. Why do people make it more difficult than it is?

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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll (Post 28473)

Another kind of person, "those who say they can't do math" when they really can. "Oh I was never good at math"....I hear that all the time...

But you do accounting. Ah 1, ah 2, ah 3, ah 4... :)

Re: Song length quota?

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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll (Post 28440)

King's X? Will be heard on my show in a few weeks.

Thanks for playing the most underestimated band in the world then. 8-)

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Originally Posted by VAXman (Post 28467)

Long tracks are, however, the nature of prog and I'm not going to give a 5 minute track any preference over a 25 minute track.

Let me challange your math skills :D

I'd bet, if you would calculate the average song lenght requested versus the average song lenght in the library, that the average song length requested is a lot higher. I've noticed that on non-request Wednesday there are only few of them long songs played compared to other days.

Having said that. I've noticed by now that generally, there is no big problem. I would have left already if there was.

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Let me throw in a couple of questions.......OK?

Is the music heard on Aural Moon generally of a high standard?

If we're going to disappear up our own jacksies and talk statistics (lies, damned lies and statistics.....you get my drift?)......what proportion of tracks played are not good, regardless of length?

And my final question is:

If you're peeved about waiting for a song that you have requested to play, why not go through it in your head and then play it in the car going home or stick it on the deck as soon as you get home.

C'mon......life's too short to worry about trivialities and the Moon is a free service after all.

Just be happy with what we have to be happy with..........or something like that!!!!

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Yes Keithie is right - this thread is turning into a kindergarten where request bureaucracy will take over than the important thing which is prog music - If you want to hear the music more often - buy it.

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stick a fork in it... this one is done.

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I've made this same mistake before about assumption, but I see nothing in this thread that anyone is complaining.

It just seems like a discussion that sometimes got a bit silly.

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> but I see nothing in this thread that anyone is complaining.

agreed.

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Originally Posted by roger (Post 28515)

> but I see nothing in this thread that anyone is complaining.

agreed.

;)

I was having fun with this thread and I don't feel any post in it was a complaint.

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I'm not complaining, but I think you should have to count to ten days to listen to King's X...:hmph: :deadhorse : :aua: :surrender

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Originally Posted by dinosaur (Post 28526)

I'm not complaining, but I think you should have to count to ten days to listen to King's X...:hmph: :deadhorse : :aua: :surrender

Only TEN Days??????

C'mon.....decades at least!!!!! :neener:

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Be careful any band with an X in their name may subject to the same delay.:rockband: =8^O