Moonatic Discussion

[Mako]

Heya all,

Long time listener and exceptionally rare poster here.

I have a couple of general topic ideas/comments/critiques to toss out there and see if they resonate with the rest of the Moonatics out there...

Programmed Shows:
I enjoy the wide variety of tunes played on the various shows (Progressive Shores, Gagliarchives et. al) but I gotta ask the producers of these shows to please consider less gum flappin' and more music playing.

Rambling on for 3 minutes about a 5 minute tune and why it's significant or important or (fill in the blank) is largely a waste of time. If the tune is so good, it will speak to the listeners for itself. This is streaming radio, not Intro to Prog Musicology 101, so please spare us the rambling monologs and let the music carry the day.

Right, so next we move on to:

Promo's:
Is anyone else out there totally burned out on the Gnosis and Progressive Shores ads with the the turnip-stuck-in-his-throat audio compression set to "11" guy?

Please, please create new promos that aren't so jarring, hyper compressed and played so repetively over and over and... I feel like Sysphus here - doomed to listen to these audio boulders for all eternity.

Promo's should be informative without destroying the mood and given a 30-45 day fuze before they are replaced. Keeping the same promo's for over a year is driving us mad, and not in a good way :-)

Finally a technical question:
I use Winamp to listen to the 'moon when ever I can, but sometimes I'm doomed to using Media Player. MP doesn't show the name of the currently playing tune, at least on the machines I'm using. Anyone have a tip on how to smack MP upside the head to pursuade it to showing the song titles?

Thanks!
Mako