Request Free Days

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
I'll try this all at once.

Even before I had a show I requested little. That's mainly because I listen not as much as others. Now I request nothing. Also, I try to play as much new additions as possible, and I take requests. What I do when my show plays is move up the current requests to play before my show so people don't have to wait. I try to get in 45 minutes before and clear the queue (so there's not a 4 hr wait to hear a rq).

We're going to have to take some time to discuss this in depth later. In short: don't do it. That one hour delay is in for a reason, and circumventing it endangers our ability to provide requests entirely. I personally believe that waiting until after a show for your request is far preferable to not being able to make those requests at all. Wouldn't you agree?

What I'm trying to say is that although I like random music better, the requests are crucial to a station's survival. Don't mess with the requests.....BUT, how about limiting them? Even if I agree 100% with another's musical tastes, it's not fair to have them request more than once or twice a day.

We've discussed ways of doing this in the past, and they either proved to be too onerous to the listenership or too difficult to implement.

Request free Wed is perfect. To further augment it, can't we try to limit requests by listener? As it stands now, from my eyeball estimation, about 50% of daytime songs are requests. Getting that number to one in four would be optimal. Also please remember that there are no requests during shows, so inherently they are "no request times".

I disagree with the last portion of this statement (mainly on semantical grounds). They're not so much 'no request times' as much as they are 'one person request times'. Yes, they're themed, and yes they DO in fact go a long way toward playing more than the same old long songs.

Ya know, now that I think about it, having the "Dr. Dot Randomness Show" a few times a week might not be a bad idea. Three hours worth of tunes generated by me hitting the 'select random song' button.

Or maybe a script would do just as well (only there's really no way of telling how long that would run, since I haven't figured out how to program that in as yet, and I'm not likely to in the near future).

OK, enough rambling on that particular silliness.

As for the rest of the statement, I think that's what we're trying to do. The bottom line is that we're trying to get more of the obscure tunes out there, so we don't become 'All Flower Kings All The Time'.

All that being said, SAM is no treat for this reason: There is too much of some artists on the Moon that are duplicate. Yes, Crimson, etc have live records that dominate the playlist.

I disagree here, too. From what I've seen going through the logs on RFW, there is no overabundance of Yes (or any of the other groups that have multiple albums on the station). In fact, there are certain instances of RFW where King Crimson didn't get played at all (a refreshing change, in my opinion, since I'm no fan of any of the incarnations of KC).

In summary, I vote for keeping RFW, limiting requests to two per person per day (I'm really tired of the SAME long songs requested too damnit!), and keeping a watch on the distribution.

heh. I await the wailing on this particular idea (I'm still getting asked when the delay between RQs will go back to 60 mins from 90).

Although, how about the idea of allowing two per day but removing the delay between requests? That way you can queue up your two requests and be done for the day.

(put that bat down, Spaz, I was only joking about that last part).

By the way RL, I'll be doing two Rosfest shows on the Scale....

Good. I'll be looking forward to it. I'm still trying to see if it's possible for me to make it up to ROSfest my very own self (AirTran is currently investigating to see if they can squeeze me in -- I should have an answer this afternoon).

Roger -Dot- Lee, would love to make it if I can.