Well, spaz, stranger things have happened. I've seen all six Tubular Bells RQed back to back, in order (obviously someone at work knowing how these things operate). And a couple of days ago, we had two GY!BE RQs in the same hour. These, however, came from different sources, so I can't blame a single person for it, and since I don't have access to phone records, I have no way of proving collusion.

An admirable goal under any circumstances.

Roger -Dot- Lee

Yeah, that second GYBE! request was mine. I was like, "Yea! my GYBE! request is next!" and then it turned out to be "Storm" instead of "Sleep." Immediately I chuckled wondering how many people would just groan.

Or reach for the mute button.

Or turn up the volume, sit back and enjoy. :)

must be...
 

the heavy water running down the st lawrence river....;)

Re: must be...
 

Their water's heavier than ours? That might explain why their beer is so much better than ours.

Of course, this does NOT explain the Mononghahela (I think that's how it's spelled. I'm not sure). That water's heavier than ours too (when it's not on fire, that is), but their beer is hideous.

I agree with dot-man, the beer is more likely the cause than the water. Either that or it's a rare showing of Canadian patriotism.

sorry, there's another one
 

There is a Gilgamesh track playing right now... it's the "Island of Rohdes/Paper Boat/.." one. No big deal, but "Rhodes" is spelled wrong.

This is one where the ID3v2 could also be implemented to finish off the rest of the song title. I think there are a couple from that cd with some rather long titles that would benefit from ID3v2.

I'm with ya Moses, but don't get Dotter started on redoing the tags!!!:eek:

Tell ya what, 'spaz: I'll let YOU dig the post up.

Seriously, I'm not aware that the station even supports v3.2 tags, and given the station instability of late, I'm not sure I'd like to experiment.

I'll investigate, however.

Roger -Dot- Lee "It's in the archives."

Roger.Lee said:
I don't know if that's a typo or a confusion. I'm not aware that there is such a thing as v3.2. There might be, but I'm not aware of it.

I was referring to ID3 version 2. The station apparently DOES support those, because they are on all the newer songs on the station. By 'newer' I mean since at least 5/19/2004 when Don Caballero's monstrously long song titles got added using ID3 version 2 tags and didn't get truncated.

As far as SAM2 is concerned, any ID3 tags you want to throw at it are fine, unless perhaps you're on a really old version or something.

Anyhow, should this thread perhaps be locked up or something, since we're worried that editing tags will bring the station down? I'm sure we'd rather live with a minor misspelling than bring the station down. (Though I must admit that I think you're getting overly worried about nothing.)

Typo, confusion, and the fact that it was 1am. Guilty as charged. I meant ID3V2.


I probably am. I wasn't aware that ID3V2 tags had been installed (though it makes sense that it does).

And I always get overly worried about petty things. It's part of my job.

Roger -Dot- Lee, who's damn good at it, too.

here's the deal.

at one point, the software we use to manage mp3 tags didn't support ID3V2. we have newer software that does. that's why all the newer ones have the longer fields.

I have been re-ripping the entire library at 192K bit rate (vs 128K), and those re-rips will have the new tags. There will probably still be plenty that retain the old tags, based on when the new software came into play (I forget when that was.) As we see them, and as we have time, we will fix them. No promises as to when, as that is a lower priority than other station tasks, and we all have day jobs and families.

Redoing the tags won't bring the station down, but adding the truncated information is a MANUAL process, as well as BORING, so it will continue to be a lower priority.

Hope that explains it...

do you ever sleep?
 

yowza...

Pink Floyd: Remember a Day problem
 

Pink Floyd "Remember A Day" off of Saucerful of Secrets played today
at anout 12:20edt. It was described as "Set the Controls for the Heart
of the Sun" in What's Playing Now? as well as in the stream as shown
by my iTunes software display.

Re: Pink Floyd: Remember a Day problem
 

Now that's bizarre. According to the history, it was in fact "Set the Controls" that played, and not "Remember a day". They are both tracks off of Saucerful of Secrets. The times recorded match. I'll download both tracks and see if I can figure out what's going on (I suspect that we might have a track swap), although I'm nowhere near familiar enough with the album to say which is which.

I shall, however, investigate.

Roger -Dot- Lee, on the job. :D

Re: Re: Pink Floyd: Remember a Day problem
 

here's the deal:

Somehow, all the track names are one track away from the correct place; so track 1 has track 2's name; track 2 has track 3's name; etc. Not sure how that happened, but you can bet it was operator (me) error.

I've corrected this and re-uploaded Roger dot - replace when ready...

Re: Re: Re: Pink Floyd: Remember a Day problem
 

Ready, replaced, and ready for requests.

Roger -Dot- Lee, as alliterative as one can expect from a geek.

After the recent Pain of Salvation update, we now have two copies of Ashes. One from the full album and one from the single, I think. I'm pretty sure the tracks are extremely close to, if not, identical, and we could do without one of them.

One of them (the older one) has been temporarily removed from the RQ bin. Once I hear from Jim one way or the other, I'll either restore it or remove it entirely. They appear to be off the same album.

Roger -Dot- Lee

I would delete the older one if I were you. Not sure where that came from, nor what you might catch...;)

That, sir, is why you always make sure you have a handy supply of latex gloves handy. *snap!*

Roger -Dot- Lee Bend over and cough.

reality check please
 

Does anyone else think we're funny? Or, I suppose, more importantly, does anyone else think we're stupid?

:rolleyes:

we'll stop, maybe, if you're not amused...

Re: reality check please
 

My reality check just bounced.

Seriously, I write to amuse myself. If I happen to amuse someone else (and I'm told that I've been known to bring a smile to a face on occasion), then bully-hail-fellow-rock-my-world. But I write for ME, and will likely continue to do just that.

If someone thinks that what I write is stupid, they're welcome to their own opinions, no matter how wrong they are.

If they think *I'M* stupid, again, they're entitled to their opinion, no matter how wrong it is, and I'll gladly debate them to show them.

Roger -Dot- Lee who may well be easily amused.

Re: Re: reality check please
 

Get enough of us together and we can have a Mass Debate.........maybe not we'd end up being a bunch of w**k**s. :D

I vote for funny. Always brings a smile to me. :D Keep it up.

Re: reality check please
 

Hey I don't mind.....keep it going...contrary to popular opinion I don't reply to EVERYTHING...;)

Uh, Rick. Uh, you just did. :D

Anyone else notice
 

that if you're searching for a particular artist, that has more than 50 results, when you click on next, it takes you to the second page of the entire playlist, not the searched artist?

Or is it me?

Re: Anyone else notice
 

No Stan it's not just you....... :D

Miss you mate!!!!!

Re: Anyone else notice
 

it's not just you. this happens to me too.

you are correct
 

it is a very frustrating thing.

Re: Anyone else notice
 

I've noticed that too. As I don't speak php very well, I don't know why it's doing that. I always just set my searches to 100 and/or narrow my search down some.

Roger -Dot- Lee

It used to work properly, so I'm sure it can be fixed.

I'm quite sure it can as well.

I'm just not sure how.

Roger -Dot- Lee

Now that the move to add Dream Theater has happened, I wonder if it's not time for "Truth in Advertising"? Dream Theater has been on AM for quite a while, but incognito! There is a song here listed as "Steve Howe - Yes Medley." It's actually Steve Howe guesting with Dream Theater. It's a live DT track and Steve is introduced, comes on stage, and plays with them. It probably should be called "Dream Theater - Yes Medley (f/Steve Howe)" or somesuch. Thanks.


...now the truth can be told...



PS, just wondering, but the original I heard on "some other station" was upwards of 8 or 10 minutes. This one just cuts off at the 5:18 mark really abruptly. Anyone know why?

Tarentel
 

There are two Tarentel songs here that have an "error." These two tracks were originally released as a 7" vinyl, showing two sides of Tarentel's ambient side (follow that?). Side one was guitar-ambient and side two was keyboard-ambient. Thus, they were creatively named:

Two Sides of Myself, Side One
Two Sides of Myself, Side Two

However, when another label picked up Tarentel's back catalog of vinyl releases and put them out on cd, they screwed it up and put:

Two Sides of Myself, Part One
Two Sides of Myself, Part Two

This is the same style mistake as Steve Howe's "Clap/The Clap" type thing. Anyhoozal, the AM library has them as Part One and Part Two, rather than Side One and Side Two. The original "Side" play on words is the band's intention, as they corrected this mistake on their old website. I wasn't aware of this discrepency when I donated Tarentel or I would've noted it then.

Thanks R.L. Keep up the good work. It's stress relief after helping engineers understand the point of two power supplies.

Re: Tarentel
 

Hrm. It looks like they didn't catch the subtlety when they burned the CD.

Fixed!

Roger -Dot- Lee

Reinassance
 

There are three songs listed under the band name of Reinassance. Obviously, that should be changed to Renaissance.

Also, the song "The Vulture Fly High", should be plural, as there's a whole flock of 'em.

Roger, all of us anal retentive types salute you & your efforts!!

SS

Actually
 

it's called Liquid Tension Experiment. That's just DT without the vocals.

to me, DT is not unappealing cause of the vocals. It's the overblown arrangements and soloing. Otherwise, I would have given up on IQ a long time ago (can't stand the vocals on Wake and Lush Attic, but they're great records).