RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

The WFMU online playlister is a paragon in this area, and they recently 
posted on their blog about its mightyness:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/07/i_found_it_on_w.html

Those of us who have contemplated the construction of an online 
playlister (OK, well, me, at least) have tended to get bogged down in 
making lists of kewl features to include, and have never gotten around 
to actually making anything, which is why I'm so glad WXDU managed to 
find a playlister that actually performs the core functions we require, 
even if it doesn't have super-mackin' public search functions [yet], 
because at least it actually exists, as opposed to all the vaporware we 
might've [not] come up with otherwise.

You *can* at least come close to the "who was on at X time" 
functionality with our online playlister; it's not actually timestamped 
because many of us only have 2 hands and thus often fall behind in our 
playlister-updating, thus rendering any timestamps kinda inaccurate 
anyway, so we don't bother. But if you make certain assumptions about 
the lengths of songs, you can get pretty close, at least.

Ross

a rooster for the masses wrote:
> I wish stations had a better system for logging and searching there logs.  So 
> you could find out when an artist is played.  (Very useful for a band.)  Or 
> who the band is that plays at a certain time.  (Very helpful when you hear a 
> song and want to know who it is.)
>   adam
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> rick sawyer <rickbang AT gmail.com> wrote:
>   i'm not sure how yes came by all this information, but the actual
> radio stations you listen to compile their playlists in real time and
> comprehensively:
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> http://destoria.bootp.duke.edu/djspace/plmanager/world/currentplaylist_xdu.php
> http://www.wxyc.info/playlists/recent.html
> http://www.wknc.org/studio/
> http://www.wuag.net/
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> On 8/2/06, tommy Gibson wrote:
> > I have a strange feeling I've just fallen prey to some crafty viral
> > marketing scheme but, yes,
> > that is pretty cool. I like that info for WXYC, WXDU, WKNC and WHFS are
> > all available
> > via this site. I was disappointed not to see WUAG or, my alma mater, WQFS.
> >
> > I'm not a huge iTunes fan but, as I continue to lose brain cells at an
> > alarming rate, it'll be
> > nice to have a quick answer to those increasingly frequent "who was
> > that?" moments.
> >
> > kutchma AT hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone seen this?
> > >
> > > http://www.yes.com/index.php
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