[BC] CD Players

[Robert Orban]

At 11:40 AM 9/7/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
>Subject: RE: [BC] CD Players
>To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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> > at least put the core playlist on hard drive and we'll keep
>re-currents and oldies on CD to play.
>
>Why? Put it ALL on the hard-drive.  Use a CD ripper to save time.
>Forget about the CD players.  Those things are almost as antiquated
>as turntables and cart machines.

Autorippers have their down sides. San Francisco's KDFC is running an HD2 
channel where the music is not announced, so the only way to determine 
composer, work, and artist is to look at the text on the radio. 
Unfortunately, the music was evidently ripped from CD without anyone's 
checking for accuracy of title and artist info. So the radio text often 
reads like:

  Symphony No.1, I. Allegro, San Francisco Symphony, Tilson Thomas.

It's anyone's guess which composer wrote the Symphony #1 in question 
because the field where the composer's name should be is instead the title 
of the first track of the source CD, which is often just a tempo marking. 
Autoripping does not eliminate the need for humans to check for accuracy.

I just *know* Rich Wood will chime in with a crack about "no-budget 
jukeboxes with third-rate production values."

Bob Orban