Song Requests

[Yesspaz]

Hey there Dinoman. Long time no post. Welcome back.

[dinosaur]

Hey Spaz, and all you other moonies.
I try to keep track of your adventures every chance I get... They're much more interesting than my own.

[lotus]

Thank you Roger and Vax for being able to put Black back into operation. It is one of the eyeopeners for people who come new to the moon, like it was for me beginning of this year.

I hope only, no new probs will come up...

[QuantumJo]

WOW, I just read the entire thread. Hats off to the combined effort to remedy the problem. Thanks for the return of the shout box; it is one of the things that keep me coming back for more when I was new to Aural Moon. Also my thanks to everyone involved that make Aural Moon the best music station on line. Hip Hip…Hooray, Hip Hip… Hooray, Hip Hip… Hooray.

[Michael Rawdon]

(Michael pages in... haven't had a chance to keep up with the message boards recently. I have too many hobbies, I tell you!)

Originally posted by Roger Lee
Something else you'll want to consider is if there's a show running at the time. I see by your information that you're from Good Olde Silly Con Valley (I made my escape from Sunnyvale in 1996 -- used to live right off Central Expressway and Lawrence Expwy). Anyway, our shows tend to co-incide to your morning/afternoon hours. When a show is running, everything gets pushed back. Tuesdays, from 8am to noon your time are when we do the Gagliarchives replay. Four hours right there. And the requests back up fairly heavily during those times.

Yep, I've noticed that. I tend not to make requests during shows for those reasons.

(In fact, there's a song on the playlist which was getting played seemingly every morning for a while which I simply could not stand, and I'm happy if it means we'll be hearing less of it!)

Which one? If you could give me a name, I'll see if it's being overrequested and yank it if necessary. Who knows, you might even get a round of applause from the regulars!

Heh. I was reluctant to mention it since I didn't want several people to say, "But... but... that's one of my favorite songs!" (Or, for all I know, the artists lurk here.) But since you ask, the song was "Oceans Deep" by Strangefish.

As I think I noted, though, it hasn't been played much recently. About 3 months ago it seemed to be getting played every morning.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally posted by Michael Rawdon

Heh. I was reluctant to mention it since I didn't want several people to say, "But... but... that's one of my favorite songs!" (Or, for all I know, the artists lurk here.) But since you ask, the song was "Oceans Deep" by Strangefish.

As I think I noted, though, it hasn't been played much recently. About 3 months ago it seemed to be getting played every morning.

Yeah, that one was getting abused for awhile, but people have moved on. Our problem has never been with the individual song; the song wouldn't be on Aural Moon if I didn't like it. The problem was hearing it every single day, sometimes twice a day. I'd bet even the artist wouldn't want to hear it every day...

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by progdirjim
The song wouldn't be on Aural Moon if I didn't like it.

It's official! Jim likes every song on the Moon!

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Michael Rawdon
(Michael pages in... haven't had a chance to keep up with the message boards recently. I have too many hobbies, I tell you!)

Heh. I'm hip.

Yep, I've noticed that. I tend not to make requests during shows for those reasons.

OK, just wanted to make sure you understood why things took so long at certain times.

Heh. I was reluctant to mention it since I didn't want several people to say, "But... but... that's one of my favorite songs!" (Or, for all I know, the artists lurk here.) But since you ask, the song was "Oceans Deep" by Strangefish.

That problem has been permanently and irrevokably rectified. I'm sure you've noticed my making mention to "our favorite overrequester". This person was the person responsible for the "Oceans Deep" overplaying, along with, it seems, 95% of the other songs that have been requested to death.

As I think I noted, though, it hasn't been played much recently. About 3 months ago it seemed to be getting played every morning.

Indeed. But, as I said, the problem has been fixed. You hadn't heard it up until about two weeks ago because it was too busy overrequesting other songs. Since, because they haven't been able to request anything.

Oh, and if you think that something is getting too much play time, by all means speak up. If it's an abberation, we'll handle it one way. If it's genuinely someone with a Problem(TM), we'll handle that too.

Roger -Dot- Lee

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

To which Rick and Roll posits:

It's official! Jim likes every song on the Moon!

Oh, I'm sure I could probably find one he doesn't like....

*ahem*

Roger -Dot- Lee, Doma-neeka-neeka-neeka