Just wanted to send a quick note out to let you all know that we’ve pretty much finished rebuilding the station’s automated feed. All that’s left is to let the system run for awhile and make any tweaks that may be necessary. It should sound a lot nicer now as we have implemented features such as crossfading between non related tracks, adjusted all content to have the same volume level plus we’ve replaced all the music. You’ll now experience full proggy goodness as I have removed a lot of the stuff that was on the outer fringes of the genre. I’ve also taken out all the old promos and left only station IDs. Speaking of station IDs, most station IDs you hear from artists should now be followed by their own music. You’ll also hear more suites as we’ve designed a system where we can have various tracks of our choosing play together with a gapless output. To address some of the problems we experienced with the old feed playing similar artists in a row, we’ve added some logic into the script to prevent this from happening. And, perhaps most importantly to some, there are now only 20 Genesis songs out of the 432 total tracks currently in the feed (blasphemy!!!!!). I will be adding more content every so often as new material becomes available, but I did want to let everyone know that these upgrades have been made. As this is a new system and completely built from scratch by our very talented server administrator there may still be some glitches that have yet to rear their head so if you do hear anything odd please let me know privately.
I only started listening to the automated feed recently, and I thought wow that's pretty good with the crossfading, music related station ID's and all that. So I guess I caught on at the right moment
I hope the server admin had fun programming this stuff, sounds pretty cool to me. Well done!
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