Re: [backstage] Last played songs?

[Richard P Edwards]

Hi, I would like to add to this. If you look on the Pete Tong Radio 1 web-site, for example, you will see that a playlist is published as much as possible. Two points come to mind... 1. If the shows are specialist then it is very important that the audience has this information. 2. In which ever case, for the sake of the music business and new artists, there should never be a situation where this information is not documented for MCPS/PRS etc......  Therefore 80% actually online now, is far better than the odd piece missed, for everyone concerned. Anyway - what do those show producers do whilst on air? Regards Richard Edwards On 16 May 2006, at 15:51, Kenneth Burrell-CAPITA wrote: Hi all   I am a newbie and have been sitting on the side lines observing since signing up about a month ago. Fascinating stuff, even for someone who isn't a developer.   From my years of experience having a dialogue with the BBC audience and information provision James is spot on.   100% is very ambitious and our experience of trying to get all output areas to provide all information for the audience, just in case, can be a waste of effort. I agree if it can be done automatically then fine, but if it requires manual effort then do not expect that it will (always) be done.   Ken   Ken Burrell BBC Information   On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:57:05PM +0100, Dan Hill wrote: > >Release early, release often. > > Indeed, although we're concentrating on 'mainstream' users for these > feeds, rather than Backstage, so I'd rather we tended towards 100% and > avoided unecessary studio info where possible. It may be that we have a > fuller feed for Backstage etc. alongside. I think the general public would like partial info better then none too -- it's just fine for them if it sometimes shows up with "(custom content)". Even better if it knows what mics are live, and who is sitting in front of them, though obviously that'd require some extra work for producers (or engineers, depending on how the show works).  The last 20% takes 80% of the time, but a large amount of your audience only cares about the first 80% anyway.   IOW, when you can't figure out what's being played, just put in a placeholder.          -=- James Mastros