Actually...
On 3 Mar 2005, at 12:02pm, Paul Kitchener wrote:
Rob Findlay wrote:
I kind of like the idea of 5.6TB of MP3's. Great for parties!
Parties!
Try festivals ;)
you could start up your own radio station and never need anyone to man it.
wouldn't be the first wouldn't be the last... In the US a LOT of
regional stations have the whole format piped in with stock weather
("and it will be a beautiful 87 degree Kansas spring day today") pre
recorded and scheduled in and "regional news" recorded complete with
fake regional accents piped through to slot in to the allotted 5
minute of news headlines time all of it from their LA or NY offices.
When the 911 incident occurred it took some of the radio syndicates
several days to work out how override their automatic music/news
scheduling system so they could broadcast real "live announcers on
the spot" old fashioned radio.
an old DJ boss of mine was looking at using this sort of system to
narrow-cast music in to places like malls, service stations, banks,
government service counters etc.
The software would allow for a whole bank of announcements customized
for each shop so that even though you'd hear the same music in the
supermarket as in the book shop when ever the intersong promo break
came on at the first you'd get an announcement about, say, this weeks
deli specials, and in the second you'd get info about, say, the
latest Tom Clancy novel. load it up with a few gig of music and a
few dozen stock announcements program the schedule and occasionally
download new announcements and bingo the machine makes your money for
you 24/7.
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