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Smart phone alert in a song

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vchimpanzee

I'm not sure where to ask this question.

Twice this week on WERT Van Wert, Ohio, which streams, when Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never been Mellow" was played, the volume was lowered briefly and there was a sound like a smart phone getting a text alert.

The song was played twice in one day and I didn't notice this the first time on the same day (and it might not have happened), but I did the second time.

So how could this happen?

It's not the first time I've heard something like this. A low-power station owned by a church played the same songs every time I passed through the town on the way to the beach and every time, one of the songs had someone sneezing. The sneezing is not part of the record.
 
Someone was transferring that track from one media to another in real time (most likely from CD to an automation computer) via an audio mixer, and while doing so their mic was open when they got a text, or in the case of your second example, sneezed.
 
The volume also went down just before the alert.

This may be related. WERT started playing the older fast version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and then all of a sudden it changed to the newer slower version in the middle.
 
vchimpanzee said:
This may be related. WERT started playing the older fast version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and then all of a sudden it changed to the newer slower version in the middle.
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I guess you don't know, but that's an actual record. Neil re-released that song in 1975 with the excerpt of the original at the start, then it segues to the slower, adult version. The re-release went to #1 in the AC chart.

 
vchimpanzee said:
I never heard it done that way. It has always started at the beginning of the slow version.
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It was a big hit in 1975, especially at AC radio, including the original version used as the intro. But it disappeared right after its chart run. When oldies stations became plentiful, only the original uptempo version was ever played, and the fast/slow remake never replaced it when the original aged out of the format. As usual, WERT is an outlier.
 
CTListener said:
It was a big hit in 1975, especially at AC radio, including the original version used as the intro. But it disappeared right after its chart run. When oldies stations became plentiful, only the original uptempo version was ever played, and the fast/slow remake never replaced it when the original aged out of the format. As usual, WERT is an outlier.
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As I said, I've only heard the slow version without that introduction. I don't know on what stations.
 
You didn't notice they played the same song twice?

WERT doesn't do that normally. KTUC seems to play the same songs every day, though. WERT has fewer repeats.
 
Back in the Napster era my roommate once downloaded an MP3 that had an AOL Instant Messenger notification sound in it. That was before Windows let you independently lower the volume of or mute system notifications. So if you were recording audio, whatever noises your computer made would end up in the recording.
 
gr8oldies said:
Dude, send Chris Roberts some spare change the way you're burning up his data and royalty bill from way out of town
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Some people have told me there was geofencing, but that stopped. I never found out if it was intentional.

This should be a Sirius/XM channel. There's nothing like this there because it takes going back and forth between a dozen stations to hear everything.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Someone was transferring that track from one media to another in real time (most likely from CD to an automation computer) via an audio mixer, and while doing so their mic was open when they got a text, or in the case of your second example, sneezed.
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No idea why any station or radio company would use that method since after, say, 2002. CD rip capabilities have been standard on most digital rip-and-edit programs since at least 2002, when programs like Cool Edit / Adobe Audition / etc. were used by a lot of companies that either did MOHD or CD to comp CD mastering -- a completely digital chain, with no analog audio in the way. No microphones even in the room anywhere.
 
WERT seems to be playing the same songs every day, just like KTUC did, except they get played at the same time.

And guess which song always gets played twice, first without the alert and then with it?
 
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