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Can Audacy not fix their websites?

101tm

101tm

The recently played feature NEVER works anymore unless you luck up and the station has a TuneGenie page. If it does load, most stations will show the same song 2-3 times in a row and has a lot of ads with phone numbers cluttering up the list.

Now I’ve noticed a new bug, if you click Playlist it just goes to the “on air schedule” which on a lot of stations isn’t correct so now there’s no playlist despite clicking the link.

Too bad Audacy won’t expand TuneGenie to all of their stations because it’s the most reliable way to find out what recently played and is actually user friendly. Cumulus uses it for all of their stations and it works well.

This doesn’t seem to be a problem for iHeart, Beasley, or even Cumulus!….can Audacy not get their websites to function properly??
 
101tm said:
and has a lot of ads with phone numbers cluttering up the list.
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That is always my issue with the Cumulus websites. The ad that takes up 1/3 of the page that needs to be manually closed out takes time to load and makes me lose interest in why I went to the site in the first place. The Audacy pages aren't much better though.
 
With the exception of a few radio stations with major news departments (KNX, WINS, WSB), there's very little reason to go to a radio station website. So they probably don't get much attention.
 
101tm said:
The recently played feature NEVER works anymore unless you luck up and the station has a TuneGenie page. If it does load, most stations will show the same song 2-3 times in a row and has a lot of ads with phone numbers cluttering up the list.

Now I’ve noticed a new bug, if you click Playlist it just goes to the “on air schedule” which on a lot of stations isn’t correct so now there’s no playlist despite clicking the link.

Too bad Audacy won’t expand TuneGenie to all of their stations because it’s the most reliable way to find out what recently played and is actually user friendly. Cumulus uses it for all of their stations and it works well.

This doesn’t seem to be a problem for iHeart, Beasley, or even Cumulus!….can Audacy not get their websites to function properly??
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Legacy Entercom used Tunegenie, but they decided to focus more on their mobile app and radio.com (Audacy) rather than the websites after they bought CBS Radio. Basically trying to do what iHeart has been doing, except they haven’t been doing a good job at it. iHeart has done cookie cutter websites long before that was even an idea at Entercom, and therefore they have more experience and tools. All station websites, even the talk ones have a way to see what was playing.

Cumulus and Beasley don’t have companywide apps or excessive platforms like iHeart and Audacy. They have cookie cutter websites (It’s a radio thing), but they need to use things like Tunegenie as a result of not having their own version of iHeart and Audacy, which is a good thing in a way. I’d rather they focus on the stations themselves rather than hyping an app or a website 24/7.

One thing Entercom did do correctly was make the radio.com app less of a crashing mess and smoother. It was always a bad experience under CBS, but it was not a big priority for CBS. That seems to be how it goes. If it’s not a priority, it tends to not work very well for extended periods of time.
 
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JeremyAndrews said:
Cumulus and Beasley don’t have companywide apps or excessive platforms like iHeart and Audacy. They have cookie cutter websites (It’s a radio thing), but they need to use things like Tunegenie as a result of not having their own version of iHeart and Audacy, which is a good thing in a way. I’d rather they focus on the stations themselves rather than hyping an app or a website 24/7.
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As far as I know, Beasley is not using TuneGenie. Although, I must say, playlists in the new Beasley websites seem to be hidden. You would have to click on the Listen Live link and then the station slogan to retrieve a playlist.

kevtronics said:
They also played "LIVIN' ON A PRAYER".

And I've seen this incorrectly formatted HTML garbage on RDS text, too.
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RDS formatting isn't uniform even among stations under the same company. And sometimes, a Top 40 station can be classified as Rock within the PTY, and a Classic Hits station can be classified as Top 40! Perhaps RDS isn't a priority for some stations?

Though, I must say, at one point, a station in Dallas had RDS text containing several irregular characters. It was posted on Reddit before; I can't seem to find it, however.
 
Don CT said:
They should have enough money that these should not be issues.
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And the error you see in my video above from Audacy’s SC cluster has been going on for 10-15 years where the formatting is completely wrong across the board on songs. They could have fixed it in 2010 if they wanted, the title just needs to be changed in the system.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Oh no, people have found technical glitches. Whatever will become of this world?
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Whatev&amp becomes of this&apos world&amp?

On a more serious note, it's the visual version of hearing two spots being played simultaneously, or the time last week I heard an entire minute of a man's voice saying "be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be".
 
And iHeart loves to play a Lowe's commercial immediately followed by a Home Depot commercial. Aren't competing brands/products supposed to be kept separate?
 
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