Disco Song Packages on .mp3 or .wav format

[scottwmro]

Hi,

I own a small AM station that really is a Hot AC Format station, but on Sunday Evenings, I want to go back to the Disco Era of the 70's & early 80's. Is there a music format package for radio stations to buy in mp3 format or even .wav would be o.k besides TM? I going to voice track the program myself, but it is expensive to go to napster, itunes, etc. and download all those hits. Any suggestions from P.D's on this board? This is a project I've been wanting to do for a long time, it's just getting the music up.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[oldies76]

I going to voice track the program myself, but it is expensive to go to napster, itunes, etc. and download all those hits. Any suggestions from P.D's on this board? This is a project I've been wanting to do for a long time, it's just getting the music up.

Thanks,
Scott

Not a PD, but if you want to download from Napster the top disco songs from the late 70's, at 99 cents a song, it should cost less than 75 to 100 bucks, depending how deep you wanna go. Downloading only #1 songs and anything in the top 5 will cost less. Going deeper to position 40 will cost more.

 

[oldiesstation]

http://www.mp3fiesta.com/


try these guys.most songs are just $.24

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Hi,

I own a small AM station that really is a Hot AC Format station, but on Sunday Evenings, I want to go back to the Disco Era of the 70's & early 80's. Is there a music format package for radio stations to buy in mp3 format or even .wav would be o.k besides TM? I going to voice track the program myself, but it is expensive to go to napster, itunes, etc. and download all those hits. Any suggestions from P.D's on this board? This is a project I've been wanting to do for a long time, it's just getting the music up.

Thanks,
Scott

Scott, I've just gotta know... are you really just 3 watts at night and if so, how does that work for you? I mean do you have any listeners? This is a real question... When I was a kid, my older brother built a little transmitter and he claimed it had 5 watts. Well me and my friends played DJ and played our record collection for the neighborhood using this signal. The signal travelled maybe a few miles.

 

[finallyescaped]

http://www.mp3fiesta.com/


try these guys.most songs are just $.24

You're better off getting the songs for free from Limewire if you're going to use mp3fiesta. They are NOT a legitimate music store. Just Google their name. Dozens and dozens of articles about them charging for downloads in an ATTEMPT to look legit, but they have no contracts with anyone. It is a site based out of Russia, and is believed to be a sister-site to the big music download site that the RIAA has been trying to shutdown for years.

 

[scottwmro]

Hi,

I own a small AM station that really is a Hot AC Format station, but on Sunday Evenings, I want to go back to the Disco Era of the 70's & early 80's. Is there a music format package for radio stations to buy in mp3 format or even .wav would be o.k besides TM? I going to voice track the program myself, but it is expensive to go to napster, itunes, etc. and download all those hits. Any suggestions from P.D's on this board? This is a project I've been wanting to do for a long time, it's just getting the music up.

Thanks,
Scott

Scott, I've just gotta know... are you really just 3 watts at night and if so, how does that work for you? I mean do you have any listeners? This is a real question... When I was a kid, my older brother built a little transmitter and he claimed it had 5 watts. Well me and my friends played DJ and played our record collection for the neighborhood using this signal. The signal travelled maybe a few miles.

SuperRadioFan,

Sorry for the delayed responce, I never come to this board, so I didn't know if you asked a question. The answer about the 3 watts is yes, we do operate at 3 watts at night, all night. We use a BE AM1A Tranmitter that will go that low without distortion to the modulator section. The factory set it up for me that way. I live in a straight line, 2.8 miles from my transmitter site, and I can hear the station, with some interference from WPAD, whom we are co-channel with, which is a Class "B" station, that we are not required to protect at night.
We are protecting Class "A", WQEW-AM at night, and if I turn off the transmitter, they do get into here, but not real good at all, due to their directional pattern. I'm looking into why we are protecting them to the point of nothing. Most of their signal goes north and straight south, along the Atlantic Coast, but misses the the middle tennessee area. The study we had done in 1998 showed us we can not radiated past 17 mv/m field strength towards WQEW. I think this needs to be changed. If we ran 45 watts at night, we would not bother WQEW, according to their former engineer, Herb Squire.
All in all, you might as well say we have almost a 4 mile radius we cover with 3 watts on 1560 at night with a 150 foot tower.

Sorry for the tech talk, now back to regular programming!

Scott Bailey
Owner/G.M., WMRO Radio, Magic 1560
Gallatin, Tennessee

 

[pdxrock]

Can you move to the expanded AM band?

 

[SuperRadioFan]

SuperRadioFan,

Sorry for the delayed responce, I never come to this board, so I didn't know if you asked a question. ..... Sorry for the tech talk, now back to regular programming!

Scott Bailey
Owner/G.M., WMRO Radio, Magic 1560
Gallatin, Tennessee

No problem, Scott, I check the threads periodically myself. Good luck to you in 2009 and Happy New Year!

 

[gunterm]

I would buy the tunes from iTunes, at 256kbps AAC and DRM free they will sound great on-air. Don't think because AM is low fidelity that all the compression artifacts from low-bitrate mp3s don't come through.