How many hours is a Big Enough Playist for any certain format

[Mid West Clubber]

Certainly if you where gonna do a current top 40 CHR or Country or Rhythmic chart your playlist could be much shorter,, but im doing kinda an ANY Sub Genre goes Recurrent Gold Leaning Dance Format,, so do you think 10 hours at 64k is big enough,, if you keep it updated,, or would you go 20 hrs on a 32k mp3pro format,,, Both are actually mp3pro and its using Live 365s P1 program. I already own a shoutcast station but the royalties are extremely high plus I have to pay for bandwidth,, but I have to run the computer 24/7,,, however I have about 1100 songs on loop,,, mainy say this is way too many for a dance station,,, Ive looked at alernatives like Loud Casterand loud city,, and time you factor in the bandwidth and royalties,, Shoutcast and Radiotime listings and more,, Its actually more expensive that what im doing now,, thats why I might go back to live 365,, its 10 bucks,, and its easier to get listeners because it will suggest your station amongst similar stations.

 

[CaptBob92]

I wondered about this a few years back but for a different reason. I found that if I placed several hundred songs in random rotation ( set computer on shuffle) the computer managed to repeat some songs way too close together than I wanted. This created recurrent repeats as close together as five songs! I later found that without a large enough number of songs in the shuffle most programs will pick the same songs too frequently. long story short, I found that any catagory in which you don't want frequent repeats but want the program to shuffle should have at lease 1,000 songs in it.

I would take recurrents over maybe two years and place them in this catagory. Anything before that in a seperate catagory and set up a program to repeat the second catagory twice as much a the first.

I hope you have enough selections otherwise it's all a moot point.

 

[Jay Peninger]

Well if you are running well programmed automation software repeats shouldn't be a serious issue, what does happen though is many times I have seen people have far to few artists on their playlist and while they have lots of songs the number of artists is small and many programs which adhere to the DMCA etc will have issues because they eventually can't play by the set rules.

I have been running as a test the web based solution from Shout Automation www.shoutautomation.com and my play list jumps between 500 - 1000 Active Rock Songs which is our main audience then I have a Classic Rock list of 300 - 500 and an Indie Rock list of 200 - 400

Shout lets you create your own Clock Wheels and lets you set which clock to use for each hour of the day, and I have zero issues with repeats and the added Voice Tracking & Advertising manager makes those chores a snap too...