I believe Hippie is about 1,500 songs and growing. You guys are about right on the 300-350 on the stations you mentioned above.I dunno, Firepoint - having had to listen to Sirius' various decades formats for hours, if not days, was the most painful listening experience of my last 50 years. Most of those playlists are extremely corporate and safe. I think the blending of decades like Hippie is at least a little break from one decades sound. Can Sirius get more of a corporate sound? Yes, I am sure of that. Will it? Not sure. They do have some stations that play deeper cuts, but even those are sprinkled in with the familiar. You are right though, none of us would probably have successful radio stations playing what we like. They'd be unique, for sure, though. It's weird though, musically speaking one listener's trash is another listener's treasure. I think it's just a reality of radio with decades of music stacked up that you just have to try to entertain the most listeners through a set, knowing they are probably going to only really like 30% of the songs...and hope no other station is getting better odds. BTW, I THINK AT 40 played properly yesterday and there were no file issues. Curiosity got me and I tuned in about 1:05 and the countdown was at like number one or two.
