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Slight Change On Kool 101 Streaming Player

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

I've noticed effective yesterday, they have refrained from showing text listed in the "Album" field on the Kool 101 streaming player. Then again, there are times when this information is incorrect, and I'm sure it's beyond the station's control. For example, there's one song from The Dave Clark Five ("Glad All Over," I believe) and the "Album" field would read "Terri Clark." When Four Seasons' "Oh What A Night" played, the "Album" field would read "Four Seasons Christmas Album". (While one can argue that Christmas is in December, I don't think they were singing about presents and caroling in that song.)

There's also some examples where the information listed in the "Album" field would be completely inaccurate. Like when "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse played. The "Album" field listed an album called "Jusa Bit 'O' Blues, Volume 1." I checked the track listing of both Volumes 1 and 2 on Amazon.com and couldn't find anything remotely close to that song title. I'm not sure how they pulled that one. But one disastrous example would be when Andy Kim's "Baby I Love You" played on Kool 101. The "Album" field read, "Natty Dread A Weh She Want." Yes, it somehow pulled the name of a song (which is probably the title track of an album) by Jamaican recording artist Horace Andy. I bet you won't find that on Kool 101's airwaves. But my jaw really dropped when I Googled the title of the album listed in the "Album" field whenever the station played American Breed's "Bend Me, Shape Me." The album - and it's quite a long one - is titled: "Pooky Productions Presents... Respect Yer Elders! (Prozac, Phone Pranks, And The Desecration Of The American Flag!)" According to the description on Amazon.com: "Respect Yer Elders is a collection of real phone pranks by an old, crazy woman... She's a mean redneck who loves to complain about everything, and gets her way because she's an elder." Oh, and the album is marked "explicit" - and why wouldn't it be, with such track listings as "Hotel Orgy," "Underage Porno," and - well, I'm afraid to list some of the more ribald titles for fear of violating R-I's TOS... I'll just say I am glad that the station's streaming player doesn't have a "Buy This Album" feature integrated into it! :D

So I'm thinking somebody got enough complaints about the inaccurate information showing up in the "Album" field on the player that they just cut it off. Maybe it was that "old, crazy redneck woman"... ::)
 
As Player's "Baby Come Back" currently plays on Kool 101, I am reminded of yet another gem of an album title that used to appear on the player every time Kool 101 played the song: "High Speed Currency Chasin'", by a rap artist known as O.M.P. - or "Orange Mound Player."
 
I just thought of one more "false album" example. When Kool played the Chris Montez song "Let's Dance," the album title was listed as "New Light Through Old Windows." That was actually a title of an album released by Chris Rea, who had re-performed all of his famous songs, such as "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" - which might have been played by Kool's predecessor, WTYD...

Oh, and I notice some song titles on the player are classified as "(Stereo)". Maybe it's me, but since it's an FM station, wouldn't all music on Kool 101 be in "stereo"? ::)
 
I can't explain the goofy Albums,
but the (Stereo) bit is easily explained.

Not all Oldies were in stereo :eek:
Some were re done for stereo in the 60's, others were done much later.
Now exactly why some songs have (Stereo) on them while others don't,
could be for the later stereo remaster.
 
I recognize all but a couple of songs (The Eagles' "Take It Easy" and Three Dog Night's "Shambala") that were classified as (Stereo) in the player were from the 60's, so I suppose your comments puts things into perspective.

The only title that I have ever seen classified as (Stereo Remaster) was The Archies' "Sugar Sugar." Then again, the maximum number of characters for each field in the player is 40. I suppose they all could be stereo remasters, though.
 
I've noticed that the Kool 101 streaming player page data has been frozen since late Wednesday or early Thursday. The song "now playing" is Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently." Not only are other songs playing, but I notice that they're not breaking away in the middle of stopsets - there are some local ads that are clear to air over the stream, but I am now hearing spots for national advertisers like Hotels.com that I haven't heard on the stream in the past. I wonder if they're in the process of moving to a new stream page or server... I should point out that the old "Good Times, Great Oldies" logo still remains on the streaming player page despite the rebranding in June.
 
Just happened around 11:55pm 7/14/12-->

"Roxanne" by the Police was playing, and the artist said Neil Diamond- (God I can't stand Neil Diamond, but that's besides the point), the artist was incorrect.......


~Jay.




DToTheJ said:
I've noticed effective yesterday, they have refrained from showing text listed in the "Album" field on the Kool 101 streaming player. Then again, there are times when this information is incorrect, and I'm sure it's beyond the station's control. For example, there's one song from The Dave Clark Five ("Glad All Over," I believe) and the "Album" field would read "Terri Clark." When Four Seasons' "Oh What A Night" played, the "Album" field would read "Four Seasons Christmas Album". (While one can argue that Christmas is in December, I don't think they were singing about presents and caroling in that song.)

There's also some examples where the information listed in the "Album" field would be completely inaccurate. Like when "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse played. The "Album" field listed an album called "Jusa Bit 'O' Blues, Volume 1." I checked the track listing of both Volumes 1 and 2 on Amazon.com and couldn't find anything remotely close to that song title. I'm not sure how they pulled that one. But one disastrous example would be when Andy Kim's "Baby I Love You" played on Kool 101. The "Album" field read, "Natty Dread A Weh She Want." Yes, it somehow pulled the name of a song (which is probably the title track of an album) by Jamaican recording artist Horace Andy. I bet you won't find that on Kool 101's airwaves. But my jaw really dropped when I Googled the title of the album listed in the "Album" field whenever the station played American Breed's "Bend Me, Shape Me." The album - and it's quite a long one - is titled: "Pooky Productions Presents... Respect Yer Elders! (Prozac, Phone Pranks, And The Desecration Of The American Flag!)" According to the description on Amazon.com: "Respect Yer Elders is a collection of real phone pranks by an old, crazy woman... She's a mean redneck who loves to complain about everything, and gets her way because she's an elder." Oh, and the album is marked "explicit" - and why wouldn't it be, with such track listings as "Hotel Orgy," "Underage Porno," and - well, I'm afraid to list some of the more ribald titles for fear of violating R-I's TOS... I'll just say I am glad that the station's streaming player doesn't have a "Buy This Album" feature integrated into it! :D

So I'm thinking somebody got enough complaints about the inaccurate information showing up in the "Album" field on the player that they just cut it off. Maybe it was that "old, crazy redneck woman"... ::)
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