Stuck record

[vchimpanzee]

It was fixed quickly, but I was concerned. There's no way someone's monitoring it that closely, so I figure it must have been a recording, and when the sound went out, that was the record being fixed.

 

[RadioFan2J3]

Somewhat related - many years ago, I worked at a station with an automated beautiful music format. The music was on reel-to-reel tapes, about 12 minute sweeps. I don't know how I caught it, but I noticed in one song, the music, obviously dubbed from vinyl, skipped back one groove. I marked the tape for later inspection and realized I could splice out the one groove repetition. Problem solved.

 

[vchimpanzee]

It just happened again. I didn't write down every song I liked but this one was not on my list. It had the noises, even before it got stuck and there was a brief break before it restarted, that make it obvious I was listening to vinyl. It's hard to believe people had to listen to all that noise back in the day. Although I don't remember those noises, and I certainly remember when CDs on radio were a new thing.

 

[boombox4]

Stations in the 60's and 70's dubbed new records to cart, reducing the chance of record noise. Automation services used new records, and if they used older, worn records (which happened more in some formats than others), there were electronic pop-filters, and even pouring water or alcohol on the record while playing it being used to reduce noise when dubbing to tape.

A lot of the early made-for-broadcast CD's originated from LP as well as tape sources. Some of those sources may still be floating around, being used on some stations in the US.

 

[Dave Andrews]

The 2005 hit "Coin Operated Boy" by Dresden Dolls has an intentional skip. Gotta watch out for that stuff too.