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WHAT's voice tracks and general pondering

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Soon Yi CIV.V

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I don't know much about the technology behind yes.com. But I find it odd that the voice tracking shows up (today at least) in WHAT's hourly song logs. Don't songs have to be coded a certain way to be picked up? Does that mean they've encoded the voice tracks? And if so, why?

I also wonder if WHAT's format was on some rinky little non-comm FM, how do you think it would perform versus, say WRTI and or WXPN?
 
Soon Yi CIV.V said:
I also wonder if WHAT's format was on some rinky little non-comm FM, how do you think it would perform versus, say WRTI and or WXPN?
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I wonder if the WXHL people have received any offers for that 97.1 translator in Center City. If I had an underpowered AM in this city, I'd give anything to be on that signal.
 
yes.com just picks up an RSS feed from the automation system. No special encoding on songs vs other elements, everything that plays goes into the feed, that's why all that other stuff shows up (IDs, VTs, spots, etc). Working to get rid of that other junk.
 
But why doesn't that happen on all the other stations as well? And how come when stations flip to all-Christmas, yes.com only picks up two or three of the songs until some sort of adjustment is made?
 
Other stations might just be sending a music log and not the whole log, using a different system. Not sure about the Christmas thing, look slike all the songs are showing up for WHAT.
 
It depends on the automation system
AVWeb (AudioVault's playlist-to-web program) lets you specify certain categories of songs to output to the web
 
dkocw said:
It depends on the automation system
AVWeb (AudioVault's playlist-to-web program) lets you specify certain categories of songs to output to the web
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In MOST cases, yes.com is taking an off air feed (probably FM's only) and doing recognition
technology to figure out the title and artist. There is NO connection to the station at all.
It's similar to my Verizon cell phone where you can hold it up to the speaker and it tells
you the name of the song with artist and album in seconds.
 
Sounds like the 97.1 xlator might be a good idea.Not sure how much Reach-FM will want for it, though.
 
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