Who has the AEI collection?

[vchimpanzee]

I think it was mentioned here. When AEI and DMX merged, someone took over AEI's instrumentals format.

 

[Darth_vader]

DMX swallowed up AEI, period. Formats, equipment, everything. All the AEI formats (including the instrumental programming) were maintained by DMX for about a year or so post-buyout, then were killed off. The little bit of AEI that DMX didn't acquire eventually went on to become Play Network.

(It was actually mentioned here: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=555e6fcaa012a6dab32787e1d8686846&topic=107740.0 )

I would imagine that, for the most part the "AEI collection" these days primarily exists in the hands of those who held on to the old CD-I discs (of which I, myself, have many) or who tape-recorded the audio off the C-band feeds.

 

[vchimpanzee]

DMX swallowed up AEI, period. Formats, equipment, everything. All the AEI formats (including the instrumental programming) were maintained by DMX for about a year or so post-buyout, then were killed off. The little bit of AEI that DMX didn't acquire eventually went on to become Play Network.

(It was actually mentioned here: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=555e6fcaa012a6dab32787e1d8686846&topic=107740.0 )

I would imagine that, for the most part the "AEI collection" these days primarily exists in the hands of those who held on to the old CD-I discs (of which I, myself, have many) or who tape-recorded the audio off the C-band feeds.

That's a long thread. Here's where you mentioned it. That's a actually a link to where to reply. I knew I wasn't imagining it.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/in...ies=148;sesc=69a17968e8d7a11eb7856c90f04329fb

So if anyone had it, it was Playnetwork.

 

[Darth_vader]

Assuming Playnetwork bothered to keep any of it. Usually most background music companies throw out the back-issues after they've run their course. At least, that's how I've always heard it stated.....

[size=8pt]Huh...that link worked for me yesterday. Your link seems to want to crash to a "session verification failled" error message, so I'll try something different-- http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=107740.msg1580453#msg1580453

See, I right-clicked on the post's title ("Re: Muzak"), copied the link on it and snipped out the "PHPSESSID=...&" bit. But somehow the ".msg" part of the URL and everything following it got stripped off when I did that yesterday. Probably another SMF oddity (and there are, for all intents and purposes, lots of oddities in the SMF software. I could probably crash the server listing them all...)

Edit add: I just logged out then back in again, and this one seems to all be intact. Weird.