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yes.com is awfully Scrooge-y with Sunny's Christmas format

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As soon as Sunny flipped, yes.com seemed to be able to grab one or three or six songs per hour at the most. Some hours, yes.com detected no titles! What's up with that?
 
> As soon as Sunny flipped, yes.com seemed to be able to grab
> one or three or six songs per hour at the most. Some hours,
> yes.com detected no titles! What's up with that?
>
I agree--- the old yes.com was much more useful. Those things would have been caught with no problem. I tried checking out a few stations that started playing Christmas music (whether a preview or the real thing.) I found the same problem with Sunny and also with Charlotte's WKQC---only the Ray Conniff and Nat King Cole titles were picked up---very strange.
 
> As soon as Sunny flipped, yes.com seemed to be able to grab
> one or three or six songs per hour at the most. Some hours,
> yes.com detected no titles! What's up with that?

My guess is that most of the songs are being played on compilation albums not detected by yes.com's sensors.<P ID="signature">______________


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> > As soon as Sunny flipped, yes.com seemed to be able to
> grab
> > one or three or six songs per hour at the most. Some
> hours,
> > yes.com detected no titles! What's up with that?
> >
> I agree--- the old yes.com was much more useful. Those
> things would have been caught with no problem. I tried
> checking out a few stations that started playing Christmas
> music (whether a preview or the real thing.) I found the
> same problem with Sunny and also with Charlotte's
> WKQC---only the Ray Conniff and Nat King Cole titles were
> picked up---very strange.
>


What do you mean by old yes.com. Is there a new automation process? shouldn't innovation help? Unfortunately innovation in this day and age always means cheaper but not always better.
 
> What do you mean by old yes.com. Is there a new automation
> process? shouldn't innovation help? Unfortunately
> innovation in this day and age always means cheaper but not
> always better.
>

There was a "YES" Version 1 located at http://stoneage.yes.com/ after the YES Version 2 became available.

However, that old Version 1 service is no longer available. The old version was much more practical without all of the Flash content that these new versions have. Last year, I monitored Charlotte's WLYT and WKQC Christmas music formats before leaving to go down for Thanksgiving. I also looked over Sunny's last year. On the old version of YES, almost every song (if not every song) was listed. Now, during the preview weekends for both Charlotte stations, as well as Sunny 104-5's playlist as of last Saturday, barely any songs showed up. Some hours didn't even have any songs listed when music was definitely being played. This was not the case with the other Version 1 of YES.

Hope this clarifies your question!
 
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