[blindreplay] Re: Replay Media Guide Suggestion/Feedback/Idea
- From: <petrakigianos-giasou@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 05:46:56 -0800 (PST)
The link or the announce only email can be updated every 2
weeks. This list should contain only the radio stations call
letters, show name or podcast name. You then take this
information and you do the search yourself by using this info
into the Replay Media Guide to add the program to your Replay AV
application. Again Applian may not want to do all this just an
idea here.
Petro
--- Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robin
>
> Doing so might literally mean hundreds of emails weekly. Urls
> change all
> of the time; stations come and go:
> podcasts come and go; podcasts change providers; take this
> from someone
> who has watched and monitored and attempted to stay on top of
> these kinds
> of things for the last 8 years:
> no one database, individual, entity can possibly remain
> totally abreast of
> all this.
> What is more important for individuals
> is to learn how to uncover this info when it is needed -- be
> it something
> you wish to listen for the first time or something no longer
> seems to
> work.
> Personally, rather than receiving a ton of emails, I much
> rather would
> prefer seeing a page where each change would automatically
> appear at the
> top of the listings and incrementally move lower as new
> additions made the
> page.
> You wouldn't believe the number of such changes that routinely
> occur, and
> how many folks it takes to attempt to keep this info somewhat
> up-to-date.
> And, oh yes, we haven't even discussed how often stations
> tweek their
> schedules adding new shows, shifting times of others, dropping
> shows,
> jettisoning formats, and all the rest.
> And as RAV is a time shifting recording piece of software, it
> not only
> needs urls but when to use those links.
> And with literally thousands of stations streaming and those
> stations
> having up to 168 hours a week to program, and all sorts of
> entities
> streaming and delivering podcasts, it is nearly impossible to
> even hope to
> stay on top of this all.
>
> As for just one example, yesterday I posted that
> Lou Dobbs' nationally syndicated talk show was debuting and
> listed 2
> stations that were presumably going to carry the program live
> and stream;
> namely KNEW Oakland and WIMS Michigan City, IN.
> Those stations will, in turn, do other shifting to block out
> those 3 hours
> 5 days a week for the show.
> Coincidentally, and I mention this in reference to Dobbs, I
> was listening
> to the stream yesterday of your local WZNZ and Andy Johnson's
> show when he
> happened to mentioon that WZNZ would too be carrying Dobbs,
> but on a time
> delayed basis -- 9 to midnight. Well, if you were attempting
> to maintain
> the database of program schedules for WZNZ, you would not only
> have to
> add Dobbs in, but also shift the rebroadcast of Andy Johnson's
> show from
> the Dobbs time block to midnight to 3 AM, cancel the listing
> of the Ed
> Schultz rebroadcast which used to occupy that midnight time
> slot, and on
> and on as WZNZ also just happened to add Thom Hartman (3 to 5
> AM) and a
> Beatles retrospective show on the weekends.
> How any database can possibly expect to maintain this info and
> generate
> notices without overwhelming folks is mindboggling.
>
> On the Blindtech email list, periodically folks are looking
> for times when
> Kim Komando's nationally syndicated computer show airs. Well,
> there are
> such listings collected on the net; but the problem is that
> often these
> listings are either out-of-date or don't verify that the
> station actually
> streams a given show.
>
> My point is to suggest that the key element here is teaching
> folks how to
> fish for themselves first and foremost and that supplying
> specific info is
> a secondary concern for what may be valuable to you or me may
> be truly of
> no interest to 99.99% of other people.
> At the moment, I attempt to track such things for places like
> Chicago,
> Peoria (il), the Quad Cities (il-ia), Jacksonville and a few
> other areas;
> but I don't currently find much value in what is happening in
> Anchorage,
> Halifax (NS), London England (or Ontario or Kentucky for that
> matter
> <grin>!!, Texarkana TX-AR, Boston, whatever.
> To someone from New England, Boston, Providence, Portland, Me
> might be of
> special interest.
> So what each of us should know is how to find that kind of
> stuff and only
> look to the lists as secondary sources, rather than primary
> ones, for this
> kind of thing.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Robin Plitt wrote:
>
> > I wonder if the developers would be willing to create an
> announce-only email
> > list to automatically send out new links when they are added
> to the quide..
> >
> > robin
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "rs_denis"
> <rs_denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <blindreplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:40 PM
> > Subject: [blindreplay] Re: Replay Media Guide
> Suggestion/Feedback/Idea
> >
> >
> > > I very much liked the old format in versions 4 and 5 when
> a list on my
> > > computer was updated regularly and allowed me to browse
> through the shows
> > > and stations. This ended when the current guide format
> superseded the
> > > listings on personal computers with the current on line
> guide. I'm not sure
> > > reverting to the old format would be at all practical, but
> something that
> > > allowed the quick access to newly added shows and stations
> might help with
> > > uncovering or discovering new gems. RD
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