shhhh...

[jtmckinley]

I think Moses co-broadcasts his show on progpositivity IIRC, but the depth of the library elsewhere doesn't even compare to the Moon, I wait with baited breath to be corrected.

[lamour]

Originally Posted by jtmckinley

I think Moses co-broadcasts his show on progpositivity IIRC,

that's what I heard as well.

but the depth of the library elsewhere doesn't even compare to the Moon, I wait with baited breath to be corrected.

well, I have no idea about the depth of the others, but they all seem to have their own personalities to some extent. I've heard/seen songs on other stations that are not in the AM library. Probably has a lot to do with the tastes of the people running the stations. and really, it doesn't matter how deep the library is if there's currently a 35 minute Klaus song playing. ;-)

that all said, the original plan was to dump all the data into a database to see if I could come up with some trend info about prog on the Internet. (most played songs/albums/bands, number of different artists played per station, number of requests per day, etc) That's why I tried to find so many stations. However, like I was telling Goo when I was talking to him about turning my program into a web page, once I got the parsers written for all of those pages, it was obvious that something like that would require a table for mapping all the crappy data to some master list, and maintaining something like that was way beyond what I wanted to do. (no, seriously, the consistency of the song information is hilariously bad)

anyway, it was a fun project, but it's dead now. I kinda ran out of things I could do to it without doing actual work. lol.

[gr8sho92]

There are others. RadioIO has a prog station. Then there are yet other methods of delivery like Pandora, Slacker and Flycast that can be setup to play prog music. I haven't listened to enough of all the other stations to say conclusively, but most of them have some type of announcement or commercial. Some even stream at 128k as is.

But it does seem to me that the lack of any form of commercial interruption as has been the case here lately is subjectively to me a good thing. And the almost 40K tracks doesn't hurt either...