[rfu-automation] Re: D'oh!

[Lynsee Melchi]

I liked Jenn's suggestion of putting a certain type of album/artist in
all capital letters.  For example:

Lynsee's Band (local)
with the albums HOME ON THE STRANGE
                       Doggy Dog

HOME ON THE STRANGE is not checked or explicit
Doggy Dogg is safe.

Or something like that.

Lynsee

On 6/23/06, Gary Cziko <g-cziko at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Joe:
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> >  So there are really four tiers that we're talking about here.
> >
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> > 1. Unchecked: starts on the safe-harbor playlist
> > 2. Completely unplayable: is removed from the automation computer as soon
> as we discover it
> > 3. Indecent/profane: kept on the safe-harbor list and safeguarded in our
> procedures from being played at any other time
> > 4. Safe: copied from the safe-harbor playlist to the safe playlist
>
>
> So we would play only  no. 4 between 6 am and 10 pm and play nos. 1, 3 and 4
> during safe-harbor hours. I wouldn't want to exclude Safe music during
> safe-harbor hours.
>
> We would then need to add descriptors after the album and/or  track titles
> on iTunes so we could easily create the two ZaraRadio playlists using labels
> such as "clean," "explicit" and "unchecked." (there would be no use for an
> "obscene" label as these tracks would be deleted as soon as discovered to be
> obscene--actually people should know enough about the music and artist so as
> not to put such music on the system in the first place).
>
>
> If the label applied to every track in an album, the label could be added to
> the album title (this is visible in the ZaraRadio explorer windows).
> If the label applied to some tracks and not others on an album, no label
> would be put on the album title and an appropriate label would be added to
> each sont track. If all this is acceptable, then we have to figure out who
> is going to do this work. I am willing to show people how to do this, but I
> am not going to be listening to and labeling albums and tracks myself.
>
>  --Gary
>
> P.S. I am still testing out the ability of getting ZaraRadio to
> automatically switch from one playlist to another at the right time. So far
> it looks posssible, but need to test a bit more.
>
>
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