[rfu-automation] Re: D'oh!

[Gary Cziko]

Lynsee:

I would prefer explicit labels, as someone not knowing or observing such a
convention involving upper- and lower-case letters could lead to errors.

We could go with just two labels as used on iTunes: "clean" and "explicit"
as anything without a label would be obviously unchecked while obscene is
not put on the computer in the first place or removed immediately if
discovered.

--Gary


On 6/23/06, Lynsee Melchi <lynseemelchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  So there are really four tiers that we're talking about here.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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