[rfu-automation] Re: D'oh!
Joe Futrelle
futrelle at shout.net
Sat Jun 24 11:21:51 CDT 2006
Sounds like a plan.
When I put together the software that reads the Zara logs to report
what song is playing at any given moment, I can have it check for the
explicit label during non-safe-harbor hours and we can have it
instigate some sort of emergency action (shutting down Zara and
restarting with a safe playlist, sending out email alerts to specific
people, etc.)
--
Joe Futrelle
Person
On Jun 23, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Gary Cziko wrote:
> Joe:
>
> I'd go along with adding the label to the titles as you suggested.
>
> None of the other options will work with ZaraRadio because the
> "explorer window" of ZR only shows the title. And since ZR
> playlists are made from the explorer window, we have to have the
> label in the title.
>
> --Gary
>
> On 6/23/06, Joe Futrelle <futrelle at shout.net> wrote:
> I concur with some sort of labeling. But Gary I'm not sure which
> kind of labeling in iTunes you're talking about. There are a bunch
> of different ways we could do it, here are some as examples:
>
> 1. We could use the "grouping" field and use a code indicating
> whether something is unchecked, safe-harbor-only, or safe.
> 2. We could use the "genre" field for the same purpose (advantage:
> you can browse by genre; disadvantage: there's only one genre per
> track so this would destroy existing genre information on tracks,
> FWIW)
> 3. We could modify the title and put some indication in the title.
> (advantage: if Zara or any other component in the automation system
> reports or logs the track names we will know exactly when what kind
> of music is played; disadvantage: it's hard to sort on, unless you
> put the code before the title).
> 4. We could create three playlists in iTunes, one for each category
> (advantage: we can put a track in more than one category;
> disadvantage: there's no way to tell given only the file which
> playlist it's in)
>
> I don't really like any of these options, but thinking about them
> in the context of all our recent discussions it seems to me the
> safest strategy is to modify the title--like Jenn suggested but not
> using caps. Here's what I would propose. If I have the following CD:
>
> artist: Joe's Risque Lounge Act
> album: Steppin' Over the Line
> track 1: The Parental Advisory Tango
> track 2: Butterflies and Unicorns
>
> lack of notation on the titles means the tracks are unchecked. Now
> we check them and find out track 1's safe-harbor only, but track 2
> is safe, so it's indicated this way:
>
> artist: Joe's Risque Lounge Act
> album: [explicit] Steppin' Over the Line
> track 1: [explicit] The Parent Advisory Tango
> track 2: [clean] Butterflies and Unicorns
>
> what I'm proposing is twofold:
>
> 1. we put the code *first*, so when we sort any playlist by title
> it'll be sorted into the three categories.
> 2. we label an album "explicit" if any track on it is explicit
>
> The downside of putting the codes first is that the titles are
> gonna look pretty ugly. But it would certainly call lots of
> attention to the status of each track to anyone casually looking at
> a playlist or album in iTunes, and even if all someone could see
> was the title of the track they would be able to tell its status.
> We could also analyze Zara logs and determine when what kind of
> music is playing, what percentage of it is checked/unchecked, etc.
>
> --
> Joe Futrelle
> Person
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Gary Cziko wrote:
>
>> 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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>
>
>
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> ---------------------------------------------------
> Gary Cziko
> Professor
> Educational Psychology & English as an International Language
> University of Illinois
> 1310 S. Sixth Street
> 210F Education Building
> Champaign, IL 61820-6990
> USA
>
> Telephone +1-217-333-8527
> Fax: +1-217-244-7620
> e-mail: g-cziko at uiuc.edu
> Web: http://garycziko.net
> Skype: garyjazz (http://www.skype.com)
> Google Talk: gcziko
> Amateur Radio: N9MJZ (IRLP 4280; EchoLink 8231);
>
> Founder, Station Manager, Program Director, Chief Engineer and
> Announcer
> The Latino Radio Service of La Casa Cultural Latina
> 1660 AM on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois
> ( http://latinoradioservice.org)
>
> Founder and Major Contributor
> ATALL Wikibook for
> Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning
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