I’ve been listening to C89.5 more and more lately (rather than just on the drive in to work) and I notice that you’ll hear the same block of songs just about every hour. ACK!

When I worked at KGRG (Green River Community College) we had a program that would automatically generate play lists for us. The station programmers (radio, not computer) would set a level for a given song from “High Rotation” (hot new stuff) to “Oldies” and the machine would churn through the library and put together a play list.

Got me thinking that C89.5 needed something like this. And if they do have something like this… they need to need to drop the number of high rotation songs they get in an hour. Or more likely… increase their library so you don’t keep hitting the same six songs every hour.

I know, what with all the iPod’s and Webcasting out there that folks have come up with their own play list managers and smart agents to build out play lists for them. But perhaps they could get something like that for c89.5. Set it up so requests are logged and help bump up popular songs in rotation. *shrug*

I’m probably obsolutely wrong about what goes on there, having never been there. And I’m sure Eric is going to message me shortly after this post to fill me in. =) But… these are the things I think about on my long commute. (or as George Carlin says, “These are the things I think about when I’m at home alone and the lights go out.”) =)