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Radio Show ConfidentialSo, my radio show was today, and I think it went off pretty well. I had a great time, actually, particularly during the first 3/4 of the show when the equipment was functioning smoothly. I listened back to a taped copy of the show, and liked it just as much as a listener! It was good to be able to actually listen to the tracks as there was a fair amount of bustling associated with operating the station while I was in the studio. I played twenty-one songs in 90 minutes or so, and things were going very well for about the first hour and ten minutes. That’s when the trouble began. The station has two CD players in the on-air studio. You mix from one CD player to the other (which lets you swap CDs in the one that’s idle). So what happened? CD2 conked out just before the end of a track (Coope, Boyes and Simpson’s Polly on the Shore). I didn’t think too much about it. I just thought that someone had bumped the CD player or something. Anyway, I had a talking interlude, then played a track off of CD1, then went back to CD2 and it started halfway through the song I’d cued up. Strange. I faded that song and announced that I was going to start it over again. I leaned over to the CD player and hit stop. Then I tried to cue it up again but… nothing happened. Just strange spinning noises. Grrr. What was supposed to be a ‘quick’ cue it up again turned into a good 15-20 seconds of dead air. um. dead air.. Finally I did what I should have done at the start: I played a nice long ad while I figured out what went wrong. I was able to recover by playing the rest of the show’s material off of CD1 and the CD-Rom drive in the studio computer. The only other mishap came when I accidentally played a 4 minute song instead of the 9 minute song I meant to. But it was fine as the 4 minute song was in the right style, and I had a spare CD that I could fill the time with. Anyway, I really enjoyed being in the station and pressing all of the buttons. I played stuff off of vinyl and CD. And I had a great pirate theme for part of the show. How can you complain about that. And everyone had to listen to whatever I wanted to play. And I get to do it again in three weeks. Stay tuned folks… it’s just the beginning.
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