renfield wrote:
Way off base from this millennial's perspective. Most people would rather just put on the radio or Pandora and be pandered to....
This is a special gripe/topic for me. There is nothing pandering about real radio curated by a living breathing human DJ. There is nothing good that can come out of the simplistic algorithm of Pandora.
The former is when you surrender your time to an expert, who has access to more music than you do and is presenting choice selections for your listening pleasure. You can depend on a dj for music from within a genre that hits all your buttons but also broadens your horizons. Its a time tested and proven format that benefits bands and fans.
The latter is a digital equation that blindly zeros in on similar points of tracks that have a genre label hung on them and never will it deviate from that robotic formula. Its mindless and uninformed. Not to mention opaque in that no one knows what basis the algorithm is working from and whether certain artists get preference over others because of money begin paid behind the scenes - you can bet on that.
DJs are an essential part of a culture. Algorithms are a hollow scam for lazy people. The two are on opposite ends of the spectrum and its easy to see where my beliefs stand on the issue.
/rant.
If the new owner from all thats heavy was smart, he should try and put together a streaming radio show for a few hours two or three nights a week and have some of the veteran members of the boards be the DJ for them. I would tune in - and I would buy music based on what I heard. How awesome would it be to hear a set of music curated by Mortlock, or Danny G, or Bolt, or Juan, or Sludgelord, or Liberty, or Black Aspirin?
That would be killer. Just have them record their announcement of the set, and some info on the bands, and a hi and goodbye and then edit it into a three hour block for play back at a certain time. Podcasts do that all the time.