Comment on Beets tips & config
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 day agoNow you have me downloading 10GB of MP3.com pages so I can go searching for old albums. :D
Do you keep those releases separated from your main library (file-wise)? I’m trying to decide if it makes sense to segregate them and manage them completely outside of beets.
I keep everything in the main library Artist/Album/etc. Reason being, the software we used at the time was playlist and script driven. So you’d have something like: 'play 5 songs from the top 50 set list - play 3 songs from the commercial set list - play bumper and station id - play shoutout from random Indie band - play 5 from secondary set list - etc. So, at the time it didn’t make sense for me to segregate the Indie from the commercial. We played commercial cuts obviously for those familiar with them, but introduced Indie bands and promoted them for the most part. It was a shit load of fun really. Then the RIAA screwed everything up levying fees on internet radio that weren’t even required for terra radio. We had to pay $.5 per song, per listener, which doesn’t seem like a lot but when you figure up how many 3:00 minute songs fit into an hour and you have several thousand people tuned in daily from all over the world, it started to become some real money. Then we went to Washington to plead our case in front of a commission headed up by Senator Leahy. In the end a lot of us disbanded because we were doing this as a work of love for music and the Indie bands, and just couldn’t cut the fees on top of ASCAP/SESAC/SOCAN/BMI licensing. It was fun for a while tho. I’ve had a lifelong love affair with music.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 21 hours ago
My mail carrier gave me a talking to when I started getting a lot of records in the mail during covid. He didn’t like them sitting in the mailbox in the heat. Haha. I mean, good looking out, guy, but I think we’re good.
Well, that was super cool of him. You don’t get a lot of mail carriers that really give a shit.
nexttech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am really sorry for what happened ,
I don’t live in the US so idk what RIAA is but they sound like they are not a good group.
If i may ask, the members (your friends who also liked working in the radio station) what happened to them ?
Do you still meet up and enjoy music sometimes?
RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America
All you really need to know is they are a bunch of self serving pricks.
Our lives went separate ways and I got caught up in other things. That was 28+ years ago. Lots of water under the bridge.
nexttech@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That is a LOT of years !
Having the experience of living that long is invaluable isn’t it ?