I think it speaks very well of my ability to avoid news and sport that until I just heard a trail for it on 6 Music, I had absolutely no idea that today was the FA Cup final.
I will say though, as someone who knows nothing about songwriting, there’s something about it that makes me wonder whether I’m falling for some really basic songwriting tricks, that there’s something about the key or the way it builds up that resonates with my humanity or some shit.
After Spotify hijacked Heardle, I think I only played it for about a month, because they changed it to focus on newer music as a kind of discovery tool.
So it’s only now that I’ve just learned that not only did they hijack Heardle, but that they only bothered to operate it for 8 months before shutting it down.
With great deliberation, I’ve decided that next Monday’s edition of #ThePlaylist shall have the theme of…
Animals
Animals are great, and there’s loads of them that people have written songs about. So fling your suggestions my way and let’s see if we can’t put together the best animals-related radio show the world has ever seen.
@DJDarren@labr Rufus Thomas made a quartet of songs that seem to tell a story about a time he got a dog, took the dog for a walk, got interested in someone's monkey and then had his dog stolen:
All the screengrabs of lunatic AI answers I’m seeing on here this morning have actually made me partially convinced that at least some of them are bullshit.
A few months back my #Kobo pitched a fit and reset itself, losing my reading data for the year to that point. Not a huge issue, as for some reason I remembered that it was up to 65.2 hours.
Ever since then, I’ve had to add 65.2 to the current listed time in order to calculate my current reading time.
Anyway, I’m currently figuring out whether I can adjust the time displayed on the Kobo by editing the KoboReader.sqlite file.
So far my experiments have been unsuccessful, but I shall persevere.
It’s been brought to my attention that Incubus have re-recorded Morning View and I’m listening to it right now and am not entirely sure why.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a perfectly fine re-recording, but the original is still perfectly fine as well. And it’s been 23 years since. Not 20, not 25. 23.
Odd.
But hey ho, fair play to them for sitll rocking out.
Just had cause to remember the first radio show I presented on a community station near Southampton. This was in 2007, a month or so after I started my radio degree.
Because I had no real way of playing requests on the fly like I could now if I wanted to, I had to make sure my playlists were all backtimed and ready, then I burned them onto two CDs. Even tracks on one, odd tracks on the other.
This meant I didn’t have to cue anything because the next track was already lined up.
However, it meant that I had to be really precise when hitting the hour. I couldn’t just drop another track in if I was coming up short, because unless I could find something suitable on the playout system (and there was never anything suitable) I’d have to waffle on for several minutes to fill time. No one wants that.
Because I have to edit my playlists down now, I usually have one or two tracks that I can bounce in if my timings haven’t worked out, which has made me a bit lazier.
I even used to back time to the point that I’d make sure to hit the half hour bang on too. Hell, I had a printout that told me exactly when I should be hitting go on any given track.
I don’t bother with that anymore, and just go by feel. And to some extent it shows.
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Yeah, I'm already wishing for a way to tell news sites "give me all the news that isn't about uk politics".
Mind you, when I phrase it like that, that just makes it a pretty normal Thursday.