[JPL] How many of you actually download albums for on-air radio play?

[Tom Bingham]

To get back to the original questions, put me down as one who has
occasionally downloaded a single track here and there, but would not do it
regularly. I have indeed had quality issues with mp3's in the past. To be
sure, my ancient home computer isn't any great shakes, but I have had
quality problems downloading at the station as well.
But even if all files were of broadcast quality, storage and easy retrieval
is a major issue. Unless everything were to be burned and placed in
clearly-marked jewel cases, there's no easy way to find things. But now
we're talking expenditures of time and money. As much as I would like to
listen to every promo made available for downloading, I simply don't have
time to search through each item listed - especially by artists I've never
heard of - on the chance that some of them may indeed be worth downloading.
Adding the extra time burden and expense of buying and labeling jewel cases
would hardly make this option more attractive. Radio is my unpaid hobby;
perhaps if I were being paid I would have a different perspective.
Would I absolutely refuse to do it? Not absolutely, but I would ignore a
great deal of potentially fine music, simply because I couldn't take the
time to audition it all, the way I audition every CD that is sent to me.
I don't mean to sound unsympathetic to small labels and artists who release
their own music at considerable expense, but if I'm going to give free
exposure, I don't want to have to pay for the privilege of burning CD's and
buying jewel cases to store them. And I don't want to expend an unreasonable
amount of time searching to find something I might possibly like.
Tom Bingham
WCVF-FM

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>  I am curious to know how many of you actually download albums for on-air
> radio play?
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> If so how do you store them for easy access?
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> Futhermore how many of you would absolutely refuse to do this?
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> Thanks,
> Jerald Miller
> Arkadia
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> --
>
> J



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