Bob,

Thanks for lending an ear!

--- In christianguitaristspittsburgh@yahoogroups.com, gman_81
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> I went to the radio station and was able to listen using winamp
> player. I couldn't figure out how to listen to the exact song you
> play though. Do I just wait and listen to the words to figure out
> when your song comes on?

Live365 has lots of broadcaster options. If I was independently
wealthy I could set things up so you could choose which song to hear,
but, as it is, you have to wait until it appears.

I sometimes ask it to play songs randomly (which may cause a repeat),
other times I set up an order which gets repeated (which may less
exciting). Their "random" seems wayward, though.

If you had downloaded their player, which is small, you would see the
title, artist, and CD title of each song. I dont know what you see in
winamp. Sorry. But if you can see the ID tags, its all there.

So far, I only put two songs that I wrote and played on the station,
taken from a live show I did. A slow one called "Welcome", and an
upbeat one called "Mama Mama". If you heard them, the titles end up
being obvious. Not perfect recordings, but pretty representative of
my live sound. Both are secular. Just me and guitar, strummed, sort
of.

I have been giving some thought to the secular/Christian ratio, and
to the contemporary/old-timey ratio. I enjoy it all, but I have to
consider my listeners. This is designed to promote Pgh live acoustic
music. If I put too much Christian music in, I will not develop the
audience I am hoping for.

Actually, I am hoping that with perhaps 10% Christian songs I will
develop and keep a large secular audience, which means, of course
that Christian music will be reaching lots of secular ears. But,
honestly, the point of this project is secular. Any ministry is bonus.

As for contemporary vs old-timey (or guitar vs fiddle), I am guessing
that I will have to develop some scheduled shows to segregate them
somewhat.

Because legalities require at least three hours of material, but also
require less than one song per artist per hour, and I also have
limited upload space, I ended up accepting a lot of songs/artists in
their library that I was unfamiliar with. I was surprised with how
much I liked Shelby Lynne, I never heard of her before, but she got
style!

I removed some of the songs/artists that I found less palatable, and
I am looking forward to having more Pgh music, so I can remove more
national music that I really dont like. I am waiting for promised CDs
from Laurie Shea, Jay Hitt, and Dave Pahanish. Can't help but get
better!

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks,

Dave Graham