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SDR Music Voting by Listeners
–by Andrew McCaskey
Listeners are helping me expand my musical horizons.
The idea started early this afternoon, when a SDR Listener, Dennis Anthony of York, PA sent along an email that said in part
. . .Thanks for turning me onto GarageBand.com! Here are a few favorites that have been in my rotation, and that I have shared with others . . .
Few favorites, indeed. Dennis provided the complete cut/paste urls for 14 garageband.com artists, and the unique link to the individual songs that he thought should be in the playlist at SDR !
One thing lead to another, and the path was clear to some fun: Letting SDR listeners nominate and vote on which songs to promote to the playlist.
I am posting this quickly, so the links and artwork are not in place. But, being a technical audience, you will be able to find your way to the page at SDR.com, immediately cut/paste your way to sample the songs.
Keep track of the songs and groups that you really like, because there will be a voting survey link
that will allow you to vote for the artist and track that you think should be featured on SDR next week.
Within an hour of the message from Dennis, Aaron Brown suggested another band and also sent along the garageband.com url.
And, if you would like to suggest a garageband.com song, send an email with data in the format, the same format suggested by Dennis and shown on the site, and I’ll add it to the list.
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