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SDR Music Voting by Listeners
–by Andrew McCaskey
Here’s what’s new this week: The SDR Music Vote Playlist. First, new garageband.com bands and songs are nominated by SDR listeners. Then listeners select their top pick for band and song to be played sometime that week. Fresh news, plus Fresh music.
I got the experimental voting system created and in place Saturday. It is a basic survey to find out what you think about songs and artists suggested by other SDR listeners and the plans are to feature those songs selected by listeners several times per week and add them to the playlist rotation. As an experiment, it has been quickly crafted without hotlinks or autoplay for the songs. I have to ask you to go back to the site and cut/paste the selections into another Firefox tab and listen from there.
You can vote for one music track per artist or group, and then vote for the group that you think should be at the top of the playlist this week. (You can also skip entries, if you’d like).
To keep things on the up and up, the order of artist names and song titles may be shuffled - so you really have to listen to the song and get artist and title. If you have to stop midway, you can come back to the point where you left off.
The artists are more or less in the same order as the page on the site, arranged three to a page. They are offered as submitted by listeners, and have not been checked as Family Friendly. They will be checked before they are played on air.
If you’d like to add garageband artists and songs, please email in the format shown on the site.
Thanks again to Dennis Anthony of York PA who got this whole thing started with an email late last week.
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