Test Transmission 3 is now live. Once again, it includes new tunes uploaded to amazingtunes.com during the past few days. And the playlist is already online here, so you can find the songs you like more easily.
We made TX3 sound a bit different from test TX2. When I listened back to that, I thought we’d put too much speech in (especially too much of me), and that this was getting in the way of the music. So this time, we’ve stripped it back, with more focus on the music and fewer announcements. Please let me know how it feels, we need to gauge where you want the line to be between music and explanation, especially in the early days.
Meanwhile the Big Clever Computer that will do the ‘proper’ playout is all built and tested and we’re just sorting out minor technical issues like the best way to connect it to the transmitter so nobody nicks it and it doesn’t catch fire.
So we hope this will be the last Test TX and we’ll be able to schedule and vary the output properly, and make the scrolling text work, from next week. Definitely, No question. We hope.
Thanks again for listening, for all your feedback .. .and for supporting the Amazing artists whose tunes you hear. It’s been overwhelming. And if you’ve not yet bought an ethical download from amazingtunes.com – do it now! PC
