[Hastings Rock] Re: Final Night
- From: "jon bird" <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 19:33:11 +0100
** Hastings Rock Radio **
Very quickly because I need to be somewhere else (not physically obviously!).
I've already mentioned the Mumble/voice comms thing as an option so I
won't repeat that again here but happy to support setting that up if
people want to give that a try.
I'm going to suggest that we forget the Zoom/video chat idea, as the
slight time lag would make it a problem & we want things to be as easy as
possible.
Before we dismiss the Zoom thing, it was mentioned about how listeners
would be able to see the DJs on this. Of the couple of sesssions I've been
involved with it was as a passive viewer - one of several hundred in fact
watching 6-8 people on screen. Which is basically what you are talking
about here. However I suspect you may have to pay to accomodate more than
a few people and/or go over the 40 minute limit but I can't really help
any further than that.
Nick has assured me that we don't need the hour between live DJs, as long
as we make sure they log out & in properly.
This should only take minutes, if that, so we could maybe let Robojock
play one track between DJs & then log in at the end of that track, unless
it's a long one!
How does that sound? Will that work?
Re: Tony's point about requests, that's easily done, we'll just disable
the request page for the evening. It's only available during periods when
we take requests anyway...
Personally I think having Robojock kick in at the end of every show for
potentially just a few seconds of a track will be a bit rubbish. What I
think you want is a longish (say a minute) jingle/backing track with a bit
of a voiceover - a bit like the "please hold, you call is important to us"
but more "we're just getting ready for the next show, stand by....". That
just runs up until the next DJ connects up - which will hopefully be
within seconds of the previous one disconnecting. If not, once the
announcement track is over, the default would be to drop back to
automation (eg. presenter having technical difficulties). I can easily set
that up, just needs someone to record something suitable.
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