Here's some more arithmetic for you:
I have just over 4,000 songs on my iPod, which is apparently 11.3 days - 271 hours - of music. With commercials and babbling, that's over 450 hours of music for a radio station. Almost 19 days before a song repeated.
19 days on my iPod, 4 hours on the radio. 450 hours, 4 hours.
So why would any of us listen to the radio? Sure, when we hear a new song and like it we want to hear it over again. But every four hours? To the exclusion of all the other great music we love? Are we that forgetful? Are we that dumbed down?
Maybe the bigger question is: since they know we all have the technology, why do radio stations stick with the ridiculously short playlists?
I have my favourite artists and preferred playlists, so it takes me months - but I listen to every song on my iPod. Every one of them. You see, the 4,000 songs represent only a subset of my CD collection. They are my favourites.
I have an older iPod, with a puny 20 GB. The current 160 GB model is capable of storing 40,000 songs. That's six months before a song repeats.
Even if radio stations wanted to play it safe and only play "hits", there have been about 10,000 of those since rock's inception. They could still favour current and recent "hits" but have months worth of addditional material keep things interesting. And that's just rock. Imagine another 2-3 months worth of tunes crossing over from country, jazz, blues and folk?
Wouldn't that be cool?
Yes, by the way, there is Frank Sinatra on my iPod.
I have just over 4,000 songs on my iPod, which is apparently 11.3 days - 271 hours - of music. With commercials and babbling, that's over 450 hours of music for a radio station. Almost 19 days before a song repeated.
19 days on my iPod, 4 hours on the radio. 450 hours, 4 hours.
So why would any of us listen to the radio? Sure, when we hear a new song and like it we want to hear it over again. But every four hours? To the exclusion of all the other great music we love? Are we that forgetful? Are we that dumbed down?
Maybe the bigger question is: since they know we all have the technology, why do radio stations stick with the ridiculously short playlists?
I have my favourite artists and preferred playlists, so it takes me months - but I listen to every song on my iPod. Every one of them. You see, the 4,000 songs represent only a subset of my CD collection. They are my favourites.
I have an older iPod, with a puny 20 GB. The current 160 GB model is capable of storing 40,000 songs. That's six months before a song repeats.
Even if radio stations wanted to play it safe and only play "hits", there have been about 10,000 of those since rock's inception. They could still favour current and recent "hits" but have months worth of addditional material keep things interesting. And that's just rock. Imagine another 2-3 months worth of tunes crossing over from country, jazz, blues and folk?
Wouldn't that be cool?
Yes, by the way, there is Frank Sinatra on my iPod.
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