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Also a KEXP listener and supporter. Long live KEXP!
Listening now! While we're plugging: WFMU (NY) KALX (UC Berkeley) KZSC (UC Santa Cruz) KXT (listener-supported radio from Dallas/Ft Worth) Radio Paradise (no ads, listener supported) And many more...
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We process visual and audio data differently. No website or or magazine is going to trick me into thinking someone’s at the door by playing a dry doorbell sample over reverb for the rest of the ad. Radio (and TV) are uniquely obnoxious in their use of instinctive audio cues to demand attention by making us go on alert.
But that's not a product of the medium, to be fair.
That sort of shit needs to shut down. I think only sirens played on radio ads might be worse.
In general, it's not that the overall volume is louder on advertisements / talking, it's that the compression / limiting makes it seem louder. Music - even heavily compressed modern music - still needs some dynamics, so it generally feels quieter.
This is especially pronounced on television.
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oh well.
It's funny but my original post started with: "I know a lot of people are going to see this and react with an 'oh well'." I'm an actual person, you know. I'm alive. I exit. My existence is not less important than yours... In my eyes.
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It's funny but my original post started with: "I know a lot of people are going to see this and react with an 'oh well'." I'm an actual person, you know. I'm alive. I exit. My existence is not less important than yours... In my eyes.
"You matter" is distinct from "you deserve to have this job." I think you'll get a lot more support on the former than the latter.
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I have always wrestled with the ethics of adblocking YouTube. If am subscribed to a channel, that means the content in that channel has value for me. And it is only fair that I provide some value to the content creators in return. Otherwise it is theft. Anyways this is my reasoning. Hence as much as I find ads to be annoying, I put up with them. I am considering cancelling my Spotify subscription and using the saving…
If the first hundred audible ads haven't sold me, the next hundred won't either
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.
If I want to come at this from a capitalist perspective, you are not entitled to other people's time, attention, or money. You are not entitled to a job as a radio broadcaster supported by revenue from advertisements that people find obnoxious. If the market won't support your business model, it's on you to find another business model, it's not on the market to support your failed model.
I want something like this for youtube or other streaming services
Sponsorblock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
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But that's not a product of the medium, to be fair.
How is not? There is a commercial I've been seeing a lot during sporting events. I think it's some sort of insurance but I have no idea. All I know is multiple times a day the ad plays the default iPhone text message alert and it pisses me off. That sort of shit needs to shut down. I think only sirens played on radio ads might be worse.
"Radio (and TV) are uniquely obnoxious"
Ads are obnoxious. That's not unique to radio.
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Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.
Here's the thing. In an where ads get the volume cranked up, this seems like the natural blowback to that. Good, bad, indifferent, adtech has become so hostile that users (myself included) have found ever more measures to excise it, because it feels compelled to show no restraint in its own appetites. I'm old enough to remember when radio and TV adverts didn't comprise more than 15% of the total media stream, let alo…
I want to see ads that are entertaining or helpful. The mba is trying to get me to buy something I don’t want or need.
Advertising isn’t the problem, the problem is the marketing.