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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by amatecha »

gcau wrote: post #87
imtyler wrote: post #83

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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.

If radio ads weren't full of yelling, car-honking, sirens and overly attention-grabbing things, people wouldn't care as much. Same as websites putting up huge, 5MB-big popup ads and not liking that people want to adblock them. Especially worse, is when the ads are far louder than the content itself.

Oh yeah like the ubiquitous "buzzing alarm clock", crap like that should literally not be legal.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by thedangler »

matthewfelgate wrote: post #2

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.

I used this API or a similar one long time ago when sonos first came out. The script that I wrote was completely different, I had it do text to speech from people tweeting an account.My friends would use it to make fun of people while we were playing video games. I also used it to always play "Bone Thugs and Harmony - It's The First of the Month" every morning on the first of the month.

I should see what is available now.... hmmm

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by amatecha »

rebeccaskinner wrote: post #108
imtyler wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I will remove ads whenever it is technically feasible to do so. If it's not technically feasible to do so, then I'll avoid the ads by simply not engaging with the content at all. There are no circumstances where I find media existing with ads to be superior to the media not existing, so if ad blocking were to kill radio, then I'm perfectly fine with that.

Yeah, there was a YouTube channel I'd watch, but the guy started having sponsored ads in the middle of his videos. I just stopped watching the channel. Oh well, missing out on some cool content, whatever. I'm not going to listen to some propaganda about some VPN or Grammarly or counseling services or whatever other stupid crap I have zero interest in.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by timeinput »

grey_earthling wrote: post #89
imtyler wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. Unless the broadcaster cares about their show and wants people to hear it. If enough people care enough, someone (perhaps the broadcaster themself) will fund the cost of broadcasting. There are broadcasters that don't have adverts and apply this model successfully. Crucially, the definition of “success” is that the audience and broadcaster…

That seems more like a Rule of Acquisition Revised for the Modern Ferengi from when the prophets "helped" the Grand Nagus

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Post by MivLives »

creeble wrote: post #65
tinyplanets wrote: post #62

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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...

Shout out WXPN (Commercial free, Philly local)

and WKDU if you just want that pure chaos experience that college radio can be.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by amatecha »

dieze wrote: post #69
rahidz wrote: post #34

Wish there was something like this (or like Sponsorblock) for podcasts. Would make them actually listenable to.

Pocket Casts already have options to skip first or last X seconds, and recently became open source

Unfortunately doesn't help for the podcasts where they speak about their "sponsor" halfway through, taking up a minute of your life to tell you about NordVPN or whatever.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by RF_Enthusiast »

ohelabs wrote: post #90
imtyler wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The problem starts when ads are significantly louder than the rest of the content in order to be an "ear catcher"..... Now radio is much better than other forms of media (looking at you cable... and now some streaming services that are on the take from both sides) but its also the fact that ads have become steadily more intrusive over the last decade(+). My real hope is that there is a movement back to "sponsored con…

> i.e "this hour is sponsored by ...

Commercial station KRKQ in Telluride, CO, does this, and it sounds amazing.

WDRE (now WPTY), WLIR-FM and WBON on Long Island, NY, tried it in 2005, and it did not generate the revenue they were expecting. But it's 17 years later-- I think they were trying an idea that was ahead of it's time.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by GoatOfAplomb »

imtyler wrote: post #115
GoatOfAplomb wrote: post #114

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"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.

What? Are you implying I don't deserve my job or I shouldn't exist?

I meant that:

1) The statement "you matter" (call it X) is not the same as "you deserve a job in radio." (Y)

2) I expect (but do not have proof) that the readers of Hacker News, or a sample of western society generally, would more strongly support X statement than Y.

I did not say, but I will say now: I agree with X and not Y. I also don't believe that you deserve not to have a job in radio.

I initially wrote that out because it seemed to me that you were equating X and Y. You contested someone's apathy towards a threat to your job with a statement that you exist. Because I think that (1) and (2) are distinct, I didn't find your reply convincing. I hoped I would convince you of the same, or that you would respond with some insight I had yet to consider, which might change my own perspective.

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