[John Williamson]

On 13/01/2018 16:25, wrote:
On Friday, January 12, 2018 at 6:59:50 PM UTC-5, geoff wrote:
On 13/01/2018 7:03 AM,m wrote:
How does this work?

Presumably HO are forwarding a stream from some internet streaming
service or radio station.

Or maybe sending songs, between announcements, from their own playlist
on Spotify or something similar.

They may even have uploaded the announcements to Spotify, though setting
up their own dedicated server is trivial and cheap to do.

geoff
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"HO"?

Head Office.

What you're suggesting seems to make sense.
The only thing I'm curious about are the
specifics of how it works.

There are any ways to do the job.

From 2015 to present our song list has
gone from at least 50 songs down to 15.
I hear things like Sam Smith's "Not Good At
Goodbyes" and a Shawn Mendes song I can't
think of the title at least four times per
shift!

Stuff I do hear radio stations in our
area playing.

The playlist for these systems is set by head office, in a similar
manner to the old Rediffusion tape systems, where the tape cartridge was
made in their studio and sent out to the shops. If you have a query
about why their content now matches local radio stations and is
restricted in numbers, speak to the appropriate department.

As for the connection to FM, it may be that they get their material or
take their playlist suggestions from the local FM station servers, so
giving a different playlist in each area.

Similar systems in the UK, used by major store chains with hundreds of
branches have a dedicated channel on a satellite transmitter and a
locked receiver. One other way to do it would be to save data
transmission by using a network connected music player such as a cheap
headless PC running Windows Media Player, and buffer the data locally,
playing out as required.

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Tciao for Now!

John.