It’s a milestone that I felt I should’ve achieved in August but 6000 random songs is still greater than anything a commercial radio station puts into its rotation. The next goal will be 7000 by August 2007 which is doubtful given that January through March is the doldrums for new releases. I guess I’ll use the downtime on releases to find more material from the older albums in my collection to get closer to the goal. If you have any suggestions, feel free to send them my way.
I did recently finish compiling all the data on everything the stream played in 2003. It’s not a perfect tally since it’s off by 100. Eventually I will post the numbers of what was the most played song but I think I want to find a more efficient way to compile the same information for 2004 and 2005 to get a comparison.
Update Jan. 4, 2007: I forgot to do the analysis on the frequency of my Top 30 songs, a key element of KMAG. When the stream started with 2000 songs, the Top 30 tunes would be played every 10 hours. Now the number of songs has tripled and they’re still played every 10 hours which would mean the remaining 5970 songs will be played less and less often as the total population continues to increase. I hope to find this out after I have tallied the results on 2004-2006.