Re: livin' la vida vinyl

["Mark Laurence" <laurence@sprintmail.com>]

Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Back about a decade or so ago, I got to tour the WMJX studios.  At that
> time, they actually did have one turntable in the air studio, but it was
> tucked away under a countertop and never, ever used.  All the music they
> played OTA, whether originally sourced from vinyl or CD, was transferred
> to and played from carts.  They're almost certainly using a hard disk
> system now, I would think.

We're using a CD jukebox system now as are all 4 Greater Boston 
Radio music stations.  Magic was first to use the system, which was 
originally installed before I got there in 1991, using software written 
by Chief Engineer Paul Shulins.  We still have the carts as a backup. 
When we left Stuart Street last year, there was still one turntable in 
the building.   I'm not sure if there's even one turntable in the new 
place.  

Mark Laurence
laurence@sprintmail.com