Re: stations still using carts

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 10:25 PM 12/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Someone at one of the college stations (sorry, deleted that message)
>mentioned not needing cart players now that PSAs are delivered on CDs.
>I don't think I'd care for that unless there was a minimum of 3 CD
>players in the studio.  I'm the type who likes to get Song B cued up as
>soon as Song A is rolling rather than waiting until there are fewer than
>30 seconds to go.

I believe it was WMBR.

WMFO (Tufts university) tried this approach by purchasing a real-time CD 
burner and it failed dismally.   Nobody wanted to take the HUGE amount of 
time to migrate all the cart clips to CD.  Realistically, CD's just aren't 
very good for short-term recordings like PSA's.  Such clips work much 
better on Computer or on MD's than CD's.   Although I suppose anything is 
better than (ugh) carts.  :-)


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