posted 2005/07/11 at 20:22
First of all, happy birthday, Heather. I hope you enjoy the baseball bat and baseball I got you, and that you and Mark spend lots of time playing over by our old childhood school (and out of the house!)
Anyway, a couple of nights ago I was finally introduced to the wonders of Launchcast Radio quite by accident. Some of you may remember in the early days of the .org I had a custom Internet radio station I programmed on another Website, but the provider of that service didn't give me enough control over selections and the station wound up playing mostly classical music. I've been playing with my Launchcast station for most of this weekend, and I'm quite pleased with the selection of stuff it has been pumping out. Oh, the link ...
http://launch.yahoo.com/lc/?rt=0&rp1=0&rp2=1301496542
The only real problem I'm having is that it's interpreting some of my selections way too widely as "genre preferences." For example, I've got a few rap tracks ranked highly on my preferences (mostly stuff from Eric B. and Rakim, EPMD, Boogie Down Productions), but it will still spit out something like 50 Cent at me every once in a while, forcing me to go in and say, "Uh, no. I like good rap, not this garbage." I'm sure that the system will get better as I tinker with it, though.
My question is if any of you have experimented with Launchcast's custom stations, and what your experience with Launchcast has been. You know how to reply.
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