How do you think the cbs could have had more listeners? (Page 2 of 4)

I was just out at a party and chatting with some guy who I saw was wearing a Clone t-shirt. We were talking about Alden Tyrell and Bunker Records and other stuff like they played on the CBS so I asked him if he'd ever heard of the cybernetic broadcasting system and he hadn't!
And this guy has been into electronic music for a long time. I had been hoping to have someone to commiserate with but he was like "no way! I-F had a radio station?"

I was kind of surprised.

More links to the radio from other websites
A player that plays the stream Hi Quality without any configuration or download. (There are many internet radios over the internet, I'm also looking for others online radios now, and I noticed that, if I can't play the stream at once in one click, I go elsewhere - no time for configuration on each webradio I visit)
Radios that play the stream at once without downloading extra software are often ogg vorbis (an equivalent of aac, but it's an open source codec that can be downloaded directly on the web page via java)

I find that very odd, ...did this cat know how to work the internetz?...there is link to CBS on clone site, also if you search I-F even wiki has a link to the CBS.
I also think that this talk of ppl not knowing what the CBS was( )...if ppl ain't smart enough to figure it out(it was not hard by any stretch of the imagination) they probly shouldn;t be let loose on the internet anyway.

streaming 24/7 just didn't work(too many technical, time, location constraints on the listener & on the programmer)....i would like to see all the contributers continue making shows for DL & listening

and i would definitely like to see/hear occasional 'live' broadcasts....the live@the coolexx sessions/request-o-Las were always my favourite.

That is really really weird. Clone web site, cbs logo on the right side, big one.
First time I went to CBS was through a banner on flexx. Wasn't that hard to find.

I think the CBS could have had more listeners if it had lasted longer, maybe promoting more CBS parties, some kind of festival or stuff like that. Some touring with different djs, etc, under the CBS flag.
You couldn't try any harder program wise. It was very well done. You could find almost anything you were hungry for. It was electronic radio heaven.
The forum was a big big help I think. And probably the downloading shows part wasn't. If you want them, listen to the stream. That should be a must. Maybe make them downloadable just for a short period of time.

mor tokio hotel

"we all know that there's a total overrun of radio stations in the web, as well as releases, no matter if vinyl, cd or mp3,
as well as dj's, as well as tv-'stars', as well as tv-stations ....
it's so f*ckin sad, but it will NEVER EVER become like it was in the 80s, not even nearly the same.

there's no way to get really noticed out of that mass, of that amount of supply.
that in general often makes me really depressive.
i will forever miss that 'whoow, it's saturday, let's listen to this radiostation, let's go to that special party' feelin'."

so true !

and, here in germany, the biiig fusion festival is worse than loveparade, it's ambitious regarding some aspects and non-commercial, generally hard to criticize.
but like ravi shankar already said back in the 60s: "they are abusing music for their events !" it's all about the event, it's not about music, it's about a soundtrack background for something else.
and then they want us club deejays play like they fukin need it due 2 da fukin fusion like it already had been with those fukin goa parties back in da 90s - no space left 4 any accentuated story tellin deejay session...

Another thing I realize now: Internet broadcasting has a difference with terrestrial broadcasting : it can be interactive.

Example

For each user that connects, this user has a folder in which he puts its top 20 favourites, for instance. And each day of the week, from monday to friday, a 30 minute show between 6:00 and 8:00 PM is consecrated to play the whole set folder of 1 user choosen randomly.

And it's easy to make a General Top 20 every week.

Some professional broadcasting software do it alright automatically. The radio administrator can even go away in vacation: those softwares have their specific (and very simple) programmation language window that allow generating nice shows at the usual schedule, by "artificial intelligence".  Those programs are often also all in one player, sound track database, mixingconsole, sound effect, sound compressor, scedule programming, stream server, php server and mySQL databases... with plugins etc.

I don't know what software was used for the CBS, but it seems it wasn't allowing too much vacation for Da Administrator(s) and didn't allow that much listener interactivity

Yes, interactivity, what.

But request-o-la were forum-based... And forums are always hierachized: people called "humaaans" hesitate more easily to post than people called "robot that live here". Moreover the CBS forum was often closed to new subscriptions. Interactivity was limited...

hierarchy on the cbs forum was a cool touch. I get what you mean Robotworks, and your idea should work.

@robotworks : you make it sound sooo easy, why didn't you offer to build it ? i think you grossly underestimate the amount of work.

sending mp3's is by no means comparable to building and maintaining an interactive application. not that it isn't a good thing to do, but there's about 200 people sending music, and just 2 or 3 actually building and maintaining software. guess what's needed more...

it's all academic now of course, it's simply too late. 20/20 hindsight is damn easy.