rude66 wrote:it was just too much work to do all that editing, tnen rendering to wav, converting to mp3, tagging etc etc every week...
Pfff, you youngsters, in my day we would do it all by splicing tape using kitchen knives and whale-bone glue. Then the tape would be digitised to punchcards and I'd have to put all of those on a ox-card to go to the next village where there was a morse-station. From there it would be send, bit by bit to the "radio station". If halfway through you'd get a request by carrier pidgin you'd have to start all over again! Back then "pidgin eaters" was the slang term for DJ's who didn't do requests, they were frowned on.
Oh, and everybody only had "golden oldies" shows because by the time the music was broadcasted it would be out of date, the only popular DJ's were people who could predict retro fads a long time in advance.
You have no idea how easy you have it now.