Insane Random Ramblings

We only have 1 real radio station in town and it’s just ok. They play Pop and Top 40 but it’s the same songs in rotation every hour which really stinks. They will ocassionally sneak in a Hip-Hop or R&B song on you but that’s about it. We do have 1 other station but their selection is even worse. Nothing but Top 40 with a hour long rotation.

At work we can’t stream music anymore so you’re pretty much at the mercy of the radio. I really need to add some music to my mp3 player because radio stinks.

Wow I’m really surprised. I know that some concerts generally sell out but in the past week, 2 different summer concerts have gone on sale. One concert is scheduled for mid-July and the other is early August. I love summer so it’s not a problem for me and it gives me something to look forward to. It’s just not something I had expected to start seeing yet. I wouldn’t think summer tickets would go on sale before early April but it looks like I’m way off.

Not that I mind. The sooner summer gets here the better for me.

There are about 30 or so songs that I want to add to my mp3 player. Most of the music I was able to rip off of cds or I had the music on my old computer. Most of the new songs that I want, I don’t have at all. I even looked on all of these old mix tapes that I have and they’re not on there either.

Hopefully I’ll be able to find all of the songs that I want.

I turned on the radio this morning and I was so happy to hear regular music again. Two of our local stations went to an all Christmas format and it was getting to be a bit much. One station started the beginning of November and the other station started the day after Thanksgiving. One is a oldies station and the other is a 80’s 90’s and today’s music station.

Considering the fact that there is no R&B station locally and it can be a real drag. There are only 3 good stations and 3 mediocre ones. Then subtract 2 of the mediocre ones and it’s slim pickings in these parts. The most exciting thing on the radio some days was a advertisement for Toto toilets. You know it’s bad when the best thing on the radio is the commercials.

Now if we could only get a R&B station, everything would be perfect.

Back in May Sheridan Broadcasting sold their urban radio station to a Christian broadcasting station. Sheridan cited a changing market as reason for the sale. According to Sheridan, there is a new people meter that measures ratings. In markets where the new system has taken place, Black and Hispanic ratings have gone down 40%. Some say the reason is because the meters aren’t evenly distributed to minorities skewing results. Read the article: here

According to Wikipedia:                                                                                                               “As of 6:07PM EST, Tuesday, September 8, 2009, WAMO-FM 106.7 discontinued broadcasting. Its last song was Boyz II Men’s ‘It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye To Yesterday’, and then silence.”

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/pittsburgh/649982-wamo-sold-10.html#ixzz0QdmmTN7I

Just sad!

I was getting ready to do my regular blogging yesterday when I heard the news. To say I was in shock is pretty much an understatement. I grew up on Michael Jackson and I cried when he got burned doing the Pepsi commercial. All I did last night was watch news coverage in disbelief.

The music world has really lost a legend.

I have one that’s supposed to be a pretty good brand. But it has issues that I don’t like. First the back-light stays on too long which drains the battery. The battery only takes 2 hours to fully charge but then the charge is only good for about 4 hours. If I listen to my player at work all day, it’s dead by the time I go home.

I guess I shouldn’t complain too much since I won it in a contest. You know how those soda companies always have caps to enter codes to win and blah blah blah? Well I wasn’t expecting anything and I actually won. It just showed up on my doorstep one day which was pretty cool.

There’s no need for me to get a memory upgrade for it because don’t really think you can. I  think you have to upgrade to the next size which is 16GB. Oh well, as long as it works I’ll be happy.

I just read a article on UrbanRadio.com. I can’t believe that Sheridan Broadcasting sold the station. Apparently there was a big to-do last Friday on Facebook. Since I’m not on Facebook yet, I missed it. I’m always saying that Pittsburgh lacks diversity and now there won’t even be a urban station in the area.

It’s things like this that makes my decision to move a whole lot easier.

I spent over 2 hours charging that thing last week. I takes that long for it to fully charge. I used it twice for less than an hour each time. When I went to use it today, the thing was totally dead. I couldn’t believe it. It’s not a cheap player either which is why I’m so annoyed. I mean I could have used that money for something else. The shoes I want, baby bedding for my friend that just had a baby, new towels or a bunch of other stuff.

I’ll use it once more. If it doesn’t hold a charge this time, I’ll just go back to my old standby. My ipod never lets me down.

I am so sleepy today. I had to download music onto my mp3 player because today is my day to play a song for my Literature class. I got a free mp3 player that sucks. The drivers would not download to my computer. After I went on to the company’s website, I noticed that other people had trouble downloading the drivers as well.

So I decided to use my other mp3 player. Those drivers took over 2 hours to download and install on my computer. It was mostly the installation that took so long. Then I couldn’t get the device to sync with my computer. I finally went to sleep until after 1am with everything only half-done.

I woke up at 5am (instead of my usual 6:30) and finished everything. Afterwards I couldn’t go back to sleep so I’ve been up ever since. I have class tonight so I won’t get home until after 9pm.

This is gonna be one long day!