Article Type: Programming

Most sets die around the third track. Not the first, not the second. The opener gets attention for free, the follow-up rides the goodwill, and then somewhere in minute eleven the room checks out. I spent years watching this happen on a station where the skip button was one click away, which is a far […]

Most of the work that decides whether a track survives an automated station happens before anyone touches a limiter. I ran a station for years, and the failures that actually dented the listening experience were never about plugin choice. They were about files: mismatched levels, missing metadata, tag fields that garble on the player, sudden […]