MORE ON THE LISTINGS

posted by James Reel

The classical music listings have been restored (actually, they were a few days ago), but I thought I'd call your attention to a couple of comments on the subject that came in from blog readers.

One, which was posted in the comments section, requests that we restore the performer and label information we used to include years ago. Those fell by the wayside, I think, when we changed our music scheduling software. I don't know what it would take to get that info back online, but I'll bring it to the attention of the Web guys.

Here's a note that came to me directly from an online listener in New Jersey, and it echoes another message I received recently:

I am not one of those three people you mention in your blog. I am on the East Coast and check your listening to see if you are playing some syndicated broadcast not found elsewhere on the web. Material from CD Syndications, for example, is getting hard to find these days. Of course finding a site that is providing the program is not enough. The sound must also sound good. Only a few classical stations stream above 128Kbits/sec in MP3 although the quality of the web stream depends on more than just the bit rate. I would also add that not many stations provide the detailed listening that KUAT did. I am sure many more than three people, who can hear the station over the air, use the schedule to plan when to listen to the station given how well it was prepared.