Mint Radio Update 8-5-22

Greetings! what’s been going on since the last update?

Well firstly there was some school holidays so I had to deal with those, which meant I wasn’t able to achieve much during that time, but I did manage to link the database to the computers. This means I can now control the playout (from a laptop) from my main computer which is set up for voiceovers.

I’ve started work on the music database which is rather a large thing to do. Over the years I’ve been collecting mp3s from my CDs or online releases and I’ve not been keeping track of their tags. Many are not accurate, especially if it is on a recent compilation CD of songs from the 80s or something. I started by going through my master database, and picking out the music that was relevant, and putting it into the decades my memory. Although fairly accurate, there was the odd “one year out” situation (Very helpful knowledge for popmaster). It’s a very long task. I’ve done the first bit, the second is to put them into their years. I’ve been going through the official charts company’s website to reference it all. I decided to start on the 2000s. I am on the letter “O”.

I’ve also had a bit of a flipflop on the logo, I created another which was more of what i wanted originally, but it wasn’t minty enough, so I’ve messed around with that a bit.

I’ve added a few more pages to the site, but I need to outline what I plan on doing for the next step, and set myself some goals. Although making jingles and doing database stuff is my thing, I need to remember there’s other things I need to do first – although I have made a start on the database only so I can get the sound of it going whilst doing the other bits – it helps, but I’m trying to remember to not mess about.

The new social media stuff is also up. i need to make some changes to the site which will be over the next few days so they are more visable.

So that’s about it really. It’s the first full week in a while I will have to get stuff done so hopefully something more later this week. Once this stuff is done, I can start thinking about content.