Heart and the Continuing Hacking of Songs (merged)

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spotify95

17-09-2013

Originally Posted by ledders:
“And if you read my post again, I clearly stated that heart is not the only station that do it. I quoted an example played on Real.

Good grief indeed!!!!”

Oh, I've just seen it now. Yes it was acceptable in that context

But if you really want to go to town on it then you could start a new thread about Real doing it

I've not seen a Real thread about songs being hacked, just heart...

ledders

17-09-2013

Originally Posted by spotify95:
“Oh, I've just seen it now. Yes it was acceptable in that context

But if you really want to go to town on it then you could start a new thread about Real doing it
I've not seen a Real thread about songs being hacked, just heart...”

Conversations / threads are supposed to evolve aren't they?

spotify95

17-09-2013

Originally Posted by ledders:
“Conversations / threads are supposed to evolve aren't they?”

Yes of course they are. But I don't want people to get into trouble for going off topic...

Having said that the Heart Radioplayer machine must be faulty as I still cannot get access to the shows that have been on earlier!

spotify95

17-09-2013

Originally Posted by Mikes Mike:
“I've mentioned this before and i'll bring it up again as it seems to be getting worse. It only seems to happen on the Network hours.

Listening to Heart (on FM) for a couple of hours yesterday, I was amazed at the amount of hacking of songs that seems to be taking place, more-so than ever before.,

I shall give an example, yesterday I heard We Built This City by Starship. It had a segue marker placed to run into the next track at: a) a silly position, b) 3 quarters of the way through the track, and c) before the natural fade point.

This is NOT a Heart bashing thread, just to point out that someone in the scheduling department at Heart either needs to sort the segue markers out on the playout system or needs to schedule a song or two less each hour to stop this from happening as people are noticing and it annoys them!”

a) The segue was at 3'47 on Starship. This was a very silly position, and it definitely ruined the song.
b) The total length of the song is 4'56. Now a quick calculation reveals that only 76% of the song was played, so yes it WAS faded 3/4 of the way through the track
c) The natural fade point? That was at 4'42, not 3'47. It didn't reach the whole of the chorus, let alone the end ramp, or the natural fade!

So by definition (as stated in earlier posts) all 3 criteria have been fulfilled so the song was well and truly hacked and butchered!

spotify95

17-09-2013

Originally Posted by Mikes Mike:
“And for lord-sake sort out the end NTP markers on We Built this City by Starship and Africa by Toto, because you're ruining some great songs.”

Couldn't have said it better myself

Station ID

18-09-2013

Originally Posted by ledders:
“Conversations / threads are supposed to evolve aren't they?”

To be fair to spotify this isn't much of a discussion. Most of the posts are him replying to himself so very one way.

When you think about the threads that do get cut I am gobsmacked that the mods have not stopped this one. It is rediculous.

dpb

18-09-2013

Originally Posted by ledders:
“<snip>

Having said that, heart is not the only station doing it at the moment. The once excellent Real is now doing it. They played Somewhere In My Heart by Aztec Camera the other day on the flashback and it was cut to shreds. Why?? It's a good track that should be heard in full.<snip>”

Nothing new on that licence - Century used to have an edit of "You Oughta Know" which replaced the verse including the line about the theatre with a verse from later in the song.

AcerBen

18-09-2013

Originally Posted by Station ID:
“To be fair to spotify this isn't much of a discussion. Most of the posts are him replying to himself so very one way.

When you think about the threads that do get cut I am gobsmacked that the mods have not stopped this one. It is rediculous.”

No, this thread has to continue. It's just too damn funny.

spotify95

18-09-2013

Originally Posted by AcerBen:
“No, this thread has to continue. It's just too damn funny. ”

They've just segued out Robin Thicke - Blurred Likes too early. Can they not learn?!

spotify95

18-09-2013

Bon Jovi - Always. Real bad version on Heart.
The ending hacked off by half a minute (in the final chorus)

Oh dear

spotify95

18-09-2013

Now they hacked up Whitney Houston. God, they have no respect for any song or artist, by shaving off so much off all the endings!

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