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From: Griffin <hosgriffin@gmail.com>
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Subject: HOS Project / email to & from Stephen Hill
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 17:26:04 -0500
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I want to create an Excel spreadsheet that has a list of all of the
Hearts of Space programs. Some of the columns could be:
Program Name, Program Number, Artist, Album, Track Title, etc...
(the details can be discussed here before starting)
Obviously this would take one person a very long time. So I am asking
for volunteers. The more people working on this, the sooner it will be
done ;^)
If you want to help with this, please send me an email at
hosgriffin at gmail dot com
I will coordinate the effort, and post an updated spreadsheet weekly.
I will also send the completed list to Stephen Hill.
If ten people add ten programs to the spreadsheet every week, then it
will be done in less than three months.
Recently I sent the following email to Stephen Hill:
Hello,
I have a recording of program 136 from many years ago, and during
the program you say that the title is "Floating." But on your website,
the title of program 136 is "Floating Whispers." Which one is correct?
I also have another recording of program 325, and during the program
you say that the title is "Floating Whispers", but on your website the
title of program 325 is "Floating Whispers 2."
I've also noticed several other anomalies on your website. For
instance, the program details of number 2 - "Starmusic", which was
first broadcast on 5 Jan. 1983 lists the release year of some of the
albums used as being after 1983 - (1988, 1997, 1991.)
Sorry to point these things out Stephen, because you really do amazing
work.
Have you ever considered hiring someone to go thru your website and
fact check everything?
Sincerely, (a HOS fan since 1987)
Here is Stephen's reply:
Thanks for casting a precision eye on our program listings. You are
one of a small but appreciated group who've contacted us about details
like these. Since we aim to get things right 100%, we always respond
and fix any errors that are pointed out to us.
I've passed your email on to Steve Davis, who is the keeper of our
Programs database. He will respond to you if he needs more
information; otherwise he'll fix whatever he can immediately.
Please understand that we seldom update titles of shows when they are
rerun, but there have been a few cases where it's happened in 30 years
of broadcasting.
On playlists, there's no point in listing out-of-print versions of an
album if there is a currently released version, so in these cases we
sometimes update the listings, which explains the later pub dates..
The goal is to give the listener current access information - we are
not a historical archive like Discogs.com that can list every
publication of a given album.
Re your offer: we have a short list of People Who Care about these
things, and are always happy to have help in finding and fixing
errors. When we have an actual project, we'll contact you. There's one
coming up to verify the timing information (track start and end times)
prior to breaking the programs into their component tracks.
Stay Tuned. Safe journey :: SH
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