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From: betaman <betaman@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: HOS Project / email to & from Stephen Hill
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 19:20:33 -0400
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 17:26:04 -0500, Griffin <hosgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
sign me up
|3etaman
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