Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[doversoul1]

I think we have to accept that the people who are currently responsible for publishing the playlist have no concept whatsoever that playlist is a listening guide. To them, it is the information for downloading on to those pods. I wonder how Through the Night is getting away with it. Do other European radio stations understand what playlist is for whereas ours doesn’t?

Here is the reply to ardcarp’s complaint (Re: Composer of the Week Orlande de Lassus #38). It is very obvious that ardcarp’s query was purely a technical matter to this Ms Woodham. Playlist is not compiled but generated and automatically published.

Thank you for your message. I'm sorry you weren't able to find the information you were looking for.

Our playlist information is automatically published to the Radio 3 website at the start of each programme's broadcast. A playlist for Composer of the Week on 14th January would have been generated, therefore, at 12.00pm.

However, because Composer of the Week is repeated in the afternoon, our system automatically re-generates the playlist information at the start of the second transmission. This process requires the original playlist to be removed for short period (perhaps an hour) prior to the start of the evening edition.

I suspect you may have been trying to view the playlist during this period. Once the playlist has been generated for the second broadcast, the information should remain online permanently. You can find details of Wednesday's programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrtgh

I hope this information is useful.

Michelle Woodham


Production Co-ordinator
Composer of the Week

[french frank]

It's always been evident that technology rules online without intelligent life being involved.

[Nick Armstrong]

I might do more frequently, if I knew what you were on about.

Floss Hilda?

[Flosshilde]

At this time in the morning I'll concentrate on my teeth.

[Nick Armstrong]

At this time in the morning I'll concentrate on my teeth.

Hilda has a narrow escape!

[Andrew Slater]

It's always been evident that technology rules online without intelligent life being involved.

But it seems that if some thought is applied the playlist can be published in advance - the Words and Music playlist is there, complete (as far as I can tell), 7 hours before the programme begins.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But it seems that if some thought is applied the playlist can be published in advance - the Words and Music playlist is there, complete (as far as I can tell), 7 hours before the programme begins.

They even publish the "results" of BaL in advance from time to time.

[mercia]

just thinking about their computer playing something in the wrong order. If all the recorded music they play is on a computer (as opposed to physically putting a disc in a machine) does this restrict the variety of a playlist ? i.e. anything vaguely "obscure" would have to be 'burned' (if that's the word) from disc to computer first.

or has the whole of the BBC Library been computerised ?

[french frank]

just thinking about their computer playing something in the wrong order. If all the recorded music they play is on a computer (as opposed to physically putting a disc in a machine) does this restrict the variety of a playlist ? i.e. anything vaguely "obscure" would have to be 'burned' (if that's the word) from disc to computer first.

or has the whole of the BBC Library been computerised ?

Good question! I'm pretty sure they no longer use 'CD-players' but I hadn't really stopped to wonder how much labour was involved in putting all the music on to the 'play-out-system'.

[Richard Tarleton]

Perhaps this is why we no longer hear about the rucksack.

[french frank]

Perhaps this is why we no longer hear about the rucksack.

That, or the protests

[teamsaint]

That, or the protests

oh, the government make sure we don't hear about protests. ( wrongendofsticksmileything).

We still hear CDs sticking though, don't we? perhaps not. or if we do , are these just from bad uploads?

Just for the record, I liked Rob's rucksack.

[french frank]

Just for the record, I liked Rob's rucksack.

He'll probably give it to you now, if you ask!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm beginning to think it's a wind-up - Rob Cowan, eminent music critic, being reduced to reading out a long list of names of people with enough time to waste, having texted/tweeted/e-mailed the real name of Ringo Starr.

[seabright]

Rob talked about Stokowski's orchestration of "Pictures at an Exhibition" yesterday, having first heard it on the old Philadelphia Orchestra 78s as a kid. After playing Stokowski's later 'Phase 4 Stereo' New Philharmonia recording he confessed that he much preferred this version to Ravel's. I wonder who else, in their younger years, saw Stokowski himself conducting it in his Proms debut with the BBC SO in 1963 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwERJ3Aonao