Category Archives: Automation

The raw power of being the czar

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Fred Stiening

When looking at stations in the format where you are Czar, the scanner attempts to draw your attention to words in the title, keywords, or text of a web page which tend to confirm or refute the category. This is … Continue reading →

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Protected: Doumentation: adding an FX/HD station

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This is mostly for recall after I go senile, but here goes nothing. Using the example posted above, this is the objective: We want to be able to paste in the URL and have the editor offer up the option … Continue reading →

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1,086 new HD 2/3/4 channels!

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Fred Stiening

In case someone from HDradio wanders by today wondering why this service scraped their list overnight 😉 The list of all HD channels on the HD Radio ™ Web site has 3818 channels as of this morning, but you can … Continue reading →

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New feature

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This was slapped together to help an editor from Wikipedia. It’s likely to encourage sharing of our efforts. With the new tools I created in the past month, average age since last review is down to 20 days, correcting a … Continue reading →

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Protected: Advanced Search

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Fred Stiening

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Need Music help

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Specifically, the tool used to presort a radio station into a likely category – I’m looking for both positive and negative words and phrases appearing on a web page that would make it extremely likely that the station belongs to … Continue reading →

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Sneak peak

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Fred Stiening

What the new crawler looks like – told to scan all cumulus stations (Click for clearer image)

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Volunteer “reset”

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The past week or so, substantial progress has been made on improving the tools for quickly reviewing and FIXING out of date information. Brian has been assisting me in this process. Just a recap – with 16,000 radio stations, just … Continue reading →

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Testing groups

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Fred Stiening

For the dozens of you czars doing testing, time management can become an issue – along with boredom. In the upper left hand corner is a filter to select subgroups of stations. Most are only useful if you are a … Continue reading →

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Czar Power

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Fred Stiening

No healthcare.gov here! I leave Agile Software Development in the dust. This should be live in an hour or so as I do a little more testing and cleanup.   Click the image if it is fuzzy Charlottenc is the … Continue reading →

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