I agree with that tbh
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I agree with that tbh
A few DJs plan their shows and it is definitely something that should be done and should definitely be done in the weekly shows. Even if it is just thinking about things such as what to talk about on air and thinking about songs to play before you start talking on air and looking over requests briefly before reading them out to the listeners it makes a difference because you sound prepared and this is something that could improve show quality pretty easily so is something we can focus on in the feedback reports.
I don't think that there are loads of lazy DJs. There are a lot of people away at the moment but we have just had some new DJs added and like I said before we are working on the international side. There are maybe a couple of people who are not pulling their weight but it is literally 2/3 people who I do have my eye on and will be told to step things up else they're out.
DJs are expected to do a minimum of 3 slots per week, I think if it was at 4 this could cause problems because it restricts the flexability in slots and people may not be able to prebook all the slots that they can do. If we continue to see problems in the timetable then we will start looking at the overall commitment of staff members and swapping them for new staff but that would be getting really picky and pushy and I am hoping that this is just a blip and things won't come to that.
I agree with the entire thread. I read it all and although I do agree it is improving, it still has a long way to go. If DJs would plan AT LEAST 3 songs ahead, that alone would make it a better show I reckon.
I hear you need Aussie (AEST) DJs... hahaha.
Why don't we name and shame? ;) :eusa_danc (Joke)
you know what i think?
stop naming the djs.
its actually kind of offensive to come on and read these and you never see your name. however for me, i just did 50 slots last month so how can you tell me i don't work hard enough? edit: and also, dj fistpumps did around 50 as well, yet she hasn't been mentioned as working hard? come on.
anyways. i know that i personally will cover if i'm home and you can pretty much ask any dj that and they should agree. the only time i don't cover is if i'm about to go to bed because it's 3 am. i do agree that not enough djs do cover however and even though they are online, they don't dj. i used to have this problem several times early in the morning when i had dj'ed for 5 hours straight, there's one or two other dj's online and they won't dj so i can go to bed. i actually got in huge trouble with my mom because of this, therefore i'm not allowed to stay up til 3 anymore.
also, if you remove internationals/uks from being able to dj in the other's times, the radio is going to die. i'm telling you now, you will never have anyone to dj. i know that there are a couple uk dj's who do 11, 12, etc. slots and inters like myself who dj during the day. today i had to cover during the day because we didn't have a dj. it could've been a problem if i wasn't allowed.
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Your post backs up exactly what I'm saying. The internationals are doing all the work for the UK DJs
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Originally Posted by ,Lexiilu
This always happens.
Feedback threads get created regarding habboxlive and the djs reply 'I DO THIS I DO THAT' its not about you its about the timetable in general. Oh and lexi internationals may do allot of work, but at their own peak times, yous stream. You can reply with your bias remarks all you want but you know its true.
its not all the uk djs because i try extreemly hard lol
I know yeah sorry, thought I'd made it clear enough throughout the thread that its only some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinosaurawrr
we don't do all the work. and we do our work too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
nearly all the overnight slots are internationals.
anyways not all the daytime are internationals either? :S :S
maybe we need some fresh meat. idk.
i'm not saying i haven't streamed because obviously i have. i'm most likely not gonna dj at 3 am when i'm half asleep and i've been djing for 4 hours before that, it's just being honest, i'd rather stream a couple hours/just talk a bit and not every 2 songs than have the radio go off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie
and incase you didnt see the first posts, they read specific names and that's what i'm responding to at the beginning.
the rest of the post is in general.
About the variety of tracks being played i agree it isnt large but i think that Djdynamix plays stuff that isnt in the top40 so its never the same except maybe one signature track and Also DJabc he plays old music the top 40 music and slightly different stuff such as Muse etc :)
Me and Blob were talking earlier and we had the idea of making a monitoring script.
Basically this would run every three minutes and would show the following information to management:
- Most played songs and artists by each DJ
- How many hours each DJ has done over the week/month
- Most play songs and artists overall
- It would show any repeats that have happened e.g DJ Joe playing Airplanes at 18:45 then DJ Bob playing it again at 19:02
- It would show graphs of how the listeners have changed according to which song is playing and which DJ is on air
- Management and anyone else who has access would be able to 'flag' the time. This flag would happen when something good or bad happens, or when there is a major drop in listeners. It would show whats playing by which DJ. If the flag is not automatically triggered by a substantial drop in listeners, and has been done manually, the person who has triggered the flag can enter why they have flagged it
All this info would be stored in a database for management to see
i like this idea very very much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
I think finding DJ's and covering has always been a problem and when I was at HxL, I admittedly stayed up all night DJ'ing because no one else bothered (for the wrong reasons :$).
DJ's aren't really lazy because I'm sure they all DJ the minimum a week, and I agree that DJ's maybe feel less inclined to DJ because someone else is doing it for them.
There should be a few incentives every month given out as rewards to DJ's to encourage pre-booking. I'm not saying incentives should be used always as that will probably mean DJ's will not enjoy DJ'ing but DJ purely for the reward (:$ one of my weaknesses!).
HxL is good but I agree with some of your points and I think it's hard for Jess and Gemma to sort these problems out, and DJ applications are open frequently so there's always chances for people to become a DJ.
Oh, and the script idea is great. Keri plans her "Rock Chart" extremely well and I know for a fact that when I'm on Skype to her at 3pm on a Wednesday she is already planning, she colour codes and finds everything she needs so that her show runs perfectly. I'm not saying you should spend hours on a script but setting up a playlist for the show and an idea of what you're going to do won't exactly take half an hour. (I'm sure many DJ's already do this).
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Originally Posted by Dinosaurawrr
Your wish is my command http://develop.davzy.com/hxl/Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
Currently updating every 3 minutes, logging everything going on. I'll get charts and specific DJ statistics up tomorrow. For now, enjoy!
Class!Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Legend. Now don't make it viewable by management only or I will kill you all. Only bad thing about it, is backing tracks show up as duplicate songs which, in a show might be played 5 times setting off a trigger (if you put that in)Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
It comes up as "Backing" so that's ok really. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Colin
But I don't understand why it should be non-Management.
I love it David, that's so useful. +rep :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
oh i need to spread :(
David you machine, nice one!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Thats amazing!Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Thankyou david +rep
Just to back up my point in the original post about the "Telephone" song losing listeners:
05. [Aug 8th 13:42:02] (76/400) Sam - Ke$ha - Take It Off
06. [Aug 8th 13:33:07] (87/400) Sam - HabboxLive Staff - Telephone
Went from 87 to 76.
Thats amazing David! +Rep!
One problem is you're not taking the unique listeners so sometimes your statistics will be incorrect
Those two songs were 9 minutes apart, infact I got 89 straight after Telephone had finished :P.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
The song was requested anyway, so I don't have much choice but to play it.
And also it seems to be skipping a few songs? I played Jason Mraz - I'm Yours inbetween those two songs and that didn't seem to go through. Also it's calling SamLouise Sam :S
Will tell David about it later :) He coded it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sammify
Edit:nvm, Hope it gets sorted soonQuote:
Originally Posted by Sammify
As longas i never hear that telephone song again, i dont care. Hate lady gaga, hate their voices (no offence, they're awful).
thing is though, alot of our 'core' listeners don't use the forum and request telephone constantly.
Core? You mean like, loyal listeners? They basically want to be closest to staff as they look up to them (not me so get out), but until they wake up to themselves and realise their voices aren't even good, we're all going to have to suffer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Publicised
actualli dunno wot ur chattin, i sound like mariah.
It updates every three minutes - I'll add a more reliable cron :) as for the DJ names it's pulling the list of DJ names from your staff list on HabboxLive.com. It seems to be working pretty well so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sammify
I've changed it to update every one minute, removed background songs from top songs, gave it some pie and a new hairdo: http://develop.davzy.com/hxl - I'll add DJ specific pages too although I can't guarantee that HxL will want to keep this information public!
Sexy sexy sexy.Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Hope they keep it public.
I agree with your points, I'm applying to be a DJ and will help the best I can ;D
Good luck with the application ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Pebbles-Tiger
all im gunna say is why dont you do like hollyoaks and skins
et the next generation of dj's, i know it may seem harsh but i think u should slice all inactive dj's and others in half and bring in a new selection of fresh talent. im sure if you search a few unofficial fansites and you see there are quite a few good dj's like dj Amy and Timbo on www.thishabbo.com
The DJ Hayynar is picking up as Nar, and SamLouise as Sam... There are a few flaus in this codeQuote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
This, it's still broken. It also doesn't pick up about 5% of songs, so it doesn't give an accurate reading at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by gangsteragent
It's hard to say that internationals shouldn't be allowed to DJ at peak times, I'm in the US and I'm only five hours behind UK time, usually I'm on during peak hours, but I don't DJ then because I just usually do late slots, and even then when it's about 4:00 in the morning it's around midnight for me, and it gets hard doing late night slots but I don't want the radio to go offline. I have to pray that a UK DJ might be online soon so that I might be able to get to sleep. Another thing, my family is sleeping around that time and it's really difficult for me to talk on air during that time because I don't want to wake my family up. I didn't think I did a bad job as a DJ, sorry if I am...
Thanks for telling me, will fix this now.Quote:
Originally Posted by gangsteragent
It's giving an accurate reading, I'm watching it give an accurate reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sammify
It's not giving an accurate reading. It's saying songs have been played by DJs that don't even have the song. Here it says me and Shannon played the same song back to back which we didn't :Quote:
Originally Posted by HotelUser
Shiloh - Goodbye You Suck
Played first by Matt at Aug 9th 03:03:01
Played again by Fistpumps at Aug 9th 03:06:01