In fact, Mike W just wrote to say “I really dug that search function—being able to search a date range, or an entire month was helpful. I am probably not telling you anything you don’t know, but you know, I would remember that I heard a song by some artist like a week ago and I would search it, and like five instances of that song would come up, but I could look at my schedule that I work that week and I would know when I was able to listen to the radio and usually able to narrow it down and find the exact song and show. Anyway, I appreciate you working on the situation and just know that at least one of your members loved that search ability. Thanks! Mike”
Thanks for the question. We’re gonna have to explain ourselves sooner or later. I’m not sure we can satisfy everyone but we can certainly satisfy some of them.
Your staff have a powerful Search & Chart feature. Below is an example of searching for Beatles spins in the last month. You can also search for releases, artists and labels. You can filter in the column headings and there are advanced filters for other fields. Any set of search results can be converted into a chart.
No longer available via Spinitron’s web site is a free search of each station’s spins over the whole of the past month. (I’ll explain our reasons in another post.)
But you can implement this feature for KXCI on your web site. It might not be hard to set up. For example I have seen https://www.algolia.com/ used in lots of places. And it’s free for noncoms. There are surely others.
Or you can implement search using data from Spinitron’s API.
Now that we are using Spinitron full time and are getting unhappy comments from listeners about the inability to search playlists… Did you ever elaborate on the subject as mentioned in this thread?
Thanks for all you do!
It would appear not. The reason is that we are trying to do some business with the music industry with the Spinitron Search feature. Many of the clients of that feature are interested in tracking a few specific stations where they target marketing projects. If we provide an open public per-station search then we fear many (most?) of our clients can use that instead, just spending a little more time.
