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WREK Podcast Feeds
As part of the blog migration I am fixing old posts and their tags. This led me to a post announcing that I set up some bootleg podcast feeds for WREK 91.1 FM, the Georgia Tech student station. I used to work at this station as a student and again at various points as an alumnus. When I was laid off in 2001 I set up their first automated robot DJ system. Another alumnus set up Audiovault for the station free of charge and I wrote a program that would correctly schedule songs to play of the correct format and that matched rotation. In order to fulfill that I built a database to track plays, so I also built the first system that showed playlists on the web page.
Interestingly, that post is seven days after I started podcasting, eight days after Adam Curry started the Daily Source Code. I had entirely forgotten this was so early in the history of podcasting. I began with the shows I actually listened to as a convience for myself. Because the station posts a rolling archive of the last two broadcast weeks as MP3s the feed is really simple to create. It's just a pointer to resources that are already there. This little bit of plumbing does allow you to use any podcatcher to listen.
Because this is the first time in a long time I have touched those systems, I compared it to the station's actual schedule. I already knew that Personality Crisis shut down when Jon Kincaid died. I had not realized the Desoto Hour was no longer on the air, so I deactivated that feed. I updated the times for the Atmospherics and Classics formats (the former had expanded, the latter contracted). While doing all that, I rectified my longstanding omission of the Just Jazz format. The last time I lived in Atlanta, once a week I went AWOL from my remote day job and went to the station on a weekday morning to spin jazz platters. Good times!
Here is the full catalog of the feeds as they exist now. Feel free to subscribe to any or all of these to see what you like.
Subgenius Shows
This includes the national Hour of Slack as well as the homegrown Bob's Slacktime Funhouse. 2 hours of shows but like all of these, it is padded at the end in case it runs over a few minutes. Subgenius Podcast Feed
Atmospherics
Three hours of ambient music starting at midnight Sunday night/Monday morning and running through Thursday night/Friday morning. 3 hours Atmospherics Podcast Feed
Classics
Two hours of clasical music from previous and current centuries running from 6 AM to 8 AM weekday mornings. Classics Podcast Feed
Just Jazz
Newly added. Three hours of jazz from traditional bebop and post bop to the squonkiest of avant garde running from 8 AM to 11 AM weekday mornings. Just Jazz Podcast Feed
Those are the ones I have created. These only get created for two reasons: I want to listen to the show or someone asks me to create a feed for that show. If you see anything on their schedule that you would like a feed for, feel free to email me at dave@evilgeniuschronicles.org .
I hope there is something in here that you can find to enjoy. Listen in good health!
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WREK Podcast Feeds
As part of the blog migration I am fixing old posts and their tags. This led me to a post announcing that I set up some bootleg podcast feeds for WREK 91.1 FM, the Georgia Tech student station. I used to work at this station as a student and again at various points as an alumnus. When I was laid...
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