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Music_Maverick said on Sunday June 22, 2008 10:08 AM

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Dear Ron, Thank you so much for your return e-mail message with your kind words. I can understand where you're coming from in regards to running commercials. That isn't going to have me stray as a listener. One of the main reasons as to why I am such a fan of your online radio station is the fact that you do play songs that very rarely get played. I consider myself to have a pretty strong knowledge of the music of that era even though I didn't grow up in it, being born in 1963 and all. If I remember any of it from that era when it was actually a hit it was when I was at the end of the sixties decade when I was four, five, and especially six when I started to learn songs from that era. I also had a first grade teacher who was big on the songs of that era and introduced many of them to us like "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Spirit in the Sky". Anyway, though I consider myself having what I consider a strong knowledge for the music of the fifities and the sixties you always play a record that I never heard of or rarely have heard on your station and that newness, that freshness makes your station truly original. Well, my new online friend, please take care and I look forward to more e-mail discussions with you in the future when you have the time to write me back.

Sincerely yours,

John Felix Koziol (ingleschnitz@hotmail.com)

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Doo-Wop Express Posted by doowop on Thursday June 19, 2008 15:20 PM

>>>> Doo-Wop Express Posted by Music_Maverick on Sunday June 22, 2008 10:08 AM

This is a typical station page.

Here station fans can tune in, discuss, tag the station, and join a station's group. Groups provides a closer connection with listeners and allows you to build a community around your station.

Tags are a way for listeners to bookmark your station and also provide a way to classify your station for searching. For instance, the more people that tag a station 'Alternative', the higher that station will appear when someone searches for or clicks an 'Alternative' tag.

new!When you purchase a broadcast package you are given a number of Listener Units. You divvy your Listener Units up among the four bit rate options: 32kbs, 64kbs, 96kbs, or 128kbs*. We came up with the idea of Listener Units so that you can re-allocate your bandwidth at any time.

For instance, let's say you start broadcasting thinking all your listeners will have a broadband connection. Eventually you start hearing from people that can't tune in because they're (unfortunately!) still on a dial up connection. All you have to do is re-allocate some Listener Units to the lower quality 32kbs stream!

*bit rates correspond to stream quality - a higher number means a higher quality stream

Basic stats are provided for your station. You can see what's happening 'now' and the last thirty days.

Weekly spin charts are generated for your station. They contain the top 100 most heard songs you played during the week. Charts are often linked to by artists which drives traffic back to your station.

There are many ways for your station to be found on LoudCity

All active stations are randomly rotated and appear on the homepage as a featured station.

The most used tags appear on the homepage. Click next and you'll see what happens when someone clicks the 'Alternative' tag.

This is the search results for all stations tagged 'Alternative'. As mentioned earlier, the stations most tagged 'Atlernative' are listed first.

When someone clicks on an artist name anywhere on the site they're taken to an artist page where they can see the stations that play that artist. Again the stations that play that artist most are listed first.

Yet another way for listeners to find stations they're going to like.

In addition to all the features you've just seen we also offer a Custom Launch Page option. This allows you to upload your own html page(s) to LoudCity. Since our webcasting licenses require our broadcasters to 'launch' their streams from the loudcity.com domain, the Custom Launch Page option is a great way to keep the look and feel of your existing site when you send listeners over to tune in.

Whether you're a seasoned online broadcaster or just want to try it as a hobby, LoudCity provides a great set of tools and features for you to be successful. Give it a try!