cygweb

I'm about to throw the switch on a few changes on ICYG. To this point, most of the content has been mine, with member submissions every few songs. Over the last few months, I've more frequently tapped into the submissions pool. Well, there's so many member submissions that I'm about to "memberize" myself and start picking from each of our submissions more equally. It's getting to be a great mix of artists. If I have time this weekend, it will be done. Here's the highlights:

• The concept of "anchor" artists (who get play every rotation) will be removed.
• The artist history will be increased from 17 to at least 25. This means a particular artist will be played less often.
• All songs will be picked from member submissions.
• I'll program the picker to iterate though the member list as it grabs each song. Members who have a larger number of submissions will probably get more play, subject to artist history. This will probably need to be tweaked.

I'm also looking to parse ID3 tags and Vorbis metadata in lieu of file pathname info when doing the picking. I'm looking at a few solutions now; it'll probably require using a library external to Python.