New Seasonal/Holiday Genre

[masg1313]

It's great to finally have a Seasonal/Holiday genre, however, only stations with the word Seasonal or Holiday in their genre name show up.

Many stations like mine though use the word Christmas (or Xmas, X-mas) in their genre name and not Seasonal or Holiday.

Can this be changed so that stations with the word Christmas (or Xmas, X-mas) in their genre name also show up?

Thanks.

Michael

[Jkey]

moved to the correct forum

And on a personal note why did you remind me that
the holiday season is not so far away

[Nick@ss]

Cos it is and i love christmas,

check here to see how close it really is,

http://www.emailsanta.com/clock.html

[chuckeh]

This has a reason. In some weeks or months you know what I mean and it makes more sense to you. Until that date you should upgrade your genre or just wait until it makes sense

[Nick@ss]

That doesn't make sense?

[chuckeh]

Not yet

[Nick@ss]

Anyway, more to the point why are you thinking about this already?

its October, i bet your like the shops in town, you want to be the first to have Christmas on display LOL.

[Jkey]

chuckeh makes perfect sense Nick,its just he cant say
what he wants to at this time [#MUSIK.XMAS]

I think im going to have an xmas stream this year
starting next weekend and constantly play it at full
volume in my house just to piss the missus off :P

All i need is a bandwidth sponsor

[Nick@ss]

please note bandwidth begging isn't allowed around these parts

[Jkey]

^ LMFAO

[chuckeh]

It has to do with the changes coming sooner or later to the website and server

Yeah, #MUSIK.XMAS will rock!

[fc*uk]

Originally posted by Nick@ss
http://www.emailsanta.com/clock.html

Now that just made me vomit!

I do like X-mas, just can't deal with it right now.

And 82 sleeps away. Really?

[masg1313]

Thanks for the info. I'll update my genre name until the new changes take effect.

What's that grandma? A reindeer!

[Jkey]

82 sleeps or *
41 jkey sleeps....

[bjjocsdradio]

I would update your genre to:

Genre: Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas, Christmas

Probably your best bet, you'll still be seen in the new genre and people who search for Xmas or Christmas will find you as well.

[SC_faisal]

Originally posted by bjjocsdradio
I would update your genre to:

Genre: Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas, Christmas

Werd! What he said...

Just make sure you're you know, actually PLAYING Holiday / christmas music or else we will have to send someone over to you and have a little talk.

f.

[chuckeh]

Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas, Christmas

Does not really make sense because there are only 25 characters allowed in the genres field. Also I would drop the ",".

[Jkey]

bah Humbug ! to xmas.

[bjjocsdradio]

Originally posted by chuckeh
Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas, Christmas

Does not really make sense because there are only 25 characters allowed in the genres field. Also I would drop the ",".

Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas

^ Using that is only 23 characters including the spaces and commas, thats really all he's looking to do.

[MegaRock]

Originally posted by fc*uk
Now that just made me vomit!

Don't feel bad. I was in the store today. One aisle had Halloween stuff. The next was Christmas lights and wrapping paper. I was confused however by the lack of Easter baskets and 4th of July banners too.

Geesh.

[chuckeh]

Originally posted by bjjocsdradio
Seasonal, Holiday, Xmas

^ Using that is only 23 characters including the spaces and commas, thats really all he's looking to do.

I would drop "Seasonal" and add Christmas to it, for the next weeks without an update. If you go to http://shoutcast.com/genre/Seasonal/Holiday , the christmas stations will also be listed. And I guess the search volume of Holiday or Christmas is higher than Seasonal. Just a tip

[masg1313]

Thanks. The station name is The Cutting Edge of Christmas, so I updated the genre to Alternative Holiday, that way searches with the word Christmas are covered and it will also show up when someone clicks on Seasonal/Holiday.

[bjjocsdradio]

I think I'm going to start my Christmas station next week..

[fc*uk]

Fellas, gotta let halloween pass at least!

Also, turkey day in the US is the most bamboozled day ever. Everyone rushes past it anymore to get to x-mas. If I were the pilgrams and indians, I'd be pissed.

Remember when the x-mas crap did not start to appear until after Thanksgiving?

[chuckeh]

Mid November should be the perfect start for a christmas stream

[Jkey]

I would start now before chuckeh steals all your listeners

[chuckeh]

Ok, I would start on 6th December

[fc*uk]

Originally posted by chuckeh
Mid November should be the perfect start for a christmas stream

Originally posted by Jkey
I would start now before chuckeh steals all your listeners

This is worse tortune than being drawn and quartered; tar and feathered; tested to see if you are a witch or not by tying boulders to your feet, throwing you in deep water and seeing if you can swim ... and if you can, then you're a witch; either way your done for!

[Jkey]

torture and witches ?
anyone would think it was halloween not xmas.

Just dont tell chuckeh he thinks xmas is next week.

[Jkey]

Ive jumped on the xmas bandwagon,could not resist it

[fc*uk]

/feels sick



Maybe I should start one up a little early this year too ...

[masg1313]

Now stations with Christmas or Xmas in their genre name show up when you click on Holiday/Seasonal (formerly Seasonal/Holiday).

Also stations with Halloween are mixed in.

Maybe in the future the Christmas and Halloween stations can be broken down into sub-genres.

[Jkey]

na..
for me holiday and seasonal fit perfect.
If somebody wants an xmas station they just type in the
search box,there is no need for sub genres.

[JohnErle]

Originally posted by fc*uk
[B]Fellas, gotta let halloween pass at least!

Also, turkey day in the US is the most bamboozled day ever. Everyone rushes past it anymore to get to x-mas. If I were the pilgrams and indians, I'd be pissed.

If you were an Indian, you'd have plenty of other reasons to be pissed.

I like the holiday/seasonal genre the way it is. It helped bring more attention to my Halloween broadcast this year, and it allows people doing other seasonal broadcasts to get a highly visible link. If I ever have the time to put it together, I'd love to do a Canada Day broadcast.

I'll leave you all to fight over the Christmas listeners, 'cause it's not really my thing.

[Jkey]

Originally posted by JohnErle
If you were an Indian, you'd have plenty of other reasons to be pissed.

I like the holiday/seasonal genre the way it is. It helped bring more attention to my Halloween broadcast this year, and it allows people doing other seasonal broadcasts to get a highly visible link. If I ever have the time to put it together, I'd love to do a Canada Day broadcast.

I'll leave you all to fight over the Christmas listeners, 'cause it's not really my thing.

I agree and thats why i think sub genres are not needed.
The season/holiday genre covers everything including
Canada Day or any faith based/non faith based events and holidays.

[Nick@ss]

Only 45 sleeps now

[Jkey]

Not for me im going to but awake half of that figuring
out why the yp is not clustering my xmas stream but yet
listing listener stats from both relays

[Nick@ss]

lol your an insomniac anyway, you dont need a yp error to keep you up for days on end ...

[Jkey]

This is true
Thats how i know im going to catch santa for sure this year.