All Access playlists

[Nostalgia Kills]

Why is it that some playlists show up with nonsensical data? In particular the newer Canadian radio stations.


Looking up the playlist for Wired 96.3 Saskatoon, I get:

CFWD-FM
Saskatoon
Sorted By Rank

Owner: Harvard Broadcasting
PD: Chris Myers
MD: Chris Myers

lw: May 20 - May 26 TW: May 27 - Jun 2
click column headers to sort
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
85 -23 9 7 0 - 55 50.000
20 -2 43 37 0 - 17 13.000
40 0 SUNGLASSES 15 42 -27 37 41.000
- 0 11 8 3 57 50 0.000
18 0 I DO NOT HOOK UP 41 38 3 19 19.000
- 0 41 41 0 24 20 0.000
- 0 22 21 1 15 34 0.000
32 0 JUST DANCE F/COLBY O'DONIS 22 16 6 32 33.000
- 0 29 34 -5 26 28 0.000
- 0 15 17 -2 40 42 0.000
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
- 0 46 43 3 13 12 0.000
2 0 I KNOW YOU WANT ME(CALLE OCHO) 89 89 - 1 3.000
- 0 87 90 -3 5 4 0.000
48 0 BEAUTIFUL U R 11 12 -1 65 49.000
26 0 COOL RUNNIN' 32 26 6 23 27.000
10 0 DAY N NITE 48 55 -7 11 11.000
12 1 58 45 0 - 13 10.000
42 1 12 15 0 - 43 43.000
4 1 BEYONCE Halo 90 84 6 2.000
5 6 8 JAMIE FOXX 0 54 56 -2.000
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
8 9 LADY GAGA Lovegame 49 51 -2 7.000
13 13 0 50 44 - - 13.000
25 14 28 23 0 - 38 27.000
- 14 14 0 45 43 - 0.000
14 17 STATE OF SHOCK Too Pretty 42 43 -1 22.000
- 18 16 KARL WOLF 0 43 42 1.000
- 21 42 -21 33 35 - 0.000
19 21 -2 34 36 - - 18.000
90 25 DOMAN & GOODING Runnin f/Dru 33 4 29 29.000
29 25 4 20 30 - - 27.000
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
11 27 24 JEREMIH 0 34 29 5.000
- 29 29 0 31 29 - 0.000
38 31 JORDIN SPARKS Battlefield 23 17 6 39.000
72 33 39 3 6 3 - 62.000
36 39 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story 17 18 -1 16.000
- 40 34 6 21 21 - 0.000
40 40 0 30 22 - - 39.000
3 42 46 THEORY OF A DEADMAN 0 13 14 -1.000
- 46 43 3 10 13 - 0.000
44 46 -2 17 14 - - 43.000
Rank Spins
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud/mill
4 46 38 PINK 0 17 13 4.000
48 47 DANNY FERNANDES Private Dancer 12 12 - 47.000
- 81 74 7 25 5 - 0.000


Not to mention they don't even show the rock charts or their playlists.

[Minor Scratch]

Not sure, but its pretty annoying. The Top 40 playlists for stations in Quebec are all like this.

[Quixotic Music Lover]

I noticed that TW is always ending June 2nd! I have learned to ignore it.

[Battle601]

What's up with All Access now? Apparently, since late yesterday, none of the daily Top 50 playlist updates for each station are available. I tried accessing everything again this morning after today's early updates were posted.

I thought it was only my station, so I tried other stations in the same format, and the same problem. I tried stations in other formats, and nothing shows up other than the name of the station being searched and all the other fields left blank.

So what now?!...I can still access the daily charts for each format as well as updates for each song on the chart (listing stations and their spin counts) but not the daily playlist updates from the stations themselves. Hopefully this is just a temporary setback.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 3, 2009 7:58:17 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

What's up with All Access now? Apparently, since late yesterday, none of the daily Top 50 playlist updates for each station are available. I tried accessing everything again this morning after today's early updates were posted.

I thought it was only my station, so I tried other stations in the same format, and the same problem. I tried stations in other formats, and nothing shows up other than the name of the station being searched and all the other fields left blank.

So what now?!...I can still access the daily charts for each format as well as updates for each song on the chart (listing stations and their spin counts) but not the daily playlist updates from the stations themselves. Hopefully this is just a temporary setback.

I'm starting to get this bad feeling that this may be more than temporary. This started on Sunday when they did not post the updated year to date station playlists. Now this! What the heck are they doing?

It's one thing if they want to discontinue this, but at least have the decency to let people know about it! This would be a bummer if they stop this! >:(

[Battle601]

Hmm...not that I wish for this to happen in any way, but does anybody think that All Access is gradually heading towards the same approach that Mediabase took around this time last year? Yes, next week will mark one year since Mediabase became fully accessible only to paid subscribers. Since then, posters like us on this board have relied on All Access, which is also subscription-based, but free.

Of course, many other things have happened:
- In addition to Mediabase, MediabaseMusic changed its website which now runs on a flash reader (and disables certain features like What Was That Song?). The older site was way better.

- What Was That Song? feature disappeared entirely (since January) unless you know a secret numerical code designated for each station in the web address

- Regular monthly delays in updates on All Access (usually in the middle of each month, like the four days back in January), although this has somewhat stopped in the last few months

- The sudden closure of Radio & Records

- Now the discontinuation of station playlists on All Access (particularly daily and year-to-date). Unfortunately, I never took the time to discover these year-to-date playlists since I'm solely dependent on the daily ones. Again, I still think and hope that this is just a temporary thing. Unless radio stations are the ones telling Mediabase to restrict that feature for limited access.

What else could go wrong now?

[musicfanpete]

Jul 3, 2009 14:28:31 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

- Now the discontinuation of station playlists on All Access (particularly daily and year-to-date). Unfortunately, I never took the time to discover these year-to-date playlists since I'm solely dependent on the daily ones. Again, I still think and hope that this is just a temporary thing. Unless radio stations are the ones telling Mediabase to restrict that feature for limited access.

What else could go wrong now?

The only reason I can see them doing this is for good old fashioned greed! What is so restrictive regarding this data that the general public not be allowed to see this? It's not like they are giving away military secrets or something!

[Battle601]

Good news! The daily station playlist updates are back and running again as of this afternoon.

Still, it is kind of a nuisance that we ended up missing out on the last 3 days - Not so sure if this had to do with the 4th of July holiday, it probably could have been a technical setback with Mediabase.

But anyways, it's back...

BTW, as obvious as it may seem, can someone please indicate how one can get to accessing year-to-date station playlists?

[musicfanpete]

Jul 5, 2009 16:58:19 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

Good news! The daily station playlist updates are back and running again as of this afternoon.

Still, it is kind of a nuisance that we ended up missing out on the last 3 days - Not so sure if this had to do with the 4th of July holiday, it probably could have been a technical setback with Mediabase.

But anyways, it's back...

BTW, as obvious as it may seem, can someone please indicate how one can get to accessing year-to-date station playlists?

Thank god! I was just about to give up with this. It most likely was a technical issue since they always have the current data up during the holidays, even on Christmas day as an example.

The year-to-date playlists are also back up. It is very easy to access them on Allaccess.com. When you go onto any one of the music chart pages, you will see a tab at the top called search (in between the callout and adds tabs. Hit the search tab and type in whatever station call letters you are looking for in the blank space that comes up and hit the search button. The next page that comes up will show a 7-Day, YTD and Adds label (adds only if the station actually added music in a given week). Just hit YTD and your current year-to-date data will come up, usually updated around midnight or so Sunday morning. Hope this helps! :)

[Battle601]

Thanks very much for the tip! Very interesting stuff indeed.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 5, 2009 21:20:03 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

Thanks very much for the tip! Very interesting stuff indeed.

No problem! I love tracking the year-to-date playlists because it shows the differences from one station to another. And when the final year end charts come out, it's amazing how different so many playlists look compared to the final national Hot AC chart. Definately interesting to follow!