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Snoogans...what else could I say...
*nodding in agreement*

I'm confused, we have requests enabled most of the 24 hours and we have changed our night time broadcast to regular Celtic music. Are you still hearing sleepy music during 5 am to 11:00 am in the UK?

I'm in the US, obviously...but I'm up most of the night with CR. Yeah, a *lot* of sleepy music is still in there. I try to pick up the pace with requests, but...

I listen to CR all night at work, and it seems fine to me. There's no more sleepy stuff on it during the night. At least no more than makes it on there during the day. Great improvement! Of course, I'd love to see the request limit upped during the night hours. That way, us night owls can take advantage of the lack of listeners on during the night. Just a thought...

Your wish is our command. The request queue has been lowered to 30 minutes.

Well, thanks to Irishstepper - she started a thread in the Celtic Radio Founders forum that brought up a good point on requests.

Because we keep atleast 6 songs in the queue to play, requests where actually taking upwards of 90 minutes. So, requests will be delayed 30 minutes and then go into the bottom of the queue (as usually) so that the total delay in 60 minutes as we are required by DMCA regulations.

Actually, CeltWolf started that trouble....not me!

I still say we should take the DCMA regulations and introduce them to a shredder. That way we wouldn't have to jump through so many hoops.

Is there any way to indicate on the requests page when requests will next be disabled and enabled?

I listen a lot between classes and meetings, so I frequently have a limited time that I'm going to be around, and I'm always disappointed when I have to leave knowing that the song I wanted to hear won't play until I can't listen.

For example, I just requested a song somewhere around 5:15, thinking I'd be able to hear it by 8:15, but I forgot about the featured artist section at 6 (though I really can't complain about a whole hour of Heather Dale ) and bagpipe hour at 7.

Would it be possible to partially enable requests during some of the scheduled programs, such as allowing requests for bagpipe songs through during bagpipe hour and similarly for jigs and reels?