RTE Gold discussion thread

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122865450#Comment_122865450

I would think so he might only spend a day a week recording links but he probably thinks about his playlist rather than just playing what’s on the computer

it’s a nice background show. No annoying listener shout outs just his curated playlist

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122865469#Comment_122865469

"curated" 🤐 was this word used as much before, as it it these days ?

ekkinak

Where The Streets Have No Name/Love Action/Don't Give Up

eye ❤️ the eighties

cml387

Something seriously wrong on Gold ATM.at There seems to be two streams playing at the same time.

channelsurfer2

Yeah i thought it was just me for a minute but seems the autoplay is playing two different "tapes"

channelsurfer2

Obvoiuslynoone there to fix it

GSF

Ronan sounding very hoarse today as he plays Dustin and Bob Geldof and The Prodigy.

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122928593#Comment_122928593

I bought the unplucked album on tape for my Walkman in hmv Henry st christmas 96!

Glaceon

I see RTE Gold now has pre-roll adverts on the stream. I never got ads on TuneIn before. On Wednesday I was getting a pre-roll RTE Gold jingle (which might have been a test), but this morning I was greeted with an ad for Leap cards. And from previous experience with these types of ads, I assume that if I lose service while travelling, I'll get another ad before the stream resumes. Could end up putting me off altogether.

cml387

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122976245#Comment_122976245

That's always been the case for me at least. And there used to be just one ad, but now there's two before the stream starts. A small price to pay though.

lertsnim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122976245#Comment_122976245

This happened to me. Its very annoying if you lose reception for a second.

channelsurfer2

There are now 2 ads preplayed when you click directly on the rte gold website and play it.

ford fiesta

happens on radio.net and tunein, it's no fault of RTE

RTE Gold is by far the best radio station in Ireland

Carol Moran's drivetime show 4pm to 6pm sometimes is live, sometimes voice-tracked or like today there were just back to back songs and Gold jingles, with no reference to the More Music Drive

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122978877#Comment_122978877

The 96k stream at https://www.rte.ie/manifests/gold.m3u8 has a pre-roll ad in it, I presume this is the one that the apps are using? The HLS stream at https://liveaudio.rte.ie/hls-radio/gold/chunklist.m3u8 seems to be ad-free for now.

GSF

Don’t get any ads on the steam if you are overseas? At least I don’t get them

ford fiesta

rte gold back-up tape has now kicked in on the radio 1 channel fully since 1am...complete with really old liners and jingles probably from 15 - 18 years ago.

during cathal murray's pre recorded late date show on radio 1 up until 1am, it kicked in a few times with 10cc's I'm not in love.

over on rte gold (on the 'rte gold' channel) it continues as normal. so different songs (not the back-up tape)

GSF

Rte Gold on autopilot from 26-31st and have to say the music selection seems to be better without presenters. They seem to have a large database of songs and it’s the presenters that are causing some songs to be repeated more often than they should be!

halkar

Is there a reason why Rte gold not on FM? It's my favourite station and was able to listen in the car with DAB. I can stream through phone but I drive on back roads with patchy signal and its no fun having to listen adds every few minutes.

Uncle Malcolm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123000636#Comment_123000636

First of all, RTE can't just decide to put a 7th national station on FM, second, National FM carriage will cost a couple of Million euro per year. Third If RTE Gold was an FM station and had to worry about money and jnlrs, it would end up sounding nothing like RTE Gold in it's current form

Gold7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123000608#Comment_123000608

It was great to hear 4 hours of 80 s music non stop on RTE Gold on Saturday last.

odyssey06

For New Year's Day the Top 100 is Duets.

I'm liking the early picks eg Winter Song by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson.

cml387

It's actually a brilliant idea, and what a range of songs are included. Even a duet between Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves (see Wikipedia for why that was unusual!)

GSF

Jon Kenny playing Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine giving Gold some edge in the afternoon

Rico Suave

Not all presenters use the database.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123038650#Comment_123038650

what are you referring to?

Rico Suave

I'm adding to GSF's comment…

"They seem to have a large database of songs and it’s the presenters that are causing some songs to be repeated more often than they should be"

He's right, It is up to the presenters to choose the music..

Not all the presenters use the RTÉ library, and you can tell who doesn't by simply listening.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123047497#Comment_123047497

The "physical" RTE library is not used at all by any presenter across the radio network, if that's what you are referring to ? It is gathering dust. And if it is - very occasionally by probably Raidio na G looking for a traditional piece of music not widely available.

Songs on RTE Gold, whether chosen by a presenter or a playlist generator come from the same "library" - the radioman computer, from spotify or ilikemusic.com resources.

In the early days of RTE Gold (John Clarke), when the Gold music database was being created for the station songs were probably ripped from the physical library CD or vinyl, but not anymore - it's easier to just add a song using a file from third party music suppliers.

lohiwek852

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123047553#Comment_123047553

I bet that the RTE radio Music library still has one or two full-time employees even though it's not being used 😆

Rico Suave

"Songs on RTE Gold, whether chosen by a presenter or a playlist generator come from the same "library" - the radioman computer, from spotify or ilikemusic.com resources"

Not necessarily. A lot of presenters draw from their own libraries, which was the point I was making. They don't depend on the database, hence the variety

An online database wouldn't necessarily be reliable. Particularly when it comes to single mixes. Much better to use your own library. Nothing worse than hearing album versions on the radio now when the single mix was a lot different.