Instructions for DJ's


1. At the end of every other month, check the site to see if the new lineup has been posted.  If it has, it's time to start recording.

2. You will have 2 hours to host per day.  There is a four-day rotation, with the fourth day, Sunday, being mine.  That means you will each have six hours to host.  For each of these hours, your spots must come to a total of 3 minutes.

3. Identify each song by title and author.  Identify yourself at the beginning of each hour.  Identify the station and the program (New Horizons or Night Visions) at least once per hour.  Once per spot is better.  Beyond that, you may fill your time any way you want.  

4. Be careful to pronounce things correctly.  If you don't know how to pronounce something, ask.  For your convenience, there are pronunciation guides on the site.  Just type "pronunciations.txt" or "pronounce.mp3" at the end of the ottertunes URL.  We are performing an important service for these artists in exchange for their music.  If we don't pronounce their names and titles correctly, we are cheating them out of their pay.

5. LABELING FORMAT
Each spot should be saved as a separate file labelled thusly:
-the word "indie", to differentiate it from singoffs, ads, etc.
-the number (not time) of the hour
-the number of the spot
-underscore
-the letter of the season (For fall 09, it's "m")
-file extention.  MP3 is prefered.
So, for example, the third spot of hour 53 for fall 09 will look like this:
indie53_3m.mp3

This will change in the future, but for now, this is how we do it.

6. TIME TABLE
please record the spots for day one in the first 7 days of the month.  The following week will be for day 2 and corrections on day 1.  Week 3 for day 3 and corrections of week 2, and week 4 will be purely for corrections and putting everything together.

7. The best way to send me your files is to mail them in a zip folder to orenotter2@yahoo.com .  Also send me an IM to inform me that you have sent them.  Thanks.

8. REQUESTS
I want to give you as much control over your own hours as possible.  If you want anything included in your time slots, just tell me and I will do my best to include those for you.  You can request specific songs, authors, styles, subject matter, you name it.  Please try to make your requests at the start of each new season, because that is when I make the playlists.

9. ZUCCHINI
Owing to a recent rash of zucchini addictions, zucchini and similar squashes are not to be consumed on the premesis.