{"id":11799,"date":"2013-01-02T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2013-01-09T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:03:37","slug":"kmag-turned-10-back-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2013\/01\/02\/kmag-turned-10-back-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"KMAG turned 10 back in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

I blame exhaustion for missing this rather (personal) big deal. We were in the middle of our annual housesitting gig and Austin’s climate is blazing\u2026drains the life out of you pretty easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trial run for my “radio station” began as an experiment at work, then I decided to apply QTSS at home. Jeremy helped me install a larger hard drive into the iMac I owned then. I transferred over the 2000-plus songs I had started from and away it went. There’s been interruptions but it manages to play 15 songs\/hour (commercial radio today is less than 10).<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a shame Apple bailed on this rather flawless technology after 10.6. You can still install it separately on 10.7 and 10.8 as long as the Server element isn’t present. I did find a solution if Server exists, you just convert a line in the installer script into a comment. All administration is done through a Web browser which is how it was best done from its beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seven new songs are added to KMAG’s Top 35 about every week (sometimes every 6-14 days) along with anything else I can purchase. This puts the playlist at 10,000-plus songs. Should I choose to run it from beginning to end, it would take almost 30 days to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why all the fuss? Music has been a big part of my life since I was 13 going on 14. I’ve been guilty of making mix tapes to share, staying awake at awful hours to be on college radio and a terrible internship and seeing more concerts per year than the national average. Even my wife Somara says it’s great to turn on the stereo and there’s our personal station running.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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