As a kid I used to think radio stations just slammed the disc album into the reader and played the music they needed, but now as an adult and as most music releasing digitally I don’t think they just play Spotify songs
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Radio stations have specialized software that managers song libraries. There are services that they use that catalogues of music that match the kind of music they want on the station.
Generally, the software allows for mixing music automatically, allowing DJs to create pre-planned lists, mixing in advertisements, and playing prerecorded programs (the OG podcasts). They usually have some sort of advanced scheduling option that can filter out music (such as a Nothing But 90s long weekend that automatically plays music released in the 90s). The songs in the library contain a lot of metadata to handle this.
There will also be the option to stop after the current item and allow the DJs to actually talk, for things like news and traffic reports. The DJs will typically have to manually press play when they’re done.
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