What is metadata, you might ask? It is the text and graphics that accompany our signal on newer radios. Most car radios come with it now. It allows listeners to see the name of the show that's on the air, the name of the song and artist, and on some real fancy radios even a picture of the album cover. The computer that generates metadata is getting older, and crashing periodically (maybe about once a month), and sometimes it doesn't get noticed for several days. I'm asking for each of you that have radios that receive metadata to please keep an eye on it every time you tune in to KCBX. Here at the station, the radio in the kitchen displays metadata. When it crashes, it either just sticks on the show that was airing at the time of the crash and doesn't update, or it will just say KCBX HD-1 with no additional information. If you see that, please text or email me ASAP. Marisa, Frank, Brad and I have all been trained on restarting the metadata PC, and can get it done fairly quickly - once we know about it! Thank you for your help! Hank.

Put together with a catchy tune that would make a great TikTok snippet Hank! Thanks for the info/request!! - David On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 13:11 Hank Hadley via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote: > What is metadata, you might ask? It is the text and graphics that > accompany our signal on newer radios. Most car radios come with it now. > It allows listeners to see the name of the show that's on the air, the name > of the song and artist, and on some real fancy radios even a picture of the > album cover. > > The computer that generates metadata is getting older, and crashing > periodically (maybe about once a month), and sometimes it doesn't get > noticed for several days. I'm asking for each of you that have radios that > receive metadata to please keep an eye on it every time you tune in to > KCBX. Here at the station, the radio in the kitchen displays metadata. > When it crashes, it either just sticks on the show that was airing at the > time of the crash and doesn't update, or it will just say KCBX HD-1 with no > additional information. > > If you see that, please text or email me ASAP. Marisa, Frank, Brad and I > have all been trained on restarting the metadata PC, and can get it done > fairly quickly - once we know about it! > > Thank you for your help! > > Hank. > _______________________________________________ > Onair mailing list -- onair@list.kcbx.net > To unsubscribe send an email to onair-leave@list.kcbx.net >