Depending on what you’re doing, mind, the ends can justify the means. My radio show is two hours on air each week. But to get to those two hours…
Log all the suggestions from listeners: 1 hour
Download the songs: 1 hour
Decide which songs to play: 2 hours
Programme the running order: 1/2 hour
Writing posts and general admin: 1/2 hour
Editing the recorded show: 1/4 hour (if I haven’t fucked anything up)
Uploading to Mixcloud (inc. tagging, etc): 1/4 hour
So that’s 5 1/2 hours without once hitting play in Mixxx.
And that doesn’t include the hour my wife puts in to making each week’s running order into a playlist on Apple and Spotify, and the artwork she makes for each episode.
I love doing my show, but yeah, a hell of a lot of work goes into those two hours.
Depending on what you’re doing, mind, the ends can justify the means. My radio show is two hours on air each week. But to get to those two hours…
Log all the suggestions from listeners: 1 hour Download the songs: 1 hour Decide which songs to play: 2 hours Programme the running order: 1/2 hour Writing posts and general admin: 1/2 hour Editing the recorded show: 1/4 hour (if I haven’t fucked anything up) Uploading to Mixcloud (inc. tagging, etc): 1/4 hour
So that’s 5 1/2 hours without once hitting play in Mixxx.
And that doesn’t include the hour my wife puts in to making each week’s running order into a playlist on Apple and Spotify, and the artwork she makes for each episode.
I love doing my show, but yeah, a hell of a lot of work goes into those two hours.