Always get your music preference heard

The excessive replaying of faddy pop. songs on most radio stations has reached the threshold of bearability. The annoying aspect, the lack of variety, and discontented listeners (not to mention the loss of regional culture) need to be dealt with. In the current situation of one corporation owning over ninety percent of the private U.S. radio stations, the variety and instances of the listener being favored over a record company’s promotion agenda are likely to further diminish. (Advocacy-maybe a little, but read on)

Solution: Democracy. None of this representative shit that most political governments use and the record companies gladly impose. Let only the present listeners decide what music will be heard. A cell phone or other on person device would signal to the radio which station the person prefers and the radio would tune to that frequency. Even better, remove the middleman. The music player will not be a radio receiver at all but a database of a plethora of songs. The person favorite bands can be in a list of preference that is programmed by the user into the phone. The phone would frequently send out the signal of which songs and genre the user prefers. Iam not proposing that the user must take the time to vote each time he/she comes in range of a public music player. The song preference list is preprogrammed, but can be changed at any time. Each cell phone has an equal influence. The specific genre of the artist along with associations to similar types of music are stored on the player. When more than one person is within hearing range, the computer sums the preferences and using the associations, attempts to satisfy as many listeners as possible.

Either radio waves or a network connection could add new songs to the catalog. Any record company, no matter how small, could add songs, but probably a limit would have to be placed on the storage space allowed for each company. Possibly these players could be paid for by record labels purchasing drive space (Hard drive storage would likely be the cheapest I'm assuming). Although, that may led to the large corporations preventing other businesses from adding their artists.

Furthermore, hotkeys could be used so the user can quickly switch preferred music types with the push of two numbers. An option could be selected to vote for the player to be turned off. The issue of censorship might not be an issue if the player can confirm no child is within hearing distance. Such a device would be especially nice if you walk into a room alone, and with no competition, immediately your requests begin to play.

Fun for parties and dance clubs too.