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I noticed TM Studios has shut off their online song search for members after discontinuing the HitDiscs last December. I did a download of all their Hitdisc releases by song in a type of Spreadsheet this past January. I'm glad I did that as well as recorded by hand in one of my old Top 40 Music On Compact Disc the Golddisc numbers I could find each of the songs on. Another end of an era in the music industry. On another note, I switched over to Promo Only and have been greatly satisfied in finding the hits for my radio stations that play currents in our cluster.
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I haven't been on the programming side of things for almost
20 years, but is Promo Only still a monthly service or have
their releases become more frequent?
Other than New Music Server, what other services are there
for radio these days? Do the labels still issue promo CDs
(or have d/l sites)?
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I subscribed to PrimeCuts from TM from 2005 until 2018
when I switched to Promo Only last December. I had
subscribed to Top Hits U.S.A. from 1994 to 2005. I often
use(d) the TM search to locate a song on one of my
PrimeCuts CD's as many of my clients tend to go below the
Top 40 for their song choices nowadays.
Gary, would you mind sharing your spreadsheet? Does it
also into the PrimeCuts discs? I didn't have access to the
HitDiscs until the beginning of 2016.
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Steve, see above. I switched from PrimeCuts to Promo Only
POOL server last December. Promo Only had hired Jim Weisz
from TM to recruit PrimeCuts subscribers to join Promo
Only. I don't know if Jim is still with them or not.
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Gary
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Hykker wrote:
I haven't been on the programming side of things for almost
20 years, but is Promo Only still a monthly service or have
their releases become more frequent?
Other than New Music Server, what other services are there
for radio these days? Do the labels still issue promo CDs
(or have d/l sites)?
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Promo Only still releases discs(I believe) once a month - but there is POOL from Promo Only which adds new music daily and with many different versions/Intro Edits which I have an app for on my desktop computer which I can download songs from. I chose POOL Audio Silver which covers most of the formats that TM Studios had plus more. We also have New Music Server and All access for music downloads as well. All Access helps us with our Active Rock station as POOL does not have that format.
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Gary
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eriejwg wrote:
Steve, see above. I switched from PrimeCuts to Promo Only
POOL server last December. Promo Only had hired Jim Weisz
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Yes Jim is still with Promo Only - I just renewed for another year a week ago!
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Thanks Gary! You're a lifesaver!
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I received a reply from Lakeisha at TM Studios asking for
a link to download all of their database files.
Here is a direct link to download the zip files.
https://members.tmstudios.com/securedownload/dl.aspx?
fid=SongData
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Gary
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eriejwg wrote:
I received a reply from Lakeisha at TM Studios asking for
a link to download all of their database files.
Here is a direct link to download the zip files.
https://members.tmstudios.com/securedownload/dl.aspx?
fid=SongData
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Thanks a bunch for doing this - I had the Hitdiscs but not the Golddiscs. Much appreciated!
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Apparently you need to have an account/be logged in to
access those files.
Curiously, does something similar exist for the BPI/Jones
equivalents of Hit/Gold discs? A Google search turned up
nothing useful.
Edited by Hykker on 23 November 2019 at 6:24am
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Great resource, John!
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My pleasure. While it completely lacks the convenience of
online searching, I uploaded the Excel files to my
OneDrive so I can access them on my phone.
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Thanks for that link John. I also used the GoldDisc search for various
reasons when it was active. The spreadsheets are a good replacement.
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Don't know what I did differently, but it worked when I
tried it today. Thanks for the link John!
Is it safe to assume that BPI/Jones discs don't have a
master list anywhere?
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Steve, I'm not sure when these databases were originally
created or if the Jones discs are simply renamed or were
absorbed into one database. There was a time during my
subscription from 2005-2018 that the company was called
Jones/TM so maybe that's when databases were recreated.
I honestly don't know. Have you checked out the all
discs spreadsheet? Maybe that has Jones titles listed.
I've heard mention online of Dave Scott of
uncompressedmusic.com who once was CEO of TM Century. I
think the new station in Tuscon programmed by Bobby
Rich, "The Drive", uses Dave Scott's library. Dave may
have access to the original Jones databases.
Edited by eriejwg on 28 November 2019 at 11:46am
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Hykker wrote:
Don't know what I did differently, but it worked when I
tried it today. Thanks for the link John!
Is it safe to assume that BPI/Jones discs don't have a
master list anywhere?
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These were called Chartbreakers. We got them at our station on Barter from 2000 until the stop producing them at the end of 2006. We got the CHW discs and the CRW Discs. After Jones bought out TM they formed Jones TM and they discontinued Chartbreakers and issued us Hitdiscs instead - which we were already subscribing for the A discs so we ended up with 2 copies a week!
I do have one Word file that I put together as a directory from CHW-0313 until the last one produced - CHW-0651. This does not list the country cuts as we were using CDX for our country station.
I have a couple notebooks of the CHW directory I created from 0001 until 0313. I also have directory for the CRW-8001 until 8651 in that notebook separately. I cannot find the original files I made of these. We were using these discs for our Modern Rock/Active Rock station.
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Gary wrote:
I have a couple notebooks of the CHW directory
I created from 0001 until 0313. I also have directory for
the CRW-8001 until 8651 in that notebook separately. I
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That's probably the route I'll go with the JRN
classic/active rock gold library I have, probably as an
Excel file so it's sortable. Not really worth the bother
for me on the weekly discs since so many of the songs on
them are either not hits or not of interest to me (such as
the urban or rock currents).
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The link didn't work for me. Apparently, I missed out. :(
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If you want to message me, I can send you the Excel files.
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Here is the TM Studios GoldDisc / HitDisc database:
https://tinyurl.com/tmcentury
Edit: Fixed link.
Edited by VWestlife on 24 November 2020 at 12:48pm
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