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Good question!

I'm not working on anything past 1999. The biggest reason is that I find the music a lot less interesting than the older stuff.

A lesser reason is that my radio show doesn't play much past 1999, and I just don't need such an extensive library for the years 2000 and onward.

As a practical matter, I'm a subscriber to Top Hits USA (a weekly service for radio stations). For all the tracks from 2000 onward, I just use the Top Hits USA versions of everything I need. Those will provide me the hit versions (or what I consider to be the hit versions). Although the mastering of the early Top Hits USA discs is questionable, from 2000 onward, the mastering is just fine (with the minor exception of a cue tone in the right channel at the end of every track).
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Unfortunately lots and lots of the hits from 2000-Present are not always on Top Hits USA. To use them in that context as the "hit version" is incorrect as US Radio often used remixes or sometimes other versions during that time period. What works for the 90's assembly does not always work for anything after.

If you want a posting similar to what Ron did for the Hot 100 so you can see where everything came from I will see if I can do that. Chuck M and I worked extensively gathering a lot of that era but we did not get everything from 2000-2010 that's a lot of promos.

I disagree on the mastering of Top Hits from 2000 onward as CD and digital source is more prominent and anything on Top Hits USA was released for the masses since then.

The only time someone would not be able to find digital source would be The Itunes only hits from 2005 onward which I took great lengths to track down.

While Ron may feel a need to limit his library I am more than happy to help. There are people who collect that era of music but like Ron said he is not one of them.
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Richie: I would gladly have that information, an archive from that decade (2000-2010).

thanks for advance
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Originally posted by crapfromthepast crapfromthepast wrote:

from 2000 onward, the mastering is just fine (with the minor exception of a cue tone in the right channel at the end of every track).


I presume those tones were for back when some stations' automation systems used CD jukeboxes? Are they even a thing anymore?

Originally posted by PopArchivist PopArchivist wrote:

Itunes only hits from 2005 onward which I took great lengths to track down.


Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
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The tones were indeed used to cue the next song/ID/etc.

I checked: each tone is in the left channel (not the right channel as I stated earlier), and is at exactly 20 kHz at -30 dB. The cutoff for FM broadcast is 15 kHz, so such a signal would be completely inaudible on the air.

I never crossed paths with any hardware that actually used the cue tones, though.
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