Ron’s Hot 100 library

Unfortunately, you have to subscribe to Top Hits USA. I'm not sure how far back their library is available online, looks like all music that's current within the last year according to their website.

Hykker wrote: Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

There exists no digital CD versions of numerous Itunes only hits because of American Idol and certain live performances being released only in Itunes for download. Not an oxymoronic statement since there is no contradiction. Unless you downloaded it at the time and paid through Itunes(and kept a DRM copy)there wasn't anyway to get a CD promo or LP copy.

Many years ago I got those files from collectors on the American Idol boards and through various other sources.

To this day Carrie Underwood's I'll Stand By You is not even on her greatest hits or available anywhere on a commercial release.

So Top Hits USA would do nothing for you for those hits. The NOW series had better quality source direct from the labels both in the US and UK. I'm missing very few edits (mostly country) from the 2000-2010 period mostly because they are on some obscure promo somewhere that never comes up for sale.

Anyways that's the best I can explain it.

Edited by PopArchivist - Yesterday at 2:32am

Ooh! Those Denon machines were really reliable (although the cartridges that held the actual CDs could beat up the CDs pretty bad). We had those at KRQQ/Tucson in 1993-94.

The mid-'90s Denon CD players were outstanding. I still have my Denon 2000 dual-CD player for DJ stuff, although I haven't unboxed it in over a decade.

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.