The death of Indonesian Internet Radios....

Yeah, remembering my old times when I was broadcasting, I could consider it to be fun times. You know when you really don't have better things to do, and some of you go to club, some of you go shopping, and some of us just kinda pick up our microphone/ headphone and start rambling nonsense.

It was big, in 2002, 2003, gotta admit having 40 people listening to you at a time talking a bunch of bullshit incoherent nonsense would probably give you some sense of coolness and belonging. We've got Tai Kotok a.k.a Tiongkok Radio, Bawel Radio (which is barely ENTERTAINING anyway) and we've got Kakusradio, who claimed "the largest Indonesian internet radio."

Well, eventually we all come to past, the era of becoming DJ jadi-jadian is no longer considered cool, albeit we have such old people still stuck trying to be "cool" by being a DJ. First thing first, DJ is a tittle for someone who plays prerecorded mixed tunes in for the enjoyment of others. However, playing pop music on your computer while bitchin' about your daily uninteresting life... is so totally not a DJ.

And people often ask, why is the popularity of these independent radio station is going to the drain? Well, I have few arguments for you and these are some of the reasons why:

1. The lost of interest in mIRC

• Sure we've got Yahoo IM, MSN messenger, AOL and other stuff to entertain us, but who hangs and use mIRC? It has no audio chat, no webcam support, even got no emos. You ask people nowadays, they ask you what is your e-mail, not your nick and channel in irc where you hang out. mIRC sure is losing popularity amongst its users.
  

2. Make the illegal, legal

• Have you know, that most of the servers running these broadcasts are illegal servers? Indonesian people are good in carding, heck they are so good that they can rent dedicated servers for their radio, and by next week if fraud has been reported they can always find another victim. This method has made the reliability of the server is questionable, broadcast server can be replaced 2 to 3 times a month. Therefore so many listeners prefer something like pandora or last.fm for a stable and reliable performance.
  

3. No Capital whatsoever

• Just like running a business, there is no such thing as free in this world. These so called DJ's are doing this broadcasts for free, and then you set schedule for them? I mean, you don't schedule when you piss or shit even if people pays you to do so, how the hell would you stick to a schedule without being paid? No capital means no productivity and this is one of the major reason why the broadcast suffers.
  

4. No interesting topic

• Yeah, for once or twice is cool to share your personal stories. But sharing how your day was on a daily basis (up to your most personal secrets) will scare your listeners away. Something are not meant to be shared publicly, and just because you don't have any other informative topic, doesn't permit you to do so.
  

5. Audio quality

• If you can download freakin mp3 at high bitrate from free websites and play them at beautifully rendered 192 kbps, why would you settle with 24 kbps winamp shoutcast broadcasting connection? Some of these station are so corny, you can hear background noises, such as the sound DJ makes when scratching his itchy balls.

6. No listeners

• Last time I've checked, the largest Indonesian radio had 11 listeners during peak time, now I know Indonesia has population bigger than that, or is it just an indication that these radios are actually suck ass? For the record, we don't even know if the people listening are the DJ's friends and family.... Talk about creepy, listening to yourself.
  

7. Do we need more DJ?

• Yes, I like to listen to my music without interruption. If you never gonna play my request because you don't have the song or you ran out of time everytime I would listen to you broadcasting crap, I definetely do not need a DJ. My iTunes work perfectly fine, thank you. In another word, if you don't have anything new or exciting to offer on your broadcasts, there's no reason to listen to your station.
  

8. Shady operations.

• Station Manager, Program Director, Head DJ (that never broadcasts anyway), HRD Dept. (in case you didn't know HRD stands for Human Resources Department, Department) nice abbreviation btw, Marketing Director (What the fuck do you market anyways ? Durian?), Public Relations (which I doubt ever going out to the public at all), Music Division (if you're not dealing with music, then what other things do you have division for?)
  
  
• My question is, what the hell are these people do anyway? Sit in front of computer all day delegating tasks?
  

9. Random, random, oh so random

• Ummm... everytime I turned on my winamp to listen to you guys, it's always the random server kicks in, occasionally playing tunes that I like to hear, but most of the time it is just songs that I have never even heard of. When I do get the chance to hear someone "0n" the person is actually "Oon" aka. stupid.

10. Backstabbers

• Someone like mastar. zaink should know about this one, the guy was basically managing another radio while partnering with me, complete with the bullshit and lies about how cool he is, mastar. zaink even renew the domain name registration to my station without giving me the control. In the end , it is just another story about a little kid, trying to be cool and accepted, while backstabbing hundreds other people in the process, shame on you shame on you..... Perhaps you should tell your audiences that you went home back to Indo to get laid, because you can't get lucky around here. And it is funny looking at a 30 sumthin year old man becoming a yes man to this little kid mastar. zaink.
  

Oh internet radio station... so much story ... so much hidden secrets. Your popularity is going down the drain.....