Get Voting

Now fully written and integrated into the website is STAR's track voting system. This originally spawned from the idea Phil had to have the playlists selected by user vote automatically. Not an entirely brilliant idea for a station carrying on average 3 listeners. However, the idea of voting for tracks was taken on board.

I decided to go ahead with allowing the user to vote on the last 5 played tracks. This currently includes jingles, promos and sweepers until I get the exceptions setup. However, the listeners are only choosing from tracks they have just heard. So, if it sounded rubbish, you vote it as rubbish.

The results are held displayed on the staff portal to all registered users. This could potentially allow presenters to integrate the voting into their shows.

There are a few restrictions in the system. You can only vote for each track a maximum of once per day and a vote will only hold weight for 1 week (this may be adjusted in the future). As the automatic logging system can only logs tracks on the playout system, only music played from the computer can be played. Though it should be noted that any playlisted music would have to be on the system anyway!

So, if you're eager to get voting, you'll have to wait until we launch again in the autumn. But when we do, you can vote by clicking on the "listen now" button then "click here" on the popup. Just follow the onscreen messages. (The overly eager can just click here).