Music channels problem

[Skip Towne]

I know a guy who leaves his Directv on channel 818 while he is at work to entertain his dogs. He says that after 6 hours or so it starts having long periods of silence between songs. He says the longer he leaves it on the longer the pauses are. Could this be a countermeasure against prolonged recording of the music channels?

[moonman]

As far as I know, the music channels are NOT recordable.

[SnowFade]

Not with a DirecTiVo anyway...I don't think there's anything to stop you from feeding it through a sound system and recording it on cassette (or even CD). Seems like kind of an odd thing though...wouldn't the music channels be just like any of the other ones where everyone gets the same signal at the same time?

[jpurkey]

I know they can be recorded to DVD. If I had a CD burner on my computer I'd be tempted to make some custom CDs that way.

To prevent the receiver from pausing (assuming it is an effect of having it tuned to a MC channel for six hours) maybe you could set a timer to change the channel after 3 hours to another channel for a couple minutes and then set a second timer to change the channel back to 818 for the remaining time.

[ki4cgs]

I didn't know dogs liked modern rock. :lol:

[Skip Towne]

Yep, he has two chihuahuas that he says "get pissy" if he doesn't leave them some tunes.

[EricG]

If he's at work, how does he know about the pauses? Are the dogs telling him? Maybe he misunderstood. I think they're paws's

[Steve Mehs]

Not with a DirecTiVo anyway

Sure you can, I used to record Metal and Power Rock on my DirecTiVo all the time. Just set up a Wishlist using the title of the MC channel you want to record, then edit the scheduled recordings a bit so you're not recording Music Choice 24/7. Only down side is you get a green background similar to the Pick Programs To Record screens instead of the song titles, but it works.