Are there also limits as to the length of a song as it might pertain to being playable by radio stations? I've heard that there's some kind of magic number with regard to the length of a song and whether it's acceptable to get played.

I've never paid any attention to that aspect with regard to how I've written my material and still I manage to get airplay, whether from online stations or in the flesh dj spins. Still, I've heard that this length issue is a real factor. Is length something that is looked at by radio stations and/or djs as a reason to play or not to play a song?

If it is a factor, does anyone know what the acceptable length of a song is considered to be?

I have a friend who wrote a song that spoke about this very factor but I don't know if his concept of length was an accurate one regarding airplay on the radio.

I have one other question to all of you folk djs who have suggested looking at folk playlists. What if you can't recognize a single name on the list? How will that tell you if your music is qualified to be included in such a play list?

Living just beyond the event horizon of the known universe, here in Snakebutt, (spelled just like it sounds) Watucky, I don't regularly get out much. And given that there seems to be, according to your descriptions, flocks of folk singers out there all trying to get noticed, and again according to your posts, many are as likely, or more so, to get their music trashed or given away as they are likely to get it played, my next question is, how can one be certain, or reasonably so, that they aren't just contributing to the landfill when they send their stuff out? The last thing that I want to do is to overtax an already overtaxed dj with something he doesn't want and won't bother to look at.

While I appreciate the suggestions offered here, this all seems like such an uphill battle as to be almost insurmountable to even consider. It sounds as like this is a case of who you know and not so much what you know. Which seems like that old catch 22 in this whole beeswax.

So, perhaps a pertinent question to all of this is how does one get known by the djs out there? In order to get exposure for our music, we need djs spinning our stuff but if djs don't know who we are and what we can offer musically, because they're, as you say, too lazy to look for our music, how then can we get known by them? Where can one get the exposure one needs to get known by the djs, who, if they hear us and/or if they like us and/or find our music appropriate to their radio station's needs, will then spin our stuff so we can get exposed?

My head is hurting from trying to write that last bit.

Reg