Romance Life Radio has almost passed the 200 mark on number of users who have added the station to their presets. I think that is pretty cool - 200 users thought enough of the station to save it for future listening.

On an even more interesting note, I got an email yesterday from a representative of Cottonbelly Productions, a recording studio in New York City. They are working with SONY Classics on the film score to the film Northfork, which is featured at the Sundance Film Festival and is an upcoming featured film. She wanted my address, etc. so she could send me a CD of the score for possible inclusion in the Romance Life Radio playlist!!! How cool is that?!?!?!!! Free music!

I upgraded the Romance Life radio station on Live365.com today. In the first day of being live, without the promotional features of a premium station, 9 different users stumbled onto the station. Two of those set Romance Life Radio as a Favorite and one of them gave the station a 5 star rating!!!

I'm really enjoying managing the music and the playlists and having upgraded to the Premium level, I can now create multiple playlists and schedule those playlists for different times of the day and week. I now have three active playlists, the default one which plays a random mix of all music, an Instrumental playlist which plays in the evening, and a vocal playlist which plays in the afternoon.

The Premium level also allows me to upload a total of 300 MB of music. My music is uploaded at 32 Kbps so it is available to listeners with a 56K dialup connection. I've uploaded 86 songs so far and have used up about 80 MB of disk space. I plan to continue to upload new music weekly and to cycle songs around to keep the content fresh.

Every song is labeled properly with Artist, Title, and Album so you always know what is playing. If you like a song, the Live365 player allows you to Wish List a song or to go directly to Amazon.com to purchase the album.

After much planning and hoping, I finally launched the Romance Life channel on Live365.com!!! Live365.com is the world's largest Internet radio network, with an audience of more than 3 million listeners each month.

Live365.com makes it easy for the average Joe to set up an Internet "radio" station. It costs only $7.95 per month to get started and they handle all the servers, bandwidth, and any royalties paid to ASCAP and the music industry. All I have to worry about is making sure the music that plays on Romance Life is music other people enjoy listening to!

My initial playlist is mostly romantic music from the movies! I have classics from Sleepless in Seattle such as Jimmy Durante's As Time Goes By as well as newer songs like Evenstar from The Two Towers.

There are already 50 tracks online giving over 3 hours of non-repeating romantic music with another 100 or so tracks being prepared for upload. Try out Live365 - it's free (with the occasional advert thrown in the mix) and it's great listening!