In Toledo, 101.5 The River plays continuous Christmas music all day long from November to the day after Christmas.
After listening for a while, I swore the same songs played in a very short amount of time. So it got me wondering exactly what songs were played and how much. So I decided to collect some data.
I needed a way to get a log of everything the station played. I tried messing around with the JSON on their site but it didn't seem to have the data I needed. I think most of it drives the Flash player which pulls the rest.
I found the station has a stream and there is a little utility called streamripper that will dutifully download and cut up everything that plays, including metadata. I didn't care much about the audio (although it did prove useful for checking the resulting data and a source of annoyance for my wife as I replayed the most-played songs over and over again.)