My Firestar kicked but Sat night.

Dave27

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We had an 80's party for all of the parents and daughters of my daughters volleyball team about 45-50 people. I must say that Old Seeburg played for 5 hours straight all night long.I put a song in just to see how many selections were backed up and it took and hour and ten minutes befor my song came up.It was a great time though I had 25 people doing the electric slide in my livingroom. Which brings up a question how many songs can you input at one time into the firestar. But ayah just wanted to comment on its reliability.Oh and the arcades all did fine for 5 hours also :)
 
Every song can be selected if you want, it will just only play it once no matter how many times people might select the same song. This was basically the big "secret" behind running jukes: overplay. Five people might pay for and select the same song while other songs are in the queue, and they're all happy when the juke plays it once.

I don't know really know anything about microprocessor-controlled juke settings even though I own a couple, but maybe it was possible to turn overplay off (no idea why any operator would do that though), but a Seeburg Tormat, for example, only has the capability to save one play. If many people select the same song it's still written to the tormat, but it's already set to play anyway so it doesn't actually do anything. If you select the same song that is currently playing though, it will be played again.
 
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