Is it possible to remove all my music and artist preferences on LaunchCast other than by individual artist?

Question

I just want to start over with some new favorites without having to go in and reset every artist, album & song. I have hundreds of each and this clutter would remain making the next artist edit even harder and more extensive. Does this make sense? I have contacted Yahoo but never get an answer. Thanx in advance for any help offered. YosarianCat22

Answer 1

I don't think Bucha understood your question, and I disagree with Jaybird. It is not that difficult to start over with a new set of ratings.

To answer your question directly, there is no "universal reset" feature. If you want to wipe out all of your ratings and start over, you do have to do them one at a time, but if you have "hundreds" of ratings (and not many thousands) it shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes total. Even if you had 10,000 ratings, you could have them all deleted in an hour or so.

Here is the fast way to do it. In IE, go to music.yahoo.com and sign in. On the Launchcast Radio tab, go to "edit my station". When that page comes up, you will have a list of links on the left side of your page.

First, let's reset all your artists. Click on the Artists link. This brings up a list of your rated artists, sorted from highest to lowest. Launchcast shows you 20 at one time, and gives you a drop-down list so you can go to any group of 20. Go to your "last" artists. When they come up, double click on the rating widget for each artist. This causes the ratings for those artists to go away. Click "Previous 20". Repeat the procedure until all of your artist ratings are gone. You should be able to delete 100-200 ratings per minute. (I suggested going to the end and working backwards to make it easy to delete them all. Otherwise, if you delete the first 20 and then click next, Launchcast may reorder your list and you may end up skipping a screenful each time.)

Go back to your Edit Station page and repeat the procedure for Albums and Songs.

Finally, to reset your genres, go back to your Edit page and click on Genres. Here you will have to just work your way through all the genres looking for those you have rated. Reset them the same way, by double clicking on the widget. If this part takes longer than 2 minutes, I would be surprised.

Now you have a station with no ratings, ready for you to start your ratings anew.

Good luck with this.

Answer 2

Yes. Go to your home page and it will list you favorite Genres. Click on one of them and it will take you to a page with all possible genres listed. Double click on any of the ratings bars and it will reset.
I asked Yahoo and they said you can not limit your station to just a particulair list of artists, as it would cause some sort of copyright infrigment if thats what youre trying to do. They will still recomend artists for you.

Answer 3

no I don't think it is. it's almost easier to make a new user name and start from scratch