Loren, I had something very similar. SAM seemed to be finding tracks and little audio clips from some of the games I had on the drive. I have no idea why, as SAM has never been in those directories. There is no reason for SAM to grab a track that has never been played before. I still have problems with SAM grabbing stuff from a promo or ID category, when the track has been limited to a weight of Zero. Somehow it will get played. This has gone on with SAM since I started using it.
Good luck. I am not the one to ask about the script issue. The only thing I could think of was something related to the rules part of the command line. If SAM was finding some random track or snippet somewhere, it would be just like I deal with. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Loran Partigianoni Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [General-discussion] PAL script errors Can anyone explain why a PAL script thaat has been working for more than a year suddenly start acting strange. Here's the script: PAL.Loop := true; PAL.loop := true; PAL.WaitForTime ('XX:00:00'); Cat['Billboard'].QueueTop(smLRP,NoRules); Cat['Themes'].QueueTop(smLRP, NoRules) ; CAT['Carpenters'].QueueTop(smLRP, NoRules); CAT['Captain'].QueueTop(smLRP, NoRules); CAT['ABBA'].QueueTop(smLRP, NoRules); What it is supposed to do? At the Top of the Hour it should randomly pick one song from each category. And, for nearly a year that's eactly what it did. What is actually happening? (all of a sudden, after the last SAM4 upgrade) One song from all categories is thrown into the queue, however more than one Theme is tossed into the queue. Never more than one from the other categories. The only difference between the songs all of the categories is that the Themes are short snippets of TV Themes that are always less than 60 seconds, whereas all of the songs in the other categories are full-length songs. I've tried adding the Wait command for either 1 play (even 2 plays) and I tried having it wait 1 minute (even 2 minutes) but it ignores my instruction. i.e.: PAL.WaitForTime(T['+00:01:00']); or PAL.WaitForPlayCount(2); Now if that isn't weird enough, at least once and maybe twice SAM trhows in one or more extra themes during the remeinder of the hour and never in any predictable pattern, like there is a ghost PAL being executed. This is not the normal flooding the queue situation ... it's unpredictable or at best ghostly. I'd really appreciate any suggestions, becaus this usedd to work as regular as clock work. I have stopped the PAL script and even deleted it ... and if it was a ghost script you would tink it would continue to toss in ocassional Theme selections, but it's never done that when the script is inactive or deleted. It's driving me nuts (some people would tell you that not really a drive, it's more like a SHORT WALK.) <grin> Thanks Loran _______________________________________________ General-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.spacialaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/general-discussion TO unsubscribe to this list, simply send a blank email to [email protected] with the subject 'unsubscribe'
