No you are on the right track, In my clocks each hour typically ends up with 63-65 minutes of audio. All of my song slots are 3 min long but it does schedule songs that are longer. In my case up to 5 minutes long. When I get to the top of the hour, I have a "System Update" macro event that actually doesn't do anything other then take up a spot in the log. It is setup in the events to be hard timed to 59:56.6 to start immediately even if the previous cart is still playing so that it will fade out of the song to be ready for our legal id. It is also setup with a Stop transition in case for some odd reason nothing was playing that it would wait to the top of the hour to play the legal id which is the next cart after this event.
Hope that makes sense and helps. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > We just discovered that we are having some scheduling and Top of the > Hour issues as well. > > We aren't using any external programs just Rivendell. We are very > possibly doing something wrong because we don't understand exactly how > things work. > > We generated 24 clocks several months ago and one problem I discovered > yesterday is that when it generates a log many times an hour comes up > several minutes short, like yesterday there was an hour that only had > 53 minutes of music scheduled. > > I examined it more closely and one problem I see now is that the guy > that created clocks has (I think) too many long slots (like six > minutes) for our "Gold" category. I looked through the Gold songs and > there are only 7 songs that are longer than 6 minutes and one 8 minute > song. > > So in yesterdays log it filled some of the six minute slots with 3 and > 4 minute songs, making those hours short. I'm having him go through > the clocks and adjust so there is only 1 six minute slot per day and > only a few 5 minute slots. But we don't know if that 8 minute song > will ever get scheduled now? > > I thought we could just overschedule every clock by one song and then > it will get dropped if the hour runs long (that seems to work fine in > our tests). But he says he won't let him create clocks that are > longer than 59:99. > > Are we completely off base here? > > Thanks, > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- *Matthew A. Chambers, CBT* Assist. Broadcast Engineer *KWIX - KRES - KIRK - KTCM* 300 West Reed Street Moberly, MO 65270 660-263-1500 FAX: 660-269-8811 Cell: 660-676-3219 www.centralmoinfo.com *Super Station KRES 104.7 FM* *Information Radio KWIX 1230 AM* *The Captain KIRK 99.9 FM* *Glory KTCM 97.3 FM* * * *[image: FlatCertLogoGradient_000.jpg] * * * *This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.* * *
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