You can have 20 three minute pie slices in the clock (if your songs average over 3 minutes, that would mean your hour would have several minutes more than it needs... in Matthew's case that works out to 63-65 minutes of music per hour) and if you have a hard timed event either make next or start immediately at 59:59 it would skip the last several songs. Hope that helps, Robert
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Chambers < [email protected]> wrote: > 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.* > * > * > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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