It's a minor note, but one that is not so jarring to the listener's ear: Place your shortest tunes into the last 5-8 or so minutes of the hour. This way, if your Hard Update event has to cut off a song, it won't do so partway through a long-ish tune, which never sounds good.
(I've always thought a prime reason the Box Tops' song "The Letter" was a hit - other than its catchiness - was because it was 1:50, which helped the jock 'cheat' his way to the network news if his hour fell short.) BTW, what is running on your station that calls for a mandatory 00:00 hit? If it's hourly news, could you not employ Rivendell's slip-time playback? This way a song can make it to the end and the news is still intact, although several seconds late. -AP [email protected] > wrote: 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. [email protected] > wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
