Yes, we were confused about that. Yesterday we changed all the slots
so there aren't any over 5 minutes and today every hour has been filled.
Thanks,
-Scott
Quoting Robert Orr <[email protected]>:
> Not quite sure you understand how the internal scheduler fills slots.
> If it sees a slot (pie slice), it puts a song of any length there. The
> slot could be 10 seconds long. It would put one song of any length
> there. The slot could be 35 minutes long... it would put one song of
> any length there. It's merely the number of slots or pie slices that
> determines how many songs will be placed per hour. If you want six
> Bronze songs in the hour... put six Bronze pie slices of any length
> in the hour.
>
> Have a great day,
> Robert
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for all of your replies! We eliminated all of the 5 minutes
>> and longer slots in the Gold group and it seems to be much better today.
>>
>> I have been watching it closely and it has been within a couple of
>> minutes almost every hour today. I have only seen one that was 5
>> minutes early.
>>
>> @Alan - we don't have to be exact, we feel that +/- 5 minutes will be
>> close enough. The problem before was that it was often playing the
>> top of the hour around 15 minutes early and we had a couple that were
>> over 20 minutes early.
>>
>> Tomorrow we are going to eliminate the slots > 4 minutes in the
>> OneHitWonder, Bronze, and Silver groups and I'm sure that will
>> completely eliminate all the problems we had.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks again to everyone for all of your help! It sounds
>> great! Rivendell is pretty amazing, we are planning to go live on Oct
>> 1st.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Alan Peterson <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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