The problem that I see many people are having with the clocks is that they
probably don't understand how they work. The music slots here are just
placeholders for a song, no matter how long or short the song is. The song
could be 8 minutes long and in your clock the slot says it's only 2 minutes,
the song will still schedule because we really don't have a time limit on the
slot even though it says it's two minutes.
When using an external scheduler, I just create a clock with only one slot,
this slot is 59:59 long, yet, I get as many songs as my external scheduler will
place in an hour.
Now, when using traffic software, you do have to specify how many units and how
long the units can be in order to place in a certain slot.
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From: Robert Jeffares <[email protected]>
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RDD] More Scheduling and Top of the Hour Questions
simple solution : don't use real times for music elements.
make all music selections 1 minute long and [for example] schedule a group of 4
then an event that sync's the log to wall time
the sync bumps the last track if necessary
I have 6 or 8 tracks at the end of an hour each scheduled on the CLOCK as
1minute duration but we know the average song length here is about 3:30
with a bit of observation it is possible to build clocks that always over fill
the hour, and bump selections you can live with.
my sync's preceed an ad break so we always get the ad breaks.
regards
Robert Jeffares
Big Valley Radio
Thames
New Zealand
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:37 AM, <[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
>
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