I just changed it in the database not through rdlibrary lol. I have to be
soo complicated.

Anyway thanks for telling me about random being deprecated. Can there be a
workaround... such as a php script that randomizes cuts in the database? I
don't know if you know anything about PHP.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Luigino Bracci <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A small bug: When you choose _two or more carts_ in the rdlibrary and you
> click the Edit button, the "Edit Carts" dialog shows a "Scheduled cuts"
> option, letting you to choose between Sequential or Random cuts.
>
>
> 2012/1/2 Robert Orr <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi Patrick,
>> Here's a quote from the news file:
>> v1.0.0rc0 -- 04/10/2008
>> snip
>> Changes:
>>  Random Cut Rotation Retired.  The ability to schedule cuts to rotate
>>  'randomly' within a cart has been removed, with all cut rotation now
>>  using the original 'sequential' algorithm.
>> /snip
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Robert
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Patrick Schmalstig / WRRJ Radio
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I tried the following when it comes to randomizing rivendell cuts... and
>> > none of them have been a success:
>> >
>> > *Shuffling cut names in database via. PHP script (caused cuts to have
>> wrong
>> > lengths and settings)
>> > *Clearing play log (did nothing)
>> > *Cleared play and local counters for all cuts (did nothing)
>> > *Cleared last play date time field for all cuts (did nothing)
>> > *Restarted rivendell daemons (shut them down before, put them back
>> online
>> > after, all the above processes were done)
>> > *Setting all cuts to Play Sequence value # 1 (Random) in database (they
>> play
>> > in a different order since they were 0 but it's been that same exact
>> order
>> > ever since I changed the values to 1... even after all the tasks above
>> were
>> > done)
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any hints on how to shuffle my cuts on a per-cart basis
>> > efficiently? ...even if I have to use a PHP script executed on a
>> schedule to
>> > make MySQL queries?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Patrick Schmalstig / WRRJ Radio
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> I have went through the database on my Rivendell 2.1.0 system under
>> Ubuntu
>> >> Studio 11.10 and set all my music carts' play order from 0 to 1 to
>> indicate
>> >> to play cuts randomly.
>> >>
>> >> It doesn't seem random enough. It's like if I was playing a regular
>> >> rotation except the cuts are in different order; they only get
>> randomized
>> >> once.
>> >>
>> >> I tried executing a script to clear all play counters of the cuts and
>> >> clear the Production_SRT table containing the history. What happens is
>> the
>> >> system simply begins playing at the same order it had before... it
>> doesn't
>> >> randomize it again.
>> >>
>> >> Example a cart with cut numbers 1 2 3 4 and 5 will play in the order 1
>> 2 3
>> >> 4 5 when I have the play order set to 0... sequential.
>> >> Now with the random order (play counter 1), it ALWAYS starts with cut
>> 1,
>> >> then maybe it'll play in an order such as 1 2 4 3 5.
>> >> But when I clear all counters and logs, the system simply goes back to
>> >> playing in the same random order as before, ex 1 2 4 3 5... it doesn't
>> >> re-randomize the cut orders.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way to remedy this situation? I'd like to be able to have
>> a
>> >> new different cut order in my carts each day with my script clearing
>> and
>> >> resetting the counters and logs in the Rivendell mysql database (or if
>> you
>> >> know of additional things I have to do in the database please let me
>> know).
>> >>
>> >> Sorry if this sounds confusing.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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