On 01/01/2012 06:58 PM, Patrick Schmalstig / WRRJ Radio wrote: > 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?
It may have changed, but historically the advice was to have one cut per cart. The exception was with advertisements or IDs and the like where you might have various versions but it didn't really matter which played, as long as one did. Usually it was just a sequential rotation. For instance you might schedule an ad to run three times an hour - at the top of the hour, at 20 minutes after, and at 20 till. Having three different versions of the ad keeps it from being repetitive but you don't really care which ad is when. Songs and the like only had a single cut per cart, and the scheduler would select the cart based on group, scheduler codes, etc. See the wiki page: http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Managing_Scheduler_Rules for more details. It may be that you have a specific need for having multiple cuts per cart, but in general I believe that having one per cart makes the system more manageable, and I think that's how it was designed. The scheduler program would pick the carts, presumably randomizing them as appropriate based on criteria you specify. Others, more knowledgeable than me, can chime in with more advice if I'm steering you wrong... ...Kevin -- Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb Juneau, Alaska In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://linuxcounter.net _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
