Hi, From what I've read I don't understand why you are scheduling specific songs/carts in the logs manually if what you really want is a generated log. RDLogedit lets you manually create playlists and is only really used as an exception to the normal logs for example if you have a one off live OB show (or you can use it to edit the generated logs).
You really want to start from rdlogmanager and set up your events. This website was really helpful and I think was linked in the wiki: http://thebrettblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/rivendell-how-to-schedule-music/ First of all create your events, such as rock, pop, top of the hour, bottom of the hour. For rock etc you would just select music from the rock cart group. You can then edit the scheduler rules for this event so that you can increase/decrease artist separation or maybe have a don't schedule after any songs with the fast scheduler code etc etc (this is really up to you to plan out the codes and groups so they make sense). The way you make sure your logs are on time is to over schedule (maybe 2 or 3 extra songs so there will always be enough for 1 hour) and then use the top/bottom of the hour events as hard timed to start on the hour (or half hour). You can add fade out macro carts to make the transition more pleasing on the ears. Once you've done that you build clocks from the events and grids from the clocks. Make sure you add auto append chain to next days log. There has been discussion on the list recently about how best to do this to avoid scheduling problems where a day is skipped so please refer to that for best practice. I'm not sure exactly how you would play songs from the same album unless you had macros that did it? You might be able to use scheduler codes if you can get creative, you might have to tweak the artist/album separation. Plus I think you'd end up with tons of codes so you could keep album tracks together. My advice is read the web page link and get your head around the scheduler, most of what you're asking can be done using that and tweaking rules. Regards, Wayne On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:30:18 -0000, Patrick Schmalstig / WRRJ Radio <[email protected]> wrote: > I've tried to understand the logistics behind the log system. The issue > with my station though when it comes to logs is timing. I tried using > logs > before. It didn't work properly (was I doing something wrong?). The logs > did not satisfy the times I specified when generating them... not even > close. If I started a log at 12, it could be up to 3 or 4 hours off by > the > end of the day. > > Secondly, the clock system seemed weird because I had to insert a new > piece > FOR EVERY TRACK I wanted to play... instead of inserting one piece for > every "genre period, commercial period, et cetera" I wanted. And again it > was not even close to staying on sync when the logs were generated. > > Third, I like to have random albums played, and a few tracks from each > album. I have a PHP script that successfully plays random albums, and the > logs are set to play not one but a few tracks from that album before > moving > to another random one. I'd like to keep it that way. > > Finally... the way I'm setting up the station to allow other churches to > participate... and the groups I have to make... I have it set so only I > can > use up to 1000 carts for myself... so that it's divided that all churches > can use up to 100 each. > > It also, even though you say it's better, isn't easier for me, to have > one > cut per cart and then have a log system. I already spend enough time as > it > is managing my church website... I don't really have the time to spend > operating with these log rotations and clocks... and having one track of > a > song per cart. Now if there was another person that COULD help me with > the > station I probably could use logs... but the problem is... where I live > right now... there is no one who can help me. Much less, there isn't > anyone > who would give two cents about the station and would actually be reliable > when it comes to helping me out. I feel that way from experience. > > But regardless... I am open to you helping me understand this logging > system and use it right so that it's not so off in timing... if you care > to > explain. 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