On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Kevin Miller wrote:
> 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. In my experience, advertisers often supply multiple pieces of copy, sometimes with specific instructions for rotating them (e.g. 40% cut A, 50% cut B, 10% cut C). I have never seen an order asking for random rotation. With station ID's and liners, the practice of my clients is to rotate them sequentially. > 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. Putting more than one song on a cart detracts from a programmer's ability to control the sound of his station, as it makes it impossible to know which song on the cart will play in any particular instance. I don't know why anyone would want to do such a thing. With each song on its own cart, you get to specify exactly when they'll play, and you know what all the segues will be. If there are multiple songs on a cart you'll never know for sure, and some "truck crashes" will be inevitable. Rob _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
