On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 12:02 -0500, Rob Landry wrote:

> 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.

The exception is dayparting. where you have two versions of the song,
one for before the watershed and one for after and use the daypart
options to enforce the playing of the correct cut for the time. It is a
good idea to make the before watershed cut evergreen in this case with
the post watershed cut set with a dayparting option, as this avoids the
possibility of accidentally leaving a gap in which neither cut is
valid.  

> 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.

It is a specialist use case, but more then one cut in a music cart can
sometimes be a valid thing to do, multiple different songs in a cart is
usually doing it wrong however. 

Regards, Dan

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