just looked at this and you need to set Title Seperation in Event to 100 or 120 or so. Setting to 1 won't give you waht you want
regards Robert On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Morten Krarup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your help, I really want to do this right. > > I created a new Group - B rotation for my test: > http://imgur.com/MYcTr > None of these songs have scheduler codes, and they all have exactly > four plays, before starting this experiment. > Then I created the event: > http://imgur.com/mfsU4 > Then I created an hour of music: > http://imgur.com/nXV2Y > I assigned this hour to all of Monday and Tuesday and generated a log > for those two days. > Then I guess that each song should be played the same amount of times, > and that the song played on 00:00 at Monday, should be played at 01:00 > on Tuesday. However that didn't happen. Heres the result: > > Moony: 2 plays on Monday, 4 plays on Tuesday = 6 plays for the two days > Soulmagic: 6 Monday, 4 Tuesday = 10 > Missy Elliot: 5 Monday, 7 Tuesday = 12 > Room 5: 7 Monday, 4 Tuesday = 12 > Manijama feat. Mukupa: 4 Monday, 5 Tuesday = 9 > > The song with most plays, is played twice as many times as the least > played song. Also they are played rather random. > Here's the log for Monday: > http://textsnip.com/3ed468 > And Tuesday: > http://textsnip.com/589435 > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thank you. > > Kind regards, > > Morten > > 2012/2/26 Robert Jeffares <[email protected]>: >> You are using one GROUP = MUSIC >> >> Make a New Second GROUP [rdadmin > Manage Groups] >> >> Call it AROTATE >> >> Put the 5 CARTS in the AROTATE GROUP [Use RDLibrary and EDIT] >> >> Make a new EVENT [RDLog Manager Top Option] >> >> Call it "Play an A Rotate" and have it select a Cart from the AROTATE group >> >> Then replace the MUSIC Event at :32 in the CLOCK you are using with >> the new event. >> >> Put the clocks in for a day or 2 or 3 or 5 and create a LOG >> >> Then run the log. >> >> If you have all the tracks in MUSIC and are using Scheduler Codes to >> pick selections you wont get the result you want [ as you have found] >> >> You have got the 5 songs on separate CARTS. If they are all on one >> cart the play will be random. Over time they even out. >> >> I am not in the right place to send you the screenshots that go with >> this. You should be able to find your way there. >> >> While the scheduler code feature is great for setting dayparts, genre, >> tempo, and all the other flags you ever need on a title, the GROUPS >> are the first way to distinguish songs for airplay. >> >> RD will break or ignore scheduler codes. >> >> The GROUP is carved in stone. >> >> Hope this helps >> >> Robert >> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Morten Krarup Nielsen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Thank you for getting back to me. >>> >>>> If you start out with 5 tracks they will schedule evenly. >>> >>> Ok, I tried to rip 5 new tracks from a CD, with 5 different artists >>> not represented in the other categories. >>> I assigned my hour with test music to 5 hours in the grid, so every >>> artist in A rotation should be played exactly one time. All my music >>> is in the Music category, and I use scheduler codes for A rotation, B >>> rotation, Oldies and so on. I have scheduled one A rotation every >>> hour. >>> However: >>> Missy Elliot was played 1 time >>> Room 5 was played 3 times >>> Moony was played 1 time >>> Mukupa was played 0 times >>> Soulmagic was played 0 times >>> >>> How can that be? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Morten >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
