On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:37, Fred Gleason <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2012, at 04:58 14, James Harrison wrote: > > > This could be done in Rivendell /fairly/ easily if you just limited it > to rdlogedit, but as soon as you start trying to make RD actually enforce > this - you'd have to have logic in rdairplay too, and that would really > have to check historic play logs as well as the upcoming log, which > probably gets quite complex. > > I tend to agree with James here -- this is really more of a workforce > discipline issue. > Hi Fred et. al., We use Rivendell at a College/Community Freeform station where each DJ generally selects his or her own play-list in real-time during his or her show. We also are subject to some ridiculous rules involving how many cuts from a single artist/album can be played in an X hour window due to SoundExchange streaming rules for non profit stations. Thus, we are in a situation where this feature would be very helpful, and where the issue is not a simple problem of workforce discipline. Each of our DJs arrive to their shows without knowledge of what the DJs in the hours prior to them played. It is unrealistic to expect them to review the logs from the previous X hours before they make any decisions regarding what music to play during their show. If Rivendell could alert them to a possible violation of the "no more than X songs from a given artist per Y hour window" rule, it would be very helpful in minimizing the likelihood that they would violate this rule. I can understand how this is less of an issue if all programming is being overseen by a central authority, but in a system such as ours where programing decisions are distributed and made on-the-fly, Rivendell-based clash checking would be very helpful. We do okay without it, but I wanted to point out how this feature might be more useful than it has been given credit for thus far. All the best, Andy Sayler www.andysayler.com www.wmfo.org P.S. It's not the staff that needs to be whacked/shocked for violating these rules. It's the individuals who create such rules and think they are a reasonable way to enforce copyright/revenue generation/etc that deserve the corporal punishment.
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