Hi John, Would you mind explaining your method a little further. I am also interested in finding a solution as I have not yet managed to fill to the top of the hour for news without having to overfill the hour.
Thanks in advance Lee -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:51 AM To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System Subject: Re: [RDD] Back timing Opps, forgot a couple of things. It will not be exact, because of the +/- margin and t doesn't take into account segues in the songs or sweepers so if you want it to always be long I would add a variable of minusMargin and make it 0. Then change the 2 select lines that get the songs. Change this: GROUP_NAME in ({2}) order by Rand() limit 1".format((secLeft-margin), (secLeft+margin), musicGroups)) To This: GROUP_NAME in ({2}) order by Rand() limit 1".format((secLeft-minusMargin), (secLeft+margin), musicGroups)) Hope that helps and doesn't confuse anyone too much John On 1/28/2013 2:53 AM, Jay Eames wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've done some digging around on Google and the like, but so far have > been unable to find a definitive answer. > > As far as I understand it, Rivendell does not support back timing, > which is presenting us with a bit of a problem when it comes to the > run up to the news. > > The news is hard timed to the top of the hour, and when in automatic > mode it will play music before hand. The problem is that to ensure > there isn't silence before the news we overfill the hour, but this > often means that we end up playing less than 30 seconds of a track > before the news fires. Clearly this doesn't sound very good at all. > > I am interested in how other people deal with TOTH hard starts like > this in Rivendell? Is there something obvious (or not so obvious) that > I'm missing? > > Jay > > -- > There are 2 kinds of people in the world; Those who can > extrapolate from incomplete data > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
