Let me stick my nose in here for a bit, totally ignorant of where Rivendell presently is on this point, and recap how I've always understood this was supposed to be done; people who are using it every day can tell me why it doesn't work this way. :-)
If I schedule an hour of music, announcements, and spots, and all my music has properly timed and carted intro and outro segue areas, then that hour of music has some "air" in it: I don't *have to* use up all of the available talk-over space at each end of each song, and, in a 14 song hour, that can amount to a considerable amount of squeeze space in that hour, as much as two minutes, I would expect. If I leave my segues loose, then I can tighten them up when necessary to hit an outcue, spreading it over enough songs that it's not especially noticeable. Is the problem that the external scheduler does not provide a way to put in the hard time mark so you can hit it? Or is it that the adjustment of "air" in that hour to hit the hard time is not presently something Rivendell itself can do? (IE: is this a lack of metadata bandwidth in the schedule data between the scheduler and Rivendell?) Cause this seems like it ought not to be that hard to get accomplished. What layer is the molasses leak in? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
