Folks, I feel like a super novice trying to make a suggestion here, given my lack of high-level (maybe even low and medium-level) knowledge and experience. But, here's our super low tech method for dealing with automated programming and variable length carts.
First, we have 3 different events for the top of the hour Legal ID. We use these different clocks based on the variability in a given clock's programming length. a) Strict -- the legal ID plays right at the scheduled time b) short wait -- we set wait until for 1:45 c) long wait -- we set wait until 4:50 The long wait is mostly used for all music clocks Second, we add as a the last clock element an event that picks a cart from a group "FILL" which is filler music. All of this is instrumental music. The idea was that for a clock hour with a variable length program (much of our programming is talk, news, analysis that is pre-recorded), the hour would be filled out with FILL music until the next timed event, which is the Top of the Hour for the next clock hour. My apologies for the primitive nature of my suggestion, and also if my suggestion totally misses the mark of what the original poster needed. Rene On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "MICHAEL SMITH" <[email protected]> > > > +1: That kind of feature would be really useful for automated hours of > > playback. Jay Ashworth: are you talking about a presenter orientated > > show where they can start the last track to hit the top of the hour? > > Well, on reflection, what I was talking about was more suited to full > automation; for semiautomation, I guess you'd have to do some more work > in calculating the time-remaining-to-hardcue for the announcer, so they > know how hard they can push things before they're going to have to clip > something to make the cue. > > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Democracy is not a spectator sport" Ithaca Community Radio -- 88.1 FM in Ithaca WRFI 91.9 FM in Watkins Glen WINO 89.9 FM in Odessa News, Culture & Information from our Neighborhoods and the World *Phone*: 607.319.5445 *Email*: [email protected] *Web*: http://ithacaradio.org/ Mailing address: The Clinton House 103 West Seneca St. Suite 305 Ithaca, N.Y, 14850
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