I realize there are different purposes for every station under the sun, but hitting the news dead-on the hour doesn't have to be a critical function.
On the forum topic "Question on Clocks+Grids" from a few days earlier, I had posted that Rivendell can capture and play out a newscast as it is being recorded (http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Delayed_playback). In the event a song rolls over the top of the hour and ends - say - at :01:00 or so after the hour, RDCatch begins recording the newscast as it comes in to the station. The first cart of the hour could be a Newscast cart which will roll a delayed playback of the network news; as the head of the file is playing out, the tail is still being recorded by Rivendell. Many paid-for automation suites have been able to do this for years. We miss the top of the hour by a short amount of time, but the song gets to end without being cut off or detectably sped up, and the news runs in its entirety. I'm not belittling anyone's need to precisely hit the news or any other event right on schedule -- I'm only mentioning that this is a feature already in Rivendell, designed to uncomplicate our lives and our logs (as long as our scheduling of music and announcements gets us close to where we want to be). As it is, many music stations are already incredibly loose when it comes to the start of newscasts, and few listeners are depending on those stations to be the Oracle of Time. my .02. -ap _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
