I believe the OP might, like me, have had experience with a playout system like Myriad.
The "auto" mode would ignore any soft "presenter link" type stops between tracks, but would still respect any and all hard timed stop/start events. This allowed for the system to put into automation if a presenter was not available for their shift (think community radio), but would still allow feeds from the switchers to work on the hard timed events. This also meant that in the event of a fire alarm the output could keep running while staff were evacuated without having to do anything more than select the auto mode. While I agree there is no substitute for getting logs set up correctly, there is also no better way of screwing up a stations output than human intervention, or lack of it, especially in a volunteer based organisation. :) On 22 September 2013 04:49, Fred Gleason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 21, 2013, at 13:44 17, Lorne Tyndale wrote: > > > 2. A playback mode where Stop elements are ignored. This would mainly > > be to cover those times when no one is at the station and for some > > reason a stop element has been left in the log. I realize this would be > > more to cover for human error rather then anything else, and for that > > very reason it might be a feature to not implement. I see this as a "no > > one is going to be here, so the system must keep playing audio as long > > as there is audio in the log to play" mode. > > I'm far from sure that this would really be at all useful. It most every > 'real world' scenario that I work with, telling the log to ignore stop > transitions (*especially* when unattended) would generate as much if not > more of a train wreck than a stop inadvertently placed in a log. For > example: think of a log with many automated satellite breaks -- ignoring > stops would be a great way to blow through a day's log in an hour or so! > Unfortunately, there is really no easy substitute for the initial hard > work of getting log templates built and debugged. Once that's done > however, RDLogManager makes it easy to generate logs from those templates > that will work consistently and reliably. > > Cheers! > > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > | -- Cicero | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- There are 2 kinds of people in the world; Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
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