On my silly little Part 15 AM'er, my music hours have some "catch-ups" built in --- peppered around the hour are hard-timed marker carts that blow off any overflow music when the clock hits them.
Say I schedule five songs to go from :00:00 to :20:00, but due to random timings I might end up with 23 or more minutes of music that need to fit in there. At :18:30 the log jumps to a hard-time cart with text marker and a WAIT command. If there are one or two songs left to play, they are dropped and the log advances to whatever comes after that cart once the song is over. This happens a few more times in the hour, keeping me fairly close to my quarter-hours and my :20s. In the last waning minutes near TOH, I populate the music playlist with a few Oldies which run 2:00 - 3:00 mins tops, and I put in a MAKE NEXT/WAIT cart with legal ID around :58:00 or so. Any songs left are punted, the song on air plays to completion and the ID hits fairly close to :00:00. Since I'm not doing news, a little slop either side of the hour is OK. I dont feel bad about the songs that never get played. The audience never knows they missed them. -Al Peterson _________________________________ Hello! I'm wondering what would be the best method for setting up logs so that the music would stay roughly on time... especially if a bad estimate of music length is given in the clocks (I have some tracks that are up to 5X+ the length of most others). Would there be a way to accomplish this? And if so, how would it be? _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
