Hi, I'm still in tinkering mode before I put Rivendell to air with confidence.
I recall in the old days of radio when stations were fully manned TOH was precise, as sharp as a pin, especially non commercial radio. When a filler of music was required whether it be just a few seconds or a minute or so, the audio would fade up into the music in a place so as the song would end at it's proper finishing point, the pips would play finishing right on TOH.
Today however. TOH seems to in many cases developed into rather a sloppy affair. Time fillers can range from a DJ rabbiting on, endless stings, adverts or promos, or worse a song begins at say 0.58 minutes then plays on two minutes past TOH, then on comes the news. Or even worse than that a song begins at 0.59 then fades out before it's finished which sounds rather lazy in my opinion.
The Rivendell manual, section 3.0.1.1 talks about 'Dayparting cuts' within in a cart to play at set points with an end or start time nominated. If I made up a whole series of music interludes of various lengths from say 3 minutes down to a few seconds in 15 second steps with the pips on the end. Put all these multiple cuts in a cart. Used the instructions which relate to 'Dayparting' in the manual would the correct piece of music fade up play and finish precisely on TOH. Or I suppose I could set the music cuts to end 10 seconds short of the hour and a cart consisting of pips only to play starting 10 seconds short of the hour ending on TOH.
Thank you, Owen Dawe. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
