Chris,
Rivendell makes this really easy.
You create 8 One Hour Clocks.
The EVENTS will be the Top of the Hour Fol De Rol which may be 1-10 or
more seperate events, The main programme for that hour EVENT(S) and a
series of Fill events which give you more than an hours programme, with
the Top of the Following hour event pre-empting unneeded fill events.
Lets call them Clock1, Clock2....Clock8
Then put the right clock in the right hour in the GRID and you have a
day/week schedule that you create a log for and thats what runs.
You will need a CART for each element, and I recommend creating an EVENT
for each element, but you can stack as many as you like in an event.
I suggest you plot one event per minute which gives you 60 in an hour,
and if you don't need that many plot one every 2 minutes but 1 minute
duration so you have convenient gasps for putting stuff in later on.
The time you allow in the clock has no bearing on the actual running
time of the event. I have 1 minute events which vary from a few seconds
to 59 minutes in actual duration. The clock model is just an easy visual
aid, and if you are happier putting in approximate durations so you can
'see' how your hour looks then go for it.
Your fill EVENTS at the end of the hour can be selections from a GROUP
which has 1001 CARTS and you might have 5 or more at the end of the
hour. Rivendell will NOT programme out exactly to the end of the hour
and if the rollover time is critical then you may have to do some manual
tweaking to the log. You can Programme a lot of short events which fill
out to the hour, or if you have the right audio card you can have some
time manipulation for the entire hour which will deliver an exact time out.
Doing the clocks is relatively easy once you have figured out the elements.
regards
Robert Jeffares
On 02/09/2015 08:05 AM, Chris Howard - CBR wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was pretty hot and heavy into installation and configuration a year
ago, right after we got our LPFM CP. But I put that aside
and I've been doing organizational stuff and fundraising for most
of the last year.
Now our CP is winding down and I'm hoping we will have the $$$ and
meanwhile trying to get ready for the day when I can take shipment
of the equipment. So I'm back looking at Rivendell configuration.
Our "format" is audio books. Hourly "shows" consisting of
a few small introductory, top-of-the-hour bits, then one
or more large bits (30-40 minutes long) and then usually
an assortment from the library of shorter pieces to fill the hour.
We want to have an 8-hour block of this. Then we want
to repeat that log twice, to make our 24 hour day.
I don't want to just record the 8 hour block and replay it
(although it may come to that), because I can see that we
might have a bit of give and take at the end of our 8 hours
which would then be multiplied X3 by the time we got
to the end of the day.
So, I am considering how to play the log three times.
That would let rdairplay fill or trim as necessary.
My current idea is to have some SQL statements which
will take the log table and copy everything in it two more
times... staying in the same table. I would generate
the log, run this SQL script and BAM, we are x3.
-or-
make two more tables logA, logB, and add two chaining events
at the end of the main, generated log to fire them off.
Before I dive in I would like to know if there are implications
from either way, or even a better way that I have not
considered. My Rivendell mindset has faded a bit, I may
be completely off track.
Hope you all are doing fine and I thank you for your support.
Chris Howard
Classic Book Radio
WMFH-LP 95.5 (CP)
Columbus, MS
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