There are 3 problems we have encountered while testing Rivendell for migration of our community station to its use.
1) We are using the log generating feature to schedule our music hours. After opening the generated log in RDLogEdit, it has a “Reports” function that the wiki says should create a text copy of the log. The “Generate” button flashes very quickly, but does not seem to actually do anything. In getting playout reports, it was clear that a path for those had to be specified in RDAdmin > Manage Reports, however, there is no listing for such a path option there for the “Log Listing” of RDLogEdit, and further, I am not finding a path option after checking every possible option screen pretty carefully. How do I actually generate that “Log Listing” in RDLogEdit > Reports? 2) After several hours of researching the forum list, I find others asking about this next problem, but never is there a definitive answer in the threads that I was able to find. About half the hours of our day end with 4 to 6 underwriting/weather/promo announcements. All hours start with a legal ID--placement of that is flexible within the usual limits, so no real need to put a time to it, but I have tried it both ways: 'make next' and 'wait'. In testing our typical day on Rivendell, my problem is that spots scheduled for the end of an hour are very often skipped, sometimes all of them entirely. Even if I enter them as timed 'make next' events, they are skipped. Don't timed events imply they are not to be subject to being dropped? How do I stop those events from being skipped? On some occasions, those events follow long-form talk programs or docs; other times it comes out of our eclectic music mix. Either way, those spot events are being dropped, and they include underwriting money. I have tried moving them to the start of the next hour, and even there, events are dropped or cut off to get the legal ID on before 5 past the hour--oddly, doing that dropping even when there actually is enough time to play them all and still get the ID on before 5 past rolls by. 3) Finally, during music hours,--even though I have scheduled up to 6 x 2 minute songs preceding the hour in the clock, the scheduler occasionally puts in a song up to, or more than, 7 minutes long in those 2 minute slots (a 10:13 event appeared there yesterday). We have over 30,000 song tracks imported, so there is no lack of tracks under 3 minutes (over 12,000, actually). What do I have to do to stop the scheduling of 6+ minute songs in clock slots defined as 2 minute events? At this point of testing, I have not limited the scheduler from picking any of the 30,000 songs by further defining genre or anything--it just will not always pick shorter songs for some reason, even with the whole library at its disposal. Any help with these items greatly appreciated. --Chuck Waggoner _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
