In the days of magnetic tape cartridges, a "cart" was a physical plastic object containing a loop of tape. You could wind any amount of tape onto a cart, up to about 10 minutes in an NAB Type A cart, which was the only type most radio broadcasters used (there were larger type B and Type C carts, the latter used in backgrouond music systems, where they held up to an hour of audio).
The tape was an infinite loop; just before the beginning of each cut was a Stop cue, so you left the cart running after the spot or song was done, and it would cue itself up and be ready for the next play.
You could put more than one cut on a cart; for instance, a three-minute cart might have three :60's or six :30's. If you have multiple versions of a spot, you could use this feature to make them rotate evenly throughout the spot's schedule.
This brings me to a minor quibble with Rivendell: it doesn't work that way. Instead of rotating the cuts in a cart successively, it chooses them at random, so you can't make them rotate evenly. You may get the same piece of copy twice in a row, which is probably not what the sponsor wants.
I have a client who just added several new top-of-hour station ID's to a cart, and he's reporting that only the newly added ones are playing; the older cuts don't seem to play at all. And yes, he's running 2.11.0.
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