Yeah, I've already found this issue before, so I changed almost all transitions to Play instead of Segue. From what I understood segue can interrupt, so it has two meanings you can edit "segues" manually on a track by track basis, or set "segue" transitions which fade but also interrupt (if i understood correctly). I don't take risks with logs, so I add a manual log chain with RDLogEdit everyday, we had continuous issues with automatic log chaining and I don't trust it. If you know how to schedule a log chain event in a clock please let me know...
We play News at the top of every hour from 11 - 18, so I have a BBC style countdown that interrupts the previous event and then goes into the news. How would I make a long fade on that event, manually inside the cart/cut or event? Or is it a segue transition (and you set a long "manual" or "forced" segue in RDAirplay settings? Best, David On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you using "segue" or "play" transitions? If you're getting unexpected > transitions from one event to the next, unexplainable by the presence of > timed events in your log, try changing all "segue" transitions to "play". > > Re: hard starts at the top of the hour: do they absolutely have to be > right at the top of the hour? If so, you'll need to put some sort of "fill > event" at the end of each hour, such as instrumental music or an > old-fashioned interval signal (e.g "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya") and set > the fade time to three or four seconds to make a gentle fade-out. > > At WSCS and the other WCN stations, there is exactly one hard start each > day, in the middle of the night, preceded by a long piece of fill music; > the rest of the day is programmed to time out naturally as close as > possible to the top of each hour. This works, but not so well that we would > be able to catch CBS news live at the top of the hour. > > Oh, and don't put a hard start or a make-next anywhere near midnight, > unless you know what you're doing. I don't know how many times I've had > calls from people wondering why their stations were running Wednesday's log > on Tuesday. > > > Rob > > -- > Я там, где ребята толковые, > Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд", > Где песни рабочие новые > Страна трудовая поёт. > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, D. B. .B. B. wrote: > > Thanks for the replies. We don't use dropboxes, we import files directly >> from the local drive. I always check segment length when importing against >> the original file. I am 100% sure the files are interrupted, because later >> they would play at their correct length. I overschedule music and I tried >> to >> use Hard Times - Make Next to ensure that priority events played out. But >> I >> think that the best solution is to give extra breathing room in the clocks >> to important events. I try to use "anchors" on top of the hour like a Hard >> Time - Start Immediately with a news countdown or a second of silence to >> anchor the broadcast. I'm not sure how to make it when overscheduling so >> that the broadcast is on schedule without at least a song at the end of >> the >> hour being interrupted by an "anchor" event. >> >> Best, >> >> David >> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2018, D. B. .B. B. wrote: >> >> I am working with Rivendell for a community radio >> station and have >> encountered some issues with tracks - songs and >> shows - being interrupted >> halfway through. It sometimes happens that a longer >> segment is simply >> interrupted without warning and another starts >> playing. This happens for >> both hard time and non-hard time events. Can one >> make an event >> uninterruptable? >> >> >> Are the events truly being interrupted? Or have the audio files >> somehow been truncated? >> >> What happens if you try to play one in rdlibrary? Does the >> actual length of the file correspond to the length Rivendell >> claims? >> >> At stations where long files were uploaded to a dropbox via the >> Internet, I used to see rdimport grab a file while it was still >> uploading, resulting in a truncated file. I stopped setting up >> dropboxes in Rivendell, instead running a Perl script to invoke >> rdimport only after asertaining that the last modification time >> on the file isat least 30 seconds ago. >> >> >> Rob >> >> -- >> Я там, где ребята толковые, >> Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд", >> Где песни рабочие новые >> Страна трудовая поёт. >> >> >> >> I try to schedule as closely as I can but we have very >> different lengths of songs in our library, and it >> seems that often instead >> of skipping the next song it will jump into it >> interrupting. This is a >> serious concern because we have some original >> content that has now been >> twice interrupted mid-air without warning. What >> could be the cause of this >> and how can this be avoided? >> >> Thanks, >> >> David B. >> >> >> >> >> >>
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