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.
