Confirming that we also put the ID as the first event of the next hour, not the last event of the previous hour. We were getting occasional dropped ID's at the midnight cross-over if it was the last event, but no drops when it's the first of the next hour.
We also use 2 logs--Main is music with about 430 songs for a day and an 'advance to' marker to move the playlist along so it is close to midnight for the crossover. Stopsets and program length material is in Aux 1 with macro commands for switching between them. How we do this is explained here: http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/pipermail/rivendell-dev/2017-March/025572.html Using 2 logs keeps us from having to spend man hours with log timing- -as an all-volunteer station, we just do not have that kind of manpower. Log loading takes about 1 second with our music and spot/program load, which--once at midnight--is no big deal for us (we are a non-comm), but the cron job for log loading may be something we should look at. --Chuck On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 17:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Pab Sungenis <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: [RDD] Major Problems > > Another trick I?ve used is to set a cron event to send an RML LL > command to RDAirplay to load the next day?s log every night at > 11:58PM, then moved the legal ID from the last event of the hour to > the first, and made the midnight one not timed.? > This way any over-scheduled music will be dumped when the next day?s > log is loaded, and the next event after whatever is playing at 11:58 > pm will be the legal ID leading into the midnight hour.? > This also has the added benefit of bypassing the need to chain logs, > especially on slower machines. When I was using chained logs, we > could have up to ten seconds of dead air while RDAirplay loaded the > next day?s log. Now that happens in the background while music is > playing, allowing for a seamless transition.? > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
