Hi Tim, You can't do much to prevent playlists from looping. The only option is to empty the playlist file and reload. It won't work if it's really empty (there's a protection to not reload in this case, not sure it it's a great idea) but you can fake an empty playlist by putting e.g. a fake URL in it, iirc.
The best solution is probably to not use playists. If you're generating the playlist from a script, it should be easy to push items to a queue instead. Unlike the playlist, the queue will only play once, and fail when it becomes empty. Hope this helps, David On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Tim Baker <timbear...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a question about the best way of doing a feature on my radio station, > Radio Clash Live - I've hacked up a way of doing it, which might be useful > for others, but nagging me there might be a better way of doing it. > > Currently I want to play shows from a latest.pls which is an autogenerated > playlist file (Python) of the file with the latest modification date, so I > have a 'Latest show' slot: > > radioclashlatest = > playlist(mode="normal",reload=3200,"/home/shows/featuredshows/radioclash/talk/latest.pls") > > slotradioclashlatest =rotate(weights = > [1,1],[delay(120.,promos),radioclashlatest]) > > All far so simple. Thing is, if the latest playlist say has a short show, > and finishes early, what then? I usually have a few extra music tracks, but > say if it's 1 hour show in a 2 hour show, this will repeat it. > > I've tried to do this: > > slotradioclashlatest =rotate(weights = > [1,1,1],[delay(120.,promos),radioclashlatest, radioclashnormal]) > > Problem with that, is you can't easily prioritise a playlist in a slot, so > say if last week 'radioclashnormal' hadn't finished playing, then the latest > slot would start with an old show, not the first one in the stack? > > This 'resume' feature is nice, but is there a way of 'resetting' a playlist > or slot to always play from the start, every time? I've asked this before > and people didn't respond on here, so thought I'd try again. For other > playlists this is a great feature, so if you tune back in next time it > starts where it left off...but for slots for new shows, not so great. > > What would be ideal is for it to cascade, a bit like fallback but for a slot > - so always start with one playlist, then when that's finished, play from > another backup one. I know I can do that with fallback for the whole stream, > but this would be per timed slot? > > thanks > > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Savonet-users mailing list > Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users > -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
