On Fri, 17 May 2019, 09:38 SlvrEagle23, <notificati...@github.com> wrote:
> I strongly suspect there's already a Liquidsoapy solution for this
> problem, but I'm not aware of what it is, so I figured I'd ask on here:
>
> Currently, when users indicate that they'd like a song to play once per
> day at a specified time (or once per hour), the Liquidsoap config we're
> writing is basically:
>
> radio = switch(track_sensitive=true, [ ({ 2h58m },
> once(playlist_interrupting_cow_moo)), ({true}, radio) ])
>
> However, this is having the effect of only playing the song specified if
> the "next song" is calculated exactly at the 2:58 minute. Of course, when
> track_sensitive is set to false this isn't a problem, and it just
> directly interrupts the existing stream.
>
> However, with track_sensitive set to true, what our users are actually
> looking for is that when the time the track is due to play comes up, the
> song gets queued up as the next-playing song and then right as the current
> track finishes, even if the specific minute when the song should've played
> is up, it goes ahead and plays through anyway.
>
> I'm not sure how to do this in Liquidsoap. We could always just have the
> web application do a minute-by-minute check of songs that are due to play
> at that minute and push to the "requests" queue, but of course I'd like to
> avoid this if at all possible.
>
> I don't know LS way of doing this so I set up a queue then use an 'expect'
script via telnet to drop an item into the queue which overrides the
playlist.
Super system, anyway.
JW
>
>
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