radiodungog
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Hello,
Last Friday we loaded a full week of scheduled programs on RadioBOSS. For simplicity sake I will outline a typical day of the Monday to Friday schedule.
Schedule 23:59:50 All Days, generate Auto-Easy-370 (Easy Listening 370 minutes), Remove previous schedule from the playlist, Clear playlist
Schedule 05:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Early-Rock-60 (Early Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 06:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro + news + news sponsor message), all news broadcasts are scheduled with the one entry but have been reproduced here and below to show that repetition)
Schedule 06:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Easy-670 (Easy Listening 670 minutes, music is over-provisioned to avoid running short)
Schedule 07:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 08:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 09:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 10:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 11:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 12:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 13:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 14:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 15:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 16:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 17:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 17:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Pop-60 (Pop 60 minutes)
Schedule 18:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 18:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Early-Rock 60 (Early Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 19:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 19:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Motown-Magic-60 (Motown Magic 60 minutes)
Schedule 20:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 20:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Frogs-Country-60 (Frogs Country 60 minutes)
Schedule 21:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 21:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Oz-Rock-60 (Oz Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 22:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Classic-Rock-60 (Classic Rock 60 minutes)
REPEAT
From the above scheduling procedure the following is achieved:
1. Schedule 23:59:50 is used to remove excess music before the start of a new day
2. All programs are inserted into residual playlist at 10 seconds before the hour
3. News is inserted into residual playlist on the hour (after the next hour program has been inserted)
4. We over-provision music by about 5-10 minutes per program to make sure we don't run out of music
5. By using the insert process we end up pushing all the excess music to the end of the day and then the Schedule 23:59:50 setting is used to remove excess music before the start of a new day
Is the process shown above the best way to do it ? If not, what would you suggest ?
We tried to delete the unplayed music at the start of each program but found that the news was inserted ahead of the new program and not played. Is there any simple way around this ?
Thanks, Jamie C.
Last Friday we loaded a full week of scheduled programs on RadioBOSS. For simplicity sake I will outline a typical day of the Monday to Friday schedule.
Schedule 23:59:50 All Days, generate Auto-Easy-370 (Easy Listening 370 minutes), Remove previous schedule from the playlist, Clear playlist
Schedule 05:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Early-Rock-60 (Early Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 06:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro + news + news sponsor message), all news broadcasts are scheduled with the one entry but have been reproduced here and below to show that repetition)
Schedule 06:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Easy-670 (Easy Listening 670 minutes, music is over-provisioned to avoid running short)
Schedule 07:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 08:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 09:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 10:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 11:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 12:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 13:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 14:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 15:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 16:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 17:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 17:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Pop-60 (Pop 60 minutes)
Schedule 18:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 18:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Early-Rock 60 (Early Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 19:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 19:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Motown-Magic-60 (Motown Magic 60 minutes)
Schedule 20:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 20:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Frogs-Country-60 (Frogs Country 60 minutes)
Schedule 21:00:00 Mon-Fri, w:\playlist\news.m3u (news intro, news, news sponsor message)
Schedule 21:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Oz-Rock-60 (Oz Rock 60 minutes)
Schedule 22:59:50 Mon-Fri, generate Auto-Classic-Rock-60 (Classic Rock 60 minutes)
REPEAT
From the above scheduling procedure the following is achieved:
1. Schedule 23:59:50 is used to remove excess music before the start of a new day
2. All programs are inserted into residual playlist at 10 seconds before the hour
3. News is inserted into residual playlist on the hour (after the next hour program has been inserted)
4. We over-provision music by about 5-10 minutes per program to make sure we don't run out of music
5. By using the insert process we end up pushing all the excess music to the end of the day and then the Schedule 23:59:50 setting is used to remove excess music before the start of a new day
Is the process shown above the best way to do it ? If not, what would you suggest ?
We tried to delete the unplayed music at the start of each program but found that the news was inserted ahead of the new program and not played. Is there any simple way around this ?
Thanks, Jamie C.