Automatically remove tracks that cross the Hour Marker

[djsoft]

Wouldn't you like to take inspiration from their style too?

This means: completely reworking the scheduler, playlist, and all related things. Not realistic and no practical need for such a rehaul.

Or you could do as you do with VirtualDJ, vMix, or OBS Studio, which let you choose how you want to use the software. So, there's a "Standard" version, as it is now, and an "Advanced" one that includes this style for large FM radio stations.

Feature duplication is a bad software design in most (all) cases.

I think we should approach this form a different angle:

1. What needs to be done: start top of the hour events at the exact time, making the song end at hour end
2. What RadioBOSS feature can help with this task: Sweepers
3. Can this feature be improved to perform the task better? This is the actual question.

 

[Matt Barton]

I'd like to add to this, my request for sweepers to be available in RadioBOSS Cloud.

I have a workaround: when it gets to xx:59 in an hour, I replace the next scheduled track with a sweeper track (to avoid less than a minute of a song being played). If the currently playing track still has a minute or more to play, then it continues playing; if it ends within the minute before the TOTH then the sweeper plays as the next track. Then the TOTH sequence begins at xx:00 (without waiting for the previous track to end).

However it would be ideal to be able to fill a gap before the TOTH with sweepers of different lengths.

 

[djsoft]

I'd like to add to this, my request for sweepers to be available in RadioBOSS Cloud.

Sweepers will be available in one of the future updates, it's on out to-do list.

 

[NickPollock]

I think I know where the confusion is here.
The issue stems from reverse calculation from the top of hour, the only way for this to work is to have specific music category or tag that is defined by a group of track between two desired durations of track, e.g. =>3:00 and =<4:30 for example.
What Dmitry needs to explain in this instance is what the sweeper asset is! e.g. station id, commercials or station promos. The reason this needs to be stated is because if the track runs under by 30 seconds, you'd need sweepers to the 30 length.

Another option could be to have in the event box is an assign option for a top of hour to be placed before or after the Hour Marker placeholder, no matter what is played before it or after it.

To display this in a studio setting, this would need to be a displayed command in the player, not a scheduled event, this is so the live jock on air can see the event is coming easily. To achieve this you would need a runevent command in the player leading up to the Hour marker in the playlist.