How to determine the length of advert (or time left remaining for advert)

[madbeatz]

Hi All,

Currently running this in test mode. We have 1/2 blocks of advert which play every half an hour. We use the ad Scheduler for setting the schedules which works great on live in coming streaming shows as the stream is set to pause when the adverts are triggered.

Wondered if there is a way to determine the advert remaining time (and the total time length of the adverts block playing) so the DJ knows when to start again so the transition between end of advert and start of DJ is on point?

Apologies if this has been raised previously.

Thanks

 

[djsoft]

RadioBOSS shows how much time remains before the advert block starts (the Run In column in the scheduled events list).

It doesn't show the remaining time, the DJ will need to look at the playlist to see what is playing.

 

[madbeatz]

Thanks for the response.

Knowing how long the adverts are and a countdown from advert start to end would be helpful to understand;

1 - The length of each ad break - Presenters have an idea if they have 5 , 7 or 10 minutes to do 'other things' in between.

2 - When the advert is coming to an end (time-wise) so they can calculate when they need to start playing from their end to allow a seamless transition between advert and their first song/jingle (to compensate for latency).

This is something we use in our current tool, perhaps to add to the wish list?

Thanks

 

[djsoft]

1 - The length of each ad break - Presenters have an idea if they have 5 , 7 or 10 minutes to do 'other things' in between.

The duration can be estimated if you select the advert tracks in the playlist - selected tracks duration is shown under the playlist.

2 - When the advert is coming to an end (time-wise) so they can calculate when they need to start playing from their end to allow a seamless transition between advert and their first song/jingle (to compensate for latency).

RadioBOSS calculates the Start Time for each track in the playlist. The start time for the track after the advert block will allows to understand how much time the DJ has. Actually, the core "problem" here is that RadioBOSS was (and is) designed for automated unattended broadcasting. Hence lack of some Live DJ features...

This is something we use in our current tool, perhaps to add to the wish list?

Probably, but currently I'm not sure how it should be implemented. The ads block can be "nested" in another block (e.g a day playlist that was also started from the scheduler earlier). Things are also complicated because Start Time and all other timings may not be calculated precisely because of silence trimming and automatic mixing - more about this here: https://www.djsoft.net/smf/index.php/topic,4598.0.html