insuring every file plays before a repeat is permitted

[derek]

I'm preparing a special block of programming on HKC Radio for Mother’s Day this Sunday (U.S.). One issue I’m running into is that many songs share the same title, which causes the usual repeat prevention rules to block too many tracks—even ones that haven’t actually aired yet.


What I’d like to do is generate hourly playlists where songs and voice tracks (from our Mother’s Day message line) are guaranteed to play once before they’re eligible to be used again.


Is there a way in RadioBoss to ensure that all these tracks are played at least once before any of them are repeated in the automation? Any tips or suggested workflows would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[djsoft]

If you use the playlist generator, you can create a category and change repeat protection rules there to ignore title repeat protection rule. If you make it select tracks In Order then all tracks will be selected one by one without repeating.

 

[derek]

While this works, the songs would be played in alphabetical order. I have other rules concerning timing and genre that I'd like to preserve as the playlists are being generated. I can get what I want if I add the music folder to a playlist and shuffle it, then moving tracks around if necessary, but that ruins the point of having a playlist generator.

 

[djsoft]

In this case I think you can wait for the new selection mode to be added, details in this topic: https://www.djsoft.net/community/th...ting-songs-of-the-same-genre.12484/post-54031