RadioBOSS 7.2 [beta]

[djsoft]

When displaying the teaser, two timers are shown in this way

Thank you, will be fixed.

When moving through the Outro in the pre-production bar, instead of showing the word OUTRO, it displays “INTRO.” It should correctly display whether the marker is Intro or Outro. Even if it is combined, it should show Intro or Outro depending on where the position bar is located.

It doesn't really "know" what part is playing as it only calculates the entire time. And when crossfading (tracks overlap) it's both Intro and Outro. The word is there to show that it's no a track elapsed time but Intro/outro part of the music. You can see on the bar what it is exactly.

The Played, Now, and Next icons are all working perfectly. The only thing I would like is for the “” icon to blink. Everything else is fine.

This will probably be added in the future.

The timers in the pre-production bar do not look bad, but they appear above the mix markers and take up too much space when the font size is large, reducing the visibility of the waveform.

Timers are above everything else because otherwise they would be unreadable.
You can change the bar size to Large (View > Workspace > Configure) to fit larger fonts.

 

[djsoft]

That means that, for example, if today is Thursday and I select Sunday at 00:00 as the start date and time, will it work?

If you have set the start time, it's what is used by the Playlist Generator for dayparting, etc.

Although yesterday I tested it and experienced incorrect behavior when generating the playlist, since almost no songs were selected, leaving the list nearly empty with only IDs.

Please click Settings > Open Settings Folder, navigate to Log folder and open playlistgenerator.log file - it will show how many tracks are loaded, and what rules prevent tracks from being selected.

 

[Guillaume]

Can you please provide more information on what tracks are not included? With no start time specified, the Daypart and Same-time repeat protections are simply skipped.

Here's an example (Playlist Generator is open from RadioBOSS):

Folder (Library – Track Tool):

• 1980: 992 Tracks
• Dayparting: 982 Tracks can be played before 1:00 PM – 10 Tracks can be played after 1:00 PM

Creating a category (Playlist Generator)

• Name: Test1980
• Duration: 1 Track
• Source: a folder (992 Tracks)
• Filter Tags: one exclusion (32 Tracks)
• No priority, the protections against repetition are selected to use the general values, no constraints.

Rotation (Playlist Generator)

• The playlist is 20 minutes long.

Settings (Playlist Generator)

• Do not repeat the artist: 60 minutes (nothing is checked for other repetitions)
• The "Yesterday" function is checked with durations set to 90 minutes
• Previously played tracks: checked
• Tracks included in the playlist: checked (Tracks to consider: 15 – Maximum duration: 30 minutes – Scheduled broadcast time: checked)

Playlist (the player)

• It is 1:48 PM
• 8 tracks are in the playlist
• 5 of them are scheduled tracks
• 3 of them are among the tracks allowed to play after 1:00 PM. They were placed manually.

The result I expect:
Estimation: 6 out of 10 allowed tracks should appear when exporting or saving the playlist.

I click "Generate" (5 times):​

All 5 playlists contain tracks that are allowed to play before 1 PM.​

So, this is not at all what I expected. But that's normal (for me: not normal at all), as you explained earlier.​

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I click on "Generate Multiple Playlist" > select the test playlist > Start time: today at 1:52 PM > Generate (5 times – 5 different numbers):​

1 playlist is correct, and 4 playlists contain 1 to 3 tracks that were already in the playlist.​

So, a 20% chance of getting a playlist that meets my expectations.​

I'm sorry: the tests are inconclusive. The feeling I expressed is legitimate.
In this Beta version, I don't see the point of the "Generate" buttons for saving and exporting playlists.

I'm not questioning the improvements and the work done, especially since they meet user expectations

 

[Levine66]

1. These Icons for Now playing, next, previous... I thought they would override the file type icons but they are just crowded up in the poor column

2. The new timers inside the players are perfect. Good work.

3. Duration of the containers please.

Thank you

 

[Guillaume]

There's no option for this because it's configured to always ignore those. So I think more information is needed:

• What database do you use (SQLite or MySQL)
• What is the search string
• What tracks it finds/fails to find.

The option to ignore accents and diacritics is in the advanced settings:

Settings > Advanced > Search – Ignore accent/diacritic characters​

The value I had was: False (I don't know if it was set by default).

Setting it to True allows you to search for letters like "a," "e," and "n" .
The results will be: "a", "à" and "e", "é", "è", "ê" and "n", "ñ," etc.

It works

And some time ago, there was a request that the search function be able to take accents into account to avoid the numerous possible results. Perhaps we should revert to "True" as the default value?

 

[box26609]

1. These Icons for Now playing, next, previous... I thought they would override the file type icons but they are just crowded up in the poor column

In my opinion they'd look much better and easier to see if they had their own column.