RadioBOSS Cloud

[jharris171185]

So, upon reviewing the options for track scheduling, I think I may have found the problem. Both time announcement and playlist were set to "cue after playing track." As previously described, on some hours, he time announcement plays, and on some it does not. Best guess is that the station id from the previous hour runs long, and just doesn't give the time announcment enough time to trigger before the next event, the playlist, is triggered. So, that time announcement does not play as expected. Furthermore, it just gets left in the cue, and randomly plays some point later on. So, I have kept the time announcement set to cue after playing track, but changed the playlist to cue after scheduled tracks. That way it should work, as since the station id of the previous hour cleared out whatever could have remained from the previous hour, as it is set to replace playlist, when the playlist is triggered at 00:05, there should be nothing in the cue after the time announcement. I'm hoping this will do the trick, as nothing else I have tried has worked to perfection.

On an unrelated note, it would be incredibly awesome if playlist duration could be calculated, even if within a range based on the average length of the songs and other tracks in said playlist. All it shows right now is n/a. It would be good to know if there is enough content programmed so as to avoid certain parts of the playlist repeating more than once in an hour, since if there is not enough content, the playlist will go through again, thus creating some unwanted consequences. Having even an estimate of the playlist length would be nice.

 

[djsoft]

On others, the time announcement is skipped. Seems to get skipped when the previous station id is a little long.

How is it skipped, is there an error (or any other message) in the log about the time announcement?

Playlists are also set for cue after next, so you would think they would fall in cue behind the time announcement. Is that not the case?

Playlist events should have "If there are scheduled tracks in the playlist, enqueue" option enabled, to ensure they are put after the time ann. Without this option, the playlist will be inserted before time ann event.

 

[jharris171185]

Setting playlists to play after scheduled track did the trick. Now, everything is working as expected. Sounding great. I never did look at the log to see what error it may have been giving for the time, but it doesn't really matter anymore, since everything is working now as desired.
A feature requestt for scheduler:
It would be nice to be able to view items by the times they are scheduled for, rather than in the order they were added. For example, I set up my whole schedule, first setting up everything for Monday-Friday, then weekends. But after setting all that up, I picked up a few more programs, and had to make changes to the existing events to make them repeat less, and add the new programs. The problem is, after doing this several times, without being able to sort events by their start times, everything is a jumbled mess and it becomes hard to find anything quickly. Being able to sort events by start time would help a lot.

 

[djsoft]

You can sort the events by clicking a column (or if you use keyboard, press Shift+Menu key and use the Sort popup submenu). There are also filters - you can activate them by pressing the List button, they allow showing events for specific days of week, and also hide disabled events,

 

[jharris171185]

I know this can be done in radioboss for desktop. It is also possible in the cloud version?

 

[djsoft]

I know this can be done in radioboss for desktop. It is also possible in the cloud version?

It's the same - click on a column sorts the list. But in RB Cloud there's no keyboard access for it, I'm sorry.

 

[jharris171185]

It's the same - click on a column sorts the list. But in RB Cloud there's no keyboard access for it, I'm sorry.

Well, this really should be fixed. There doesn't need to be a hot key or anything like that, just links to sort above the table where all the events are listed. These could probably be done in such a way that they only show up for screen reader users, and sighted users can just keep doing things the way they always have. Another thought is to create an accessibility mode, just like you did for desktop, which could improve the interface for certain parts of the platform. I'm very happy with the service, but as I do continue to make changes to my programming, with no way to sort the events by start time, the scheduler could easilly become a jumbled mess.
Another question... If I get a sighted person to click the columns for me, will it stay that way by default? Meaning, if they set it for me, and later I go back to make changes, will it always sort in the same way, or would I need someone to always click the column each and every time? If it will save my changes and make that the new default for sorting, then there would not be a need to change anything in the code. I could just have someone change it for me once, but if it would have to be done each time, then I would need you to implement a way to make this work.

 

[djsoft]

These could probably be done in such a way that they only show up for screen reader users

There's no "Screen reader mode" in RB Cloud so this is not an option for now. We'll think of some solution.

Another question... If I get a sighted person to click the columns for me, will it stay that way by default? Meaning, if they set it for me, and later I go back to make changes, will it always sort in the same way

No, the sorting does not stick. This is because sorting in Cloud version is very simple, not like in Desktop version, I'm sorry for that. There's definitely room for improvement.

 

[rfortin]

Did you think you can plan to add a script for sharing Spotify, Apple Music or Youtube link when a song will be play... like the title...?

 

[djsoft]

Did you think you can plan to add a script for sharing Spotify, Apple Music or Youtube link when a song will be play... like the title...?

Yes, I think this will be possible in the future.

 

[william_costa618]

Hello, I would like to know how to configure the time announcement in RB Cloud, I still don't understand very well.

 

[djsoft]

Hello, I would like to know how to configure the time announcement in RB Cloud, I still don't understand very well.

Please see this user manual page: https://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/automatic_time_announcements.htm

 

[william_costa618]

This tutorial is for the RadioBoss software. I want to understand how to do it in the Cloud version, if that's possible.

 

[djsoft]

This tutorial is for the RadioBoss software. I want to understand how to do it in the Cloud version, if that's possible.

In Cloud this can be achieved by using file name templates: https://www.radioboss.fm/support/radioboss-cloud/scheduler-file-name-templates/