understanding priorities in radioboss

[derek]

I've been running Christmas automation for hkcradio.com for the last few weeks, and I have some shows in random rotation. They are random shorts, so as long as they play at a given time, it doesn't matter which or in what order. Point is, I have some of them that haven't played yet, while others have repeated. I have a rule that states that priority should be decreased if the play count is greater than 0, and I've tried various numbers from 1 to 50, but none of them seem to influence what is chosen. What am I doing wrong?

 

[djsoft]

Do you use the Playlist Generator to create those playlists? If so, does the Shorts category have any repeat protection rules/filters defined? Maybe those filters exclude some of the tracks.

If you turn all all selection rules, and simply make it select a random track, the distribution will be even (with some deviation), that is, if a category has 100 tracks, and 5000 random tracks are selected from it, each of those 100 tracks will be selected about 50+-5 times. Adding the priority rules will shift the probabilities, according to the configuration. Adding filters will exclude some tracks completely. Repeat protection rules change probabilities in a more complex way.

 

[derek]

Yes, the playlist creator was used to make these playlists. Disabling all of the repeat rules makes the random selection pick files it wouldn't have otherwise. The way the separation rules interact with priorities should be explained somewhere. After all, it would be great, for example, to keep an artist or album from repeating but consider priorities s well. I can see how things could get interested if a track isn't allowed to repeat for a specific time, but priorities say otherwise.