phs
Member
Hi all,
We've just implemented RB Advanced at our local community radio station. It's going well, but we have one use-case I'm not sure how best to implement.
Our hosts are on-air at different times each day, sometimes different times each week, and of course some times they don't show up at all due to illness etc.
When there is no-one physically in the studio, we obviously need to keep broadcasting using some form of automation, but my problem is that this automation period isn't clearly defined. It could be for an hour between 2 presenters, or it could be for 8 hours overnight. What is a 1 hour period this week might be 4 hours at the same time next week.
The best solution I have thought of is having the Playlist Generator create a new 24-hour playlist each night that the host can load before leaving (on the assumption it will never be more than 24 hours between hosts!). The main problem with this is if the playlist is loaded 3 times throughout the day, the same tracks at the start of the list will play over and over.
We have disabled the "Repeat" and "Shuffle" functions as a lot of our hosts are of the older generation and already struggle with technology. I'd hate to start receiving phone calls because someone has accidentally enabled shuffle on their playlist.
At the moment we're using another software tool, but I'd really like to have a method to do this within RadioBoss so the scheduler can continue to do it's thing, and avoid having to maintain 2 playout systems. Does anyone have any suggestions?
We've just implemented RB Advanced at our local community radio station. It's going well, but we have one use-case I'm not sure how best to implement.
Our hosts are on-air at different times each day, sometimes different times each week, and of course some times they don't show up at all due to illness etc.
When there is no-one physically in the studio, we obviously need to keep broadcasting using some form of automation, but my problem is that this automation period isn't clearly defined. It could be for an hour between 2 presenters, or it could be for 8 hours overnight. What is a 1 hour period this week might be 4 hours at the same time next week.
The best solution I have thought of is having the Playlist Generator create a new 24-hour playlist each night that the host can load before leaving (on the assumption it will never be more than 24 hours between hosts!). The main problem with this is if the playlist is loaded 3 times throughout the day, the same tracks at the start of the list will play over and over.
We have disabled the "Repeat" and "Shuffle" functions as a lot of our hosts are of the older generation and already struggle with technology. I'd hate to start receiving phone calls because someone has accidentally enabled shuffle on their playlist.
At the moment we're using another software tool, but I'd really like to have a method to do this within RadioBoss so the scheduler can continue to do it's thing, and avoid having to maintain 2 playout systems. Does anyone have any suggestions?