after a test period, we decided to buy licence, but there are great problems experienced during playlists generations;
I have 5 songs categories, several playlist are automatically generated during the day, each one with a different logic/order (in some a category is more used, in other no etc.); heavy/hits is less used during each rotation/playlist cycle;
as we have news each 60 mins. usually a playlist is generated each hour from 7,30 am till midnight;
just to give exact numbers right now here are songs splitted into such categories:
1) heavy/hits 130 files
2) cat. jazz 500 songs
3) cat. fast 250 songs
4) cat. slow 500 songs
5) cat. singers 500 songs
I put for each kind of playlist a general rule (usually never play before 5 days approx) except heavy hits (usually never less than 24/48h approx - sometimes fits criteria/sometimes not) ; for some other songs categories I have to put custom ?no repeat? rules that sometimes work and sometimes gives errors (cant fit criteria etc.) without any rational reason (to us)
also I added the following rules for each songs categories for all playlists
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 1 day ago?
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 3 day ago?
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 5 day ago?
?increase priority by 10 for tracks where last played is greater than 7 day ago?
we are really struggling to find a good balance between songs less/more played, played recently/old played etc. sometimes I see playlists generated with songs from a category played few days ago; then I see after few days, with a new generation a song didnt played for 20 days or so; I dont see a real balance inside each generation, is like things are more done casually than with an exact logic;
another big problem is that also with all the rules reported ?never play and categories balance? lets say today are generated few playlists without any problem/error, tomorrow generating exactly that playlist at same time I see the following errors (those are just examples):
ERROR: Unable to find track that fits criteria (rule: norepeat-artist). Category: "abc"
10 errors
ERROR: Unable to find track that fits criteria (rule: norepeat-track). Category: "yyy"
> 20 errors.
we are really in trouble as often few songs categories are skipped and the playlist generated is totally unreliable with some categories played also 2/3 times in a row
thanks for help
I have 5 songs categories, several playlist are automatically generated during the day, each one with a different logic/order (in some a category is more used, in other no etc.); heavy/hits is less used during each rotation/playlist cycle;
as we have news each 60 mins. usually a playlist is generated each hour from 7,30 am till midnight;
just to give exact numbers right now here are songs splitted into such categories:
1) heavy/hits 130 files
2) cat. jazz 500 songs
3) cat. fast 250 songs
4) cat. slow 500 songs
5) cat. singers 500 songs
I put for each kind of playlist a general rule (usually never play before 5 days approx) except heavy hits (usually never less than 24/48h approx - sometimes fits criteria/sometimes not) ; for some other songs categories I have to put custom ?no repeat? rules that sometimes work and sometimes gives errors (cant fit criteria etc.) without any rational reason (to us)
also I added the following rules for each songs categories for all playlists
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 1 day ago?
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 3 day ago?
?decrease priority by 10 for tracks where last played is less than 5 day ago?
?increase priority by 10 for tracks where last played is greater than 7 day ago?
we are really struggling to find a good balance between songs less/more played, played recently/old played etc. sometimes I see playlists generated with songs from a category played few days ago; then I see after few days, with a new generation a song didnt played for 20 days or so; I dont see a real balance inside each generation, is like things are more done casually than with an exact logic;
another big problem is that also with all the rules reported ?never play and categories balance? lets say today are generated few playlists without any problem/error, tomorrow generating exactly that playlist at same time I see the following errors (those are just examples):
ERROR: Unable to find track that fits criteria (rule: norepeat-artist). Category: "abc"
10 errors
ERROR: Unable to find track that fits criteria (rule: norepeat-track). Category: "yyy"
> 20 errors.
we are really in trouble as often few songs categories are skipped and the playlist generated is totally unreliable with some categories played also 2/3 times in a row
thanks for help