Try to increase Title separation. Won't it force the scheduler to pick some of the older songs?
Kind regards, Morten 2013/2/21 Alan Smith <alansm...@flinn.com>: > There might be a better way, but after sleeping on it, why not create a new > scheduler code called "NewGospel", and on your clock have it pick mostly > "Gospel" songs, but every once in a while pick a "NewGospel" song. Since it > won't even out the "play count" its not a perfect solution, but will get the > job done. > > > -Alan > > On 2/20/2013 7:41 PM, James Laurence wrote: > > I have a similar problem, which could also be a bug, or possibly a settings > anomaly. > > Let's say I have a music genre/group called 'Gospel', which contains 1500 > songs. They are tagged accordingly with scheduler-codes, and get picked by > the log-generator in the normal way. Fine. > > Now I add another 500 'new' songs to that genre, and tag them with codes > accordingly. I now have 2000 songs in total, all of which I obviously want > to be available for selection by the log-generator. (All songs are using > the default weight of 1). > > !!**Problem**!! The log-generator seizes on the 'new' 500 songs and will > only select from those. > > The only possible reason I've come up with for this, is that Rivendell is > trying to "even out" the 'Number-of-Plays' count. Presumably it's seeing a > Count of 0 in my 'new' songs, and a count of (for example) 300 in my 'old' > songs and thinks it needs to give the 'new' ones some airplay. And that's > fine, but I still want the 'old' ones in the mix as well! > > Is there a practical work-around for this? Or is there a setting I need to > adjust somewhere, to force a more logical pick? > > Or possibly I'm on the wrong track altogether, and the cause is something > else entirely. > > If anyone else has/had this problem and can suggest anything, I'll become a > lot happier. > > Many thanks, hope someone can help. > > James L. > > > > >> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:30:11 +0000 >> From: waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com >> To: alansm...@flinn.com; rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> Subject: Re: [RDD] Multicut rotation clarification question >> >> From what I've seen in practice, its random with a bias towards least >> played. >> >> If nothing else, I've had no complaints that the same cut is playing all >> the time. >> >> On 20/02/13 13:40, Alan Smith wrote: >> > Forgive me, I'm setting up our very first Rivendell production system, >> > and I know this is a pretty basic question but... >> > >> > Lets say you have a sweeper cart, and in that cart are multiple cuts. >> > How does Rivendell play the cuts when its scheduled in the log if they >> > are all eligible for playout? Does it play In sequence from top to >> > bottom, random, or do you have to daypart the cuts so it doesn't always >> > play the first cut? >> > >> > Thank you, >> > >> > -Alan >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rivendell-dev mailing list >> > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
