Good evening everyone, I'm setting up an automated DJ for times when our station has no live DJ. My goal is to play the station's legal ID within 2 minutes of the top of the hour, (between 58:00 and 00:02). I'm using a single clock for the entire grid. The clock plays a MUSIC-group cart every three minutes, except for a TIMEANNNCE-group cart scheduled at 58:00 past the hour. That "legal" event uses a hard start time with the "wait up to..3:30" option.
I am overscheduling music to avoid gaps, which works perfectly (excess songs at the end of the hour are skipped). In the generated log, there is at 54:36, a music cart which is 6m52s long, which will end at 01:28. at 01:28, another music cart which is 3m20s long at 58:00, the legal cart which will wait up to 3m30s before playing I would expect the second music cart, which is scheduled to start at 01:28 (3m28s after the legal cart was scheduled to start) to be skipped entirely, but instead it gets two seconds of play before being cut off by the legal cart. The primary goal is accomplished, the legal cart plays within my two-minutes-on-either-side-of-the-top-of-the-hour window, but I would like to avoid cutting off a song abruptly whenever possible. An alternative method I've explored is using the "make next" option for the legal ID event, which works exactly as I want almost all of the time. The exception is that if a long (e.g. 10-minute) song is scheduled just before the legal ID cart, the legal ID cart won't play until after my desired two-minutes-on-either-side window has expired. Is there a combination of settings that will "make next" an event at its scheduled time, but also will have a maximum time it will wait before interrupting another event that's going on? Thanks for your insight, Nate "DJ Homebody" Hartmann
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