Thanks for that input Cowboy, I was operating under the mistaken impression that the 2-minute window was FCC-mandated. The best reference I could find on the topic was "The Public and Broadcasting" (last updated July 2008 http://www.fcc.gov/guides/public-and-broadcasting-july-2008 ) which says "Stations must air identification announcements ... every hour, as close to the start of the hour as possible, at a natural programming break."
Alan, that's an interesting solution too. Did you define a scheduler code for the oldies genre, create an "all oldies" event, and add a few of that event to the end of the clock? Or is there some sort of automatic way to force certain events to play carts less than a certain length? Wayne, I had a follow-up question for you. I created a cart which does the fade down, plays the legal id, then does the fade up, and I created a hard-timed event to play that cart at the top of the hour, and then filled the rest of the hour with a macro cart that sleeps for 59:59, and then set up a cron job to generate that service's log every day, and loaded it into the Aux 2 log (chaining at end of log). It does the job just right, but I wondered if I might have missed some automation shortcuts in the process, and I wondered if your solution was close to this, or whether there were some tricks I was missing. Thanks for any details you care to provide. For anyone who was interested in Wayne's solution ( At xx:59.54 I make the aux fire a macro... ) they may be interested to read this example of how to write these macros: http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/How_to_play_time_tone_pips_and_fade_the_currently_playing_audio Nate "DJ Homebody" Hartmann
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