Re: [RDD] Multicut rotation clarification question - and a similar problem/question

2013-02-21 Thread Alan Smith
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

Re: [RDD] Multicut rotation clarification question - and a similar problem/question

2013-02-21 Thread Morten Krarup Nielsen
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

Re: [RDD] Multicut rotation clarification question - and a similar problem/question

2013-02-21 Thread Todd Baker
Hey James, I dont work in an environment where we need to do this, but in relation to your Play_COUNTER of Zero causing the newer cuts to play, one could go into the database to fix this. It does require a bit of knowledge relating to how to use mysql to update values, but it is pretty

[RDD] Dropbox anomaly

2013-02-21 Thread Rob Landry
We're testing a new Rivendell system and are observing some interesting behavior in dropboxes. We copy an old .wav file from a Windows machine into the dropbox. The file gets swallowed and imported into Rivendell. We then open rdlibrary and delete the cart. Next, we copy the same file from

[RDD] Rule Broken: Artist Separation

2013-02-21 Thread Alan Smith
I'm working on my first Production system. The station does not use an external Music scheduler, so I created clocks based on their input. One of the events in the clock is the legal ID of course. There are only a handful to choose from, but there is more than one. I let the scheduler pick

Re: [RDD] Dropbox anomaly

2013-02-21 Thread waynemerricks
I have the same on 2.1.4. I think its some duplicate checking. I usually fix it by restarting the rdimport process (rdadmin - host - dropboxes is enough to stop and start them or just rename the file to a different name). It seems very much by design rather than a bug. On 2013-02-21 20:22,