AutoTeaser: same songs back to back?

[dan95]

Hi Dmitry,

I am using AutoTeaser, 3 tracks for 10 seconds from a playlist that contains 2,5 hours of music.

I found out that sometimes it chooses the same songs in one teaser, f.e. it was really bad that exact same song was back to back which obviously sounded strange. How can that be prevented? Thx.

Maybe to uncheck "randomly"? It then plays in order, first teaser track 1-3 from playlist, second teaser track 4-6 or how does it work then?

 

[box26609]

I also wish there was a way to prevent it from repeating the same artist in the teaser. I suppose some kind of repeat protection feature is needed for the songs selected in teasers. And this should include the transition too because I sometimes get frustrated when I hear the same transition play between the song hooks.

 

[dan95]

Is there really no way to prevent repeats with "randomly"? @djsoft The selected playlist has no songs twice so I wonder why AutoTeaser chooses two same songs in one teaser.

 

[djsoft]

I found out that sometimes it chooses the same songs in one teaser, f.e. it was really bad that exact same song was back to back which obviously sounded strange. How can that be prevented? Thx.

If you configured it to select from the upcoming tracks in the playlist, it will not choose one track more then one time. A track can only be selected once. But if you have the same track twice in the playlist (and they are in the "upcoming" range), it could select both of those instances.

Maybe to uncheck "randomly"? It then plays in order, first teaser track 1-3 from playlist, second teaser track 4-6 or how does it work then?

It does not affect repeats (there will be no repeats in case when it chooses from the upcoming tracks).

Is there really no way to prevent repeats with "randomly"? @djsoft The selected playlist has no songs twice so I wonder why AutoTeaser chooses two same songs in one teaser.

To clarify, do you use a fixed playlist as a track source, or you select from the upcoming tracks in the playlist?

 

[djsoft]

I also wish there was a way to prevent it from repeating the same artist in the teaser. I suppose some kind of repeat protection feature is needed for the songs selected in teasers. And this should include the transition too because I sometimes get frustrated when I hear the same transition play between the song hooks.

This is on our to-do list for the future.

 

[dan95]

To clarify, do you use a fixed playlist as a track source, or you select from the upcoming tracks in the playlist?

Fixed playlist .m3u from folder, where no tracks are twice, not talking about upcoming tracks.

 

[box26609]

This is on our to-do list for the future.

Awesome. Thank you.

 

[djsoft]

Fixed playlist .m3u from folder, where no tracks are twice, not talking about upcoming tracks.

In this case it selects random tracks, with some (little) effort of not repeating them. I'll see if this can be improved.

 

[dan95]

I'll see if this can be improved.

Thanks, that would be good.