Playlist & cartwall

[hairwan]

Hello,

I do not know if this is possible but it would be nice to add a real playlist scheduling system and a stretch.

Let me explain :

For programming the playlist it would be cool to have the same system as WinMedia. This means creating playlists for every hour of every day from the playlist generator. Then generate the musical programming for the week for example and be able to access hour by hour and day by day by a calendar.

Add an auto stretch. It would be good at the beginning of each hour to define if we want an event that will start at 00:00: 00 thanks to stretch music will be accelerated or slowed down to arrive at the right time and end on a late music. If there is not enough music then an automatic fill would be added to arrive at the correct time


It would also be good to add a total configuration of the cartwall. Actually we must do CTRL or SHIFT wait and press what is written on the cart. It's long and it's not practical. it would really be able to just assign the key you want without via the cartwall settings

 

[djsoft]

This means creating playlists for every hour of every day from the playlist generator. Then generate the musical programming for the week for example and be able to access hour by hour and day by day by a calendar.

This is already possible using the "Generate multiple playlists" feature: http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/generating-multiple-playlists.htm

I suggest creating playlists automatically, e.g. every day or every hour. Please see this page for details: http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/automatic_playlist_generation.htm

Add an auto stretch. It would be good at the beginning of each hour to define if we want an event that will start at 00:00: 00 thanks to stretch music will be accelerated or slowed down to arrive at the right time and end on a late music. If there is not enough music then an automatic fill would be added to arrive at the correct time

Listeners will notice that songs play faster or slower. Please consider using "sweepers", this feature selects the track to fill the remaining of the hour before starting an event: http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/sweepers.htm

Actually we must do CTRL or SHIFT wait and press what is written on the cart. It's long and it's not practical. it would really be able to just assign the key you want without via the cartwall settings

Thank you for the suggestion, we'll consider adding such a feature.

 

[brasil]

I would like to mention that I have used time stretch and shrink on other automation systems and as long as you have the ability to set the maximum amount in percentage it works great. A value of 3% is not noticeable to most and that gives you 1.8 minutes of wiggle room. I have done 10% if needed, but that is the most and the tempo is clearly noticeable, but then there is 6 minutes of wiggle room. At 6% which is acceptable you have 3.6 minutes of wiggle room and it becomes a question of is that song a little fast? Of course that little fast situation will not be a constant factor each hour.

Also tempo shift is done as a standard at some stations to sound maybe upbeat on every song which is another feature and not part of this topic.

I would consider buying your software if it had time stretch and shrink plus maybe if it did a multi step process. However I will try it and see how what you say works out.

Step 1 is the playlist is auto generated with more than an hour of material.

Step 2 is software looks at total time and drops individual song or songs to get as close to hitting top of hour

Step 3 have a choice to fade songs in playlist (Shave off time) by user defined seconds. Each song is faded by maximum allowed pre-fade. If 10 songs make an hour and 30 seconds pre-fade each song by 3 seconds if user allows 3 seconds. If user allows only 1 second pre-fade do that.

Step 4 Time stretch or shrink based upon maximum amount allowed by user like say 3% which after all the steps above you hit the top of hour dead on.

I forgot you can choose to fill also with your auto-fill sweepers function as another step in case users setting make it where you can't hit dead on.

With just the auto-fill function you need sweepers of 1 second differences to be sure to have something to hit top of hour. I don't know how close your playlist generation gets to 60 minutes of programming with 5,000 songs or more to choose from.

Just my thoughts and I am not familiar with your package just that there are similar price offerings that do time stretch or shrink for hitting the time markers.

Thank you for listening to my rants.

 

[djsoft]

A value of 3% is not noticeable to most and that gives you 1.8 minutes of wiggle room

This is only so if you apply it to all songs in the hour. Adding 3% for one 3-minute song will only add 5 seconds.

Have you tried using the sweepers feature? If you have enough music tracks, it will just find a track to fill the remainder of the hour. And no need to make songs slower or faster.

With just the auto-fill function you need sweepers of 1 second differences to be sure to have something to hit top of hour.

This is not required. RadioBOSS selects the most suitable song as a sweeper - if there's no song with desired duration, it will choose the most appropriate song with longer duration. If music library is large enough, like 10,000+ tracks, I'm sure it will have enough durations to choose from. So in worst case scenario, a song will be interrupted after being played for like 80%. I don't think it's a problem.

Depending on your requirements, you may also use the "Maximum time wait in the queue" feature. It will allow scheduled event to wait in the playlist for the time you specify (e.g., 30 seconds). You can read more about this option here: http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/scheduler_options.htm