daily playlist

hi all,

i have scheduled a weekly set with 2 playlists per day, morning.alb and evening.alb, 14 per week, means 2 for Mon, 2 for Tue, 2 for Wed...

so the playlists will repeat after one week, every day has its own 2 playlists. so good so far.

now i want to schedule the playlists not for one week, but for three (42 playlists, 2 for each day, dates sortet).

my question is : after the three weeks, will it repeat the whole set for three weeks or is there any problem coz i have 3+3 for Mon, 3+3 for Tue and so on, so that the system wouldn't know what to play on the specific day of week ? does it follow the date order and repeat the three-week-set after three weeks ?

please advise...

Re: daily playlist

If you want to use a different playlist in the next week, you will have to use an expiry date for the events of the previous week. For example:

File: Sunday_Morning_Aug_27.alb
First Launch date and time: 08/27/2005 0:00:00
Expiration date and time: 08/28/2005 0:00:00

File: Sunday_Morning_Sep_03.alb
First Launch date and time: 09/03/2005 0:00:00
Expiration date and time: 09/04/2005 0:00:00

Now, the file Sunday_Morning_Aug_27.alb will not play again the next week (Sep 03 2005), because it has expired on Aug 28 2005.

Re: daily playlist

hello Wolfgang,

thank you for your quick reply. my problem is that i want to set up playlists for three weeks, and after the three weeks the whole set shall be played again and start again from the beginning. means to repeat the three-week-set, so that the three-week-set will be played again and again. for years.

please advise,
Roland

Re: daily playlist

hello Wolfgang,

thank you for your quick reply. my problem is that i want to set up playlists for three weeks, and after the three weeks the whole set shall be played again and start again from the beginning. means to repeat the three-week-set, so that the three-week-set will be played again and again. for years.

please advise,
Roland

Re: daily playlist

Raduga does not allow you to program hourly, daily and weekly events, but it does not support 3-weekly events.

Therefore you will have to generate scheduled events regulary (every month or every 3 weeks). In this case the playlist files could always stay the same (for example Week1_Monday_Morning.alb to Week3_Sunday_Evening.alb). You will need a script that creates either a scheduler file (events.ini) or that creates scheduled events directly in Raduga (using the Raduga SDK).

I would offer you to write this script. It will eventually pay off - depending on how many years you will use it.

Re: daily playlist

hello Wolfgang again,

the events.ini idea is just perfect. i've been a professional programmer for 18yrs now, i think i will figure it out.

thanks again, Roland

Re: daily playlist

Hi!
My problem is a litle bit diferent.
I want to pass a few jingles (spots for publicity) for a few days, how can i program the name if one i want for a specific jingle desapear in a specific date and the others stay?

Re: daily playlist

>I want to pass a few jingles (spots for >publicity) for a few days, how can i program >the name if one i want for a specific jingle >desapear in a specific date and the others stay?

The secret is to set up lots of rotations that expire whenever you need them to.

I solved a problem similar to yours by creating a rotation called "Expiring Spots." (You can call it anything you like.)

Let's say you have several spots that should end by Friday evening. Simply put all the spots that you want to expire into that rotation. (I sometimes pad the rotation file with a few generic PSA's or promos to keep the rotation from sounding too repititous.) I then set the expiration for the given date and time I want the rotation to stop playing, say 18:00 on Friday.

Spots and PSA's that I want to continue past that time are kept in different rotations with no expiration date.

The listeners are none the wiser, but they don't hear out of date spots. You can create an expiring rotation for each day of the week if you like, but I've found that just one seems to work OK for our purposes. You can always edit the date to suit your particular needs.

It works fine, and requires very little intervention on your part.