Rotation/Separation Logic Options
An option that would allow you to select rotation logic for the playlist. Specifically by "Least recently played". in conjunction with the ability to adjust separation rules on a category basis.
Basically:
Category Selection: Hot Tracks, Top 40, Recurrent, Oldies etc etc
Separation: Heavy Rotation (i.e.: Album Separation 1hr, Artist Separation 1 hr, Title Separation 1 hr, Track separation 1 hr.
Logic: Least Recently Played/Playlist order/Random
This is basically the same principle as most playout software. While a tad more complicated to implement, if this could be done, many broadcasters would drop software/dedicated computer options for this. I know I would ;) MORE CONTROL!
Comments: 14
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10 Jul, '19
BillI would like to be able to be more strict with separation rules. I don't want the same song to repeat until several days have passed. I currently use 6 days per track and 4 hours per artist and would like to expand that further.
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11 Dec, '19
David D Doerrier MergedSet Repeat Constraints globally and for each songs Title Repeat and Artist Repeat
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10 Sep, '20
Philip Admin"Song Repeat Constraints" (suggested by David D Doerrier on 2019-12-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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17 Oct, '20
Lindsey Alexander (Mr.)As Bill has mentioned.
Several days should pass before a repeat play, or at least a much longer separation time of 240 minutes. please. -
14 Dec, '20
ZebbyYeah, the "clockwheel" system right now is OK at playing tracks from various categories properly, but it isn't a true clockwheel in the sense that it doesn't keep track of what it's played in each category and it brings previously-played stuff up WAY too soon while ignoring half or more of any given category that hasn't rotated through to airplay yet. So functionally, your station may sound as if it has one-tenth the playlist depth that it actually has.
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08 Jun, '21
YolandaI agree with Zebby: Zebby
Yeah, the "clockwheel" system right now is OK at playing tracks from various categories properly, but it isn't a true clockwheel in the sense that it doesn't keep track of what it's played in each category and it brings previously-played stuff up WAY too soon while ignoring half or more of any given category that hasn't rotated through to airplay yet. So functionally, your station may sound as if it has one-tenth the playlist depth that it actually has. -
04 Aug, '21
SakeBitoThis is gonna date me, but back in my BASIC programming days ('83! Sneeze, sorry...) a memorable assignment was to create an array - which was just two data lists, one full and one empty. Your code had to select items at random, one-by-one, from the full list and deposit each in the empty(er) list. It continued doing this until the formerly-full List A was empty and the formerly-empty List B was full. Then it would start over in reverse, B to A, and so on indefinitely.
If the AutoDJ had this kind of thing as a toggleable option it would handily eliminate replays.
Failing that, maybe just increase the available "Do not play same album/title/track within..." maximums to eight or ten hours, or just "full duration of track list." -
01 May, '22
JoshThe lack of this feature is the main reason I don't use Live365 auto dj.
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22 May, '22
GrahamYes, please add more than the 240 minute limit for "DO NOT PLAY SAME TRACK WITHIN". Several days (7200 minutes) would be nice.
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22 May, '22
GrahamFor each category or type "inside" the Clockwheel, add an option for time constraints would be nice. You have "Random, Oldest Album, Oldest Artist, Oldest track, Most Recent Album, Most Recent Artist." Adding a time restraint option from to 0-5 days (0-7200 minutes) would be great.
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01 Feb
Darryl DanielsHigher time and artist constraints are something needed for the type of programming we offer. Developing a loyal listener base can be damaged by repeated airings of songs. It comes across as a station that doesn't care. I have personally spent a great deal of time selecting all of the music loaded into our library to provide a certain listener experience and I would love that to come across to the person who decides to make our station a favorite of theirs.
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18 Sep
Ralph Moore MergedI have been on Live365 for 6 years now and I always check out my station everyday to make sure that the station is playing the songs ok. But when I check it out and I'm on a few hours at a time or if I go off then come back on again I noticed that some songs I have on GMT is played after I heard them a few hours later. I now have over 3100 songs on my station. With 4 minute ads come on every hour and the songs played it looks like there should be enough time for the songs played not to be repeated in a few days but I noticed they R. I check my station everyday and noticed some songs R played everyday while others R not played at all. I wish that we could hear all the songs in a weeks time and not everyday or more than one time a day. I would like to see Live365 keep from the songs being played so much while the others don't get played at all. I can't count the way it would take for over 3,100 songs to play all week before they all would be played again. I hope U know what I mean here.
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06 Oct
Romane Admin"Gospel Music Time , station a82734." (suggested by Ralph Moore on 2023-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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06 Oct
Philip AdminAdd capability to switch from "random" to "shuffle". In "shuffle", totally exhaust playing all tracks in the entire library before any one track is played again.