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: 7
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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."