Show the approximate length of a Clockwheel when building
Your systems can see each track located in each of the categories we've set between Music, Talk, ID, Promo, etc. All those tracks are a certain length to them, which you also have in your metadata.
It would be very helpful if you could use that song length information to provide us average times for the clockwheels we are building. Understanding that you don't know exactly which song will be programmed in any given hour, but you could do the math to total up the total number of tracks in a category and divide it by the number of tracks which would give us an "average time" of a track in that category. Armed with that information, it would be much easier when you are building clockwheels to understand whether you are very long or short in any given clockwheel.
Is this a feature that you'd consider building to enhance clockwheels?
Thanks
Rob Alfano
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11 Dec, '25
Trav MergedHighlighted comment
It would be great if we could see how a clockwheel times out. For shows that mix voice track audio with music, the current setup is impossible to time out an hour of programming. I know the playlist option allows you see the time, however there’s no “random” song option. Combining the two options would make it possible to time out programming more exactly. -
08 Jan, '20
Larry King MergedI would like to see an accumulative time on the ClockWheel when trying to assemble a show.
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07 Jun, '22
Sean Williams MergedWhen setting the clock wheel would like to have time markers so that we can tell strict or flexible to play ids and commercials at set times the being able to add one category random of music so that the clockwheel then selects a number of random songs to fill this space as guess work often results in the error of causing misses or replay of the clockwheel in the designated hour/hours. This level of automation will allow programmers to remain compliant. Also would be nice to be able to insert talk into event either in form of MP3 or direct recording feature.
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15 Jun, '22
Ionut Sarghi System Merged"Clockwheel Improvement Select Times and Fill Music category to fit inside times" (suggested by Sean Williams on 2022-06-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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09 Jan, '25
Mark MergedRather than needing to place advertisements/commercials into the clock wheels, I’d like to see an option where we can select them to play at a specific time.
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24 Jan, '25
Shawn Minisall System"Advertisements" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-01-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Jan, '25
Shawn Minisall AdminI am merging this here because once we have an estimated runtime index of a ClockWheel, being able to estimate when specific elements are played like IDs and Ads will be possible.
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30 Jan, '25
Clif M. System"Display estimated run time on the ClockWheel editor" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2020-01-08), including upvotes (6) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Dec, '25
Shawn Minisall System"Clockwheel Timer" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-12-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.