End of an hour fill option

[andrerotgans]

Hi Bernd,

I do some consultancy work for a (semi-new) local station, and as such am trying to implement Proppfrexx into their wishes. In the Netherlands it is still common use to have the top-of-the-hour start fixed, in order to schedule the national news at exactly **.00. Sure, I told them about the option to float the news using the soft option. But as for now they really want to use the fixed one.

However, when doing so, we end up sometimes playing a very short piece of the last song in the hour. I.e :

**.53.40 Song X
**.57.20 Song Y
**.57.50 Overlay (Commercials)
**.59.44 Start TOTH and news

As you can see, in this case we will only play 30s of song Y.

Would it be possible (I guess the best place is at Program Scheduler entry level) to add an option where PF at the end of an hour checks the remaining duration 'till the next overlay against an user defined duration ? And if this remaining duration is less, it will play audio from an configurable media library ? That way PF will play a filler instead of a short part of a song.

I'll keep telling them about the soft option (which in my humble opinion sounds better than playing a filler)

Kind regards,

André

[andrerotgans]

Hi Bernd,

Yes, of course, I'm sorry. I did mean as an option for the Overlay Scheduler.
The Bridget tracks looks promising, I'm going to try this out. However, if I read it correct, it will start looking from the Show in Advance moment and it will fire of the bridge track the very first time a tracks ends. But, as service to the DJ's we'll show the overlay around 5 minutes before actual start. That way they can use the feature you've created (hover on the status to see the actual starting time).
When using the bridge track option with this setting, it will start the bridge track way to early. It might be an option to make the monitoring moment independent from the Show in Advance timing ?

Kind regards,
André

[andrerotgans]

It's just that they feel safe to see that an overlay is coming up and when it will start, I'll look into changing that time. I just asked them 'do you want to know when a commercialblock is coming up and if so, how much in advance'. Wish I hadn't

[radio42]

But they can also see ALL upcoming overlays in the 'Upcomming Overlay' popup window...

[andrerotgans]

Shure they can, however, in that window it's not possible to see the scheduled starting time of an overlay. No problem, I'll figure out a way which is acceptable for them !

[radio42]

?The scheduled starting time is shown in the upcoming overlay window!

[andrerotgans]

Hi Bernd,

The scheduled start time of an 'ending at' or a soft overlay is not shown, as far as I can see ?

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[radio42]

For the 'EndsAt' option the effective ending at time is displayed - I'll see, if I can also display the effective start time accordingly here.

However, for the 'Soft' option the planned start time is displayed - the effective start time can of course NOT be calculated, as the currently playing track's remaining time for a future event can not be predicted at that time

[andrerotgans]

I understand, and as stated in my original question, I'm not interestend in the soft overlays. That's the nice thing of them, the softness
However, if you can add the effective start time to the endsat overlay, that would be welcome !

[radio42]

The EndsAt time display should now work in v3.0.11.48.