SAM Broadcaster 422 repeat issue

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Hi all,

 

I'm using SAM Broadcaster 422 for my radio station, and am still at the stage of building up my digital music library. I'm ripping selected tracks from all my CDs into waves, processing them for volume, and making sure they all start at the same point so they won't be any dead air with live broadcasts.

 

It's taken me about a years to process about 3700 tracks. With this I can still hear sam repeat several songs every few days.

 

Eventually the library will be built up to a collection of about 15,000 tracks.

 

When I go to configuration>Playlist Rotation Rules>Configure>Catagory,

 

Can somebody please tell me the difference between

"Random"

and

"Lemming Rules (random logic)?

 

Is there any way of making sam ignore the whole weighted system, as I feel Sam might still be reffering to this to base how often a song get's played.

 

I just want sam to play randomly without repeats, for at least three or four days.

 

Here's my playlist repeat config,

 

Do not play same album within 120 mins

Do not play same artist within 120 mins

Do not play same title within 240 mins

Do not play same track within 4320 mins

 

Here are my playlist rules:

 

Cat['Kickers'].QueueBottom(smRandom, NoRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['Kickers'].QueueBottom(smRandom, NoRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

 

Thanks

 

Mark

[GKIye]

Hi Mark,

 

I'm sure all SAM users had or have similar probs

For a while I used also Lemming Rules to some directories and had that same issue

 

Main reason can be your clockwheel (playlist rules)

- the setting album every X-time reflects also the choice into that directory, so with your setting "same album = 120 min" SAM gonna choose other songs, for reason that you give the command :

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

With your 120 min setting compaired to your playlist setting you give the command to only play once "1980s" every 2 hours, however your playlist tells SAM to play it nonstop

 

To my own settings I'm using most of all "least played artist - enforcerules" and to some smaller directories, such as Top40 I use "random -enforcerules"

See the quote section to the RED advices

 

For reason that it looks that you only use 2 main directories (70s and 80s) it can be a great idea to make some new ones into your "Music Music All" ... example :

70sPop, 70sRock, 70sSoft etc and do the same to the 80s

That way SAM gonna be able to select songs from different and more directories compaired to your playlist rotation settings

 

Make a try-out of my idea and check if it works out for you

Good Luck !

"Random"

and

"Lemming Rules (random logic)?

 

Is there any way of making sam ignore the whole weighted system, as I feel Sam might still be reffering to this to base how often a song get's played.

 

I just want sam to play randomly without repeats, for at least three or four days.

 

Here's my playlist repeat config,

 

Do not play same album within 120 mins decrease untill 1min

Do not play same artist within 120 mins increase untill at least the double or higher

Do not play same title within 240 mins increase untill at least the double

Do not play same track within 4320 mins decrease compaired to the amount of total tracks at your playlist - 72 hours is a lot if you have only 3000+ tracks

 

Here are my playlist rules:

 

Cat['Kickers'].QueueBottom(smRandom, NoRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1980s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['Kickers'].QueueBottom(smRandom, NoRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

Cat['1970s'].QueueBottom(smRandom, EnforceRules);

 

Thanks

 

Mark