Each week I look forward to you next installment. Each are extremely well written and produced. Today I have a problem I would love to get your feedback on. It has to do with Rotations. I have multiple categories of music but I’m wrestling with the same issue across all categories. So I’ll use one as an example. I’m not getting my entire category played before a previously played track appears for a 2nd play. In fact some will get played 5 times while others have 0 plays. Here is my rotation setup within the category. 311 songs. 5 tracks from the category play per hour. Least Recently Played. They all have the same priority. Here is the formula I used. 311 (tracks) divided by 5 (tracks per hr) = 62.2 hours to play the entire category. 62.2 (hours) * 60 (minutes per hour) = 3732 minutes. 3737 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE TRACK field. 60 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE ARTIST field. As I said, it’s not working and I wonder if it you have any suggestions or thoughts. Thank you very much. Larry.
To use your rotation as an example: Will songs marked with high in "Mood" only play where such tracks are specified in the rotation, or or can/will RadioDJ disregard what the mood tap in a tracks settings is set to, if the mood isn't set in the rotation. (This actually goes for all the things you can "program" in the Others tap of a track)
Songs with any Mood setting will play if no Mood setting is selected in a rotation. OR if you select a particular mood, then only songs that match that setting will be played.
Is there a way, in RadioDJ, to have a overview over which rotations play where. So that you can check that you have all hours covered or that you do not have 2 different rotations planned in the same timeslot. I'm using Events to schedule the different rotations. I have made a spread sheet where I have mapped out on which times the different rotations are playing. But I see no easy way to check if reality matches my spread sheet.
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy way. Keeping a spreadsheet is a great idea...just make sure all your events line up with that data. I, too, run way TOO many rotations throughout the day and it does get confusing. I use a printed clock wheel chart to track rotations by the hour.
great vid as always thank you. i just have 1 question how would you setup a rotation for a specific artist? i guess that you would have to use a SQL quary? i have seen some quarys on the forum but they don't seem to work. also i have tried to join the RadioDJ forum to ask the same question but i never seem to get the activation e-mail.. (can onyone still join the forum?) again thank you
Its ok i got the rotation working it was a small error by myself.. still can't join thr radioDJ forum... again thanks for the vids keep them coming great help
Question for ya: when transitioning from 1 rotation to another, does the song that is playing at the top of the hour get interrupted by the song that is scheduled to play in the 2nd rotation, or does it transition smoothly? Great Video!
Thanks! Happy you dug the video. If you use an event to load your rotations, it will wait until the time you specify in the minutes section of the event action to load the next rotation. (Which I forgot to mention in the vid!) Once loaded, RDJ will wait until the current song ends before triggering the next rotation. Now, if you add a Play Now action within the event, it will cut off whatever's playing to play the first track in your new rotation...but don't do that. :)
Thanks for your tutorial videos! Unfortunately, I have a "Disabled For Remote Instance!" message in the Events Box. Therefore I can't get it to update to the various rotations. Any clue on how to "Enable" the Events?
Hi Dean. Thanks for watching! Checkout this post in the RDJ forum re. your error message: www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php/topic,17173.msg93668.html#msg93668
@@RadioDJDude Thanks for your help, that fixed it! I've been loading tunes for days and got to thinking I'd like to see it work. It's been driving me crazier than I already am...I don't remember checking the boxes, but they were.
Hello and congratulations for your TH-cam site on radio dj, I would like to know if we can create a rotation playlist to always fall on the top time, by listening to just the beginning of a song. THANK YOU
Hello I would like to make a playlist in rotation that starts with a top schedule and finished with another top schedule what I meant to make a playlist in rotation that lasts 1 hour from the 1st top schedule to the other time. THANK YOU
Sounds like you're trying to create a rotation that's an hour long? If it needs to be exactly 60 min, that's difficult to pull off without advanced coding. If it doesn't need to be exact, just add enough tracks to a rotation to fill an hour's worth of content and create an event to load the rotation when desired. @@RMS-radio-m1z
I learned something _extremely_ important and it was a real pain to get it working again... *DON'T* delete the "default" rotation list, even if it's empty and you're not going to use it. It really angers the AutoDJ.
Hi Kevin! Couple options: 1) Create a Christmas category and a bunch of subcats for added categorization. Build a rotation based on the subcats. 2) Create a Christmas subcat and throw every Xmas song in that bucket and have RDJ blend them all together. Option one allows for more control over your sound. You may want to program: a current Xmas song, an 80s one, a classic, one from 90s, etc. VS option two...put all songs in blender, turn on. Ho, ho, ho. DJ Drunk Santa is in the house! :)
As we are re-freshing our rotations for the station & looking to tightening up everything else, I have picked up a number of key points: Variety is key, Lot's of Content, Infuse personality, SQL( yikes), other. Always open to learn more about this. Great Job on the tutorial ! Rock On Brother!
Each week I look forward to you next installment. Each are extremely well written and produced. Today I have a problem I would love to get your feedback on. It has to do with Rotations. I have multiple categories of music but I’m wrestling with the same issue across all categories. So I’ll use one as an example. I’m not getting my entire category played before a previously played track appears for a 2nd play. In fact some will get played 5 times while others have 0 plays. Here is my rotation setup within the category. 311 songs. 5 tracks from the category play per hour. Least Recently Played. They all have the same priority. Here is the formula I used. 311 (tracks) divided by 5 (tracks per hr) = 62.2 hours to play the entire category. 62.2 (hours) * 60 (minutes per hour) = 3732 minutes. 3737 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE TRACK field. 60 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE ARTIST field. As I said, it’s not working and I wonder if it you have any suggestions or thoughts. Thank you very much. Larry.
Thanks for watching, Larry! Yes, that does sound like a frustrating issue. I'm out of town now & don't have access to RDJ, but one thought is the artist rule isn't being followed. When I get back, I'll poke around & see if I can find anything else to try. Another option is to delete the rotation & rebuild. Sometimes that solves the problem.
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Each week I look forward to you next installment. Each are extremely well written and produced. Today I have a problem I would love to get your feedback on.
It has to do with Rotations.
I have multiple categories of music but I’m wrestling with the same issue across all categories. So I’ll use one as an example.
I’m not getting my entire category played before a previously played track appears for a 2nd play. In fact some will get played 5 times while others have 0 plays.
Here is my rotation setup within the category.
311 songs.
5 tracks from the category play per hour.
Least Recently Played.
They all have the same priority.
Here is the formula I used.
311 (tracks) divided by 5 (tracks per hr) = 62.2 hours to play the entire category.
62.2 (hours) * 60 (minutes per hour) = 3732 minutes.
3737 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE TRACK field.
60 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE ARTIST field.
As I said, it’s not working and I wonder if it you have any suggestions or thoughts.
Thank you very much.
Larry.
Thanks for helping us out, Dude!
Thank you for checking out the vids!
Always fun and informative. Have to get edumacated for when that Linux release of Radio DJ drops.
Thanks! Keep the edumacation going! :)
To use your rotation as an example: Will songs marked with high in "Mood" only play where such tracks are specified in the rotation, or or can/will RadioDJ disregard what the mood tap in a tracks settings is set to, if the mood isn't set in the rotation. (This actually goes for all the things you can "program" in the Others tap of a track)
Songs with any Mood setting will play if no Mood setting is selected in a rotation. OR if you select a particular mood, then only songs that match that setting will be played.
Great job. Thank You.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you 🎉
No, thank YOU for watching! :)
Is there a way, in RadioDJ, to have a overview over which rotations play where. So that you can check that you have all hours covered or that you do not have 2 different rotations planned in the same timeslot. I'm using Events to schedule the different rotations. I have made a spread sheet where I have mapped out on which times the different rotations are playing. But I see no easy way to check if reality matches my spread sheet.
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy way. Keeping a spreadsheet is a great idea...just make sure all your events line up with that data. I, too, run way TOO many rotations throughout the day and it does get confusing. I use a printed clock wheel chart to track rotations by the hour.
great vid as always thank you. i just have 1 question how would you setup a rotation for a specific artist? i guess that you would have to use a SQL quary? i have seen some quarys on the forum but they don't seem to work. also i have tried to join the RadioDJ forum to ask the same question but i never seem to get the activation e-mail.. (can onyone still join the forum?) again thank you
Its ok i got the rotation working it was a small error by myself.. still can't join thr radioDJ forum... again thanks for the vids keep them coming great help
Happy you got it working! Thanks for watching my vids.
Question for ya: when transitioning from 1 rotation to another, does the song that is playing at the top of the hour get interrupted by the song that is scheduled to play in the 2nd rotation, or does it transition smoothly? Great Video!
Thanks! Happy you dug the video. If you use an event to load your rotations, it will wait until the time you specify in the minutes section of the event action to load the next rotation. (Which I forgot to mention in the vid!) Once loaded, RDJ will wait until the current song ends before triggering the next rotation. Now, if you add a Play Now action within the event, it will cut off whatever's playing to play the first track in your new rotation...but don't do that. :)
Thanks for your tutorial videos! Unfortunately, I have a "Disabled For Remote Instance!" message in the Events Box. Therefore I can't get it to update to the various rotations. Any clue on how to "Enable" the Events?
Hi Dean. Thanks for watching! Checkout this post in the RDJ forum re. your error message:
www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php/topic,17173.msg93668.html#msg93668
@@RadioDJDude Thanks for your help, that fixed it! I've been loading tunes for days and got to thinking I'd like to see it work. It's been driving me crazier than I already am...I don't remember checking the boxes, but they were.
Excellent to hear!@@deanbailey1465
Nice
Thank YOU!
Hello and congratulations for your TH-cam site on radio dj, I would like to know if we can create a rotation playlist to always fall on the top time, by listening to just the beginning of a song. THANK YOU
Thanks for watching! I'm not sure what you mean by "always fall on top time". Please give me more info and I'd be happy to help.
Hello I would like to make a playlist in rotation that starts with a top schedule and finished with another top schedule what I meant to make a playlist in rotation that lasts 1 hour from the 1st top schedule to the other time. THANK YOU
Sounds like you're trying to create a rotation that's an hour long? If it needs to be exactly 60 min, that's difficult to pull off without advanced coding. If it doesn't need to be exact, just add enough tracks to a rotation to fill an hour's worth of content and create an event to load the rotation when desired. @@RMS-radio-m1z
I would like to email you if possible, because I have questions concerning licensing.
I learned something _extremely_ important and it was a real pain to get it working again... *DON'T* delete the "default" rotation list, even if it's empty and you're not going to use it. It really angers the AutoDJ.
How do you make a rotation with just Christmas music?
Hi Kevin! Couple options: 1) Create a Christmas category and a bunch of subcats for added categorization. Build a rotation based on the subcats. 2) Create a Christmas subcat and throw every Xmas song in that bucket and have RDJ blend them all together. Option one allows for more control over your sound. You may want to program: a current Xmas song, an 80s one, a classic, one from 90s, etc. VS option two...put all songs in blender, turn on. Ho, ho, ho. DJ Drunk Santa is in the house! :)
You're far too old to be a radio dj dude but then again, so am I.
Once a radio dj dude always a radio dj dude. You're never too old until your VU sticks at -40.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind never too old to shake yer arse
As we are re-freshing our rotations for the station & looking to tightening up everything else, I have picked up a number of key points: Variety is key, Lot's of Content, Infuse personality, SQL( yikes), other. Always open to learn more about this. Great Job on the tutorial ! Rock On Brother!
You've got it! Now, go spice up those rotations! Happy you enjoyed the vid.
Quick question..How do you get the Intro Time to display in RDJ? Rock On Brother!@@RadioDJDude
You need to set intro cue points for all your songs. Fun!@@theel.us-americasrockstati8864
Yikes! ...The station has lots of tunes.
@@RadioDJDude
Each week I look forward to you next installment. Each are extremely well written and produced. Today I have a problem I would love to get your feedback on.
It has to do with Rotations.
I have multiple categories of music but I’m wrestling with the same issue across all categories. So I’ll use one as an example.
I’m not getting my entire category played before a previously played track appears for a 2nd play. In fact some will get played 5 times while others have 0 plays.
Here is my rotation setup within the category.
311 songs.
5 tracks from the category play per hour.
Least Recently Played.
They all have the same priority.
Here is the formula I used.
311 (tracks) divided by 5 (tracks per hr) = 62.2 hours to play the entire category.
62.2 (hours) * 60 (minutes per hour) = 3732 minutes.
3737 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE TRACK field.
60 is put in the DONT REPEAT THE ARTIST field.
As I said, it’s not working and I wonder if it you have any suggestions or thoughts.
Thank you very much.
Larry.
Thanks for watching, Larry! Yes, that does sound like a frustrating issue. I'm out of town now & don't have access to RDJ, but one thought is the artist rule isn't being followed. When I get back, I'll poke around & see if I can find anything else to try. Another option is to delete the rotation & rebuild. Sometimes that solves the problem.
Have you tried toggling on and off "Reset Subcategories" under AudioDJ in Options?
Actually, I wasn’t sure what Reset Categories did.
Thank you!
Appreciate you "tuning in"!