Would like to update my post. I was able to fix the unscheduled tracks for tomorrow's playout log using 100 hours for the track; 6 hours for the artist; 18 hours for the title. I also generated a playout log beginning this Sunday at 4pm through next Sunday at 2pm using the same settings. I didn't encounter any unscheduled tracks on the playout log. This is going on my third week using PlayIt Live and seems the current settings are stable for now. Still using the one Track Group. I'm in the process of categorizing the music library into track groups by Genre: Standard/Latin and Mood: Guitar/Horn/Keyboard/Reed/Strings/Vibraphone/Woodwind. I know each track group may need it's own separate policy. Will let you know how this progresses. Thanks, Dan
Dan Pettegrew
Good afternoon Playit Live User Forum. Thanks for the assistance in getting my music library uploaded. I began streaming PIL last Tuesday evening. Everything has been going fine until yesterday. I encountered unscheduled music tracks on the playout log. Not sure how to properly correct it. I'm using one track group with 3,319 music tracks in it. The separation rule is set for Track - 5 days 6 hours; Artist - 6 hours; Title - 18 hours. I've scheduled a one-hour clock using the track group and scheduled 18 music tracks per hour. I also have station ids and breaks in the clock. The station ids and breaks seem to be fine. The playout log didn't have any unscheduled tracks for Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa or Su. I had quite a few unscheduled track positions that appeared on yesterday's playout log. In order to get the log to schedule all of the music, I had to edit the Playout Policy for the Clock Track Group to Track - 100 hours, but kept the Artist and Title the same. I noticed Monday's unscheduled tracks on Sunday and that's when I had to fix them. It took some experimenting with the Playout Policy to finally get the separation needed to get all of the unscheduled tracks to disappear. After I scheduled Monday's playout log, I went back to the original Track 5 days 6 hours separation rule setting. Tu, We, Th and Fr are fine. Now, I'm noticing unscheduled tracks appearing on Saturday's playout log. I created two separate track groups with the same 3,319 tracks in them. I have one scheduled on the clock and the other as the playout pattern track group. I'm not sure how the playout pattern works with the clock when the playout log schedules the tracks. I attempted to create a different separation policy for the playout pattern track group using the Track 100 hours separation rule to see how that would affect the playout log. Didn't work I reduced the Track to 24 hours and am still getting unscheduled tracks on Satuday's playout log. Everything else seems to be running without any problems. Just need some guidance on how to correct unscheduled tracks on a playout log. Did some searching for instructional videos, but couldn't find any with a solution. Let me know if anyone has encountered this and what you had to do to fix them. I'm not sure if I leave the unscheduled tracks in the playout log if the playout pattern will schedule something in those positions, or if, the station will go to dead air. Thanks. Have a Blessed Day, Dan