Smart Timing in Events

[Anderson Clayton]

How does smart trimming work?

[Derek]

Smart timing in events is explained in this thread: https://www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php?topic=10673.0
but basically, depending on the timing option you set in the 'Smart Event Interval' in the Options, AutoDJ settings, it allows an event to start before or after the set event time by up to the amount set, in case it would cut a track off when you wouldn't want it to otherwise.

So if an event was scheduled to start at 18:30:00 which would load a new rotation, clear the playlist and start another track playing, if you had the smart interval set to 30, and if using Smart Timing, it would allow that event to trigger between 18:29:30 and 18:30:30 if that would be after a track finished and before another would start.

[danielzugaj]

Smart timing in events is explained in this thread: https://www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php?topic=10673.0
but basically, depending on the timing option you set in the 'Smart Event Interval' in the Options, AutoDJ settings, it allows an event to start before or after the set event time by up to the amount set, in case it would cut a track off when you wouldn't want it to otherwise.

So if an event was scheduled to start at 18:30:00 which would load a new rotation, clear the playlist and start another track playing, if you had the smart interval set to 30, and if using Smart Timing, it would allow that event to trigger between 18:29:30 and 18:30:30 if that would be after a track finished and before another would start.

Hi Darek,
Everything you wrote is correct, but how would you explain the situation when I've set the intelligent time as you described – for example at 18:29:20 AutoDJ drops a track that's 3 minutes long. What happens then... will it play the whole track, or will it cut it off?

[Derek]

how would you explain the situation when I've set the intelligent time as you described – for example at 18:29:20 AutoDJ drops a track that's 3 minutes long. What happens then... will it play the whole track, or will it cut it off?

It depends on what's contained in the event, because if a 'Play' (start playing) command is in the event when it is triggered, then it will stop the current track and start playing whatever is loaded next, but if the event simply loads a track to the top of the playlist area at the specified time, then it will play that after the currently playing item.

All Smart Timing will do is perform the event possibly slightly earlier or later (but only within the time difference allowance set in Options(spanner), AutoDJ settings) than the specified event time, if it means that it will then happen before or after an item has started or finished playing.

If your event just loads item(s) to the playlist area, then Smart Timing probably won't make much difference, but if your event includes a 'Play' command to start the next item, then Smart Timing should mean that the track wouldn't be cut off as it would either happen before the track would have started, or wait for the end, but remember that that depends on the amount of time difference that's been set.

[manu00]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently experiencing a very serious issue with the latest version of RadioDJ.

My setup:

RadioDJ latest release

2x USB sound cards generated by my digital console (AxelTech 3000D)

Output configured to play through USB sound card #1 in RadioDJ settings

The problem:
RadioDJ works fine at first, but after some time (sometimes after 1 day, 2 days, or even less), it randomly switches the output to the other USB sound card without any action from me. When this happens, the broadcast output is lost and I end up with dead air for several hours on air.

This issue never happened with previous versions of RadioDJ — only the latest version seems to cause this behavior with the sound cards.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround or a fix for this problem?
It's quite critical since it directly affects the on-air signal.

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!