Sweepers - What Am I Doing Wrong Here?

Jhonny · October 03, 2016, 04:53:14 PM

Mabe a photo.

Track whit a assigned sweeper.

Track whit no assigned sweeper.

djMot · October 03, 2016, 05:15:30 PM

Marius, I'd sure appreciate if you would weigh in here! I'm baffled.

FreerunMedia · October 03, 2016, 05:49:46 PM

I was also thinking about using sweepers and i am prepairing for it. Prepair because, as far i found out, you need some intro, out-tro, hooks and so on for it. This might be the problem up here, did you give in at least an intro time?

djMot · October 03, 2016, 07:52:37 PM

Quote from: FreerunMedia on October 03, 2016, 05:49:46 PM
I was also thinking about using sweepers and i am prepairing for it. Prepair because, as far i found out, you need some intro, out-tro, hooks and so on for it. This might be the problem up here, did you give in at least an intro time?

Thanks Freerun. All tracks have the cue markers that the Importer gave them. That seems to be Start, Next, and End. At least that's what the first song I checked has. I presume this is true for all songs. If they are required for certain features to work, I'm not sure why they wouldn't be created during the import. If it's too difficult for the importer to establish an into point (would that be synonymous with the "post" byw?) then at least setting the Intro time to the same value as the Start time would seem like a good thing for the Importer to do.

I'll set some Intro points and see what happens...

djMot · October 04, 2016, 07:33:16 PM

Okay, so this is still not working. I have an Intro cue point set on the track, I have a custom playlist, I have an event, and still nothing. The track in the first two screenshots played without its associated sweeper earlier this morning as I was listening to it. Why not? What am I doing wrong here? I seriously don't get why this is so hard.

FL Coast · October 04, 2016, 08:19:56 PM

djMot,

I could be wrong, but your example only shows a 1 second intro. That would mean your sweeper would have to be one second or less. I think your intro time has to be equal to or longer than your sweeper for this to work. Like I said, I could be wrong.

djMot · October 05, 2016, 02:17:31 AM

Quote from: FL Coast on October 04, 2016, 08:19:56 PM
djMot,

I could be wrong, but your example only shows a 1 second intro. That would mean your sweeper would have to be one second or less. I think your intro time has to be equal to or longer than your sweeper for this to work. Like I said, I could be wrong.

Thank you FL, but sweepers NOT attached to a song do not have to overlap the song in their entirety to work, so I don't see why that would be the case here.

Jhonny · October 05, 2016, 03:47:20 AM

@djMot, have you tested as i have done?

Jhonny · October 05, 2016, 03:50:25 AM

And set in the rotation not set on intro but on start.

djMot · October 05, 2016, 04:47:16 AM

Quote from: Jhonny on October 05, 2016, 03:50:25 AM
And set in the rotation not set on intro but on start.

See Reply #9 on page 1.

rkriggs · October 05, 2016, 05:01:35 AM

have you made sure the enable button is checked? right click on it and edit track.. then make sure enabled is checked..

djMot · October 05, 2016, 05:26:44 PM

Quote from: rkriggs on October 05, 2016, 05:01:35 AM
have you made sure the enable button is checked? right click on it and edit track.. then make sure enabled is checked..

The track plays, so yes, it's enabled. So is the sweeper attached to it.

ImQuazar · October 09, 2016, 11:47:56 PM

We may be rehashing some things but..
In order for a track sweeper to play:
1) in your track rotation, you have to tell it to play a sweeper for that line in the rotation.
2) in the song, you have to set the intro, start, and end cues.
3) in the song, you have to set the specific sweeper to play, and that sweeper must be designated as a sweeper in your tracks manager.

You don't have to run any specific event or anything to make this happen, although you could.. whatever suits you.
I don't understand why support for sweepers and voice tracking, two of the most important things in radio automation, receive the least support here.
I've gotten track sweepers to work, so if you can't get it, let me know, and I'll try to help you get it figured out.

Thanks,
-Lee

neutralhills · October 10, 2016, 12:20:38 AM

Quote from: DJ Garybaldy on August 31, 2016, 02:03:50 PM
Does this happen if you try a remote desktop program such as VNC? We use Ultra VNC to remote onto our W10 box and it doesn't affect anything. RadioDJ and the encoding program work as usual.

If BUTT is disconnecting when you log onto a remote desktop try another encoding program It may be a limit of BUTT

We found the BUTT encoder to be a pain-in-the-butt. It wasn't stable for us. The ~~A******t~~ encoder that runs as a plugin works for us for months at a time -- we only ever have to take the main system down for Windows updates. We also switched from VNC to Chrome Remote Desktop as we discovered it to be much more stable when used over 3G/4G/LTE connections.

Jhonny · October 10, 2016, 10:14:30 AM

Quote from: djMot on October 04, 2016, 07:33:16 PM
Okay, so this is still not working. I have an Intro cue point set on the track, I have a custom playlist, I have an event, and still nothing. The track in the first two screenshots played without its associated sweeper earlier this morning as I was listening to it. Why not? What am I doing wrong here? I seriously don't get why this is so hard.

Sorry it took a little longer for this reaction.
It was always on my mind why does it not work!

I read in the message I have a custom playlist so whit a custom playlist it will not work.