Clockwheels: A Very Important Feature For A Radio Station
I know that this has benn posted before, but I believe that this is a very important feature for a radio station. That feature is called Clockwheels. Clockwheels are a group of playlists that are played in a specified order in a wheel. For example, I would play a top of the hour station ID, a song, another station ID, a song, and so on. Without clockwheels, my station would not sound like an FM Radio Station. I would like my radio station to be 100% professional.
Other services, such as Live365 and LiveWebDj provide this functionality.
Resources
http://support.livewebdj.com/support/solutions/articles/1000073898-about-livewebdj-s-clockwheels
https://support.live365.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006738093-ClockWheels
Comments: 15
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06 May, '20
emiryapici MergedHi! There might be playlist templates like "clocks" in other radio automation systems. By using this feature, user can create a clock template for each hour that contains playlists. Like this:
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1st item -> TOH playlist
2nd item -> A song from a playlist
3rd item -> A jingle from jingle playlist
4th item -> A song from a playlist
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Azuracast can calculate the mean duration of a song in a playlist from total duration. So total duration of a clock could be calculated.
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08 Mar, '21
Buster Neece Admin"Station clocks" (suggested by emiryapici on 2020-05-06), including upvotes (10) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 May, '21
Eddy MergedAbility to create a playlist rotation.
This function would complete the creation of a professional schedule.
It means being able to create a defined playlist sequence, with a user-defined sequence.
Example:
1 Playlist House
2 Jingle Playlist
3 Playlist Pop
3 playlist promotions
4 Latin Playlist
etc. etc...
The selector will transmit the "sequence" with the chosen order ...
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02 Jun, '21
Buster Neece Admin"Playlist Rotation" (suggested by Eddy on 2021-05-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Jun, '21
RadioBijoux MergedAllow "nested" playlists. For instance, I create a "Podcasts" main Playlist. Within that Playlist, I can create Podcast #1, #2, #3, etc.)
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27 Jun, '21
Buster Neece Admin"Nested Playlists" (suggested by RadioBijoux on 2021-06-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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15 Jul, '21
Buster Neece Admin"Nested play list" (suggested by Jro on 2021-07-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Jul, '22
DenilsonThat would solve some of my problems, as well as make the radio much more professional. I would love for this new feature to come out in the next version.
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16 Nov, '22
J.J.Currently with SAM broadcaster. This would go a long way in helpin me switch. Should include repeat protection for title/artist as well as various modes: random, least recently played, etc.
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26 Dec, '22
Corey HarkerIt would be super helpful to automatically import .pls or .m3u files generated by Music1 or MusicMaster scheduling software hourly. It would be easy to adapt and upload the output playlist files to AzuraCast. Just need a sync or watch function that will update and ingest the playlist every hour.
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28 Dec, '22
PavlosIndeed, the use of the rotate operator would be very handy!
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18 Feb, '23
Moonbase59I used to do this manually befor in LiquidSoap. Having the ability to generate clockwheels within the GUI would be a great addition (and surely require nested playlists).
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27 May, '23
J.J.I wonder if this could be achieved by having another program cue through the Azuracast API?
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15 Jan
Vladimir ChubarovIs there any news when this feature will be implemented?
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30 Jan
Vladimir ChubarovWe solved this task using the standard capabilities of azurecast.
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Created playlists:
01 - DISCO Hit
Song-based Once per Hour (at 1)
03 - Disco
Song-based Once per Hour (at 2)
06 - House
Song-based Once per Hour (at 5)
09 - Deep
Song-based Once per Hour (at 9)
12 - Latino
Song-based Once per Hour (at 12)
15 - Disco
Song-basedOn-Demand Once per Hour (at 15)
18 - Jazz
Song-based Once per Hour (at 18)
21 - Disco
Song-based Once per Hour (at 21)
24 - House
Song-based Once per Hour (at 23)
27 - Gold hit
Song-based Once per Hour (at 27)
31 - DISCO Hit-2
Song-based Once per Hour (at 31)
34 - Disco
Song-based Once per Hour (at 33)
36 - House
Song-based Once per Hour (at 36)
39 - Deep
Song-based Once per Hour (at 39)
42 - Latino
Song-based Once per Hour (at 42)
45 - Disco
Song-basedOn-Demand Once per Hour (at 45)
48 - Jazz
Song-based Once per Hour (at 48)
50 - Disco
Song-basedOn-Demand Once per Hour (at 50)