Re: [Savonet-users] Jingles not playing from weights set

[Romain B. <to...@ra...>]

Hi,

2013/7/22 Beau Walker <bj...@gm...>:
> Hi Guys, I'm having some dramas with liquidsoap (on ubuntu 12.04) only
> playing one jingle on startup and then never playing another one until I
> restart it. Can anyone see what I've done wrong here?
>
> #!/usr/bin/liquidsoap
>
> # Log dir
> set("log.file.path","/home/user/log/backyard-radio.log")
>
> # Music
> musicplaylist =
> playlist(mode='randomize',reload=1,reload_mode="rounds","/home/users/Music")
>
> # Start building the feed with music
> radio = smart_crossfade(musicplaylist)
>
> # Some jingles
> jingles =
> playlist(mode='randomize',reload=1,reload_mode="rounds","/home/users/StationID")
>
> # If something goes wrong, we'll play this
> security = single("/home/users/live/broken.mp3")
>
> #the security
> radio = fallback( track_sensitive = false, [radio, security] )
>
> #nominalize on the fly
> radio = amplify(1.,override="replay_gain",radio)
> #radio = normalize( radio )
>
> radio=mksafe( radio )
>
> # Now add some jingles
> radio = rotate(weights=[1,3],[jingles, radio])
>
> # Stream it out as 160kbps
> output.icecast(%mp3(bitrate=160, samplerate=44100),
>   host = "localhost", port = 8000,
>   description = "Radio!",
>   name = "Radio!",
>   url = "",
>   public = false,
>   user = "source", password = "*******", mount = "listen.mp3",
>   radio )
>
> Thanks

I think that your problem comes from the fact that smart_crossfade
removes track limits, which is natural if you think about it. However,
this will confuse the rotate operator..

What you should do instead is put the smart_crossfade on top of the
rotate. You should even be able to annotate the jingle playlist in
order to have a special transition for jingles. See for instance
radiopi there:
  http://liquidsoap.fm/doc-svn/radiopi.html
There is a custom crossfade there to take care of jingles. You can add
a "annotate:..:" prefix to your playlist using the.. prefix parameter
:-)

Good luck!
Romain