Hoster 5.40.01 IS Released! 8-12-2015 - Full Singers Rotation!

[bryant]

I'm still around! . I wonder if this random picker can be applied to a singer's database of songs. I get a lot of requests like " Just pick something random out of my songs for me".

[MTUSUPPORT]

Thought you went into Hiding! I am sure that Dave could to that pretty quick, I know you have a large database of singers/songs to.

[Chad Slater]

I noticed a possible issue when having the auto rotation on and run your shows as a rotation clicked. When you have a large list of singers on auto rotation and click the abort button because say a singer walks off, the rotation goes all the way to the top and doesn't move down to the next singer in the line. Would this not be better (at least for the abort button when in auto rotation) to mark the song as played and move down to the next singer in line and not all the way back to singer 1?

Just a thought, I could be wrong in the need for this. Btw, the update ROCKS!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Chad Slater

I noticed a possible issue when having the auto rotation on and run your shows as a rotation clicked. When you have a large list of singers on auto rotation and click the abort button because say a singer walks off, the rotation goes all the way to the top and doesn't move down to the next singer in the line. Would this not be better (at least for the abort button when in auto rotation) to mark the song as played and move down to the next singer in line and not all the way back to singer 1?

Just a thought, I could be wrong in the need for this. Btw, the update ROCKS!

There is a setting to adjust how much of a song is played before it changes the status to played or ready after stopping a song.
If you look in Tools/Settings/Playlist at 3rd control down is a timer setting, maximum setting 60 will set the status to played if you hit the abort or stop button when there is less than 60 seconds remaining.

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

If you look in Tools/Settings/Playlist at 3rd control down is a timer setting, maximum setting 60 will set the status to played if you hit the abort or stop button when there is less than 60 seconds remaining.

(To me) this seems backward. Shouldn't we be able to say its considered played after 30 seconds?

[WaltR]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

(To me) this seems backward. Shouldn't we be able to say its considered played after 30 seconds?

Hey Gonzo,
Part of the reason for this feature is because of the statistics feature. The thought was to let the user decide when a song should be considered played and become part of the statistics. If you aren't familiar with this, it is located by selecting "File" in the upper left corner. It gives users a multitude of choices to establish all kinds of stats which may help run future shows. Back to the time counter you are speaking of, it is thought that if you get to the point where a max of 60 seconds are left in the song it should be considered for those stats. I have mine set for 20. If you were to abort it just 30 seconds into a song as your example the song would be counted in these stats. I think most feel that is way to soon. The way it is, if you abort it with more than 60 seconds left it should not be counted as played and giving false stats. If you don't agree with this I guess you could ask for the time to be extended. Hope this explains things. I personally never use "auto" when using the "rotation" for several reasons but that is just me.