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Centova Cast v3 => General discussion => Topic started by: malachidraven on November 30, 2013, 04:05:43 pm

Title: How best to handle Ads/Idents
Post by: malachidraven on November 30, 2013, 04:05:43 pm
Hi there. I just started using Centova recently, and I'm pretty impressed with its features. However I'm having some trouble scheduling my Advertisements and my Station IDs/Sweepers to play when I want them to.

I want it to look like this:

Song
Song
Song
Station ID
Song
Song
Promo
Ad
Ad
Station ID
and then Repeat

But no matter what settings I use on the playlists, it ends up just being one big jumble. Like, it'll play one song, then a Station ID, then another song, then a Promo, then one Ad, then another song. And this isn't how I have it set up at all. How can I get a more structured routine?

The only thing I can think of is to just have an Interval Playlist that plays the ENTIRE playlist and have it just have Promo -> Ad -> Ad -> Station ID. But this means it'll play the same exact Ads each time. I want it to choose random ones.

How do you all handle your commercial breaks with Centova?