Question about LOR Shows

[tng5737]

My presentation is bronken into four parts which start at 00,15,30 and 45 minutes every hour. In the show editor, I scheduled prog 1 to start on the hour (i.e 6:00:00) and an end time at 6:15:00. the second prog starts at 6:15:00 and ends at 6:30 and so forth. Each prog is less than 15 mintues long. The last 15 minutes is just a random playing of previous selections. When I ran the show, the firs prog ended as expected but then started over. This caused the next program 2 to be delay which had a ripple effect. Why did prog1 start over? Is there a way to to just sit there unti the next schedule program should start?

[George Simmons]

You're mixing your terms and it's hard to follow your question. The Simple Show Builder creates a show. While you're doing that you have the option of the show playing once each hour, once each half hour or continuously. Continuously is the default and it sounds like you didn't change that option. That means the show will loop until the end time has been crossed. Then it will shut down when the current song is finished playing. If you have another show scheduled to begin exactly at the end time of the first show, the second show won't begin until the first has shut down.

The Show Editor is for changing the order of sequences, adding sequences, deleting sequences and such - you have no schedule options there. Schedule options are in the Schedule Editor - this is where you can change the start and end times of shows and create new schedules and delete existing ones.

To do what you want to, you might have to delete the shows and re-do them using the option described above. Good luck.

[tng5737]

Sorry, I am new to all this - you are correct I mis-spoke I am using the schedule editor. (I am not using the simple show builder). I didn't find any option for continuous v.s. run-once. I don't think the SSB is flexible enough to do want. (I want to have a little voice intro every 15 minutes to warn people not to block the road.) Right now I have created a filler animation seq. to fill-out the remaing part of the first program. It would be great to have the run-once option instead of the looping.

[Brian Mitchell]

Yes, a filler sequence is exactly what you need to do. And add it to the end of your musical sequences. Make it about a minute long and add it to the show 2 or 3 times.

That way the show will never run over more than a minute.

[bob]

An alternative to a filler sequence, if you want your sequences to just play through once and only once, would be to put your sequences in either the "Startup" or "Shutdown" section of the show, instead of in the "Musical" section.

[tng5737]

The last 15 min of each hour was a random selection. That complicates things a bit. I have decided to try Brians sugestion and have made four 30 sec fillers which I have added to the end of my selections. I changed the last quarter from random and just repeated the second quarter (Holiday Magic - Believe). I will try this out tonight! IF the results are not satisfactory - I will add them to the startup section as you suggested. Thanks!

[tng5737]

Success! Everything now starts within 1 sec of its assigned time.

Thanks again!

[samjbfan]

An Idea I got from another thread is to add an animation sequence that loops many times as the lost song in the show. Right before that I have Zara radio starting and playing an internet steam of Christmas music. Show last for 30 minutes but actually sequenced music is about 20 minutes. When the next show starts, it stops Zara and goes all over again. Just set it up like that last night and it went thru 2 shows with no problem.

Sam