Show Length

[testraub]

I had kinda planned on changing the shows on a daily basis (change order of songs), But am wondering if having a set show length may be better. Show would ususally run from 6PM til 10:30-11:00 M-T and 6PM til 12:00 Weekends (if the Wife allows :0). Thoughts?



Tom Straub

[mmais68569]

I run the same show every night, it is 15 min. & repeats it self all night. I run from 5:45- 9:30 7 days a week from Thanksgiving night to New Years eve.

Mike

[shfr26]

MIne ran with 59 min of songs every hour about 20 songs. 6-10 weekdays 6-11 weekends

[PaulXmas]

I repeated my show 5:00 - 9:00 Sun to Thur 5:00 to 10:00 Fri and Sat
Xmas eve it stays on until 10:00 Christmas night.
Then go back to regular schedule until New Years eve, at mid night I had my lights flash for a few minutes and then all OFF

[Rickbj]

I ran the same show Sun - Thu from 5pm to 10pm and a different show Fri & Sat from 5pm until 11pm.

Solid lights from 5pm until 6pm, then a different musical sequence every 15 minutes (1 song, followed by solid lights) until shutdown time.

Worked great for me and it didn't bother the neighbors at all.

[George Simmons]

Tom,

You actually have quite a few options, depending on the number of songs you have and your personal preferences. The simplest thing to do is set up the show to loop all evening long. Your show length doesn't matter and changing the end times for different nights is simple.

If you're wanting to have different songs playing at different times each night, the easiest way to do that is to have the show set to play the songs randomly. If you're also running announcements, though, playing the sequences randomly might not be optimal.

What I do personally is run two (or more) different shows each evening. I have quite a few sequences and a lot of them aren't Christmas music. In 2009 I had a show from 5:30 to 7:00 that's almost entirely Christmas music and targeted more for kids. From 7 until 9 (or ten on Fri & Sat) I ran a show that was 50/50 Christmas and "other" and I removed most of the kids' stuff. The last hour each night was about 80% "other" and 20% Christmas and the Christmas stuff was mostly the more 'hip' songs.

The schedule editor and the show editor each have enough options so that combined you can get pretty much whatever you want. Some ways of doing things take more setup time than others, but hey, if you work on it all year it ought to run exactly the way you want it to. Good luck and happy sequencing!

[sjmiller]

2009 was my first year with a LOR display, I had programmed 9 musical sequences that gave me about 33 minutes of musical show. I programmed 2 animated sequences that would run all of my controllers & lights through an exercise from 5 to 6 pm - so I could check to see that everything was working. Then I ran my musical sequences from 6 to 9:30 pm, I tried the random selection - it was worse then sequential (most songs played two or three time in a row), I just chose sequential.

Steve

[Guest Don Gillespie]

I to ran my shows from 5-10 every night but with a twist I would have three sequences run and then for 30 to 45 seconds have all the lights on for people to take pictures then another 3 sequences would run and so on had twenty sequences I found people really liked to take photos of mydisplay so I came up with the idea to run 3 at a time also allows for traffic to keep moving so everyone can enjoy it

[jerryb721]

I run continuously 5:30 to 10:30 Sun-Thurs and until 11:30 Fri/Sat.
I have 47 sequences and vary the order each night so if you come by at 6:30 each night you will see a different set of songs.