Rules in Scheduler

This rule prevents another item by the same artist from being scheduled within a specified time frame.

You can set out the time between tracks by the same artist in days, hours or minutes.

This rule sets out the minimum amount of time before the same item can be scheduled again.

You can set out the time between repeat plays in days, hours or minutes.

This rule sets out the minimum amount of time before an item with the same title can be scheduled again, which is helpful in preventing covers of the same song by different artists from being replayed.

You can set out the time between repeat plays in days, hours or minutes.

This rule sets the minimum time before an item with the same tag can be scheduled again, helping prevent similar tracks from being replayed too close together.

You can set out the time between repeat plays in days, hours or minutes.

This rule sets the minimum time before an item with the same custom field property can be scheduled again, helping prevent similar tracks from being replayed too close together.

You can set out the time between repeat plays in days, hours or minutes.

This rule specifies how many unique hours an item must be scheduled in before it can be played again in the same hour.

'Hour rotation' rules are effective for up to 15 days. If the minimum number of hours is not met during that time, the rule will pass.

You can set out the number of unique hours between plays.

This rule specifies the number of different dayparts an item must be scheduled in before it can be played in the same daypart again.

'Daypart rotation' rules are effective for up to 8 days and 1 hour. If the minimum number of dayparts is not met during that time, the rule will pass.

You can specify the number of unique dayparts an item must be scheduled in before it can be scheduled again in the same daypart.

This rule prevents items from specified genres from scheduling next to each other. For example, preventing a harsh transition from a classical piece to a heavy rock song.

You can specify the transition between two genres to which the rule should apply.

This rule prevents items from specified tempos from scheduling next to each other. For example, preventing a harsh transition from a very slow song to a fast one.

You can specify the transition between two tempos to which the rule should apply.

This rule prevents items from specified tags from scheduling next to each other.

You can specify the transition between two tags to which the rule should apply.

This rule prevents items from specified custom fields from scheduling next to each other.

You can specify a field to apply to the rule to, and enter two values which shouldn't schedule back-to-back.

This rule prevents items from specified genres from scheduling next to each other or repeating too often.

You can specify two genres for the rule to cover, and tell the scheduler how many items from a specific genre to permit.

This rule prevents items with certain tempos from scheduling next to each other or repeating too often.

You can specify two tempos for the rule to cover, and tell the scheduler how many items from a specific tempo to permit.

This rule prevents items with certain tags from scheduling next to each other or repeating too often.

You can specify which tags the rule covers and tell the scheduler how often items marked with the same tag appear in a row.

For example, you can prevent songs sharing the same tag from scheduling back-to-back.

This rule prevents items featuring the same vocal gender from scheduling next to each other or repeating to often.

You can apply the role to any vocal gender, or specify a certain one, and set a limit on how many items featuring the same vocal gender play back-to-back within an hour.

This rule prevents items with certain custom fields from scheduling next to each other or repeating too often.

You can specify how often a particular value can appear in the chosen field in a row.

For example, if you have Release Year as a custom field, you can prevent tracks from the same year from scheduling back-to-back.

This rule prevents the same audio item from being scheduled if it was scheduled in a linked hour across a week period. You may know this behaviour as "AM/PM drive protection".

For example, you can prevent commuters from hearing items that were played during your breakfast show from being played during an afternoon show.

Clicking hours on the grid creates a link, or you can use the arrow keys to navigate, Space/Enter to select, and Esc to cancel.

This rule helps to prevent listeners from hearing the same songs on the same days.

For example, you can prevent items played exactly a week ago from repeating on the same day, or items played on Friday from coming back around on Monday.

This rule prevents the same item or artist from being scheduled at the same time of day as the day before.

This can use either the exact scheduled time +/- a specified threshold in hours and minutes, or check against the same log hour on the previous day.