Rules in Scheduler

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

The 'Separate artists' rule can be applied to all music or non-music items in your library or just specified categories or artists.

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.

'Minimum separation' rules can be applied to all music or non-music items in your library.

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, helpful in preventing covers of the same song by different artists from being re-played.

The 'Title separation' rules can be applied to all music or non-music items in your library.

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

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

'Hour separation' rules can be applied to all music or non-music items in your library to ensure the same item is not always played at the same time of day.

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

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.

'Genre flow' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once genres have been created for your library.

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

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

'Genre adjacent' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once genres have been created for your library.

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

'Tempo flow' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once tempos have been created for your library.

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

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

'Tempo adjacent' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once tempos have been set up in your library.

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 from specified tags from scheduling next to each other.

'Tag flow' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once tags have been created for your library and applied to items.

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

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

'Tag adjacent' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once tags have been set up in your library.

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 from specified custom fields from scheduling next to each other.

'Custom field flow' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once the fields have been created and populated with information for your items.

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 with certain custom fields from scheduling next to each other or repeating too often.

'Custom field adjacent' rules can be applied to music or non-music items, once the fields have been set up in your library.

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 item from being scheduled at the same time of day as it was the day before.

'Yesterday, same hour' rules can be applied to music or non-music items.