The Default Clock is one of the most flexible and essential programming levers that must be configured within your station to launch a stream. This special clock comes packed with powerful functionality that your station will benefit from. Today we are taking a moment to shine a light on different ways the Default Clock can be used.
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- When you create a new station, the Default Clock icon will be empty, indicating that there is no programming configured within this clock.
- When there is programming configured within the Default Clock, the clock icon will turn green, indicating your station is in good standing ready for broadcast.
- Clicking on the Default Clock icon will take you to the Default Clock Details page, where you can configure programming for your station.
The Default Clock Details page appears just like every other clock, but has been designed to be either 1) a failover clock, or 2) a single primary clock that can be used to program your whole station utilizing the power of Program Director’s playback Composition AI within the platform.
When used as a Failover Clock:
If you want more control over your station playback, you can program multiple clocks within the Grid. In this case, the Default Clock will be used as a failover clock. When there's no programming on the Grid, the Default Clock will play.
This helps to fill gaps in the schedule without needing to add new programming. For example, if the only programmed clocks are for morning and evening drive times, the Default Clock will fill the empty dayparts. You only need to program one item in the Default Clock to meet station broadcasting requirements. However, your playback continuity requirements may vary from the system requirements.
When used as a Primary Clock:
The Default Clock can be used to create a powerful broadcast station quickly, without using clocks on the Grid. When you program the Default Clock with Categories, Smart Folders, Content, and Formulas, it will run 24/7 and repeat every hour (or the clock sequence duration you set).
The playback frequency of Categories and Smart Folders depends on their number and placement in the Clock sequence. Super Hi-Fi's Composition AI ensures the best artist and track separation, continuity, and DMCA compliance if there are at least 100 tracks in the Default Clock.
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Release Notes:
Content:
Support for multiple artists, albums and tracks within the Relationships section is now available. The Relationships tab now allows you to associate your recorded audio files with multiple tracks, artists, or albums by dragging and dropping the corresponding music from the right hand search panel into the according drop zone within the user interface.
Our Bulk Edit tool encountered regression recently rendering the inability to save certain Bulk Edit combinations, this has since been resolved.
Playlists:
A toast message update has been made to inform the user with additional clarity when moving or copying two or more tracks from an ordered playlist to an unordered playlist.
The logic layer for an upcoming feature “Packets” has been merged in this week’s release, various fixes to the logic behind this functionality have been put in place, such as; resolving ability to remove a packet, moving packets to the last position in a playlist, removing a negative trackNumber in the request, and obtaining the correct duration of the packet are now supported. We will announce when this new feature is ready for your use in Program Director, expected within the next few weeks.
Shows:
We have removed old start and end dates from the Episode info section, as these are no longer in use.
When archiving an Episode no toast message was firing, this has since been resolved.
Stations:
- A search panel workflow issue has been resolved when a user runs a search, then navigates to a SmartFolder, and clicks back again, the active search term had previously been removed. This fix results in a much more efficient user experience.
- An issue for Approximate Duration has been resolved, wherein duplicate Approximate Duration times were appearing when they shouldn’t have been.
- Updates have been made to Station breadcrumb highlight state to function as designed.
