Hello,
How can I limit any songs picked by MBStudio say 8-10 minutes before the top of the hour to say maybe no longer than 3:45 and after that restore to any length?
If it's possible to run several different limits starting at 15 minutes before hour and then 10 minutes and then 5 minutes would maybe help more where you narrow down lengths on each limit of length.
I want to get my top of the hour closer to the top and I have had songs occasionally play 3 minutes before the top that were 10 minutes long making my top of hour 7 minutes past top. I don't want to just hard limit time and it's okay to be a minute or two off. I do not like to have song start and 30 seconds later end song, so limiting song length before hand would solve issue.
Just schedule your top of hour in MB SPOT and enable the option "force" with ex: 2 minutes.
Let's see an exemple:
Here i created a break at 00:59:00 with 2 minutes of Foce Wait.
If the current song will end between 00:59:00 and 01:01:00 the "TOP OF THE HOUR" will start play normally
If at 01:01:00 the current song it's still playing MB STUDIO will fade out the current song and start playing THE TOP OF HOUR however in this case the song has already played 2 minutes
If you prefer to play a song to for a minimum of 3 minutes you can adjust the time of the break and the force value to sweet your needs.
Ex: Time Break 00:58:30 and force wait of 3 minutes.
With this system you don't have anymore too much short play of a song while keeping the break on time.
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