With this topic I'm going to attempt to explain how I use AutOKdj and this may also help to dis spell some of the conjecture and presumed knowledge... it may also expose weakness that can be addressed who knows... here we go...
First off the Configuration:
Starting at the top
Closing Time: You have two options set a time, in military time, or check never closes. If you set a closing time AutOKdj will use this to calculate how many singers can be en cued before selling out. Selling out means no more singers would be able to sing if all already cued up sing their selections.
If you choose to check Never Closes, then it doesn't calculate how many more singers can enque nor does it tell you how many more singers can que to sing before sell out.
Max Singer Repeat: Does not mean how many times a singer can sing in a row, rather it means how many songs they can enque for themselves before they have to sing one of them....
In my setup singers are allowed 2 songs in the playlist at a time. Which means Johnny can que up his first two favorite songs but then must sing one of them before he can cue up his third favorite song... this limits the potential for an all Johnny show. This feature is important because without the limitation Johnny could que up 100 of his favorite songs and lock all other singers out of being able to sing at all.
Now, if you want a sing one bring one type of rotation then set this to 1 and your singers and you would only be able to que 1 song at a time for Johnny and he'd have to sing then que his next song. Get it?
Global Tempo Adjust: Does exactly as what it sounds like it does.... it can be used to slow down or increase the speed of every song just like Pacemaker can for individual songs.... I don't use this feature much but, toqer uses it to squeeze more singers in by setting the adjust to a 3% tempo increase... I personally don't like to do that so it's set to zero.
The Check Marked Options: If the descriptions for each aren't self explanatory enough we can delve into those later... I do use New Singer Prefered In Rotation which in its most naked form will place new singers at the top of your playlist despite where they would or should be in a first come first serve rotation style... but with other settings which I'll explain momentarily this does not happen in my shows.
Max Singer Wait Time: If I have this set to zero's then there is no maximum wait between the time a singer sang last and when he gets exempted from being bumped by a new singer. If I set it to say 30 minutes and a singer who has just finished singing has another song already qued a timer of sorts starts for him and if at the 30 minute mark he still hasn't sung he is locked in position so that if a new singer ques he can not be bumped from his current position in the playlist the new singer will go in behind him.
What it does not mean is when set to 30 minutes it does not mean at the 30 minute mark he is going to be bumped up to sing next it just is a measure to prevent "new singers" from extending his wait time beyond 30 minutes. Old singers may extend his wait time but not a new singer.
This setting is usually set to 00:00 at the start of my shows but as my rotations get larger I tend to set it to 00:30 to prevent johnny come late from bumping my loyal singers who have been there all night.
Dynamic Song Queue Lock: As you can see I have it set up for; If more than 3 songs are queued, lock the first 4 songs on the playlist. What this does is when a new singer ques a song in any other round except for round 1 he can not bump the first 4 singers from their current positions in the playlist. Obviously song 1 is your current singer and then songs 2,3 &4 would not move and the new singer would que up as singer 5. There is a catch if this new singer is actually singer 40 he will be singer 40 in the next round.
This is where the Max Wait time comes into play say singer 5 has sung and has been waiting to sing his next song 31 minutes now... he two would be locked in position and the new singer would go to 6th in this rotation.
Confused yet?
Relative Song Queued Lock: Locks a percentage of songs in the playlist and does not allow new singers to bump them... so if you had 100 songs on the playlist and had set this to 10% the first 10 singers would be locked in their positions and the new singer would queue at position 11.
If you are using the Dynamic Queued Song lock don't use the Relative Song Queued Lock. In fact I wouldn't use it at all as it does not give you the same flexibility as the Dynamic lock does in tailoring your rotation rules.
Now if you have not selected to invoke New Singer Priority then neither of these last three settings we have discussed matter you would simply be running a first come first serve rotation. Old singers would sing first and new singers get queued at the bottom, period.
How we doin' guys?
If you have questions please be specific and no flames please.
First off the Configuration:
Starting at the top
Closing Time: You have two options set a time, in military time, or check never closes. If you set a closing time AutOKdj will use this to calculate how many singers can be en cued before selling out. Selling out means no more singers would be able to sing if all already cued up sing their selections.
If you choose to check Never Closes, then it doesn't calculate how many more singers can enque nor does it tell you how many more singers can que to sing before sell out.
Max Singer Repeat: Does not mean how many times a singer can sing in a row, rather it means how many songs they can enque for themselves before they have to sing one of them....
In my setup singers are allowed 2 songs in the playlist at a time. Which means Johnny can que up his first two favorite songs but then must sing one of them before he can cue up his third favorite song... this limits the potential for an all Johnny show. This feature is important because without the limitation Johnny could que up 100 of his favorite songs and lock all other singers out of being able to sing at all.
Now, if you want a sing one bring one type of rotation then set this to 1 and your singers and you would only be able to que 1 song at a time for Johnny and he'd have to sing then que his next song. Get it?
Global Tempo Adjust: Does exactly as what it sounds like it does.... it can be used to slow down or increase the speed of every song just like Pacemaker can for individual songs.... I don't use this feature much but, toqer uses it to squeeze more singers in by setting the adjust to a 3% tempo increase... I personally don't like to do that so it's set to zero.
The Check Marked Options: If the descriptions for each aren't self explanatory enough we can delve into those later... I do use New Singer Prefered In Rotation which in its most naked form will place new singers at the top of your playlist despite where they would or should be in a first come first serve rotation style... but with other settings which I'll explain momentarily this does not happen in my shows.
Max Singer Wait Time: If I have this set to zero's then there is no maximum wait between the time a singer sang last and when he gets exempted from being bumped by a new singer. If I set it to say 30 minutes and a singer who has just finished singing has another song already qued a timer of sorts starts for him and if at the 30 minute mark he still hasn't sung he is locked in position so that if a new singer ques he can not be bumped from his current position in the playlist the new singer will go in behind him.
What it does not mean is when set to 30 minutes it does not mean at the 30 minute mark he is going to be bumped up to sing next it just is a measure to prevent "new singers" from extending his wait time beyond 30 minutes. Old singers may extend his wait time but not a new singer.
This setting is usually set to 00:00 at the start of my shows but as my rotations get larger I tend to set it to 00:30 to prevent johnny come late from bumping my loyal singers who have been there all night.
Dynamic Song Queue Lock: As you can see I have it set up for; If more than 3 songs are queued, lock the first 4 songs on the playlist. What this does is when a new singer ques a song in any other round except for round 1 he can not bump the first 4 singers from their current positions in the playlist. Obviously song 1 is your current singer and then songs 2,3 &4 would not move and the new singer would que up as singer 5. There is a catch if this new singer is actually singer 40 he will be singer 40 in the next round.
This is where the Max Wait time comes into play say singer 5 has sung and has been waiting to sing his next song 31 minutes now... he two would be locked in position and the new singer would go to 6th in this rotation.
Confused yet?
Relative Song Queued Lock: Locks a percentage of songs in the playlist and does not allow new singers to bump them... so if you had 100 songs on the playlist and had set this to 10% the first 10 singers would be locked in their positions and the new singer would queue at position 11.
If you are using the Dynamic Queued Song lock don't use the Relative Song Queued Lock. In fact I wouldn't use it at all as it does not give you the same flexibility as the Dynamic lock does in tailoring your rotation rules.
Now if you have not selected to invoke New Singer Priority then neither of these last three settings we have discussed matter you would simply be running a first come first serve rotation. Old singers would sing first and new singers get queued at the bottom, period.
How we doin' guys?
If you have questions please be specific and no flames please.
