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Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Not sure what RQ-free means, though. Who picks the music? The computer? That would be a bit weird, but OK I guess.
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A pretty good portion of the music is DJed by the computer already. The one-hour delay on requests means that SAM pulls a random song from the library if the next request hasn't hit an hour wait yet.
For instance, Let's pretend
- Poda requested Song A at 12:00 and it's 5+ minutes long
- KeithieW requested Song B at 12:30 and it's 5+ minutes long
- Mossy requested Song C at 1:00 and it's 5+ minutes long
Song A would move from the requested list to the queue at 1:00. At that time, let's assume Roundabout (8+ minutes) started playing at exactly 1:00, Watcher of the Skies (7+) is up next, and then Comfortably Numb (6+), and then Poda's Song A (5:00). Poda's song would finish playing at roughly 1:27. Well, KW's Song B won't move from the request list to the queue until 1:20, so there's three minutes to cover. SAM will pull a random track from the library. It could be any length. If it's less than 3, then SAM will have to pull a second track, because the request hasn't come in yet. Let's assume that SAM randomly pulls up Xanadu (11+). It begins playing at 1:27, Song B moves into the queue at 1:30, and plays after Xanadu ends, which will be 1:38. Song B is 5+ minutes, so it ends at 1:43. Uh-oh! It's still 17 mintues before the next request, Mossy's Song C, can move into the queue, so SAM will auto-dj for at least 17 minutes. It could be one 17 minute song, or a bunch of short songs, or whatever. But if the last song it picks before Song C comes in at 2:00 happens to be, oh, say The Great Nothing, well, Song C will play at approxiamately 2:30.
That's the basic way it works, but that's a simplified version because that's putting the request one song back. In reality, SAM keeps two songs ready minimum at all times, so that you have two "Coming Up" entries in the Now Playing Window.
IN OTHER WORDS, when your request moves from the one-hour wait list to the queue, it moves to the bottom of the queue, which at best is the third song down. If there happen to be no requests in the QUEUE (there may be requests, just not yet in the queue), then SAM will always auto-dj three songs deep.
So, actually, a good bit (I'd guess 25%) of the music heard each day is SAM auto-djing.
That confusing enough for ya'll?
