In Autotrack ( Not Pro Version ) we have song catagories, 60's, 70's, 80's etc.  These are set in the show rules to be an equal balance for all catagories, the problem we have is when it schedules it can have 4 songs from the 80's, then 3 songs from the 70's etc etc.  Is there any way to force it to have one from the 70's, then one from the 80's etc without grouping them together.

thanks.

It all depends on what you have on your 'clock' (running order) as that may cause songs to run in groups. Can you walk us through what you're doing when creating a running order?

A snap shot of your show rules tab will help

Kind Regards

Alex

In your format, you can specify a max and a min number of each catagpry for the hour.  I've always understood that to be a maximum number in a row from that catagory, so if that is correct, setting that number to 1 should make it do what you want. 

As an alternative, in your running order you can specify which catagory each item comes from rather than selecting the blank line letting Autotrack do it for you.  That gives you greater control.

You might find a combination of these two methods works for you.

Neil

thanks for the replies, sorted it with Neil's suggestion of setting the max in a row!  Simple but I just overlooked it.

Thanks,

Mark