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Daypart Separation is track-only, not category-level.
You can prevent the same track repeating in the same daypart — but there's no equivalent policy for preventing the same category position from repeating.
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Jason Allen commented
Hi Maarten, please could you elaborate on this request. Could you give a concrete example of how this could be used?
Maarten Schutjes commented
Daypart Separation stops the same track from playing twice in the same daypart on the same day. That works well. But it only looks at today — it has no memory of yesterday. The problem this creates If "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus plays at position 3 in Morning Drive on Monday, nothing stops it from landing at that exact same position on Tuesday morning. And Wednesday. The scheduler sees a fresh day and picks the most eligible track — which might well be the same one again. For casual listeners this isn't an issue. But anyone who tunes in at the same time every day will start noticing. It feels like the station is on a loop. What we'd love to see A simple cross-day check on top of what's already there. When the scheduler is about to fill a category position, it looks back over the last N days and asks: did this track already play at this position recently? If yes, skip it and try the next one. The music director would set N — probably 3 to 7 days depending on the station's library size. What this fixes A listener who tunes in every morning at 8am hears something different each day at that moment, without the music director having to manually police it. The rotation feels alive rather than mechanical.
Maarten Schutjes commented
And yes with a good record rotation within the category it is manageable (if another song by an artist in another category not ruins your schedule
Jason Allen commented
Maarten, thanks for the information. This is actually already possible. If you create a daypart called "Breakfast and Drive" which has the hours 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18; Mon-Fri marked. And then say "Don't repeat the same track for 3 days in this daypart", a track will not be scheduled again within Breakfast or Drive for at least 3 days. The important part is that the daypart needs to cover all the days and hours to be considered the "same" daypart.

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