So If I have 20 min of shows, and I want to restart my shows every half hour, could I just have my lights on for the 10 min with random christmas music from my computer? ( like the old Specturm scheduler could) ?

thanks for your help

No.  The scheduler only plays your sequenced shows.  You could always create a sequence using the music you'd like to hear play that consists of all the lights being on, but you'd need to have it as a sequence.  For the "random" effect, you can always select your normal sequences to play a second, third fourth, etc. time within the one show, and select a different "all lights on" sequence to play afterwords. 
Ex: Preshow,1,2,3,[4],[5],1,2,3,[6][7],1,2,3,[8],[9],Endshow.

 

Might be nice to have a 'Playing Now' type display on the calendar or something to indicate what might be going on in the scheduler.  I made a slight mod to the sequence that should have loaded and played, but had to restart the schedule from the beginning. Now waiting about 1 hour till it hits the point where it appeared to stop to see if problem reoccurrs.  Seems to me I had similar problem where schedule just seemed to stop when doing smaller tests but don't recall the events. I'm not at the end time yet so it shouldn't have stoped.

 

Grabbing at straws I also turned off screen saver even though that shouldn't cause any problems.

had that same issue last year (maybe)

If you are running xp use "direct show" option.

 

That fixed my issue last year anyways,

 

Slink

 

Interesting - the audio file somehow causing what appeard to be a stop in the schedule.  And yse it was a .WAV file.  Took same file and converted it to a .mp3, switched the file in properties - Now everything works.  My best guess would be that somehow the .wav is being seen as much longer than it really is and the scheduler might not be stopped but it doesn't know it's hit the end of the sequence.  Aurora doesn't see it as any longer than what it should be. I never left the scheduler run more than 5 minutes after the audio ended to see if it was still running and would fire off the next sequence.

 

.mp3 working just fine and .wav doesn't in this strange instance. - It was reproducable every time I use the sequence with the .wav it appears as if the schedule stops. but same sequence with .mp3 just flows along happily to the next sequence. Has to be something in my audio file causing it since it only happens with just this one.