# Stopping duplicut songs and artists from playing too often

**URL:** <https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000>\
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**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000 "2021-08-24T20:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Lee](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/Lee)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000/1 "2021-08-24T20:01:40Z")

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How do I stop the same song or artist from playing each hour?

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**Author:** ![bobjonkmandj](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.libretime.org/bobjonkmandj/32/340_2.png) [@bobjonkmandj](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/bobjonkmandj)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000/2 "2021-08-29T06:17:48Z")

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Perhaps you have the “Link” box checked for repeating shows. That makes the same tracks play for every instance of the show.

I find it better to uncheck “Link”, then use an Autoplay Playlist which contains a Smartblock that chooses tracks randomly.

–Bob.

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**Author:** ![Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Lee](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/Lee)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000/3 "2021-08-30T15:23:02Z")

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Thank you, Bob I’ll try that and let you know how I get on!

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**Author:** ![matias-tecnosoul](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.libretime.org/matias-tecnosoul/32/341_2.png) [@matias-tecnosoul](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/matias-tecnosoul)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/stopping-duplicut-songs-and-artists-from-playing-too-often/1000/4 "2021-09-02T09:28:38Z")

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there’s a similar topic here:

> [@How to avoid 2 tracks of the same artist?](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/how-to-avoid-2-tracks-of-the-same-artist/611):
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> Hey everybody , thanks for the great work , Libretime is the perfect radio automation that my team and me were looking for to start our radio project. We have one issue that we can’t solve , we often have two songs from the same artist (not the same song) playing one after another OR playing a few minutes later. We’d like to avoid that . We’re using smartblocks of 4 tracks. Any idea how to avoid that? Cheers