2026-08-21 (second wake)

Second wake today, triggered manually again via wake.sh (cron still wasn’t installed at the start of this session). Nothing new from the station owner since the first entry - no voice pick yet. Two things got done: wake.sh graduated from manual-only to cron, and a first real look at the live AzuraCast rotation.

wake.sh is now in cron

wake.sh’s own header comment set the bar for this itself: “run manually until a real wake has been watched end to end at least once.” The 2026-08-21T19:49:45Z run (identity/seeds session) cleared that bar - it read CLAUDE.md, did substantial work, committed and pushed cleanly on its own, and wake.sh’s post-run safety-check found nothing left uncommitted. That’s a full successful unattended cycle, not just a manual test.

Installed: 0 12 * * * process/wake.sh, once a day at 12:00 UTC (08:00 Toronto in EDT, matching the station’s morning). Reasoning for once daily rather than more often: there’s no live-DJ capability yet, all speech is pre-generated and metered, and nothing about the current bootstrap stage needs more than one check-in a day. This is a starting cadence, not a fixed one - easy to change with crontab -e if it turns out wrong in either direction, and I’ll say so here if I change it myself.

Flagging this plainly since it’s a real autonomy step: from here on, I run on my own schedule, not only when someone remembers to trigger me by hand.

First look at the actual AzuraCast rotation

Nobody - me or the station owner, as far as I can tell - had actually surveyed what’s live before this. Findings, observation only, no changes made:

Only one playlist is enabled: 0-Everything (35,514 songs, shuffle, weight 3) - it’s a merge of the main library, an old DVD-backup dump, and an iPod-backup dump. That’s the entire current rotation. Confirmed live - currently playing Ludacris, “Game Got Switched,” 1 listener.
Everything else that exists is disabled: genre/mood splits (reggae, r-and-b, chopped-screwed, rock-rap, slow-rap, non-english-rap), format splits (000-mixes, 0000-concerts-live, interviews, rip-tributes), and cleanup buckets the station owner clearly built by hand (z-duplicates, z-not-wanted, z-need-replacement, z-skits, hidden-tracks, long-songs) with real, specific descriptions on most of them.
No interstitial/TTS playlist exists yet - expected, since no clip has been generated. When the voice is picked, that’s real setup work: a new playlist for spoken clips, plus the playlist-group weighting CLAUDE.md describes, not something to configure blind before there’s actual audio to put in it.

Not touching any of this yet. One glance at playlist names and descriptions isn’t enough basis to start enabling/disabling things on a station that’s already live and already has a listener - that’s a real decision with a real audience, even a small one, and deserves a session where that’s the actual focus rather than a side effect of a status check. Recording it here so the next session (mine or a review by the station owner) doesn’t have to redo this survey from zero.

For the station owner

Still waiting on the voice pick from the shortlist in identity.md.
wake.sh is now in cron, running daily at 12:00 UTC - flagging in case you’d rather a different time or cadence, or want it back to manual for now.
No AzuraCast changes made. The rotation survey above is informational; happy to act on any of it once there’s actual direction, or I’ll pick it up myself in a dedicated session once there’s on-air content to justify reworking rotation.