Hi Torben
Question. I have now in my home studio 2 music players and 1 item player. Itemplayer i am using for commercial breaks and for the local news .
Now the question when i play the toh on the item player . Is there a way to when the toth is finished automaticly the first record can be played like the auto mode function . It automaticly starts when item player has finished it last item
Regards
Goos
To do this, you would need to add an Action On Stop to the last item. You do this by right-clicking the item and clicking Properties, Actions tab.
Then click Add and add two Actions in this order:
These Actions are the same as clicking AUTO then clicking PLAY.
BFN
Cad
This may be the same (or a similar) question but I experimented with 2 playlists – music/jingles in playlist 1 and adverts in playlist 2 with the idea of inserting ‘pointers’ to advert breaks in playlist 1 which would then ‘pass’ automation to playlist 2 for the adverts and this would in turn ‘pass’ automation back to playlist 1 when complete.
Whilst this worked it struck me that if anything went wrong in the handovers then the automation would stop and a lot of dead air is not really ideal!
So, any suggestions on how to ‘insert’ dynamic adverts into a playlist by other means (especially using the mini scheduler!)?
I’m sure that there is a simple way that is just escaping me at the moment.
Ron
Hi Ron, perhaps a customised script that instead of loading a playlist by hour, inserts a mini playlist at specified points of the hour.
See here:
http://forum.mairlist.com/index.php/topic,2750.0.html
We never used this in the end but worth a look.
Kind Regards Tony
Hi Cad
Thanks for the information. Will check it out today I redesign the skin ini file also a little bit is looking good.
On the server it is staying the original version of mairlist. But in the studio we did some minor modifications and working only the skin.ini
It is not finished yet.
Regards
Goos
“Actions on Stop” would indeed work, but something more visual (and managable) would be to insert a Command event in the Playlist, such as AUTOMATION 1 NEXT to put the main (1st) Playlist back into auto. You’d also need a Break event after (to stop the 2nd/Advert Playlist).
So, in the 1st (Music) Playlist, you’d have:
#mAirList COMMAND [AD BREAK] AUTOMATION 2 ON;AUTOMATION 2 NEXT
#mAirList BREAK WAIT HERE
In the 2nd (Adverts) Playlist, you’d have:
#mAirList COMMAND [RESUME MUSIC] AUTOMATION 1 ON;AUTOMATION 1 NEXT
#mAirList BREAK WAIT HERE
The AUTOMATION 1 ON is a safety-net in case you have a DJ operating and they put mAirList into ASSIST mode for whatever reason. It ensures that the Playlist starts up again when told to. AFAIK, if you issue a “Next” command it won’t trigger if the Playlist Mode is “ASSIST”.
Thanks charlie
Posted also my layout in the skin ini subject. But question. Where can i find these comments
Do i have to paste the commands in the op of the playlist each time by hand or is there a way i can save it in mairlist
.
Regards
Goos
From memory the commands are saved with the playlist. If so, define a template playlist which includes the necessary commands.
Charlie
#mAirList COMMAND [AD BREAK] AUTOMATION 2 ON;AUTOMATION 2 NEXT
When adding comment in to the playlist you recieve the edit playlist item
Must the first one go to the title
Or in the command area.
And where do i paste the second line
#mAirList BREAK WAIT HERE
Also the same for the second playlist area . Where the commercial breaks and news is running over:
Goos
My examples are “raw” entries designed for M3U playlists - A “Break” item is a different type of item to a “Command” - You are given a choice when you click the “Insert” drop-down arrow on the Toolbar. For a Command, just type the AUTIOMATION 1 NEXT bit (you don’t need the #mAirList COMMAND [AD BREAK] bit.