Delay in loading playlists

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Is there anyway of getting the playlist to load quickly?

I am using 1 playlist per day generated from Selector and when loading it into mAirList the software freezes for nearly 5 minutes before the playlist loads. That can’t be right?

I understand it would be quicker to load if I used hourly playlists but Selector can’t generate hourly files and I’ve never known any radio station to work in this way. There must be a way of getting a 1 day playlist to load in less than 5 minutes?

Any ideas?

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Is this M3U playlists? If so, mAirList will most likely perform Auto Cue in the background to determine the Cue In and Fade Out markers, which can in fact take quite a while.

Solution is to tag each file using a file tag or MMD file, or turning off Auto Cue altogether.

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Yes I am using an m3u playlist format.

I have just taken off the Auto Cue as I will do this for the files using the file tag. It has loaded a days playlist in less than 30 second :smiley:

Perfect! Thank you.

I am still struggling with getting a playlist to auto load at 23:58:00 each day for the following day. I have tried a few scripts I have found on here but with no luck.

Each playlist is title @D@M@Y.m3u from selector so I would need to tell mairlist to grab the next days date. What’s the easiest way of doing this?

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That’s fairly easy, once you get the idea :slight_smile:

  • Add a new event in the event scheduler
  • Set it up so that it runs az 23:58:00 each day, in automation
  • Add a new “Load playlist” action
  • In the configuration dialog of that action, set the filename to “C:\wherever%Y%M%D.m3u” (this will resolve to e.g. “20091203.m3u” - make sure that the year is 4-digit).
  • Important: On the “Options” page, enable variable substitution so that the variables are expanded in the first place. Also, set the time adjustment to “00:02:00” forward. mAirList will then use the next day’s date to resolve the variables. (Remember that the event is still run on the previous day at 11:58pm.)

Can you make Selector add an additional line at the beginning of the M3U file? Of so, make it add

#mAirList FIXTIME 00:00:00

and also use “Append playlist” instead of “Load playlist”. The new playlist will then be appended at 23:58:00, and at midinight, the automation skips to the first item of the first playlist.

Save the event list as “standard.mle” into mAirList’s program folder(*), it will be loaded automatically at startup then.

(*) The folder may vary depending on when and on which Windows version you installed mAirList. From v3.0.10, it’s rather the All Users application data folder, but not if you made an update from an earlier version. Please read this blog post for more information: http://www.mairlist.com/blog/2009/11/improved-vista-and-windows-7-compatibility/

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Thanks Torben,

I entered all the steps you suggested and it loaded perfectly.

I’m very happy with this playout system would quite happily recommend it to anyone in future.
Excellant work! ;D

Thank you again.
Chris.