Importing Playlists with hard & soft times...

Archive mAirList 4.x (English)
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Hi all again,

Looking at how I can import playlists from a 3rd party scheduler (StationPlaylist Creator) but keep the hard and/or soft times. I can massage the M3U it exports as I see fit but tried generating simple mlp & mld files with time data & filename but when iloiad that it doesn’t populate with artist etc (all in database) etc…

Any guidance appreciated.

Thanks.

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Hi Richard, have you tried putting fixed start times directly into Creator?

Right click on a item (normally a spot category) within a rotation and select to make timed item. Specify the time in minutes after an hour it should occur.

This works in Creator Pro.

hth Tony

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Hi Tony,

Thanks, I’m fully familiar with that in Creator, its getting that timing info into mAirlist that I’m having a slight headache with.

Cheers

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Hi Richard, sorry I’ve tried this since posting. Using Creator in this manner only works with its counterpart Studio.

Contact Ross at Staion Playlist (assuming you have a support agreement with them) for suggestions. I no longer have access to such.

Tony

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Thanks Tony,

I just need the magic "method’ on mAirlist, just a nudge towards a way. I can write a parser that will read the SPC file and vomit out something that mAirlist will like.

Cheers

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Add a line like this to the M3U file before the timed files:

#mAirList FIXTIME hh:mm:ss
C:\music\thetimedfile.mp3

Only works with hard fix times at the moment though.

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[quote=“Torben, post:6, topic:8460”]Add a line like this to the M3U file before the timed files:

#mAirList FIXTIME hh:mm:ss
C:\music\thetimedfile.mp3

Only works with hard fix times at the moment though.[/quote]

Thanks, that’s the kind of thing I’m after, much appreciated. Question, does the time need to have a fixed hour, or can that be ignored but the minute matters?

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I’m almost certain (subject to correction by Torben!) that yes, you do need the full hh:mm:ss in a FIXTIME; and no, the hour can’t be ‘ignored’ (though I see what you’re trying to do!).

One for Dr. Wiebert, I think. :slight_smile:

BFN
Cad

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You’re right. Hourly fixed times are not supported through M3U import at the moment.