Probably quite an ambitious request within mAirList, but nevertheless it’s worth a shot…no harm in asking
Would it be possible to have an ‘in-flight segue editor’. I don’t know if anyone has used ‘Dalet’ before?..but that makes great use of an in-flight editor. Attached are some pictures of what i mean.
What it will allow is automatic "dj’ing"of whatever you tell it to do. The inflight editor allows you to drag, and fade the song or cut at a certain point. It allows also to add an ident over the top of the segued song. After doing the mixing, you save the segue, and then insert it. The program then does this itself and does not have to be in auto mode.
Seems ambitious i understand, but what are your opinions on it and other little things alike we could maybe add into mAirList or have a watered down version etc?
LINK is one of the Playlist columns, you can click it and mAirList will daisy-chain those selected item whilst in “Assist” mode. ie: you can click a block of adverts and just start a Player, and they’ll all play in that Player (via that fader/channel), and then stop. My attached example shows how it works.
Also, if you take a look at Cad’s work in the Scripts forum, you’ll see that you can actually tighten up your segues and sweepers. You need to set your song intros and give certain audio tracks a custom EndType - the script is run once you’ve loaded a Playlist - and any matching items have their Start/FadeTimes adjusted. You will of course need to watch the levels or designate a “Special” Player in mAirListConfig to play Sweepers/Voicetracks (and set the gain a bit higher on the desk, for example).
Dalet - I remember seeing that at EMAP London. Looks like somebody’s got hold of WinAmp and just modified the skin!
The ;semicolon is just a comment to remind me which order the columns are in and the * allows the Title field to fill the remaining space (autosize). The Link column is the one you’re after - If you click the empty column on each item, you’ll see an arrow appear. mAirList will simply chain that and the next item in Assist mode.
Fantastic! Very nice. Seems easy now i think about it ha ha!
Just one thing, how were you able to colour code different categories? e.g. ads=yellow, idents=green etc. Is it done via radioDB or something alike within different categories? (Oh and the advert money icons :P)
Also Torben, back on-topic. Are envelopes going to be available in V3 (any estimates?).
Some ideas for the in-flight editor to-
[ul][li]Route the PFL to a specific channel[/li]
[li]Dragable “nodes” to move the song back and forth until a nice segue is made![/li]
[li]To make it easier, waveforms don’t need to be shown! (Plus makes it less cluttered)[/li][/ul]
Double-click a Playlist item to bring up the Properties windows (or right-click an item/cartwall and select Properties). You are then presented with a tabbed window allowing you to set titles, timings, colours and icons. See the Scripts forum on here for my bulk colour/icon script that allows you to change all playlist items in one go. The icons have also been posted, but I found some nice new ones at iconarchive.com
It’ll take a few minutes on the first “cache” - In fact, it took about an hour to do Phoenix FM’s database! After that, it should take 15-30s. Still, it’s a small price to pay as mAirList rarely crashes and you can search Artist/Title and sort via lengths, too.
I have just over 11,000!