Loading Hourly Playlists

Hi there,

For some time we’ve been using a script at the top of the hour which loads the next hours M3U playlist (using SPL Creator to generate them).

Lately we’ve been doing some voicetracked shows, and obviously want to be able to load the correct MLP at the top of the hour rather than (or even ahead of) the M3U.

To get around it we’ve added a line to the top of the M3U playlist for that hour which points at the MLP we want to play, but it’s loaded (and logged) as a single item.

I just wondered if anyone had used a particular configuration / script to load or insert an MLP playlist only in certain hours?

Many thanks,

Jim

Add a line as follows to the M3U file:

#mAirList INCLUDE c:\wherever\filename.mlp

(Without the “#mAirList INCLUDE”, the playlist is loaded as a containers, as you have observed.)

I’m not familiar with SPL, but it should be possible to add this line as a “break note”. Ask Charlie, he’s the SPL expert here.

Torben is correct - and you can even specify it using a DDMMYY which is probably what you’d be doing anyway. The easiest way would be to place it in the Hour Header box so that it applies to every playlist. #mAirList INCLUDE C:\Playlists%2h.m3u Would give you a single hourly file and you can add the DD MMM formats as per your own filename rules.

That’s brilliant - thank you Torben, works perfectly.

Thank you Charlie - that’s fantastic and I’ll add that into the Header box, it’s just what we need.

Many thanks again guys. :slight_smile: