Newsfeed Automation

English mAirList 5.x
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Hi There

Is there a tutorial or guide on setting up An automated news feed.

We take Skynews from a live satalitte feed that would be fed into an input on our soundcard.

Every night we load an overnight playlist that is effectively a list of audio files save as a playlist and inserted at the end of the night.

What would be the easiest and most reliable way to force Mairlist to
play our News In Jingle

Fade up the news for 2 mins

Play news out jingle

Then return to the scheduled playlist.

We are not currently using an SQL Database either …

Thanks

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I’m not sure how this would be done with a single playlist (we use hourly playlists, so a new one starts after the bulletin).

But using Events you can set the current playing item to stop, play the news jingle, open the Line In on the soundcard, close Line In on the soundcard two minutes later, play an item (e.g. news out) and then start automation playback.

3

Hi Jim

If a 120 minute recorded programme was playing (syndicate show is provided as one 120 minute slab of MP3 audio) if the event stopped the file to insert the newsfeed , would automation have to start a new file or would it continue playing the first file in the same position it had stopped , in effect pausing the file rather than stopping ?

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It would always stop the playing file, play the news, then start the next item. So you must split the show into two files (or use the same file with two different set of cue points).