Regional Containers in M3U

Archive mAirList 2.x (English)
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OK, I’ve got it working…

I can put #mAirList MODE FLAT at the top of my Playlist (as a global Playlist Header setting in Creator so that every M3U file is treated this way, or define it on a “per-hour” basis at the top of each clock/rotation should I wish to use MODE CONTAINER somewhere) and then simply include the M3U as a Break Note ie: Z:\mAirList Files\Split - News 1 Drone.m3u or place the M3U Spot Group into the Rotation, ie:[b]

SONG (category, mp3)
PROMO (spot group, mp3)
SPLIT NEWS IDENTS (spot group, m3u)
SPLIT NEWS IDENTS (spot group, m3u)
SPLIT NEWS IDENTS (spot group, m3u)
JINGLE OUT (spot group, mp3)
SONG (category, mp3)[/b]

In this example, I would have 3 M3U files within the “Split News Idents” group:

Z:\mAirList Files\Split - News 1 Drone.m3u
Z:\mAirList Files\Split - News 2 Bed.m3u
Z:\mAirList Files\Split - News 3 Outro.m3u

Therefore, each time that Spot Group appears, the next M3U within that group is picked hence the 1,2,3 filenames. If you set the group to random, you can then have a group of M3U ad breaks that are picked randomly…etc

Hopefully I’m not confusing you Torben with Break Notes and M3U explanations! When using the basic M3U format in Creator, whatever you put as a Break Note is output in the final M3U playlist - so your #mAirList commands are done in this way as are defining explicit files (or further playlists). Now that I’ve grasped this, I’ll write up a slightly easier to understand walk-through for the Wiki :wink:

Note to Creator users: M3U is not enabled as a valid extension by default - you’ll need to highlight it from the list of file types in “Advanced Options”.

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Well done :slight_smile:

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[quote=“Charlie, post:20, topic:4924”]Creator can output whatever you configure it to… Generally, it’s a simple M3U file with the c:\path\filename.mp3 format and “Break Notes” (for BREAK, COMMAND, DUMMY items etc) can be inserted too. Within an hourly template, you can specify %tokens such as DateTime ddd hh letters - so at the top of each hour, you could specify #mAirList DUMMY 0 START OF HOUR %h and %h would translate into 00:00:00 for midnight. You can also set a size for that field, eg: #mAirList DUMMY 0 START OF HOUR %2h:27 would translate to 00:27 if you follow my meaning…

It’s 1 file per break… A pre-made Regional M3U via Creator or mAirList can look like this:

#mAirList BEGINREGIONCONTAINER SPLIT : News Jingle
#mAirList BEGINCONTAINER Container
C:\JINGLES\Region 1 - News Jingle.mp3
#mAirList ENDCONTAINER
#mAirList BEGINCONTAINER Container
C:\JINGLES\Region 2 - News Jingle.mp3
#mAirList ENDCONTAINER
#mAirList ENDREGIONCONTAINER

Creator can create 1 “playlist” per hour or day - named however you wish, so there could be 24 of these.

I’m going to continue testing and see if I can “bend the rules” with what you’ve already enabled/added for us :)[/quote]

Still got problems here :frowning:

I’ve set the regional devices etc in the config - put the break notes in and I get the regional container up in mairlist but when it plays, it just skips it and then goes onto the next thing? When I go on container properties and click regional containers I see two tabs with my regions but nothing is in them :frowning:

EDIT: my mistake, sorted it however still no audio? Is that still a bug?