Can mAirList accept triggers by contact relays through a COM/serial port or something similar?
I want to get one of those silence detectors that kick-out a relay connection when it detects 4 seconds of silence. That way I can make mAirList play an infinite audio stream and when it goes silent, the relay would trigger into the computer and advance mAirList to the next item. Is this possible?
Thanks!
Why dont u take advantage of softwares that “detect silence” on your soundcard. If something happen that software plays a “backup” playlist.
But then why should mairlist go quiet?
If you set up long hour template and maje sure u always got backup files in mairlist you will never have that problem.
-FYI we have our station manage on a VPS with no interuption or quiet parts:)
I’ll look into said software.
FYI, the reason is that I’ll be taking a feed from a radio show. Since we are a non-commercial station, they will be feeding us their show with the commercials “silenced out” so we can stay legal. I’m just looking for a way for our station to automatically play ad-free spots during the silence.
Alright, I downloaded Pira CZ Silence Detector, which seems to be the most popular software silence detector programs out there. I could make it play a playlist when the feed goes silent, but then it would play the same playlist every time, which would mean listeners would hear the same spots at every break.
You can have Pira launch any file upon detecting silence. Is there anyway to make it load a script or something that would advance mAirList to the next item? I don’t know how to do that but that would be perfect for what I need if it could be done.
Thank you for helping me out.
Ahh now i understand your case, its same here in sweden on (community)radios. They need to play own spots on every show start/end, even if the show is nationwide!
But why dont you specify times for your incomming stream, even if they start/end with quiet part if they are in same time always you can make mairlist start/end with exact that time the silence should start?!?.
How ever if they dont keep their own times then there is abit of tricky problems.
Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s a live talk show and they float their breaks. I’ve asked them to take hard breaks so I could hard sink the breaks at the hard time, but no luck.
I thought if I could get them to send me a feed silence for breaks, a silence detector could show how trigger mAirList to go next.
If they are abel to stream in silence then they need to go -40DB (digital silence)
If I can get this to do that, then this could work.
I still have the problem of Pira CZ Silence detector only having the capability to play the same playlist every single time. If there was a way to make Pira CZ Silence detector execute a command or something that would make mAirList go to the next item in the playlist, then I would be all set.