Hello Everybody,
My name is Alex and a new user of this fantastic tool which is mAirlist. I’m actually the General Manager of one of the first Belgian university webradio. We are currently trying to change our automation system and mAirlist has been choosen for this.
I’m actually trying to do the following task :
We need to make a Break in the automation rotation for allowing live show. I’m planning to do that by inserting a event doing the following :
Open the Line In Input.
Adding a silence command (Duration = 1 hour)
Closing the Line In Input when the silence has been played.
I’m then trying to program the silence command in my script. There is it :
begin
Playlist(0).Insert(#mAirList SILENCE 180 Silence);
end.
Unortunately, this is not working. I’ve tryed the following solution, not working either :
The “#mAirList SILENCE …” command ist meant for M3U import. It cannot be used from a script.
Silence can of course be added from a script, but I would suggest a different solution:
Start mAirList and clear the playlist.
Add a silence playlist item from the menu and set its duration to one hour.
In the item’s Properties dialog, add the actions which open and close Line In to the “actions on start” and “actions on stop” list, respectively.
Right-click the playlist and click “This playlist -> Save”.
Save the playlist in .mlp format.
Create a new event in the event scheduler, add an “insert and play playlist” action and choose that .mlp file.
Of course, you can also use two events instead. The first one stops the automation and opens Line In. The second closes Line In and resumes playback. You don’t need a silence item then.