Some Questions..

Archive mAirList 4.x (English)
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Now that junior#2 is sleeping through the night ;D I’m surfacing and considering getting an extra license and migrating my station on-air automation to mAirlist from SPL (as I love the VT’ing), but I have to work out some workflow kinks and also technical issues (SPL runs on a remote server with no audio card and I produce AAC+ among my streams). However the hourly workflow is making me scratch my heads, so collectively I ask the following.

  1. I use SPL Creator to generate my hourly schedules, so I don’t wish to re-invent the wheel however some hours begin with Hard Starts at 00:00, and some are Soft, so play next after 00:00. There are also events that are soft starts after :12, :24 etc. How can I import these schedules so I can retain this functionality. I’ve played a little with this on v4.1 and also the mAirListDB as well. (I wondered if I could create a skeleton then “merge” but I don’t think I can do that.

I could create a parse utility and export the mpl format directly (the XML doesn’t seem complicated). Any other thoughts?

  1. I run Syndicated programming, the filesnames remain the same, but the duration’s change (and often downloaded after the schedules are produced), so basically when the schedule loads for that hour, would mAirlist read the file then if not in the database or MMD?

  2. If a running schedule changes, can mAirlist detect an updated schedule and reload, keeping current place etc.?

That’s it for now.

Cheers, Richard

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This is becoming quite the head-scratcher. I generate 1 MP3 stream, 2 Windows Media streams and 2 AAC+ streams. I had planned to think about using either the Breakaway pipeline or Virtual Audio Cable, but I think I’m hitting my head on a brick wall! ::slight_smile:

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With regards to converting playlists, is there a published MLP XML structure available?

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Not that I am aware of, but it’s easily deducible by inspection.

It’s a superset of the properties stored in an MMD file or in a mAirList database, if that’s any help?

If you create playlists containing everything you might need to include in one (e.g. Regionalised containers, if that’s your thing; as I believe it is in your case), then look at them in a text and/or XML editor, it’s pretty easy to work out.

Probably not the answer you wanted, Richard, but it’s the best I can suggest.

BFN
Cad

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Thanks Cad,

I did set various hard and soft times and other variations and then save the playlist so I kind of have a good idea. Not sure if I will get the time I need to do what I want, I always under-estimate time :slight_smile: