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How can i make a script in order to say the time every 2 hours playing some audio file that contain the right numbers for hours and minutes?

Scenario:

12:03 PF launch script and compose the time joining time_was.mp3 + 12.mp3 + and.mp3 + 03.mp3 and play all together.


Best regards
Workino

The main script might look like this (script-lines):
1. LoadTrack, time_was.mp3, Count=1
2. LoadTrack, ${start_HH}.mp3, Count=1
3. LoadTrack, and.mp3, Count=1
4. LoadTrack, ${start_mm}.mp3, Count=1

Let's assume you have named the above script 'SayTime'.
From within any other script you might then invoke the script to create a dynamic embedded container - which plays the tracks resolved as one.
To do so, select the 'Container' action and select the above script and specify the 'One Loop' option.

Hello, continuing with this thread ...

Doing this script, is there any way to update the script when it has already loaded into the schedule?

I say it because it would be a problem that when I load the script I load at 12:34

and when the song ends at 12:36, the script when it plays gets stuck there at 12:34, and is not able to update the time ...

This is usually a bit awkward since the time is updated and when you give the time in your station it says the wrong time.

Macros must be resolved when the player is loaded.
As su h the above ${start_...} macros work best with a Fixed TUS or FTE.
Else they are not 100% precise.
And else there is no perfect way to auto announce the time, except using a live DJ

radio42 wrote: ↑12 Jan 2020 17:57 As su h the above ${start_...} macros work best with a Fixed TUS or FTE.

In this case, ¿how is that?

How is what?
A Fixed time update sync or a fixed time element starts exactly on time. And the above macros reference exactly that start time.