Playlist Import and Voice Tracking

[Skoge]

How to Automatisk import playlist .m3u ? is there a way to automatically load a playlist by hour shift?
Or does the system self have a playlist bilder?

We are a radio station that has two studios, one for onair and one for voice track.

Can the system be setup bay database so you can voicetrackke in one and run in the other?

[Skoge]

I am total newbie.

Is ther a video guide ?

[radio42]

Currently not I guess.

[radio42]

You might also want to take a look at there posts to learn the basics:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=701
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=31
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=667


What do you mean by "Import Playlist .m3u ... by hour shift" ?
Do you want to simply open a given .m3u playlist per hour and let it Play?
If yes, the "Program Scheduler" is the right place to do so.
E.g. you can create a program scheduler entry and assign a dedicated 'Script' to it.
The program Scheduler might be an hourly recurring one and you might then use a single common 'Script' containing at least one script-line to load those (pre)generated .m3u playlist files.
Use the script-line action "LoadPlaylist" to load the playlist content.
Note that you can use any of the script-line macros (as listed in the user manual) to specify a dynamic playlist filename to load.
E.g. "C:\logs\${start_yyyy}${start_MM}${start_dd}${start_HH}${start_mm}.m3u" will load a playlist file with the format 'yyyyMMddHHmm.m3u'.
The year, month, day, hour and minute will then be resolved to the related scheduler entry's start time.
As such you can assign this script to any program scheduler entry to load the dynamically generated playlist files.


However, yes, ProppFrexx also has an internal 'playlist builder':
See the first of the above links for details: Working with the Scheduler


VoiceTracking and OnAir in 2 Studios:
ProppFrexx can be Setup to work with a database - but it doesn't need to!
E.g. to simply VoiceTrack a (pre)generated playlist in one Studio (in advance to its effective play out time) you might simply use a common and shared Network Folder.
E.g. place the (pre)generated playlist into a Folder (Directory) both Systems can Access and then you might voice track this playlist from one machine (Studio) and scheduler its play out on your OnAir machine (Studio).
For optimal Cue-Point and VoiceTracking Support it is highly recommended to use the ProppFrexx Playlist Format (.pfp).

Example:
Lets assume your musical Editor or automatically via the build-in 'Playlist Template Wizard' created a playlist file in a shared default folder called "Z:\Playlists" and this shared folder can be accessed by both Studio machines.
Further assume your OnAir Studio machine is using the program scheduler to schedule hourly playlist files just like explained above using dynamically named playlist files, like this:
"Z:\Playlists\${start_yyyy}${start_MM}${start_dd}${start_HH}${start_mm}.pfp"

You can now open such (pre)generated .pfp playlist file on your VoiceTracking machine and perform the effective VoiceTracking on it. E.g. save your added voice tracks into the same common/shared folder.
As such you can Voice Track these playlists on any machine up until the OnAIr machine effectively loaded the playlist file for playout.

For details about the "Playlist Template Wizard" see here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=653

Note, that you might (pre)generate the playlist template files also directly from within the program scheduler as explained here:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=652