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 The advantage of this method is that you can mix soft and hard fixed times by just changing the playlists in the database accordingly, and you can also schedule multi-hour content by removing the End of Hour marker, and leave the subsequent playlists empty in the database. The advantage of this method is that you can mix soft and hard fixed times by just changing the playlists in the database accordingly, and you can also schedule multi-hour content by removing the End of Hour marker, and leave the subsequent playlists empty in the database.
  
-=== Generate Playlists from an Event ===+==== Generate Playlists from an Event ====
  
 In a typical radio station environment, playlists for the next day(s) are generated manually from the Database application in advanced. For 24/7 unattended stations, you may choose to have the playoust process generate the playlists automatically. This is done by using the //Generate playlists// action in the Event Manager, either in another event (that runs a couple of minutes before the load/append event), or as another action inside the load/append event (take care of the correct order of actions - generate must happen first). By default, the //Generate Playlists// action will not overwrite existing playlists; so you can safely set it up as a "fallback" event, even if you plan to schedule manually in the general case. In a typical radio station environment, playlists for the next day(s) are generated manually from the Database application in advanced. For 24/7 unattended stations, you may choose to have the playoust process generate the playlists automatically. This is done by using the //Generate playlists// action in the Event Manager, either in another event (that runs a couple of minutes before the load/append event), or as another action inside the load/append event (take care of the correct order of actions - generate must happen first). By default, the //Generate Playlists// action will not overwrite existing playlists; so you can safely set it up as a "fallback" event, even if you plan to schedule manually in the general case.
tutorials/mairlistdb/music-scheduling.txt · Last modified: 2021/05/19 13:47 by ulinobbe

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