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Stephen A. Guerra Assistive Technology Specialist Independent Living Aids Products for Your Active Independent Life! 200 Robbins Lane Building A, Suite 100 Jericho, NY 11753 Phone: (516) 937-1848-x313 Fax: (516) 937-3906 Email your questions to TechSupport Visit Independent Living Aids on the Web! Visit SoundBytes.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarah Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:19 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: learnigng station playlist studio Actually I am going ot use it for live broadcasting on the air. not autamation. I know of a broadcaster who does this every single week. SA&G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: Re: learnigng station playlist studio On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:56:08 -0800, you wrote: >Hey Ii I'm trying the 30 day evaluation of station playlist and read the manual but am a bit confused. Can someone give me a >hand on how to use this thing maybe off list or over skype? Thanks I'll start out with a general overview. If you want to know more, write me off-list. Station Playlist is a two-part system--the playlist creation part, and the actual play-out part. You can buy them independently or get a price discount if you buy them both at the same time. Station Playlist Creator builds playlists based on categories (types of music--slow, fast, dance, country, Slovanic bell-ringing, you name it), and spot groups (announcements of any kind) These are put into rotations, and the rotations are used to generate the actual playlist files. There are additional things you can put into a playlist called break notes, which do specific things to Station Playlist Studio when the resultant playlist file is run through it. Station Playlist Creator keeps a database of your musical selections, when it was that they were last put into a playlist, when it was that they were last played, and allows you to tweak these values so you don't get, say, too many Barry Manilow songs clustered together, or you don't get the same song by two different artists played too close together. Station Playlist Studio is the play-out side of the system. It takes playlists created in either Creator or Winamp or your favorite playlist creator software and does exactly what it says--it plays the tracks in the playlist. In addition, it responds to the aforementioned break note codes to make it perform certain functions, possibly at certain times during the hour. Now, you might say, Station Playlist Studio is just a fancy Winamp replacement. In certain respects, that's correct. It does what Winamp does--it plays media files. However, there's a whole control panel behind Studio that lets you add audio compression, control crossfading even better than SQR does, and with a much nicer, single-page interface. Studio also has the capability to load and run playlists based on time of day. Since it's made primarily for use as a play-out system for radio stations, it can play directly from the computer's files, or open the line-in audio on the computer and play something coming over an external audio feed. The operator also has the capability of doing what's called a live-assist program, where Studio plays through the playlist until the operator presses a button that says stop playing. Pressing another button turns on the microphone so the operator can talk. Station Playlist Studio used to be based on Winamp. However, the newest version does away with Winamp for all but one small function of the system, a function which you might never use--the ability to play short audio clips on demand, like you would do if you were running a radio program and wanted some sound-effects drop-ins to appear during your show at the touch of a button. Lots of Internet broadcasters use Studio and Creator together to create their shows. While this is just scratching the surface, it should be enough to get you started toward creating at least one category and one rotation. If you're serious about SP, I'd also urge you to join the mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
