I’m after a bit of advice.

I am about to schedule hourly news bulletins using AutoTrack but I want a music bed to play underneath the news. Both the bulletin and the news bed will be in separate carts. The news bed will start first as it includes the news jingle and then a few seconds in I want the news to kick in but the bed must continue to play.

My current understanding is that once the news bulletin cart starts the bed will be faded, or will it? If the News bed is a LINK will it continue to play underneath the news cart?

Gavin

 
Gavin Davis
HotHitsUK.com

Hi Gavin,

for this my recommendation would be to put a timer marker on the news bed, such as INTRO END after the jingle bit at the beginning of the bed, and then run a command using Myriad's Scripting Command Language where you can do all sorts of exciting things.

So Lets call the Command "START NEWS", this wants to be added to the INTRO END marker, so when the audio gets to this point it fires the command.

The design of the command should be something like this:

AUDIOWALL PLAY 4,3001,Sync
Log GO

So what this will do is play cart 3001 in cart player 4, wait until the end of it and then press Log Go to move on from the News Bed to the next item in the log, therefore if the news carts duration changes it wont matter and you should get a nice segue (you could even put a delay in if the news cart is tightly edited to the end).

For more information on the Myriad Commands, see the documentation here: http://www.psquared.net/media/18728/macro_command_reference_v4.0.rtf

There's a lot of cool stuff that can be done with the command language.




Regards

David Boulton
Brand Manager
Broadcast Radio Ltd

Thanks David,

That’s sounds ideal. Unfortunately, being a Myriad novice, I need to know:

1. How do I create a script file? Are they individual text files created in NOTEPAD?
2. Where are they stored?
3. How do I assign a command to a INTRO END marker.

The document you referred me to provides the syntax but nothing on the basics.

Cheers

Gavin

 
Gavin Davis
HotHitsUK.com

Hi Gavin,

Hi David,

Many thanks for this. I have set everything up as suggested but only had limited success. Your method only works the first time it is run. Further tests result in the news cart being skipped and it moves on to the next item in the log but the jingle cart carries on playing so it’s a bit of a mess. If I delete the command macro and then recreate it, it works again, but only once.

I have however found a solution that works. I set the extro point in the jingle cart where I want the News cart to start and that works fine. The jingle carries on playing under the News cart. Both cart are timed to finish at the same time.

Cheers

Gavin

 
Gavin Davis
HotHitsUK.com

Hi Gavin,

glad you got it sorted.

I'll have a look into the command not working as expected, I might have misunderstood what I thought it was going to do.

Regards

David Boulton
Brand Manager
Broadcast Radio Ltd