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Your help please - Is there a way to "re-read" Cart information on Auto Track as a Batch rather than one by one


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By PenistoneFMCommunityRadio - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:58:17 AM

Hello,

I hope someone might be able to help me out.

Pen FM ( www.penistonefm.co.uk Wink use the standard Auto Trak service and weare using the latest version Myriad.

We have, from time to time, deleted old songs freeing up capacity in a number of single carts. Later when we use the facility to look for the next available cart, we are able to successfully load new songs into these freed up carts and save them on the audio wall.

However, when you drag them into the schedule, then the title and song information still reflects the "old" cart information

I understand there is a facility to run a "re-Read" of the relevant cart on Auto Track which resolves the problem. I believe you have to do this for each individual cart as you reload it. This is a laboroius process

The problem I have is that I am certain we have perhaps about 70-100 carts with this "problem" and it will take me ages to retrospectively re-read each single cart.

Does anyone know if you can run on Auto Track a re-read of the entire database to get the schedule to show the up-dated cart information?
By PenistoneFMCommunityRadio - Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:33:36 PM

Andy,

Thank you. I will take a look at your suggestion. I will see how I can do this. Not that good a Excel, but it is worth a try!

Mind you, this could be a suggestion for Psquared in a future release to be able to do this.

I am sure it will be most useful - it would help to tidy up the database too. Another good idea, would be to put an END marker on all those carts who someone has forgotten to put an Extro end marker on!!!

I have got loads of those to do....literally thousands!! That is all historic when we first started. It is a daunting task!