It sounds like you want a new section in Smart Block Options something like:

Insert (x) items of (type) (y) every (z) (items/hours/minutes/seconds)

If people interested in this feature could agree on what is required the community could begin working on it. For example there will be some GUI work to do and some modifications to the query used to create the smart block.

Cheers!

Daniel

Powerful jingle and ad management is near the top of our list in priorities, and will be strongly considered for next release :)

Hi there,
any news on this?

Hi guys, it would be helpful if you post news about this..

Daniel this is a recurrent demand (since 3 years ago !)
a lot of bug/features on Jira are available to validate that

and effectively add an option into smartblock would be nice, and exactly as you have do :

 

Cool while we are at it - I need Jingle /Advert insertion INSIDE a standard show mp3
Example - most of my content arrives as like a continuous 50 minute chat show mp3 so pausing the stream and inserting station id would keep me legal.

It is inconvenient or a potential 11,000 euro fine per incident

Its easier for you guys playing lots of small files. Some of mine are 2 hours.

Any suggestions welcome.

My server is in France.

I think I would do it by the clock and reduce volume of main stream and shout a quick ID over the top

SLATFATF! Albert FR

Hi Daniel, 

Like I explained most of the scripts are just to give you a basis on improvement.

AutoDj , Jingle management and A sound (Jingles or Sweeper) panel is a little in depth as what I had to do was map it out in terms  of folder options first.

I wanted to integrate it all in Airtime,but it was safer for me  to use a storage folder( backup )until @John Chewter point me to the watch folder and its benefits.

This I have looked it and think there is lot of scope for implementation.

Tell me what are the specific areas of concerned  and issue you see now @Krypton  Radio,so it can be highlighted in this forum.

I have some recommendation that can improved your script significantly,but I await your issues .

Think Airtime as you highlight these issues

Question 1.
For the clock to work

Move everything about the clock below the mixed rotation (I think its line 95) and used your syntax like this
If you do not it will give you a variable error (you must move it below the variable mixed)

mixed =
         add([mixed,
               switch([
                        ({00h00m},delay(30.,single("/srv/airtime/standby/clock/00h.mp3"))),
                      
                          ])
             ])

# If you want a "duck-effect" whereby the time will play and the existing song seems to fade down
try naming you times  and then amplify them like

midnight_oclock=single("/srv/airtime/standby/clock/00h.mp3")
midnight_clock = amplify(3.0,midnight_oclock)
so your switch lines becomes
  ({00h00m},delay(30.,midnight_clock)),

Amendedment
I found my script almost like yours.I think you will like this better than above,both work but this have a fade down and wonderful fade up.
keep what you have  like this

clocks = switch([ 
		 ({00h00m},delay(30.,single("/srv/airtime/standby/clock/00h.mp3"))), 
		 ({01h00m},delay(30.,single("/srv/airtime/standby/clock/01h.mp3"))), 
		 ({02h00m},delay(30.,single("/srv/airtime/standby/clock/02h.mp3"))),

Still move it below the mixed statement but add this

mixed = smooth_add(normal=mixed,special=clocks)

If you amplify it like I said you will like it




Question 2.
No way around that you have to create a playlist and make its mode= "normal".
I use a php script that looks at the directory and generate a list,then I order it how I want it.

Question 3.

add this conservative=true, to your playlist, it basically prepare the next song in advance for a skip but will wait until the previous is finished

Like this

xminusone   = playlist(mode='random',conservative=true,"/srv/airtime/standby/xminusone")

and put in the fallback  track-insensitive = true instead of false

I have not tested Q3 but let me know

oops wrong thread,I a answering a next question instead of this one

Thanks for all your help, Voisses, I managed to get everything working more or less the way I want it - though crossfades would be nice, I think I can patch that in later.  For right now, I have my hourly time announcement (which I did not want played over top of the running music) and jingles playing at the right ratios.

I'm going to have to figure out how to play station IDs and jingles at certain times within each hour now, rather than try to have Liquidsoap figure out ratios of songs to jingles for me.  Letting Liquidsoap make these decisions based on ratios is proving to be a bit less controllable than I'd like, but with what you've taught me, I can now fix this myself!

@Krypton Radio suggest:

"though crossfades would be nice, I think I can patch that in later"

Okay,if you go for crossfades you will waste precious time.Here is what crossfades does.It replace one of the same source with another from the same source. Like if you had two songs already on a turntable and you slide over to the next.More like if your were playing songs from the source xminusone then crossfade would be between two songs in that playlist.

What you really want is to add a new song from a new source(clock,jingles etc) on top of xminusone (say playing at 0dbs)  ie fade out xminusone to  -35dbs  at the same time  fade in clock to 0dbs.

add  or smoothadd is the way to achieve this.

You may want to combine that add with a transistion or fallback.skip

The fallback.skip will kick the old track xminusone and play the new track clock.

So set a function something like this

def newshourplay(x,old,new)
  sequence([ x , new ])
end

then either transition out  (better for the listener) or just kick it old source with fallback skip

I am also glad to have assisted you.

Nb. I realised smoothadd is a bit CPU extensive especially depending on the mode of your playlist.

I know this will change in time and jingle management  is a must in the near future 

New glitch, Voisses - my timeclock code works fine, but the scheduled serials code apparently doesn't.  I had omitted a reload parameter from the definition line for 'superman' and 'xminusone'. 

1. Could lack of a 'reload' parameter value for a playlist have an affect on whether the contents of those directories play at the appointed time?
2. Could the sequence of case statements in the switch case affect whether subsequent cases are processed, i.e., if two cases match a certain time, will it always execute the first case it finds?