For music on hard drive, you must use a "Source" of "DA". Use the "Bin" field
for the Scott 3-character "category" and the "Number" field for your four digit
song number on the hard drive.
For music on CD, you should use the "Source" suggested by the Scott Studios
Manual (normally "CD"). Use the "Number" field for the 3-digit tray number, and
the "Cut" field for the 2-digit CD cut number. You won't use "Bin" for CDs.
When Entering Program Events:
The code for soft-sync is normally "*"; hard-sync is normally "#". There are other rarely
used codes that may also be applicable.
Scott studios uses the "Ending" field for "Memo Events" and "Invisible Events". Normally a memo event uses an M in Ending. Use I for invisible events. A Memo Event is an item that contains no actual audio, but serves only as a reminder to your jocks, or executes an automation command (like a Sync). For example, your stop set is scheduled at 20:00. You could schedule a memo-only event at 19:50 which is marked as Soft Sync. As soon as the song playing at 19:50 completes, the system would skip anything else scheduled ahead of the memo-only event and jump to the stop set on (or nearly on) time.
1) The "Label" field. A few seldom used DSS features (for stations playing music
on CD) need some information not readily defined in MusicMix. You may use the
Label area to provide the data needed.
There are 14 characters in the Label field, Here's how they will be sent to DSS:
Character(s): Used for:
1-5
--Not Used--
6-7 Block Time for CD Length (01-75)...
Put Minutes and Seconds in Time as usual.
8-11 Cue In on CD (SSBB) where SS is seconds and BB is Blocks
12-14 CD Speed (as a percent i.e. 102)
2. Voice Tracking. You must use a source of "VO", "TO", or "J_" (J and any
second character) for voice tracking intros and outros of specific titles. Leave
"Bin" and "Number" blank. You must create 7 categories in the Production Bank --
one for each day -- using the following names: VMO, VTU, VWE, VTH, VFR, VSA, and
VSU (MO being Monday, TU Tuesday, etc.) MusicMix will assign tracks to the
appropriate category depending on your playlist date. This allows you to create
tracks up to a week in advance.
Voice tracks must be recorded in the appropriate category using a four digit
number for each track which corresponds to the time scheduled on your playlist
(in military time). (i.e. a voice track scheduled at 11:04 AM would be entered
in the production bank as 1104. Enter 2318 for 11:18 PM).
Notice that you should use voice tracks this way (blank bin and number 0) only
when you want different liners at specific times during the hour. If you want
simply rotating liners, I.D.s, or sweepers, rather than using voice tracks, use
a program event with a normal bin and number assignment.
Technical Information:
1) The daily playlists are output to the user selected path as "YYMMDD.ASC".
They are erased after 14 days.
2) The library file is output as "LIBRARY.ASC" to the same path.
3) Both files are standard ASCII comma delimited text files.
Log File Structure:
1) Scheduled time as HH:MM:SS in military time where SS is always 00.
2) Single character for Sync
3) Category (Bin). If Bin is blank, Source is "VO" or "TO" and Number is 0, then
category is VMO, VTU, etc. for voice tracking -see above-)
4) Cart Number.
If Source is "DA", output as "DAnnnn" where nnnn is Number field left padded
with zeros.
If Source is "VO" or "TO" and the "Bin" is blank and "Number" is 0, Number will
be "VOnnnn" where nnnn is the four digits of the TIME scheduled (i.e. "VO2324"
for a voice track scheduled at ll:24 PM)
If Source is "K_" it’s "SSNNCC" where SS is "Source," NN is two digits of
"Number" and CC is two digits from "Cut."
Otherwise, it's "SSNNNCC" where SS is "Source", NNN is 3 digits from Number left
padded with zeros, and CC is 2 digits from "Cut" left padded with zeros (i.e.
"CD99988")
5) Title
6) Artist
7) Length mM:SS:BK where m is always blank, M:SS is from "Time" field, BK is 6th
and 7th characters in Label.
8) Intro "NN"
9) Ending "C"
10) Year ("20" and final two characters from Date)
11) Info/Trivia
12) Rotation (1 character)
13) Cue In "SS:BK" where SS is 8th and 9th characters from Label and BK is 10th
and 11th.
14) (empty)
15) Speed. Characters 12-14 in Label.
16) Link. "v" if Rotation Field is "[, {, or ("; "^" if Rotation Field is "], },
or )" (voice track symbols)
17) Playlist Date as "MM/DD/YY"
Library File Structure:
Essentially the same except items 1, 16 and 17 are empty.
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See Also: Automation Basics, Log Files, Events, Voice Tracking