Technical Specifications:  Smartcaster

Using Smarts Smartcaster Digital Automation

Technical Information:

1) The daily playlists are output to the user selected path as "yymmdd.ASC" where "yymmdd" is year, month, and date of the playlist. 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 Standard Data Format text files with one record per line. Records are delimited by CR/LF, fields are not delimited.
4) We suggest that for "Break Markers" you create an event with Specific Item filled in as "Break Marker." Source and Number should be left blank. You may fill in a length for the break in the Length field if you wish. You could create several break marker events (B1, B2, B3 perhaps) with different lengths.

Log File Structure:

HH:MM:SSMnnnnTitleArtistRoTime

Where:
HH:MM:SS is 24 hour military time separated by colons
M is Source (Must be entered in music inventory as "M" -- only first character is used --)
nnnn is source number entered in music inventory
Title is 30 characters
Artist is 25 characters
Ro is Rotation Code
Time is length from music inventory as MM:SS

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See Also: Automation Basics, Log Files, Events