Technical Specifications:  Wire Ready

Using Wire Ready Digital Automation Systems

The playlist log file format is a non-delimited ASC file named with the date of the schedule and the extension ASC (yymmdd.ASC; ex: 961216.ASC). The file contents are as follows:

Columns 1- 8 Military Air-Time hh:mm:ss
Columns 9- 16 Cart Number ssnnnncc
(ss= 2 char Music Source;
nnnn= 4 char Source Number;
cc= 2 char Cut number)

We would suggest using different source numbers with events and music (maybe JI for Jingles, ID for Id, MU for Music, etc.

In addition to supporting Music and Program Events, it supports voice tracking.
To use voice tracks…
1) Create an event with a source of VO or TO or J_
(Voice-Over; Talk-Over, Jock [ _ may be any character] )
2) Add the Voice-track Event in format clocks where you want intros, outros, any voice work.

MusicMix will assign a number to each voice track as it generates the schedule. The number will consist of the first two characters of the day of the week for the playlist (MO, TU, WE etc.) and the air-time in military format. (i.e. SU1321 for 1:21 PM on Sunday). This enables you to record voice tracks up to a week in advance. If you’d like to record up to a month in advance, set "Use Day of Month Voice Track Categories" to Y (for Yes) in Utilities/System Parameters and the number becomes the day-of-month and the air-time (i.e. 090121 for 1:21 AM on the ninth of the month).

To use the wire ready format start MusicMix with the /logWIRE switch (MM /logWIRE). You need do this only once… MusicMix will remember it thereafter.

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See Also: Automation Basics, Log Files, Events, Voice Tracking