MusicOne Windows · Automation software
StationPlaylist Creator Setup
Set up StationPlaylist Studio or Creator with Music 1, including the Creator Log Importer settings.
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Music 1 has one output for StationPlaylist Studio and another for StationPlaylist Creator. Creator is the system’s own scheduler, but many SPS users get Music 1 because of the more advanced functionality and flexibility of our software.
The output for SPS is simpler; it’s just a basic .m3u-type playlist file but is delivered to SPS specially prepared in twenty-four individual hourly lists for each day. The output for Creator is more complex and allows you to add such things as hard- and soft-sync commands for time updates, network joins, etc.
With SPS, you tell the system where the M1-created playlists will be (the drive\folder) and tell it to “automate”. After that, you just make your daily schedules with M1 and save them. Each night at midnight, SPS loads and launches the next day’s schedule.
With Creator, there is some set-up involved (details below). After you’ve got it prepared, you’ll make the daily schedules with M1, then manually import them into Creator and save them individually. It is an extra daily step (you can do many days in advance, of course), but it’s not much trouble and only a few extra ‘click’s.
Creator Log Importer Settings
Many M1/StationPlaylist users also use the SPS “Creator” as it is required to import a more complex playlist than is needed for StationPlaylist alone. If one is doing remote voice tracking or wants SPS to have hard-syncs, soft-syncs, feed switching and time updates during the broadcast day, then it requires the Creator module.
Below are the settings to use for Creator to correctly read and import the specific playlist file that M1 makes for it. In this example, the Log Folder has been designated to be: c:\Music 1\Automation Logs. That is where this particular installation of Music 1 was told to save its output. You may, of course, have M1 putting the playlist/log files for Creator in some other directory/folder. That is OK, but you must make sure that the Creator Importer and the Music 1 output are both pointed to the same, exact drive/folder.
