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Radiologik DJ is a sophisticated DJing application aimed mainly at professional radio DJs. Radiologik DJ consists of three main players and one library player. All of them have customizable individual audio outputs and detailed time calculations. Radiologik DJ is the DJ live assist specifically built for the needs of radio but very useful for all DJing needs with the exception of club mix features. It features 3 main players and one library player, all with selectable individual audio outputs, detailed time calculations, a lot of fast and smooth iTunes integration, and Nicecast artist and title publishing. Jan 15, 2020 Radiologik DJ 2020.2.1 - Mixer built specifically for radio DJs. Download the latest versions of the best Mac apps at safe and trusted MacUpdate.
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Radiologik Scheduler Manual Online video overview and tutorials:Radio Automation Scheduler for Radiologik DJ http://radiologik.com
Radiologik Scheduler is the companion application to Radiologik DJ. Itschedules to DJ's program queue using iTunes/Music playlists to allow a 24/7fully-automated station. It can run in two different modes:
Basic (free)
Some of the basic abilities are the ability to pick singletracks or fill with multiple tracks from playlists sequentially orrandomly, using artist/composer/album/title separation, interrupts, time matching to anexact second or as close as possible to the top of the hour, variablefallback steps when commands can't be perfectly met and failover scriptlines when the previous line failed, as well as assigning AppleScriptsto any script line.
Commands:
Advanced (extra purchase)
In addition to the above abilities, Advanced adds scheduling oftime announcements, searching for files that match various datecriteria, voiceover intros and outros which are context sensitive toartists or exact artist and name, and traffic for managing ofspots/ads. Advanced mode can be tried for as long as you need to sinceit is not time-limited but does need to be interacted with at leastevery two days to confirm you are still trying it until you purchaseand enter a registration.
You can change the mode at any time by choosing 'Change toBasic/Advanced' from the application menu. This menu item is notpresent if you registered since it only runs as Advanced registered.
The latest version of Radiologik DJ, Scheduler, & Time Announcementfiles are available here: Questions, bug reports, and feature suggestions can be emailed [email protected]
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Requirements
Radiologik Scheduler chooses tracks from playlists iniTunes/Music with a little bit of extra logic to figure out times and separation. It builds these segments in 30, 60, 90, or up to 480 minute(8hr) blocks anywhere inside of a week schedule. The resolution of the scriptstatements are in seconds.
Playlists, and particularly smart playlists in iTunes/Music, give programmingtracks enormous power. Because Radiologik DJ tells iTunes/Music when it playsa track, you can use smart playlists to be sure you are not playingcertain songs again for a specified period of time. This can give you areservoir of tracks that have not played recently but enough tracks tostill pick at random, effectively giving a random rotation. You can usemany smart playlists for the same segment, giving you the ability toset when to play fast, medium, or slow songs or how often to play tiredsongs versus new songs that you may want to play more often.
Radiologik Scheduler runs the appropriate script 20 minutesbefore the start time and sends that set of tracks and directions toRadiologik DJ's program queue.
The Segment
Use the + button to add a segment. When you have a segment selected andyou press the + button, you'll get a new copy of that segment. You cancreate segments of 30 - 480 minute lengths in 30 minute increments andassign that to any 30 minute interval of any day of the week. 60 minuteprogram lengths are recommended for 24/7 music stations. You can createa variety and schedule them for different times of day and differentdays, alternating weeks etc to make a variety. You can name it anythingyou want. The name is for your organizational purposes. You can reorderyour segments by dragging them around in the list. This has no bearingon how it schedules and is also for your own organization. Then you canchoose the separation amounts desired and the preference set that shouldbe set for the DJ for each segment. For instance, my Rock segment Ilike 15 track artist separation but for my softer classical which has alot of Bach, I need the artist separation lower at about 10 since it'shard to avoid Bach and I like the overlaps at just under a second sincemost of these tracks have a long buffer but I like all of the otherpieces used elsewhere in the station to sound less rushed.
A segment can be set to many different times so the segment can bereused like a template. Set the start time and the days of the week.You might come up with a few segment 'templates' for a single formatstation and then repeat that script for various times. This doesn'trepeat the content, it just uses the same script.
You can give a segment a start and/or stop date for instance if youhave a particular program you want to run only in a particular season.For each segment time you can choose which weekday of the month such as2nd and 4th Tuesday or you can alternate weeks by using Even or Oddweeks of the year.
Use the week view tab to check that you've filled the schedule asexpected. It will show if your segments conflict. How to make lofi beats on garageband mac.
The program properties will also indicate exactly where the conflictexists:
ScriptCommands
You can add and remove script lines using the + and - buttonsbelow the script list. If you have an item selected, pressing the +button makes a copy of that line. You can remove multiple lines byselecting them and pressing the - button. You can also copy and pastelines.
Times in the script are relative to the start time of the segment so ifyour start time is 8:30 PM, 05:02 would be 8:35:02 PM.
There are three commands for Basic:
If you are approaching this from the perspective of other radioautomation software, you might be asking how Radiologik supports theidea of music categories. Although Radiologik doesn't use the termcategories for music, the actual ability you have is actually betterthan the traditional segregation of categories.
Simply put, categories are iTunes/Music playlists. More specificallycategories are exactly how you define what your iTunes/Music playlist shows.Since each pick or fill command can use a different playlist, this ishow you accomplish the alternation of categories.
A simple way to categorize is to use the Comments inthe tags in iTunes/Music to put your category assignments. Then have yoursmart playlists match rules that select those comments.
So I don't repeat songs too soon I have it only show apercentage of songs with this comment. In the case above I have 400songs with the comment 'ModernMix' so I choose to show 25% of the leastrecently played which is 100.
Smart Playlists are better than categories
Playlists can be extremely specific or very general.They are a collection of attributes. A song can be in more thanone smart playlist at a time.
Here's an example of being both specific and general. I have thefollowing comments in my music:
TranceVocal TranceInstrumental I could have 3 smart playlists. One picks TranceVocal, anotherTranceInstrumental, and another can just look for 'starts with Trance'to get both.
Here's another example with tracks with the following comments:
Now think of all the ways you can make playlists out of just that..
All Rock Rock Instrumental Vocal Rock Rock Vocal Female only etc. With your scripts having different patterns of picks and fills choosingfrom different smart playlists, you can mix up all kinds of patterns ofplaylists through an hour for many different clocks (segments). You canrun these clocks at different times of the day and even differentdepending on weekday.
Special Playlists for rotating iTunes/Musicplaylists and silence breaks •Break (Silence)There are two special playlists which appear at the top of theplaylist menus which are just in Radiologik Scheduler and not directlyfrom iTunes/Music Use this playlist with a pick and an interrupt to place a 5 secondsilent audio file in DJ. This can be used to perform an action such asan interrupt to go to silence for a break, for live content, satelliteor something else. •Rotated Playlist You can create a group of iTunes/Music playlist that are numbered andhave Scheduler use a rotation through those playlists. You can then usethat rotated playlist to have iTunes/Music play the playlist at the starttime or you can use the •Rotated Playlist in your script.
This would work if you have 45 iTunes/Music playlists like:
The rotated playlist shown above that will play next is'Classical 2' and at the point at which it is either used in a scriptor used to play this playlist in iTunes/Music, the text in that field willchange to 'Classical 3/45'. It will continue until it plays 'Classical45/45' at which point it will increment back to 'Classical 1/45'.
The Synced checkbox allows you to keep the increment of the rotated playlists in syncacross multiple programs that use the same root playlist name and also have Synced on
Command Attributes The next field is for single letters representing the attributes.Normal command attributes for music are r=random, u=unique,a=all separation, and h=hour avoidance shown next.
Scheduler choosestracks at random from the playlists. With this off, tracks are tried inthe order of the iTunes/Music playlist sort.
Checks to makesure the track has not been programmed in the segment being schedulednor currently in queue in the DJ
Allows you to add tracks in the orderof the playlist without repeating through the playlist but it willallow the same track to be programmed more than once or already be inqueue if u = unique is off. Useful if some audio files need to be in acertain playlist order and some of those files are used more than once.
This attribute applies artist, composer (if preference is set), album and title separation. It worksregardless of whether other script lines had this attribute.Artist separation uses substring searches using separators in anartist tag to better detect the same artists with guest artists in theartist tag. The separators are:
Each separator looks for a space on either side of the separator.Substrings are omitted when 'orchestr' is found in the second part.Parenthesis are removed before making comparisons. Up to 3 artists pertag can be detected.
The separation also uses the composertag but only separates composersto composers and artists to artists. Multiple composers are compared tomultiple composers by using the separator of / with or without spaces.
Album Separation is useful for various artist albumswhere artist separation will not prevent proximity on the same album.
Title Separation is useful forseparating tracks that have the same title but may be peformed bydifferent artists such as with Christmas music or American Standards.It is more of a niche need and should not be misunderstood to do thejob of rotation that a smart playlist showing least recently playedtracks and u=unique does.
Separation is done overall on the tracks so farprogrammed in thescript or in DJ's queue regardless of whether other lines usedall separation. It is case-insensitive.
Checks to makesure this track hasn't played at this same hour in any day this week
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