A quick video showing how to create custom playlists and rotations in RadioDJ. A free radio automation software. Please bare with me, i tried squeezing a lot of radio programming theory into this video.
Oh, ok. now we got it! So if you want a schedule rotation (for e.g all Monday) you do it by adding those rotations on an event. We had 'Jazler radiostar 2' on our radio air pc in 2012-2014 and the rotation scheduling was much easier. It had rotations with clocks (including dates). So let's say Monday on 00:01 you wanted to play old pop for 2h then you set it Mon, 00:01-02:01 - Cat: Old Pop. And that way you could easily build a rotation for the full day and so on..
How can we get the system to pick music from a category that goes for 1 hour (at random) and then load that into the rotation for the event creation?. It seems that you can create a playlist for a specific number of minutes, but not a track rotation with the option to pick random?. Also, the playlist way of doing it, doesn't seem to sync exactly to one hour, its like 58.28 or 1hr 3min....
How do I program DJ to fade out a song playing and then start the next program on top of the hour exactly ? Please can you help I am not good with these complicated programing.
Thank you Paul & Marylou! Goldmine of knowledge to a newbie like me who lacks any experience in serious radio production. Loved hearing the purpose behind which of the key Subcategories to employ at different points of (or segments of) the wheel of time (Format Clock). Also the reassurance that not every property in the system needs to be learnt or used. It would be great to see more about programming theory and practicalities, especially involving RadioDJ. I have some deep questions about tagging strategies, as below. Is there anything already established or proposed along these lines? Anybody? At first, as a newbie, I assumed a media library would be universal (purpose-agnostic), being tagged in a way that was purely descriptive. Such a library would never need its tags changed, maybe just enriched/augmented, when moved between radio stations of differing specialisation. But I now get the impression, reinforced by this presentation, that it's all more pragmatic than that. For example, HCR could presumably refer to entirely different genres in radio stations of different focus. Implying a heck of a lot of re-tagging when repurposing such a library. In my vacuum of inexperience, I have conceived of three stages of tagging - for the media files themselves: As-Received, Augmented and Pragmatic. Probably I would maintain copies of files at each of these stages. The Augmented files might have additional fields for things like multi-valued Genre, e.g. an Instrumental can be of various musical genres, even combinations of them. Lack of multi-valued genre seems to have led to force-fitting (e.g. "in the field" I have seen one of gentle Labi Siffre's songs classified as "Funk"). Also further fields for things like Association (e.g. which other stations play this, what era/year/season etc., or what does it remind me of). Then the Pragmatic stage would derive from all this foregoing tag metadata, for example through SQL queries or Rule-Sets. The transition to that third stage, would be accomplished in separate applications, their purpose not being to schedule but to automatically derive Subcategories (say) aimed at a particular station's focus. Some multi-value tag fields would be "exploded" into per-tag-value binary (e.g. checkbox) fields for fast/low-cpu lookup by SQL. I mention SQL because I know RadioDJ Rotations can be based on SQL (even though I am personally at the more basic stage!). At the very least I wonder whether to invent my own system of genres. Even simple rearrangements of the words in conventional tagging are helpful where an app (e.g. Mp3Tag) has autocomplete. For example instead of "Hard Rock" call it (say) "Rock-Hard". Like French adjectives come after nouns (mostly). So you can start by entering "Rock-" then autocomplete (e.g. in Mp3Tag) shows you all the available sub-genres you have previously defined/used. The purpose of all this? Precision => Productivity in Flexibility => Flexibility-Enabling. Great for spontaneous off-piste specialist programming. Is there anything like any of the above already in existence? Or can anyone recommend anywhere/anything/anybody to learn, ask about or discuss such matters?
Hi guys! We have some probs. Because of the artists not just composing rock songs, but love songs as well, we have different songs from the same artist in different directories - up to four. But we don't want this special artist to be played for the next six hours. And if it is the same track of the artist or a cover version of this song, it is supposed to be played at most after nine hours. How do you manage to overcome this quandary? Thx 4 ur help and kind rgds from Austria!
so how do you compare it to radioboss rotation? is it any better? looking for a better tool for.rotation. .checked out powergold but it is a lot of work :(
What I mean is. I’m getting no action from the software it’s not responding to anything I do. The VU meters stuck and nothing’s playing. I tried to upload tracks but nothing happening can you help? Would be appropriate!
Paul. Please let me know if there’s a fee for your help. I’ve got some unsolved issues and I want them resolved so I can do my little something, something!
@@WGVC you have to make sure its picking up the correct audio settings from the sound card. If those settings are wrong it will freeze (not play audio)
Happy New Year Paul. Paul, thanks for responding to me. I’m trying to do a little something, something and the help one needs is sometimes hard to find. This little Radio is very technical, but I would love to get it running so I keep watching videos. They don’t explain in a teaching format most of them talk like the viewer already know and that’s so. Anyway! How does one setup a virtual machine? Thank You!
RadioDJ on a Mac no problem - via Windows10 inside a Parallels Desktop virtual machine (PVM) on a Macbook running macOS-Catalina. Simultaneously running other stuff still in macOS. Music on an external USB3 WD "passport" drive formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled" (i.e. HFS+) made accessible to the PVM by Parallels. Songs tagged in MacOS (say) can then be used straight away by RadioDJ.
