F.M. broacaster question

[donnyaz]

My christmas program starts at 5pm and ends at 12am .I want a program that can start at 12:01 playing my mp3s and stop at exactly 5pm and 30 secounds. I dont want to have to guess time or wether or not its going to work.any suggestions ??????

[hobbes]

Dan Penn from pennlights.com created a light show primer that allows you to play music when your light show is not running.

You can read about it here:
http://planetchristmas.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=10369&forum_id=25

You can download it from here:
http://pennlights.com/Sequences/

The problem you may encounter is that Lightorama will finish a musical sequence if it is playing when the end time occurs. So if you have a sequence that is 4 minutes long and it starts at 11:59 it will not end until 12:03. Just something to take into account when scheduling music to play after your show ends.

tom.

[iresq]

You could also use zara radio (zararadio.com).

[hobbes]

Iresq,

That software looks slick and has lots of features and even supports RDS. Have you used it before?

tom.

[iresq]

I have played with it but have not used it in a production. I broadcast a little to hot on a busy airway, so I limit broadcasts to show only.

[Greg]

I have simply used the scheduled task in windows. It worked great! as mentioned before you have to anticipate the show in LOR ending.

Here is what I did (it is from memory so I may miss a step but you should get the idea)

go to windows media player and build a playlist of you mp3's. Save that playlist. Under control panel, performance and maintence create a scheduled task to play that playlist at the designated time.

greg