Raduga-WMP Integration

Hello

I would like Raduga plays Windows MediaPlayer 9 AUTO (dynamic) PLAYLISTS and, for example, adds exactly '1' to counter tag of played song, '2' to counter tag of other songs of the the same album; and '3' to other songs of the same artist. So, Raduga quering and ordering by song counter tag (ascending) those playlists, just before playing, would get a convenient song rotation!

Thanks,

Jorge.-

Re: Raduga-WMP Integration

Support for WMP playlists (static and auto) is planned for the next update. However, it will not automatically sort by score. But this could be done with the Raduga SDK (maybe even with Raduga 3.6). When you register your Raduga copy, I would be happy to help you with that.

Re: Raduga-WMP Integration

Hello Wolfgan,

May I spect Raduga will reorder auto playlists before playing them in mentioned future releases? How do you plan to avoid same artist or song repetition? Even locating songs into .dir's, don't you think Raduga could include an anti artist or song repetition feature (ea. 180-min for artists and 300-min for songs, or something similar)?

Best regards,

Jorge.-

Re: Raduga-WMP Integration

I guess you can configure the sort order and artist repetition options directly in the Windows Media Player playlist. Therefore you don't have to do this in Raduga.

When you want raduga to re-load or update the list, simply schedule the .wpl file, just as you schedule .alb files today.

Re: Raduga-WMP Integration

Hello Wolfgang,

Unfortunately, WMP auto playlists do not block same artist repetition. Anyway, it would not be useful while scheduling several auto playlists into the same .alb.

Raduga could save every song artist, album and title played during last, for example, 180-min, 240-min and 300-min, respectivelly; then skips every incoming song that matches any of those criteria.

It would be useful not only within WMP auto playlists; but, within Raduga's 'random' .directory feature.

It would be great that song artist, album and title be taken from MP3/WMA-tags (not filenames).

I would like to implement what I and several radio automation programs call 'program' and 'format' concepts. A 'program' may include ad breaks, special artistic blocks, 'formats', etc. 'Formats' may be .alb's including, for example,..

mon-fri.3pm.alb
----------
uk.rock.90s.fast.rotation
uk.rock.80s.fast.rotation
jingle.middle.rotation
us.pop.90s.middle.rotation
us.pop.90s.slow.rotation
us.pop.90s.middle.rotation
jingle.fast.rotation
world.00s.fast.rotation
world.00s.fast.rotation

So, Raduga might skip incoming songs if song artist, album or title are in the temporary list. Even, using .directory's, .rotation's, .wpl's, etc.

I personally built about 100-WMP auto playlists and use a simple program (same that I sent you by e-mail) to convert them into Raduga's .rotation's. Then, I wrote an .hta script based on Raduga's SDK that updates WMA song artist and title counters in WMP music library. It works perfectly, giving a really flexible way to update music data from several public sources (without having to change filenames if artist or other tag spelling was wrong), and getting a really professional and cheap way to schedulle about +12000 songs.

Other WMP tags would be used to automatically schedulle special programs, such as Top-40, in Concert, Album of the Week, etc.

I would be really happy to contribute with Raduga and Raduga users on this matter.

Best regards,

Jorge.-