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Station Setup Area

Station Setup Area
This area contains the basic info about your station. 
1

Call Letters

1. Call Letters
Call letters will be your station's call letters.  You can add AM, LP, or FM to distinguish if you have more than one signal.
Make sure the naming convention is consistent.  Voicetracking uses the Call Letters for voicetrack folders.
2

Location

2. Location
Location is typically your city and state.
3

Slogan

3. Slogan
Slogan can be your generic positioning statement like, "Greatest Hits of the 80's!"
 
4

Station Files

4. Station Files
Station Files is the all important location of your JBData folder. 
Best practice is to have the On Air software running on an SSD drive C and the JBData and JBMusic folders on a separate audio drive like M (M for Music).
 
To set the location, click on the gray browse button and browse to the JBData folder.
5

Audio Drive

5. Audio Drive
Audio Drive is the Drive Letter where your JBMusic folder is located. 
To set the drive letter, click on the gray browse button .
Then you will see the window below:
If the drive you want is not already on the list, click the drop down box and select the drive letter you want and click "Add Drive To List."
You can also select unnecessary drives and click "Remove Drive."
6

Weather Files

6. Weather Files
Weather Files should also be set to the JBData folder and in the settings of the DJB Radio Weather Updater the Data Directory must match.
To set the location, click on the gray browse button and browse to the JBData folder.
   
7

Album Art

7. Album Art
This is the location of the JBCoverArt folder, typically the root of the audio drive where the JBMusic folder is located.
To set the location, click on the gray browse button and browse to the JBCoverArt folder.
8

Audio Directory

8. Audio Directory
Audio Directory is the path on the audio drive to the JBMusic folder.
9

Sync Time

9. Sync Time
Hourly Update Time is the time in the hour when command 9999 will remove any unplayed items and makes the first item in the next hour next to air.
If you have shorter items, you can tweak the time closer to 5930.
 
If you find that you are dropping numerous items, it is a good indicator that you need to reduce the overall number of items in the shell or in your music scheduling software.
10

To Pack, or Not to Pack.

10. To Pack, or Not to Pack.
The last item is a Do Not Pack Database checkbox.
If you have multiple On Air computers sharing the same database, only ONE On Air can leave this box UNCHECKED. 
If 2 computers both try to pack the database at midnight, the database will not get packed.
It defaults to unchecked as most stations only have one On Air for each database.
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