Build An Hourly Template & Fill A Grid
The [MENU] [Program Settings] [Scheduling Tab] settings reflect the [Weekly Template Scheduler]
page as illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The transition of a BLANK template to a Programmed Template.
To open the [Weekly Template Scheduler] go to the DJB Studio Player bottom row of buttons as below.
CLICK the button and the [Weekly Template Scheduler] page appears.
Note: The Weekly Template Scheduler requires the MAIN & SUB Tabs to have imported music & audio.
This section shall guide users to fill the Daily Weekly Template Scheduler.
Figure 2: illustrates Drag n Drop of Station ID's, news, Promos into the Scheduled Events window.
Note: As SUB TAB's are added, the Start Time begins to calculate the average time of the audio items in that Tab.
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Station ID's General Audio Added Randomly - displays
MAIN Tabs / SUB Tabs and the
average audio item length of the audio assets.
Note: The opposite side under Audio Entries shows the same audio MAIN or SUB Tabs except with added
Rest Rules for non repeats in the time period.
Figure 3: Illustrates the Scheduled Events Window with Sub Tabs arranged as follows:
0:00:00 SUB TAB Stager - MAIN TAB News & Weather (4 sec)
0:00:04 SUB TAB News Report - MAIN TAB News & Weather (1:04 runtime) is next End time is 1:08
(it adds the added audio)
0:01:08 Note the addition of the runtime - next, Return Liner - ID's - Imaging (.04 sec)
0:01:12 Country-Hot Male Uptempo - Music (2:55)
0:04:07 Next - and so on
Build the template until there is over 1 Hour (or as close as possible to 1 Hour) worth of average time from
SUB Tabs selected
Note 2: The Audio Entries SUB Tabs selected can have Rest Rules that can apply to each
Example ie., no repeat Artist 15 minutes and Titles every 120 minutes.
These settings are one setting for all SUB Tabs Drag n Dropped into Scheduled Events window
Building a typical hour from Categories and Specific Audio Items.
Figure 4: Continuation of Hour Templates
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Scheduled Events (w/Average Timing) Display (See illustration Pop Male (3:41))
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This
Scheduled Events window starts from a NEW Template as empty of any
SUB Tabs in it
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Next to be used are
SUB Tabs or MAIN Tabs in the building process of an hour template
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Since
DJB Studio does the selectiion of the actual music items in a
SUB or
MAIN Tab,
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Drag n Drop a
SUB Tab from the
General Audio or from the
Audio Entries item selected
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TABS are Drag n Drop from
Station IDs General Audio or Audio Entries into the
Scheduled Events.
Figure 4: Template Scheduler example below shows the START time to equal an hour. This calculation uses the
Category average time of the music / audio in it.