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The Play Stack Annotated

The Play Stack Annotated
Figure 1: The Play Stack as illustrated above has Audio Items music and Ad items ready to play.
The Play Stack is the group of audio items stacked one above the other that play audio events.
 
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The Play Stack Function Buttons

1. The Play Stack Function Buttons
The Play Stack Function Buttons fill 10 players to run manually or in Auto Mode
[Auto Segue Off] is manual or [Auto Segue On] plays one to all others in the stack.
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Auto Segue Button

2. Auto Segue Button    
[Auto Segue] OFF mode is default setting. The Play Stack will not move, it's all manual.
[Auto Segue] ON mode is the Auto Segue setting. As the first item 1/10 plays it moves off the
Play Stack when done and the next audio item 2/10 moves to the top PLAY position.
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Auto Fill Button

3. Auto Fill Button    
[Auto Fill] OFF mode is default setting. The Play Stack can be filled manually by Drag n Drop
from the Hot Button Panel.
[Auto Fill] ON mode setting fills the Play Stack with user selected Audio Items 1/10 to 10/10
  
Auto Fill mode in MENU, Program Settings, Scheduling, Scheduler Selection buttons.
 
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Stop All Audio

4. Stop All Audio
[Stop All Audio] means stopping the playout of all audio from the PlayStack and Hot Buttons.
[Stop All Audio] also shuts down the [Auto Segue] and [Auto Fill] buttons when they are in ON mode.
 
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MIC On-Off  for the Host Microphone

5. MIC On-Off  for the Host Microphone   
The MIC OFF Button is Mic Off. ON Mode Host Mic to Turn ON for LIVE or to Record LIVE.
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PAUSE - PAUSED -  PLAY Button

       
The PLAY Button takes on several identities based on what exactly is happening with the Audio Item.
PLAY is the default button when an Audio Item is loaded in the Play Stack.
PAUSE is the alternate text when PLAY is turned to the ON Mode, as in playing  the audio item to Air.
PAUSED is the actual paused mode when the user selects the playing item to PAUSE,
The Alternate Action to the PAUSE is to resume to play the Audio Item in the Play Stack.
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Audio Item  with Artist & Title

 
The Play Stack Display is in the middle of the Audio Items in the Play Stack.
along with the red color Play Time Elapsed Bar
 
Typical Play Stack showing 4 Audio Items ready to be played
[PLAY] & [CLEAR] control buttons one on each side of the Title-Artist event
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FADE - CLEAR Button

  8. FADE - CLEAR Button
The default Play Stack CLEAR changes to FADE once an Audio Item is PLAY STARTED.
[FADE] comes to life in the PLAY mode, it shows as [Clear] otherwise when in the No Play Mode.
[FADE] fades the level of the audio item when it's in the PLAY Mode.
[FADE]  The fade duration (speed of the fade) can be configured in the lower Function Button
MENU,  Program Settings Audio, General, Misc Auto Fade
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The Play Stack Functionality

The Play Stack in PLAY Mode Figure 1.
Figure 1: The non-playing items in the Play Stack display two control buttons
[PLAY] to manually start the audio item
[CLEAR] to manually clear the item from its position in the Play Stack.
[CLEAR] also displays 2/10, 3/10 meaning the 2nd and 3rd audio items in the Play Stack
of 10 audio items.
 
Audio Items in the Play Stack can also be rearranged by Drag n" Drop, except for playing items
which cannot be moved - dragged and cannot be 'dropped' on.
 
 
[PLAY] start of any item in the Play Stack will: See Figure 1 - Buttons above the Play Sta
a) (Auto Segue OFF) button is off - Manual or Live Assit mode of operation
b) [PLAY] started will move the audio item to a top of Stack position below the current playing item
c) Auto fade the current playing item then remove it from the playlist and move the new audio item to the top
d) [PLAY] audio item that is activated always moves to the top of the Play Stack
e) (Auto Segue ON) button is on - Automated mode of operation
f) Will segue from one audio item to the next
 
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