Re: More on ZaraRadio
Well folks, here's more on the events list. There's a window on the central left of the screen that's the events window. Above it are some buttons which JAWS doesn't seem to be able to label, I don't think there are any tool tips that come up for those buttons when a mouse pointer touches them. I was able to figure out, just by clicking them, that the last button on the right, the fourth one, is for opening the events list dialog. Once you do that, it behaves like a normal dialog does. There are buttons at the bottom to add, modify, or delete an event, buttons for OK and Cancel, etc. Events are things like jingles, spots, external audio feeds or streams. They can be scheduled at specific times or periodically (once every 15 minutes, etc.) There's also a Save button to save your event list. What I haven't figured out is the next logical step, a rotation. Hopefully I'll do that today. I've also figured out that the jingles buttons are more suitable for drop-ins than they are for jingles. Some folks like using jingles as drop-ins, I admit to having done that once or twice in a show, it's a matter of taste, I guess, as to how you use this particular feature. Onward and upward. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
my question is does this program interface with winamp? tj - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: More on ZaraRadio Well folks, here's more on the events list. There's a window on the central left of the screen that's the events window. Above it are some buttons which JAWS doesn't seem to be able to label, I don't think there are any tool tips that come up for those buttons when a mouse pointer touches them. I was able to figure out, just by clicking them, that the last button on the right, the fourth one, is for opening the events list dialog. Once you do that, it behaves like a normal dialog does. There are buttons at the bottom to add, modify, or delete an event, buttons for OK and Cancel, etc. Events are things like jingles, spots, external audio feeds or streams. They can be scheduled at specific times or periodically (once every 15 minutes, etc.) There's also a Save button to save your event list. What I haven't figured out is the next logical step, a rotation. Hopefully I'll do that today. I've also figured out that the jingles buttons are more suitable for drop-ins than they are for jingles. Some folks like using jingles as drop-ins, I admit to having done that once or twice in a show, it's a matter of taste, I guess, as to how you use this particular feature. Onward and upward. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
HellO! Well i have been away for a while from the list but decided to go back to it again. So yes i have missed it but i can search in the archives. /Anders. - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: Re: More on ZaraRadio On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:34:56 +0100, you wrote: What is zara radio? You must be new to the list or missed a posting on it from a list member who toldr us of the existance of this new automation system for Internet broadcasting. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:32:34 -0500, you wrote: does this program interface with winamp? I don't think so. Nowhere in the documentation does it say that Winamp is required to be installed on your system, and there's only one executable program in the whole directory,so I don't think Winamp is involved at all. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
Hi Steve. From what I've been hearing about this Radio, it's very complicated! - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:56 PM Subject: More on ZaraRadio OK, here's some news. Regarding hourly time announcements, I logged into and registered myself with the ZaraRadio discussion board and got privs to download members-only stuff, like two separate packages of hourly time announcements.Unfortunately, they're both in Spanish, but you can get the idea of what's required if you listen to a couple and pay attention to the file naming convention. Extract the ZIP files into the c:\Program Files\ZaraSoft\ZaraRadio\Time folder. Then, go into ZaraRadio and you can hear the way the time announcement will sound by pressing h on the keyboard. I was wrong about one aspect of this. There is, in fact, a 00-minutes file. It simply says en punto, o'clock in Spanish, if you will. Now, about jingles. I'm having a little trouble with some of the words on the help page about jingles, but what I get so far is this: At the bottom of the screen there are nine list boxes that currently say the word empty if you move your mouse cursor along the bottom edge there. Next to each of those list boxes is a graphic symbol which, I believe, is a graphic representation of the digits 1 through 9. This is based on the documentation, which, as I said, is a little sketchy at this point. To the right of these nine list boxes you will find the single digit 1 displayed. If you click on this, you will be placed in, for lack of a better term, list box hell. It's a list box of ten items, numbered 1 through 10. According to the documentation, you can have up to 90 jingles loaded. What I can't figure out is whether it's nine windows of ten, or ten windows of nine. The reason I call this listbox hell is because once you're in it, the only way to get out of it that I have found is to click somewhere else on the screen, discounting menus and toolbar buttons. You have to click on another list (list of events, list of tracks in the playlist, anything) to get you out of the jingles listbox mess. What I haven't figured out yet is the name of the jingles folder and the format of the filenames, if there is any such. More to follow. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:34:56 +0100, you wrote: What is zara radio? You must be new to the list or missed a posting on it from a list member who toldr us of the existance of this new automation system for Internet broadcasting. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:56:12 -0500, you wrote: From what I've been hearing about this Radio, it's very complicated! Not at all, really. It has many of the same kinds of functions Station Playlist has, but differently implemented and not nearly so fancy. Someone could run a 100% automated station very nicely with SP Creator and ZaraRadio if they so desired. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
Hi Steve. Thanks for that! - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:35 PM Subject: Re: More on ZaraRadio On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:56:12 -0500, you wrote: From what I've been hearing about this Radio, it's very complicated! Not at all, really. It has many of the same kinds of functions Station Playlist has, but differently implemented and not nearly so fancy. Someone could run a 100% automated station very nicely with SP Creator and ZaraRadio if they so desired. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
If it has satellite support and all that, it's probably more meant for commercial radio, and would probably need to be hooked up to another machine for actual streaming. I always wondered how stations like scott-fm recorded CBS off some AM station, and cut away from it at just the right time. I noticed that they play the de-doop tone instead of the chirp that CBS I last knew of had. - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:35 PM Subject: Re: More on ZaraRadio On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:56:12 -0500, you wrote: From what I've been hearing about this Radio, it's very complicated! Not at all, really. It has many of the same kinds of functions Station Playlist has, but differently implemented and not nearly so fancy. Someone could run a 100% automated station very nicely with SP Creator and ZaraRadio if they so desired. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:37:14 -0600, you wrote: If it has satellite support and all that, it's probably more meant for commercial radio, and would probably need to be hooked up to another machine for actual streaming. Not at all. There's a plug-in section where you can specify a DSP (Shoutcast) plug-in and be on the air right away. As soon as I figure out a few more things about it, I'm going to try, but the Spanish they are using is very specialized/technical, definitely not covered in the Middlebury schooling I got thirty years ago. Oh well, I'm keeping at it, though. I always wondered how stations like scott-fm recorded CBS off some AM station, and cut away from it at just the right time. I noticed that they play the de-doop tone instead of the chirp that CBS I last knew of had. There's a dozen ways to skin the automation cat--tone-detectors, timers, silence-detectors, all manner of things. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
Ah, I bet they probably detect the first chirp to know to cut out, and put the one they recorded in for esthetics to get it to sound like it would back in the Mutual News days, the last of which I heard in the late 90's before that station went off and since switched format and owner. - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: Re: More on ZaraRadio On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:37:14 -0600, you wrote: If it has satellite support and all that, it's probably more meant for commercial radio, and would probably need to be hooked up to another machine for actual streaming. Not at all. There's a plug-in section where you can specify a DSP (Shoutcast) plug-in and be on the air right away. As soon as I figure out a few more things about it, I'm going to try, but the Spanish they are using is very specialized/technical, definitely not covered in the Middlebury schooling I got thirty years ago. Oh well, I'm keeping at it, though. I always wondered how stations like scott-fm recorded CBS off some AM station, and cut away from it at just the right time. I noticed that they play the de-doop tone instead of the chirp that CBS I last knew of had. There's a dozen ways to skin the automation cat--tone-detectors, timers, silence-detectors, all manner of things. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
More on ZaraRadio
OK, here's some news. Regarding hourly time announcements, I logged into and registered myself with the ZaraRadio discussion board and got privs to download members-only stuff, like two separate packages of hourly time announcements.Unfortunately, they're both in Spanish, but you can get the idea of what's required if you listen to a couple and pay attention to the file naming convention. Extract the ZIP files into the c:\Program Files\ZaraSoft\ZaraRadio\Time folder. Then, go into ZaraRadio and you can hear the way the time announcement will sound by pressing h on the keyboard. I was wrong about one aspect of this. There is, in fact, a 00-minutes file. It simply says en punto, o'clock in Spanish, if you will. Now, about jingles. I'm having a little trouble with some of the words on the help page about jingles, but what I get so far is this: At the bottom of the screen there are nine list boxes that currently say the word empty if you move your mouse cursor along the bottom edge there. Next to each of those list boxes is a graphic symbol which, I believe, is a graphic representation of the digits 1 through 9. This is based on the documentation, which, as I said, is a little sketchy at this point. To the right of these nine list boxes you will find the single digit 1 displayed. If you click on this, you will be placed in, for lack of a better term, list box hell. It's a list box of ten items, numbered 1 through 10. According to the documentation, you can have up to 90 jingles loaded. What I can't figure out is whether it's nine windows of ten, or ten windows of nine. The reason I call this listbox hell is because once you're in it, the only way to get out of it that I have found is to click somewhere else on the screen, discounting menus and toolbar buttons. You have to click on another list (list of events, list of tracks in the playlist, anything) to get you out of the jingles listbox mess. What I haven't figured out yet is the name of the jingles folder and the format of the filenames, if there is any such. More to follow. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
And now for more confusion. It just turned 11:00 here, and my PC played the HRS23_O.mp3file, presumably as it should. However, it did not play the MIN00.MP3 file (which says en punto). Not sure about the logic behind this one, but I suspect it's an either-or situation--either you can have _O hourly files, or you can use the 00 minute files to say o'clock. I'll either mess with my PC clock to force a top-of-hour condition or just wait for another hour to come around and try it again. This is fun! I've never done this in a foreign language before. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
Re: More on ZaraRadio
I neglected to clarify something a little better than I did regarding
where to extract the time announcement ('locuciones de hora') files I
downloaded from the Casarresirratea web site. If you tell WinZIP (or
WinRAR or whatever you use) to put them into C:\Program
Files\ZaraSoft\ZaraRadio\Time like I said to do, you'll have to do a
little maintenance before you can hear them with h inside of ZaraRadio
itself. You get a folder, called Nueva Carteta (New Folder in
Spanish) and a read-me file which you can discard. Rename the Nueva
Carteta folder to Time, then cut it to the clipboard with CTRL/X, go
up one level, back to the ZaraRadio folder, then paste with CTRL/V and
answer Yes to the question about overwriting files and/or folders.
You are essentially replacing an empty folder with the one you just
extracted.
Enjoy. I'm goin'a bed for now. No more updates from me until
tomorrow.
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