AUTO SCHEDULING SLOTS
You can manually place items to create a Playlist. Alternatively, you can let Laqorr do the work for you with Auto-Scheduling. You can even mix and match. A playlist that has Auto Scheduling (AS) slots looks for media files that have matching Auto-Scheduling attributes.
First, create a NEW (or EDIT an existing) Playlist, click on the Auto Scheduling Slots tab and add some AS slots.
You’ll see four types to choose from:
- Any Content
- Company Wide
- State Wide
- Local Content
Simply drag as many slots into your playlist as you want. You can have them in any position, in any combination. You can also mix in ‘manually’ placed content.
As Laqorr goes down the playlist, it will look for files that are appropriate to play in this slot. If it doesn’t find one, it will jump to the next item in the playlist.
Any Content – any file that has a valid AS attribute will play.
Company Wide – files loaded with a Company AS attribute will play in this space.
State Wide – a file marked AS by state that matches the player’s location, will play in this space.
Local Content – a file marked AS by Region, Site or Player specific, matching the player’s location, will play in this space.
As the playlist cycles through, Laqorr will play the oldest, valid media file first. If there two slots of the same kind (two State slots for instance), it will then play the second oldest, valid media file in the second slot, and so on.
If you have only one slot in a playlist, it will play the first valid file in the first cycle, then the second valid file in the second cycle of that playlist, and so on.
For added control, you can also change the nature of the Auto Schedule Slot by clicking on the Slot in your Playlist.
A pop-up box will appear, allowing you to expand, or restrict , the kind of media file that will play in this space.
For instance, you can change the slot to play files that are only Specific To Players. Alternatively, you could choose it to play State Wide as well as Region Wide files in this space.
Files will still play according to the same principles as above.
