2013-06-02, 16:45
Hey guys...
I have searched high and wide for a proper list to how to get certain Advanced Channel settings to work, so I apologise in advance if this has already been covered.
Mostly I want them to work for my Music Channels. I have an On Demand MTV style channel, and a Classic Channel. I am running these directly out of directories rather than scraping cause I can't seem to get the Music Video scraper to work. I want to be able to have different types of music video scheduled at the same time ie New Music everyday in the afternoon, Live/Concerts on Sunday Nights, Dance Party Late Friday and Saturday nights, 90's grunge Saturday mornings etc. I have moved all my music videos into genre folders on my drives and create separate hidden channels with them in it. The problem is I can't get the channel scheduling to work at all, and wondering if it only works for scraped media. What I thought I could do also was do tricky interleaving as well, but it failed also. For example, I make custom videos for bumpers. I made a channel for a music genre bumper ie Up next Brand New Music. Then on the bumper channel, I then interleaved the New Music folder so every 7 songs on the On Demand MTV channel, it would play the bumper, then a random song from the Brand New Music folder. Unfortunately it would just play the bumper, and not play the following interleave from the Brand New Music folder.
So I also wanted Friends to play 3 episodes on at 6pm every night, so I created a smart playlist and placed it, and still no luck. I know it must be something I am doing, but I can't find anyone who has done extensive Advanced Channel programming to reference off.
One more thing. The code that allows for the 'Coming Up Next' Pop up to come on the screen, is there code that could be added to pop up to show what is currently playing ie like a lower third for music videos
Thanks guys
JD
I have searched high and wide for a proper list to how to get certain Advanced Channel settings to work, so I apologise in advance if this has already been covered.
Mostly I want them to work for my Music Channels. I have an On Demand MTV style channel, and a Classic Channel. I am running these directly out of directories rather than scraping cause I can't seem to get the Music Video scraper to work. I want to be able to have different types of music video scheduled at the same time ie New Music everyday in the afternoon, Live/Concerts on Sunday Nights, Dance Party Late Friday and Saturday nights, 90's grunge Saturday mornings etc. I have moved all my music videos into genre folders on my drives and create separate hidden channels with them in it. The problem is I can't get the channel scheduling to work at all, and wondering if it only works for scraped media. What I thought I could do also was do tricky interleaving as well, but it failed also. For example, I make custom videos for bumpers. I made a channel for a music genre bumper ie Up next Brand New Music. Then on the bumper channel, I then interleaved the New Music folder so every 7 songs on the On Demand MTV channel, it would play the bumper, then a random song from the Brand New Music folder. Unfortunately it would just play the bumper, and not play the following interleave from the Brand New Music folder.
So I also wanted Friends to play 3 episodes on at 6pm every night, so I created a smart playlist and placed it, and still no luck. I know it must be something I am doing, but I can't find anyone who has done extensive Advanced Channel programming to reference off.
One more thing. The code that allows for the 'Coming Up Next' Pop up to come on the screen, is there code that could be added to pop up to show what is currently playing ie like a lower third for music videos
Thanks guys
JD