I thought I heard that Station Playlist was using that Delphi thing too. I think the intro thing is something every automated station of any kind has to deal with. I guess if things were always live assisted, it isn't too important to have a display we couldn't see.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: Re: sam broadcaster? > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:37:11 -0400, you wrote: > >>anyone know how to use sam broadcaster? it's realy good! > > If you're asking how to use it, how do you know how good it is? > > The only thing SAM BC can do that other more accessible packages can't > is it's back-ended by SQL technology rather than a home-grown database > engine. Otherwise, for the money, Station Playlist does the same > thing, but better. > > I will, though, have to give credit where credit is due. Spacial > Audio (and that's not a misspelling for those of you who know that the > word "spatial" is spelled with a t) invented a programming language, > very geeky and full of lots of tokens and keywords and geeky stuff > like that, to control their software, which other products don't seem > to have a need for. > > On the minus side, SAM's event scheduler is an extra-cost program. > > Now let's talk accessibility. > > I've been using, or attempting to use, SAM BC since version 2. Along > with improvements in their screen layout have come improvements in > screenreader technology, so now, SAM BC Version 4 and Window-Eyes V5.5 > seem to go together quite nicely. JAWS still has a lot of problems > with the Delphi-based screen forms and layouts which W.E. does not. > Other than standard menu controls, there is not a single control on > the main screen of SAM that either JAWS or Window-Eyes recognizes as a > standard windows control. That being said, however, most of what > Window-Eyes calls custom controls operate as list boxes, but even with > re-classing in JAWS, it's still not right. > > SAM's category management system needs a little work, too. They give > you the ability to have two levels of category, one within another, > that is, but they don't allow you to reference a track by using an > outer-level category name. For example, I have a category called > top40, within which I have three subcategories--artists and albums > (which I've abbreviated to A&A), 1hit, and instrumentals. I cannot > tell SAM to play me tracks from top40, or even top40.* (standard SQL > syntax for a key matching a top-level hierarchy and any sub-level) > because the inner categories do not "roll up" into the outer-level > one. I've argued this back and forth and forth and back with Louis > Louw, Spacial Audio's head programmer, and he says it's coming up in a > future version. > > Another thing that SAM has trouble with is something that's so easy to > do in Station Playlist, one wonders why SAM just didn't take the same > approach, and that is, marking the intro and outro points for tracks. > With Station Playlist, you can move a pointer along a timeline and > press a button to hear the marked point in the track, then press > another button to lock it into place. With SAM, you have to enter in > the exact time in minutes and seconds that you want the points to be > stored at. Let me just say here that if there exists in SAM the > ability to move a pointer along a time line like there is in SPL, then > I haven't found out how to do it yet, but it sure would make things > easier and faster, especially with a 50,000-track database. > > I'm almost to the point where I feel confident enough to use it for a > live interactive show, but almost. > > The sound processing presets that SAM comes with are very good. > They've done a lot of work in cleaning up their audio processing over > the versions, and now I can honestly say I like it. Their crossfading > controls are much easier to use, too. > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
