Hi Steve,
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I've got it
running right now, playing randomly, hearing an occasional Christmas
song, but sounds good. I've been able to find the history window and
see what has played. It seems that when you press escape the search
window opens. I type in a search string, but I'm unable to find the
list of songs that comes up, if indeed it does! A friend is visiting
this evening and so I'll have an opportunity to get the layout
explained to me. I was tempted to try and reclass some of the
controls, but I don't know where to start.
Where does one learn about the scripting language? I
suppose that it designs your playlists, adding id's, jingles, etc. I
worked for the phone company for 18 years as a programmer slash
analyst, so I've got lots of computer programming under my belt and
should be able to handle the scripting language if its not too complex.
So far, I'm quite impressed. I have been using ots jukebox
for my dejaying chores, but not all of my mp3's get converted to the
ots format, or get omx files created for them. It seems like sam
just imports all of the mp3's!
Rusty
> At 07:08 PM 8/27/2007, Steve Matzura spake thusly:-
>Hi, Rusty:
>
>On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:18:05 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone has experience with sam party dj
> >using we 6.1? I've downloaded and installed the demo, which I
> >believe functions for fifteen days. I loaded my music into its data
> >base but do not know how to proceed. What is the playlist extension
> >in this program? Any tips as to how to get started?
>
>I'm going out on a limb here and assuming two things: (1)
>Window-Eyes 6.1 is not substantially different than 5.5. (2) SAM
>Party DJ is not significantly different from SAM Broadcaster, other
>than the obvious point of not containing the broadcasting code. If
>the two above statements are true, more or less, hopefully mostly
>more, then here are a few things to get started.
>
>1. After all your music is loaded, assuming your MP3 tags are good,
>you can start playing randomly selected music simply by pressing F1.
>F2 is pause, F3 is stop. F4 is next randomly chosen song. Shift F3
>and Shift F4 are supposed to apply a fade before performing their
>actions, but I haven't always seen this work right. Don't take that
>to mean anything except that I probably screwed up when trying it.
>
>2. The canned script that runs will play things from all your music
>categories just to get you started so you can hear how SAM sounds. If
>you want a specific category to play, you'll have to create your own
>script to do this, or modify the default one. This is extremely easy
>to do, and the script is really only one line long, you just have to
>do a bit of studying to learn what the parameters to the category
>function are, then you can write anything you want.
>
>2. To add a song to the play queue manually, just scroll through the
>list until you find the one you want, or start typing its title or
>artist and the search panel will automatically open and find what
>you're searching for. Note the various check boxes in the search
>panel which can help you narrow or widen your search by just about
>anything that appears in the MP3 tag specification. The neat thing
>about this panel is that as you type, songs that match the checked
>search criteria appear in a scrollable list. Enter as much search
>criteria as you think you need, then tab to the scrollable list and
>select what you want queued. The default action is to add to the top
>or front of the queue by pressing ENTER. You can route the mouse
>pointer to the scrollable list and right-click to see all the other
>options, which include add to top of queue, add to bottom of queue,
>delete menu, and others. When you're done with the search panel,
>press ESCAPE to close it.
>
>3. SAM playlists are not the same as Winamp playlists. In fact, I'm
>really not sure what they're for or how they're used. I'll look into
>this for you if you like on my SAM Broadcaster installation.
>
>4. Without additional scripting, SAM will play forever, queueing one
>song at a time to the play queue. There are ways, via the scripting
>language they give you, to queue many songs, tell how long it will
>take to play them, and perform other actions on songs and queues. But
>this should be sufficient to get you started.
>
>An additional tip: Keep as few windows open as possible on the SAM
>desktop. I usually only keep the playlist and history windows open so
>that I can browse or use the search feature in the main category
>window and see what's been played in the history window for when I
>want to do a voice break and say what's been played. The nice thing
>is that even if you have many windows open, like the play queue,
>history, voice effects, category, etc., you can move among them with
>the TAB key and the screen is redrawn to accommodate the in-focus
>window so you don't get any overlap or window bleed-through.
>Sometimes, though, if you open too many windows, some windows may get
>resized smaller. That's because SAM tries to keep everything visible
>at all times. However, if there are too many open windows, SAM has to
>make some decisions about how much of a window needs to be shown
>without blocking out something else. That's where you get the
>truncation effect I just described. Three or four windows should not
>pose this difficulty, though.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
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