RadioBOSS Readme file (c) djSoftware, 2006 Contents: 1. Overview 2. System Requirements 3. Quick Start 4. Troubleshooting 1. RadioBOSS Overview ------------------------ RadioBOSS is the software product that provides automation capabilities for broadcasting stations, clubs, discos, casinos, shops, cinemas. A large number of features allows using it no matter where you need to play music. The RadioBOSS software can work for months without operator’s assistance. Built-in format converter, CD grabber, music database, playlist generator, scheduler, automatic volume control, crossfade and other features make this software a very useful tool to handle your music collection. The simple and convenient interface minimizes the learning curve. RadioBOSS consists of 3 components: Player is the primary component that contains most of the functionality: launching and editing playlists, scheduling, configuring effects and many other. Musical database that searches you hard drive for music files and saves the list of files into the database. It provides quick search by any field, mass tag editor, sorting, statistics, filter etc. Playlist Generator that generates playlists using templates. You can specify various parameters such as the length of the playlist, generation method, advertisement options, hourly blocks, jingles, rotations… The result is a ready to use playlist that can be broadcast right away. Features: - support for mp3, wma, wav, ogg, CD audio formats - plugins to support other file formats (AAC, FLAC, …) - automatic generation of playlists using templates - retranslation is possible - the ability to run an internet radio station - indexed music database that supports quick search capabilities - the level of advertisements and announcements is increased - you can work with two playlists simultaneously - built-in effects: echo, reverb, flanger, tempo, pitch - WinAMP and DirectX (through AdaptX) plugins are now supported - 12-band equalizer - crossfade support - voice track feature - automatic volume control – all files are played at the same volume - trimming silence at the beginning and at the end of the track - the program takes advantage of the multichannel cards (4.0, 5.1, 7.1 etc) - two independent outputs: stereo split; splitting to channels on multichannel cards; using two sound cards - flexible scheduling capabilities - color indication in playlists (jingles and advertisements are highlighted) - file converter (mp3->wma etc…) - CD grabber - support for profiles (individual configuration for each user) - tag editor that supports any file type - comments that can be added to any track - the “playlist in playlist” feature 2. Minimum system requirements ---------------------- 400 MHz processor DirectSound compatible sound card 64 Mb RAM Windows 98/ME; XP/2K or later recommended DirectX 9 WMA codec WDM drivers for sound card 3. Quick Start -------------- Before proceeding to work, it is recommended to do the following: 1. Choose interface language. Run the player, press View->Select language and choose the necessary interface language. The language is changed for all modules simultaneously. 2. Create music database. Choose the Music database->Launch menu item. Add all folders, that you want to broadcast music from (to add a folder, or a file, press the “Add folder” or “Add file” button). After the database is ready, save it using the “Save” button. You can save it as “base.dfs” in the “Database” subfolder of the application installation folder. Close the database. 3. Plug the database to the player. In the player window, open the options dialog (by clicking the button on the toolbar or selecting the corresponding menu item), select the “General” tab, and choose the file containing the music database that you created on the previous step. 4. Specify the markers for advertisements and jingles. These markers are used to highlight the appropriate items in the playlist and to supply necessary crossfades. E.g. if you set the “jingle” marker for jingles, then the application will treat all files containing “jingle” in either filename or title/artist tags as jingles. The files that are neither jingles nor advertisements will be considered music. 5. Configure crossfades. In the main window, choose the “crossfades” tab and specify crossfade parameters for each file type as follows: mixing point – amount of time counted from the last of the track when the next track will be played, autofade point – time when the file playing volume will start to decrease. 6. Jingles. You can also configure a list of jingles for quick access – you will be able to run these jingles using the 1-9 keyboard or toolbar buttons. The list of jingles is configured using the “Jingles->Set” menu item. The “Broadcasting volume when launching” options allows you to specify the music volume when playing the jingle. 7. Configure playback parameters. Open the “Playback” tab in the player configuration options and choose the device for primary output, and speakers to play the sound in. 4. Troubleshooting ------------------ Please refer to our Web-site: www.djsoft.net (c) DJSoft.net (Kuzmitskiy Dmitriy) E-Mail: support@djsoft.net WWW: http://www.djsoft.net