Intro and outro for playlist

36 votes

They would serve for the beginning and the end of a show or some type of announcement to schedule it in a certain time so that the listener knows what type of event they will listen to.

Under consideration Suggested by: Ruben Jara (25 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

27 Mar, '21
Alex
it would be useful for example for stations that play different music genres at specific times of the day, for example:

pop: between 08:00 and 12:00;
80's and 90's: between 12:00 and 13:00;
world music: between 1 pm and 2 pm
and so on, making it possible for us to set an "opening" and "ending" for these slots while leaving the playlist in shuffled mode.
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08 Jul, '21
Jro
This would also work where you play a single track from a play list during a slot - to have an intro outro on that playlist would be great too...
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14 Sep, '21
Floe Hetling
I doubt there is a good idea to do intro/outro on a single track.
However I think "Theme chapter" type of playlist will be a neat addition. In my mind it should work as follows: one can create a playlist of that type, populate it with tracks of one mood, genre or theme. Then, while that type of playlist is selected, form provides some additional fields, e.g. "Chapter intro jingle", "Chapter outro jingle", "Chapter length, songs", "Chapter length, time" and some recurring options like "one-time", "Time of day", "Day of week", et cetera.
30 May, '23
Moonbase59
Many of us structure the week by scheduled playlists, in, say, 2-hour "show blocks" with different genres, like pop in the morning, rock in the evening.

Using a timed, interrupting jingle isn’t feasible, because a) it’d play over the first song, and b) the end of the "show block" isn’t foreseeable since the last song in a schedule block will play until finished.

Having (optional) "intro" and "outro" files (or better yet, playlists) available per playlist would greatly enhance a station’s appearance! We could then use shuffled, scheduled playlists that start with an intro and possibly end with an outro and thus nicely "frame" a "show block".

Being able to specify an intro and outro FILE each (from Media → Music Files) would help much, for a start, until we hopefully get a nested playlist feature.

Building up a sequence in Liquidsoap (intro, playlist, outro) isn’t too difficult, it’s just needed to have this available in a usable form within the AzuraCast UI.
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