My Radio Brian is a Fully Automated Radio Station

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All programs I wrote it myself in Microsoft VB6.

My Auto-Jock is the main program on the left
The other programs on the right are...
Broadcast Breakaway and PPM meters from https://darkwooddesigns.co.uk/

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Brian currently he has 32,806 music files in the system.
However, he can only use 6,733 of them, chosen by myself.
The system automatically makes a continuous random playlists.
Restrictions are currently set at...
No Repeat Track within 18 days.
No Repeat Title in playlist within +/- 80 tracks.
No Repeat Artiste in playlist within +/- 40 tracks.

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Each of the music tracks are imported into the Audio Data Editor one by one.
This will calculate its exact playing time plus it's -db (Volume) reduction playback level.
Then you can manually Set the Intro and Outro times plus any other data you want.

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Voice Tracking in Auto-Jock is called 'Overlays'.
All are scripted by myself.
Made into Audio files using Speech Synthesizers.

Number of 'Overlays' in the bank @ Nov 2020
Artiste general Intros = 15,254
Individual song Intros = 21,200
Tracks Year Intro's = 2,865
Individual song Outros = 6,944
General Intros / Outros = 18,966
Categories: Idents, Xmas, Chuck Norris, Spanish,
Facts, 18+, Lyrics etc, plus plenty of humorous ones.
Selection is fully automatic controlled by the Overlay Bank
which also provides playing track(s) Volume Ducking.

*NOTE* Overlays have a setting of 28 days No Repeat

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There are seven possible voice tracking variants of the ''Overlay Bank'' system in my Auto-Jock.
Using the same Song 1 and seven different ones for Song 2.
The 'Cue Tone' and 'Vocals Start' (Intro) signals come in from the main Left / Right Players.
*Settings Note* ... ''Delay Play'' = ON
Ducking... Attack: 0.4s - Release: 0.4s
Minimum Outro -to- Intro Time: 1.5s
Including Ducking Attack & Release
The ducking -db is added to the -db of the playing songs (Players top right hand corner)
Voice tracking files are selected fully automatically.

Example from a 16hr play log...
Intros
Artist+Title Set: 20% - Count: 089 = Per Hour: 5.47
Artist Set: 20% - Count: 081 = Per Hour: 4.98
Year Set: 30% - Count: 008 = Per Hour: 0.49
Random Set: 100% - Count: 034 = Per Hour: 2.09
Outros
Track Set: 12% - Count: 025 = Per Hour: 1.54
Random Set: 90% - Count: 153 = Per Hour: 9.41
Total Overlays Played: 390

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This is the Scheduler, used it insert time checks, adverts, on the half hour jokes etc:
Note Xmas track get inserted automatically over the season either one or two per hour.

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This is Samatha's (Speech Synthesizer) automatic weather condition reader system.

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This is the main Text-to-Speech program.

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I get up in the morning at 7:45am and turn on the Transmitter.
Turn ''Brian ON'' and start him running on Autorun, then turn his monitor OFF.

He then runs automatically without any human input for 16hrs 

The next time I turn on Brian's ''Monitor'' ON is 23:55
I then select a nice slow track to play after his ''Midnight Speech''
Then turn the Autorun OFF.

Go up on the big flat roof normally with a Beer and my cat joins me were
the transmitter room is located and the antenna mast.
We have a walk around with my radio looking out over the listener area all lit up,
it looks beautiful.

Go inside when the song has finished and there is Dead Air.
I then turn the transmitter OFF and go down and turn ''Brian OFF''.

He has been running 16hrs a day every day for the 4 years like that

I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area 

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area 

Sometimes it's a glass of whiskey

Quote from: BriansBrain on 30.04.2023, 11:46Sometimes it's a glass of whiskey

eewwww...you just had to spoil that vision of mine 

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area 

Lately I have been going up with a glass of red wine 

Quote from: BriansBrain on 03.09.2023, 18:28

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area 

Lately I have been going up with a glass of red wine 

Just the one glass filled up a few times