Good morning, all.
I need help with my pal script, copied below.
I use it to broadcast locally produced news update at the half-hour mark and it works just fine. The problem I have, though, is I also have pre-recorded shows as well as live stream relays that last one hour or more and it would be nice if I could make the script to not distrupt such shows.

What obtains presently is that when it's time for the news update, sam fades out the current show. But I don't want that to happen, I want sam to either not play the news update at all if I have 20+ minutes left on the active player, or just pause active player, take the news update and return to the show.

Another question, though unrelated: I the past I could adjust the weight of certain songs to make them play more frequently than others but I don't know how to do that in this sam4.9.4. Any help on that too, would be appreciated.

You guys have helped me greatly in the past and I appreciate it.

This should do the work:

Thanks, robot-gobot.

Is there a way to make it pause only if ative player has X or more minutes to play? The reason is, I'll prefer for it not to pause if the ative player only has a song playing but rather fade to next and go to the news immediate. I want the pause condition to only apply if the active player has x minutes or more left to play.
Is that possible?
Thanks for your help.

Yes, it is possible:


Replace 60000 with your time (in milliseconds).

You're awesome! Just what the doctor prescribed.
For fair of asking for too much favour, if I want it to clear the queue afterwards, where can I add .
Thanks again.

Just add as the last string of the script. Not sure though why would you want to do this since we already cleared queue at the begining of the script.

Actually, the script inject three files into the queue, with the news update on top, when it pause and takes the news, the other two files will still be in the queue.
Have a great day.

Hmm.. The script i posted injects only one file into the queue (C:\news\News Update.mp3). Are you sure you`re not missing anything?

Have a great day too!

You're right. I did modify the script this way:

I removed the last string upon realizing that it cleared the queue almost immediately and so did not play the newsupdate.
I still would want the script be able to clear the other two items from the queue in the even there's only.
But the script itself is a huge help as it is. Perhaps, the reason I didn't want to bother you any further.

So you want to play 'C:\news\News Update.mp3', then 'C:\news\newspromo.mp3' and then CAT['Station Image'].QueueTOP(smLRP, NoRules) when your hour long show fades to next song in queue. But if there is more then 10 minutes of the show left (i.e. show doesn`t fade to next, but pauses) you want to play only 'C:\news\News Update.mp3' and then resume the show?

That's correct.

That should be rather easy to implemet. I`ll try to post a new script sometime tomorrow since i am extremely busy right now.

Very well. I can wait.

Here is the new script:

I will test it out and let you know how it works. Have a nice weekend.