Video tutorials for Radiologik DJ and Scheduler radio automation on the Mac. Radiologik DJ is meant to be an equally good live DJ and automation player (with the use of Radiologik Scheduler). I'd personally love to walk into an automation program and just sit down and run it myself for a while and walk out when I feel like it.

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Radiologik DJ Manual
Radio Automation and Live Assist Player

This release of the DJ component of Radiologik can be used as a liveassist for radio or podcast creation or for most DJing needs that don'trequire the club mixing style. It can also be used as the automationplayer along with Radiologik Scheduler. The DJ portion of Radiologikwill always be available as standalone from the scheduler.
Latest version of Radiologik is available here:
http://macinmind.com/Radiologik/Download
Online video overview and tutorials:
http://radiologik.com
Questions, bug reports, and feature suggestions can be emailed tojay@macinmind.com

Requirements

macOS 10.10 Yosemite or higher (OS X 10.7 - 10.8 for ML version)
8GB or more memory recommended
1024x768 resolution or better

Radiologik DJ is meant to be an equally good live DJand automation player (with the use of Radiologik Scheduler). Why not?I'd personally love to walk into an automation program and just sitdown and run it myself for a while and walk out when I feel like it.
The interface is designed to give precedence to the most importantthings for radio, in particular large display of remaining time andcolored warnings when time is running out. Time calculation is given alot of importance and so it is calculated for starts and stops of songsinto the future through the Program queue. For instance, adjusting therate actually adjusts the displayed length of the song and how itaffects everything after it instead of just running the seconds faster.You could therefore accurately run your next five songs at a particularrate to meet the news at the top of the hour perfectly by watching theresulting end times in the queue. You can sort the library by songlength or talk time to find a good match for your time constraints.Even multiple selections are added-up to display the total time of theselection.
Holding down the mouse on a menu or moving the window around does notfreeze time display for the players as it does in some other moreexpensive DJing programs. Operations throughout the program are oftendone in independent threads and given specific time priorities toensure the best performance overall. For instance, logging has very lowpriority and audio playing has top priority. With the exception ofRadiologik being unregistered, modal dialogs are used sparingly toensure you don't have a dialog window, and especially not a dialog withno way out but to wait, getting in the way of operating. Importing theentire iTunes/Music Library is optimized for speed without interfering withplayout.
The default resolution for time is 1/10th seconds. Any higherresolution is unreadable while playing and practically imperceptiblefor radio timing.
Radiologik will be developed for Mac-only particularlybecause the need is greater on the Mac for a variety of tools like thisbut also so that I'm not wasting time trying to reproduce features onanother platform and risking a lower common denominator of abilities.The Mac is the best platform for audio and although there are plenty oftools for audio creation, it seems that the area of professional radioproduction software (or really any radio production software) is sparseon the Mac while there are dozens of pretty feature robust radioplayout solutions on windows.. but they are Windows.
What Radiologik is not
Radiologik does not cater to the club mix DJ. The DJ itself does notexamine songs to figure how to overlap them, however the scheduler(free in basic mode) has Track Prep to automatically do this and results from this are muchbetter than programs that attempt to do it on the fly. Audio should beprepped for automatic for the best results or unprepped audio can beplayed manually by your own trigger. Radiologik is not meant to looklike a real-world device like a CD player because that design can beconstraining and doesn't always lead to the best interface for the task.But we retain distinct players because we use multiple audiooutputs and it can be important to keep it straight which playout is towhich output on the board. Radiologik does not includesupport for audio units or VST effects, nor does it do streaming. Thiscan already be done very well with products such as Niceast and AudioHijack Pro. Radiologik does not do any particular mixerfunctions. However support is given for mouse wheel faders of allplayers and 4 distinct stereo audio outputs are supported if you wantto run each player to a board input. MIDI control surfaces are alsosupported and those that have motorized faders are not only supportedbut also entertaining for cats.

Bringing Audio into Radiologik DJ

Radiologik DJ accepts mp3, AAC & Apple Lossless (m4a), aiff, and wav sound files. Thereare three track lists which I'll cover more thoroughly below: ProgramQueue, Spot, and Library. Program Queue and Spot are used for playing,Library is used for finding and previewing.
Dragging
Tracks can be dragged-in from the Finder or iTunes/Music. When dragging-inmultiple tracks, the Finder may not give the order you see but iTunes/Music should in most cases.
iTunes/Music Library import button
One of the fastest ways to get music into the Library is to use the'Import from iTunes/Music' button. If you'd like to restrict which tracks youimport, use a keyword search and/or a playlist to the right of thebutton and press return or hit the 'Import from iTunes/Music' button. It willsearch for tracks matching that field in the Genre, Artist, Album,Name, and Comment. So you could simply bring in asingle Genre by typing that in the field to the left of the iTunes MusicLibrary button and pressing the button. Every time you do this you addto what's in the Library instead of replacing it. The Library ismaintained between launches.
iTunes/Music Playlists
Every list allows you to import an iTunes/Music playlist. The list of iTunes/Musicplaylists is created when Radiologik DJ is launched and can be updatedto reflect changes in actual iTunes/Music playlists by selecting RefreshPlaylist Menus from the File menu.
Radiologik Scheduler
Used for full automation, the scheduler will select tracks from iTunes/Musicplaylists by a script and Radiologik DJ will import a scheduled list oftracks right after the scheduler creates it.
Radiologik DJ Program and Spot List files
Once you have tracks in with the above 4 methods, you can save Save,Add, and Load the first two lists from the File menu.
Add to top/bottom folders
Placing an audio file in the 'Add to top' folder inthe~/Music/Radioloigk folder will have DJ move the file to the 'Added totop' folder and place the track at the top of the queue as next toplay. This might be useful for remotely adding important new tracks forplay as soon as possible. If an outro is at the top of queue, it willadd the track after theoutro.
Similarly placing an audio file in the 'Add to bottom' folder in the~/Music/Radiologik folder will have DJ move the file to 'Added tobottom' and place the track at the end of the queue.
1. Program Queue is a queue of songs that play primarily in the 1st and 2ndplayers, automatically alternating between the two and also the 3rd for voiceoversand short audio files where needed. You can dragre-order the tracks. Tracks play in order from top to bottom. The timescalculated throughout the list take into account overlap timing andrate shifting. You can select multiple tracks to move or delete usingthe shift or command (Apple) keys.
2. Spot [3] operates more like a cart machine where the selected audiofile is the one cued. You can drag re-order the tracks.
3. Library is an internal database library which you can use to quicklyfind songs, preview them, and copy them to either the Program or Spotlists, or drag to the palette buttons if the palette is in its own window.You can select multiple tracks delete or program using the shiftor command (Apple) keys.
All 3 lists are maintained between quitting and launching Radiologik DJ.
Radiologik DJ will update play count and last played date in iTunes/Music ofplayed tracks if in the Log is checked in the Preferences for the audiooutput you use when playing the tracks. This makes smart playlistsuseful for l

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