Station Playlist Studio is a simple to use on-air broadcast automation playout software package for the studio and/or DJ. It plays all your media files with manual or intelligent automatic crossfading. It can play jingles, commercials, news and songs. Live streams, live inputs from your soundcard, satellite feeds and so on. It includes an Internet stream encoder, voice track/song ramp overlapping, microphone button with music fade, many automation and Live Assist features such as cart slots for instant jingles, and much more.
Sttation Playlist Studio is an extremely accessible application. Almost all of the functions can be activated using the keyboard. However, as with many applications, it is useful to have keystrokes to read important parts of the screen succinctly. Particularly in a broadcasting situation where gaining an awareness of what is happening quickly is imperative, these powerful scripts provide productivity enhancements so you can concentrate more on what is happening in your programme rather than using the JAWS screen review mode to locate the information you need.
The Station Playlist Studio scripts contain:
The creation of the scripts is a voluntary project, with the scripts being written by Brian Hartgen and concepts devised in the most part by Jonathan Mosen who is extremely familiar with using Station Playlist Studio in broadcasting situations. They both present weekly music programmes on the Internet radio station entitled The Legend.
Updates and support for the scripts will therefore be delivered as and when time permits, however we are committed to the ongoing maintenance of the project and want to provide visually impaired people with very high quality access to the program as and when we can.
Feature suggestions for script improvements are very welcome and should be sent by Email.
A set of JAWS for Windows scripts is now available to support the latest trlease of Station Playlist Studio. We have been able to include features thanks to development within the program we specifically requested from the developers and we look forward to an excellent ongoing relationship with them to include more accessibility into the program.
The primary purpose of the Station Playlist Studio script update was to provide compatibility with Station Playlist Studio version 4.30. However the following additional changes were made:
To hear the automation status press Control+Windows+6.
To hear the microphone status press Control+Windows+7.
To hear the Line In status press Control+Windows+8.
To hear the Record to File status press Control+Windows+9.
To hear the Cart Edit status press Control+Windows+0.
To hear the playing status press Control+Windows+Y.
An announcement was placed on the new keystroke for Cart Edit mode, Control+T. This is a toggle action which activates and deactivates this mode as well as providing an announcement regarding the newly selected status .
The keystroke to read the temperature (as derived from Station Playlist Studio) was moved as a result of customer requests from Control+Windows+X to Control+Windows+5.
Cart Learn mode is now applicable to all 96 jingle carts if Station Playlist Studio Pro is active.
Introduced a keystroke, Control+Windows+K, to output using speech and Braille the time remaining for the playing track. This is available within any application, not just within Station Playlist Studio.
Press Control+Windows+4 from within any application to set focus directly to Station Playlist Studio. This is very useful if you are using other applications and wish to return to SPL quickly.
Fixed a problem where JAWS would not correctly report the remaining time in the playlist if it exceeded 100 minutes in length. This was not a problem in most circumstances since a user would ordinarily mark a playlist in hour blocks.
Prior to installing the scripts, you should carefully read the help documentation by activating the link below, particularly the notes relating to installation.
Please note that a special build of Station Playlist Studio is required in order for a small number of specific functions to work correctly. Please install this build before proceeding. It can be obtained from Station Playlist support.
Read the full documentation for the scripts to support Station Playlist Studio version 4.30.
Download the zipped archive for the scripts to support Station Playlist Studio version 4.30.
Download the installer for the scripts to support Station Playlist Studio version 4.30.