Creating Your Own Format Clocks


BEFORE READING THIS SECTION

Make sure you already understand:

1.   What a format clock is
   
   
   
2.   The difference between TuneStacker™ and TuneTracker™
   
   
   
3.   We suggest you click on this format clock, which will open in a spare window, and leave it open for reference. Look it over carefully and you'll immediately start to catch on to what we are doing. That will shorten the already-short learning curve, and get you started making your own format clocks in record time.

commands?   WHAT ARE THEY?

As you know already, a format clock is just a list of instructions that TuneStacker™ uses when building your program log (playlist), and TuneTracker™ obeys when broadcasting it. The commands in your format clock are nothing more than a way of describing what you want done by those two programs.

There are two types of commands found in our format clocks. The links below lead you to full information on all of the codes available to you, and all the cool things they can do.

•   TuneStacker™ commands are used by TuneStacker™ to select music and other audio files, either specifically or randomly. These codes instruct TuneStacker™ how to select cuts based on your unique criteria, inserting a fresh mix of programming into each day's program log.
  
  
  
•   TuneTracker™ commands are used to control time-sensitive on-air operations such as Time-Corrects, interrupts, and fades. It's easy to identify the TuneTracker™ commands, because they all begin with a pound sign (#) while the TuneStacker™ commands do not.

Take the time to understand their functioning, and it'll open up a whole world of possibilities!



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