TUNETRACKER SYSTEM IN ACTION - TuneTracker Command Center
Traffic Integration (Command Center Only)
In the TuneTracker™ templates folder are two copyable folders provided for your convenience. One of them, the "Copyable Commercial Folder," has its attribute columns neatly laid-out to display the information pertinent to commercials, such as Name, Title, tunetracker:spotid, etc. The copyable commercial folder works well for storage of commercials and other announcements scheduled by your traffic logs.
To make things simple, we recommend that you duplicate the "Copyable Commercial Folder," renaming each copy whatever you like, and use the renamed copies to store your commercials, promos, and public service announcements. Once you have those announcements in place, read on for details on how to quickly mark the ads so they can be matched up to the information in your commercial traffic logs.
MARKING YOUR ADS WITH SPOTIDS
Once your ads are sitting in their folder on your BeOS machine, it's time to add their SpotIDs so TuneStacker™ can find them while integrating your traffic logs. The IDs you use should correspond to the "Cart Numbers" or "IDs" that were assigned to your ads when their orders were entered into your traffic software.
The SpotID attribute is used by TuneStacker™ to find the right announcement to play at the right time. Therefore it's very important that each audio file specified by your traffic software be present on your computer, and appropriately labeled with the correct SpotID.
To edit an ad's SpotID information, just click on the little hyphen in the tunetracker:spotid column of the file, wait until you see a little vertical cursor bar, then type in the information.
Our system is sensitive to upper and lower case letters, so be certain you correctly type-in your SpotIDs exactly as they are listed on your traffic log. For example, if the SpotID is Ad3Xr, be certain you do not enter it as AD3XR or ad3xr or it will not be found. For that reason, we recommend you decide upon SpotIDs that are all upper case or all lower case, so you won't have to remember combinations of the two. A carry-over from the old "all-upper-case is easier to read" radio theory is that many radio people tend to default to upper case typing...so that might be a good choice.
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