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My Radio Brian is a Fully Automated Radio Station

Radio Brian's Card.jpg

All programs I wrote it myself in Microsoft VB6.

My Auto-Jock is the main program on the left
The other programs on the right are...
Broadcast Breakaway and PPM meters from https://darkwooddesigns.co.uk/

A-J+Breakaway Screen.jpg

Brian currently he has 32,806 music files in the system.
However, he can only use 6,733 of them, chosen by myself.
The system automatically makes a continuous random playlists.
Restrictions are currently set at...
No Repeat Track within 18 days.
No Repeat Title in playlist within +/- 80 tracks.
No Repeat Artiste in playlist within +/- 40 tracks.

Brian's - 6733 Tracks - 19-11-202.jpg

Each of the music tracks are imported into the Audio Data Editor one by one.
This will calculate its exact playing time plus it's -db (Volume) reduction playback level.
Then you can manually Set the Intro and Outro times plus any other data you want.

Auto-Jock ADE.jpg

Voice Tracking in Auto-Jock is called 'Overlays'.
All are scripted by myself.
Made into Audio files using Speech Synthesizers.

Number of 'Overlays' in the bank @ Nov 2020
Artiste general Intros = 15,254
Individual song Intros = 21,200
Tracks Year Intro's = 2,865
Individual song Outros = 6,944
General Intros / Outros = 18,966
Categories: Idents, Xmas, Chuck Norris, Spanish,
Facts, 18+, Lyrics etc, plus plenty of humorous ones.
Selection is fully automatic controlled by the Overlay Bank
which also provides playing track(s) Volume Ducking.

*NOTE* Overlays have a setting of 28 days No Repeat

Overlay Bank.jpg

There are seven possible voice tracking variants of the ''Overlay Bank'' system in my Auto-Jock.
Using the same Song 1 and seven different ones for Song 2.
The 'Cue Tone' and 'Vocals Start' (Intro) signals come in from the main Left / Right Players.
*Settings Note* ... ''Delay Play'' = ON
Ducking... Attack: 0.4s - Release: 0.4s
Minimum Outro -to- Intro Time: 1.5s
Including Ducking Attack & Release
The ducking -db is added to the -db of the playing songs (Players top right hand corner)
Voice tracking files are selected fully automatically.

Example from a 16hr play log...
Intros
Artist+Title Set: 20% - Count: 089 = Per Hour: 5.47
Artist Set: 20% - Count: 081 = Per Hour: 4.98
Year Set: 30% - Count: 008 = Per Hour: 0.49
Random Set: 100% - Count: 034 = Per Hour: 2.09
Outros
Track Set: 12% - Count: 025 = Per Hour: 1.54
Random Set: 90% - Count: 153 = Per Hour: 9.41
Total Overlays Played: 390

Brian's Voice Tracking .jpg

This is the Scheduler, used it insert time checks, adverts, on the half hour jokes etc:
Note Xmas track get inserted automatically over the season either one or two per hour.

Interjector - Xmas Started.jpg

This is Samatha's (Speech Synthesizer) automatic weather condition reader system.

Weather System.jpg

This is the main Text-to-Speech program.

Brian's TTS.jpg

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I get up in the morning at 7:45am and turn on the Transmitter.
Turn ''Brian ON'' and start him running on Autorun, then turn his monitor OFF.

He then runs automatically without any human input for 16hrs  :whistle

The next time I turn on Brian's ''Monitor'' ON is 23:55
I then select a nice slow track to play after his ''Midnight Speech''
Then turn the Autorun OFF.

Go up on the big flat roof normally with a Beer and my cat joins me were
the transmitter room is located and the antenna mast.
We have a walk around with my radio looking out over the listener area all lit up,
it looks beautiful.

Go inside when the song has finished and there is Dead Air.
I then turn the transmitter OFF and go down and turn ''Brian OFF''.

He has been running 16hrs a day every day for the 4 years like that :)

I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area  :thumbup

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area  :thumbup

Sometimes it's a glass of whiskey :cool

Quote from: BriansBrain on 30.04.2023, 11:46Sometimes it's a glass of whiskey :cool

eewwww...you just had to spoil that vision of mine  :ill

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area  :thumbup

Lately I have been going up with a glass of red wine  :whistle

Quote from: BriansBrain on 03.09.2023, 18:28

Quote from: Dave on 29.04.2023, 22:32I like the idea of the walk around the roof with a beer over looking the area  :thumbup

Lately I have been going up with a glass of red wine  :whistle

Just the one glass filled up a few times  :rofl