Installation guide

Last revision. 12/00
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RapidFire “Shrink / Stretch” Playback Feature
The RapidFire “Shrink/Stretch” Feature is designed for stations that are receiving their programming via
a satellite delivery service (i.e. ABC, Jones, SMN, Westwood One) that requires your stations local
break sets to fit a specific length of time (i.e. 2:00, 2:30, 3:00).
The Shrink/Stretch playback feature requires two things:
1)
Creating the Shrink/Stretch Members in Music Plus
2)
Scheduling the Shrink/Stretch Members in a playlist
Creating the Shrink/Stretch Members
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Create the Music Plus Member “HD000-01”
with the title “>>> Begin Set” with a length of one
second, with no fade time and fade code of “P”
(PAUSE after this item).
✔
Create the Music Plus Member “HD000-02”
with the title “>>> End Set” with a length of one
second, with no fade time and no fade code.
Scheduling the Shrink/Stretch Members
The member HD000-01 should be scheduled prior to
the first hard disk audio item of the break set, and the
member HD000-02 should be scheduled after the last
hard disk audio item of the break set. See the music
format below as an example:
NOTES:
Be sure the RAPID.INI on your
playback computer has been updated with the proper
hard disk audio format and sample rate (ex: MPEG,
48000)
The Shrink/Stretch function can only accommodate a 3% variation from the original sample rate. For
example, to exact fit a three-minute break set, the total time of original audio files must be between 2:55
and 3:05.
This RapidFire utility is only compatible with audio cards that can handle a sample rate up to 48k (i.e.
SX-7, SX-9, SX-20, SX-23), and NOT with audio cards that have a 32k sample rate limit (i.e. SX-34,
SX-35, SX-36).