RadioBoss . like so many others saves playlists as .m3u8 files. We all know the problem with those files, if you forget and make a playlist ahead of time with local files (say on your laptop), it wonât play on the on-air copy as it wonât know how to find the files. Recently, RadioBoss added a feature that solves the problem by rendering the playlist to a file, which is completely standalone. Added bonus, when you play the file in RadioBoss all the meta tags are there and as each song plays the usual stuff transfers to Spinitron. Itâs great except for a couple of things I havenât figured a way around yet.
- The duration of each song is the length of the whole file. (timestamps are correct)
- The usual trick to keep the file out of the log (donât fill in the artist field) doesnât seem to work.
- It creates 2 Spinitron show entries, one with only one entry (the whole file), and the second one with the same full show entry and then all the songs within the file.
- Donât know if this is a clue but RadioBoss also creates a .cue file. Doesnât seem to make any difference if I keep that file or not. Curious if you have ever seen this behaviour before