Manual
requirements
- Qt4.3 and following
- Phonon back-end
On Kubuntu or other distribution with KDE 4.x should find already installed the previous software.
Installation
- tar -xjf qcradio-v2beta.tar.bz2
- cd qcradio
- make
- make install
Use
QCradio contains :
- QCRadio (the Playlist Creator)
- QCRadioPlayer (playlist player)
- QRadiolib (library used from both previous software)
QCRadio (Creator)
QCradio is the "Creator"; with it you creates temporal slot. Any slot finished at time of following slot. Any slot should contains all or almost one of follwing elments:- Time: slot begin
- Schedule: audio file
- Spot: audio file
- Music: audio file
- Random music option, with this option, random audio file will be inserted in order to reach the time of the next slot
With configure, you define default direcotries for schedule file, spot file and music file (music directory is used to search music random; you can change this directory when you choose random music option).
The last slot should contain only time; other information will not be considered.
To insert schedule, spot, music you must to do double click on specific column of the slot.
To set random music option, duoble click on random music column.
You can insert, append or remove the slotsi with "append", "remove and "remove all" button. To remove a slot you must to select a row and click push remove button.
With Save o SaveAs the sets of the slots is saved FileName.xml, the playlist is saved in file called FileName. When you use load operation, you load the slots not the plalist.
Whether you insert in a slot schedule, spot an music and total duration is greater than duration slot, will uset time slot duration, thus some file audio will cat. Instead Whether you insert in a slot schedule, spot an music and total duration is less than duration slot, next slot is played in advance.
QCRadioPlayer (Player)
The player should to be run with cron at time of first slot (qradioplayer playlistFile)