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Old January 20th, 2006, 04:23 PM
songpony songpony is offline
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Regarding how to add a singer to the playlist when you don't yet know what they want to sing...

I currently have a "placeholder" song just for this purpose. I recorded 60 seconds of dead air and then loaded that "song" to Hoster. If you load it from the hard drive, you can just add it to a DiskID that's already in use (so you're not using a new one just for one "song"). I called the song title "No more songs up - pick one". Since I display both singer and song on the Singer's Name Display, they can see that they need to get a song in to me before their next turn. Even if they didn't have this visibility, it still serves as an effective placeholder for their location in the playlist. I used to have another "song" called "***VIDEO***" that I used to mark a person's place when I had to play the video through WMP; no longer needed, thanks to 3.3!
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