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songpos_remain 30000ms ? deck 1 select ? deck 2 select & playlist_load_and_keep : deck 1 select & playlist_load_and_keep

I'm "trying" to do something with this script. I would like to have a custom button, which I can activate, and will automatically load the next song into the opposite deck 30 seconds before the end of the currently playing song.

without "songpos_remain 30000ms" I can put this on a button and when pushed it works, when I add the songpos... I'm getting no results, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Also when adding songpos to the script I can't get it to toggle on/off - e.i. only action script when custom button is selected.

I would also like to incorporate some form of safeguard so that if no songs are left in the playlist it will skip script. Any ideas or suggestions?
 
Posté Sun 06 Sep 15 @ 8:53 pm
I struggling to get my head around what your doing, however the first part of your script has not specified a deck, eg deck active, or whatever.
see http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/Referencing%20a%20specific%20deck.html
Also in the second part your logic looks wrong for toggling.

What's wrong with automix ?

Hm automix can use both decks : automix_dualdeck
Therefore all we then need do is add the time ?
Just get automix to start 30s before the end of the song.

Have a look in vdj setup controllers
Both relay_play and mix_next looks interesting,

I might be misunderstanding your objective.
 
I've spent an hour on it and got nowhere.
Where's locodog?

I'll get a beer and have another think, it's interesting, but my betters might have to solve your problem.
Anyway I'll learn a little come what may.
 
In the options we can set automix to dual deck, and the mix length to whatever.
We can do it without a script.

A can of beer works wonders.

I suppose we should be able to write a script to set the VDJ8 options..whatever.
 
The script wont work because a button does something when "clicked" (or double clicked etc).
So since no mouse event happens, the action will not be executed.

I cant find a workaround though.
 
repeat_start and repeat_stop can be used to toggle some action of repeating every second for example.
Then you can check inside the script if the remaining is under 30 seconds, do something, and set a variable to prevent this from happening every second.
If the remaining time is higher, you could reset this variable so that the script will work again on the next song.
 
repeat_start 'AutoDeckLoad' 500ms & deck 1 select ? deck 1 songpos_remain 30000ms ? deck 2 playlist_load_and_keep & deck 2 select : nothing : deck 2 select ? deck 2 songpos_remain 30000ms ? deck 1 playlist_load_and_keep & deck 1 select : nothing

Then you will need:
repeat_stop 'AutoDeckLoad' to turn it off
 
Guys big thanks to all! You have no idea how much this will help my foh work :-)

I'll test this out tomorrow, but I have no doubt this will work.

Ron - your suggestions were totally valid but just didn't suit my application, keep up with the monologues they're always a chuckle!
 
After 15 minutes or so i created this script based on PhantomDeejay's solution:

set $ADL_left 0
& set $ADL_right 0
& var $ADL ?
repeat_stop 'AutoDeckLoad'
& set $ADL 0
: repeat_start_instant 'AutoDeckLoad' 500ms
& set $ADL 1
& deck left select ?
& deck left songpos_remain 30000ms ?
var_equal $ADL_right 0 ?
deck right playlist_load_and_remove
& set $ADL_right 1
& set $ADL_left 0
& deck right select
: nothing
: nothing
: deck right select ?
deck right songpos_remain 30000ms ?
var_equal $ADL_left 0 ?
deck left playlist_load_and_remove
& deck left select
& set $ADL_right 0
& set $ADL_left

Copy-friendly:
set $ADL_left 0 & set $ADL_right 0 & var $ADL ? repeat_stop 'AutoDeckLoad' & set $ADL 0 : repeat_start_instant 'AutoDeckLoad' 500ms & set $ADL 1 & deck left select ? & deck left songpos_remain 30000ms ? var_equal $ADL_right 0 ? deck right playlist_load_and_remove & set $ADL_right 1 & set $ADL_left 0 & deck right select : nothing : nothing : deck right select ? deck right songpos_remain 30000ms ? var_equal $ADL_left 0 ? deck left playlist_load_and_remove & deck left select & set $ADL_right 0 & set $ADL_left

Eplanation:

You can toggle this thing.
One click -> on, Second click -> off.
But if you use the custom buttons in VDJ or a button on a controller where you can't set the LED script individually the LED will NOT show the on/off state of the ADL system.
To get an indicator, apply var $ADL ? to another custom button / LED / whatever.
Keep that in mind so you don't mess up your organisation, you don't want tracks to get switched when you think it's turned off.
It's better than PhantomDeejay's because of the switch and the ability to remove the tracks from the playlist without spamm-removing them (which would happen normally with that technique of scripting).

Regards, Daniel =)
I'd appreciate feedback on your experience with this script.
 
Well, I got myself ready tonight to sit and play around with the mapping, even bought some beers to accompany it.

Phantom/Unlimited - Thanks for the help, works a treat!

Very kind regards and thanks,

Craig.
 
No problem =)
If you don't mind i will add this to the vdjscript collection, i think it's a useful addition.
Regards,
Daniel
 


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