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Welcome to our tutorial on how to connect AdMaster Cloud with mairList,

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the powerful radio automation software.

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Our objective is to set up a schedule with two commercial breaks per hour.

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You can later customize this schedule according to your station's programming.

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Before we begin the integration process,

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it's highly recommended that you have some active campaigns scheduled in your AdMaster account.

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To properly test the connection, we suggest creating around 20 campaigns,

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each with about 15 scheduled plays per day.

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This ensures that every commercial block has at least a few spots scheduled for playback.

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We do not recommend testing the integration with an empty schedule,

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as it can make troubleshooting difficult.

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In AdMaster, let's begin by heading to the Stations Menu in the sidebar

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and navigating to General Station Settings.

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Here, the most important step is to set up the playout integration.

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In the Playout integration section,

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click "Edit" and from the dropdown menu, select mairList hour tpi files.

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Also, ensure your station's timezone is set correctly to your local time.

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Next, you need to enable Broadcast Log Reconciliation.

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Check the box to turn it on, then click "Settings".

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In the dialog that appears, set the "Search term" to "File Name" and click "Set".

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Now, let's move on to the Commercial Breaks settings.

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By default, AdMaster sets up two commercial breaks per hour for the entire week.

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Note that these settings cannot force mairList to start

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playing the commercials on the selected minute in the hour.

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But make sure you configure the starting minutes of the break correctly

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to help AdMaster's reconciliation engine know approximately where to find the commercials in mairList's log files.

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Now let's configure the playout PC to download the spots and traffic logs from the server.

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On your playout PC, download and install the AdMaster desktop client application

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from the Broadcast computers section in your AdMaster account.

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Once installed, you'll need to configure three folder paths.

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First, the Spots folder is where AdMaster stores the commercial audio files downloaded from the cloud.

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In this example, we're using the ads folder on the C drive.

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Next, the AdMaster Traffic Log folder is where AdMaster saves

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the hourly log files that mairList will import.

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We are using this traffic logs folder on the C drive.

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Finally, the Playout software broadcast log folder points to mairList's logging directory

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so AdMaster can perform reconciliation.

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No need to create the separate log for this.

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The default mairList log will do just fine.

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The default path is typically in the mairList subfolder in the ProgramData folder.

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Note that this folder is hidden in Windows by default,

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so you'll need to turn on displaying the hidden files in the File Explorer.

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Once you've made these selections,

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the download of spots and traffic log files will begin immediately.

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Now that the AdMaster side is configured, let's move on to mAirList.

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Open the mAirList Database application.

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From the Administration menu, select Advertising Settings.

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First, set the "Number of available blocks" to 2.

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This will create "Block 1" and "Block 2" in the list on the left.

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Select Block 1.

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In the "General" tab, make sure the "Source" is set to "Import Source 1",

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then click the Configure button.

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This opens the "Configure Playlist Import" window.

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In this window, you need to set the following options precisely.

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Set the Import source to File.

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For the File format, choose TPI Text Playlist Import File.

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The File style should be set to One file per hour.

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The Source folder should be the AdMaster traffic logs folder

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you set in the AdMaster Desktop client app.

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This setting is critical, so make sure you selected the right folder.

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For the Filename format, enter the string that you see on the screen.

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Pause the video playback, or check the description below the video to copy-paste the code.

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The Split block by setting should be on Automatic.

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This is the key setting that allows mairList to read the single hourly file

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and automatically separate the ads into Block 1 and Block 2.

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Lastly, set the Default item type to Advertising.

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Click OK to close the configuration window.

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You do not need to repeat this for the second block.

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Simply select Block 2 and verify that its "Source" is also set to "Import Source 1".

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Finally, go to the Container tab for each block,

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check "Always create a container," and set the Artist and Type to "Advertising".

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This will group the commercials neatly in the playlist.

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Once you have configured everything, click OK to save the changes.

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The next step is to tell mAirList when to schedule these blocks.

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We do this using Hour Templates.

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From the Administration menu, go to Manage Templates.

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We are using a "Default Clock" for all hours of the week.

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You're probably using more of them,

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and you'll need to open each and every one of them, and add the commercial breaks

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to the positions where you want them to be played.

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Inside the Hour Template, you place items that will make up your hour's programming.

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In our template, it's currently only music and station ID's.

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To insert a commercial break, you add an Advertising item from the list on the left.

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When you add the Advertising item, you must assign it to one of the blocks we defined earlier.

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For the first break, we'll select "Block 1" from the dropdown menu.

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We will then add the second "Advertising" item and assign it to "Block 2" to create our 2nd break.

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Make sure that the container creation is turned off in these settings.

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Once the Hour Template is saved, we need to generate the playlist.

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Do this as usual.

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When it's done, open the playlist tab and check if the commercial breaks are added to your playlist.

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At the position of "Block 1" and "Block 2",

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mAirList automatically finds the corresponding traffic log file exported by AdMaster and inserts the scheduled spots.

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As you can see, the block is now filled with the commercials,

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complete with their intro and outro jingles.

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Congratulations!

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You've successfully integrated AdMaster Cloud with mAirList.

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For any assistance that you may need, feel free to contact our support team.

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Happy broadcasting!