Director

📄️List break kinds

Every kind of break you have written, switched on or not, in your own order

📄️Create break kind

Writes a new kind of break. Nothing airs it until it is switched on and a band on the format clock names it

📄️Update break kind

Rewrites one kind of break. Its key cannot change. A break already written keeps the words it was given

📄️Delete break kind

Removes a kind of break. Refused while a band on the format clock still names it

📄️Export break kinds

Every kind of break you have written, as one file

📄️Preview break kind import

Reads a file and reports what importing it would create, rewrite, skip and refuse. Writes nothing

📄️Import break kinds

Writes a file into this station and answers with what it did. Every kind it writes arrives switched off

📄️List clock bands

Every band on this station's clock, including the ones switched off, in the operator's own order

📄️Create clock band

Adds a band. It claims its first boundary on the next commit pass

📄️Update clock band

Rewrites one band. Breaks it has already planted stay where they are: the running order is the memory

📄️Delete clock band

Removes a band, which costs it the boundaries it had not claimed yet and nothing else

📄️Get station air

What the station is airing, and whether it is driving at all

📄️Put the station on air

Puts the station on air, building the running order from a playlist read at this moment. What is playing finishes: changing the programming is not a reason to cut a listener off mid-track

📄️Set the air mode

Changes what puts the station on air: only while somebody is listening, or whenever there is a programme. Takes effect at once rather than at the next boundary

📄️Get the running order

The live running order, item by item, each saying where it has got to

📄️Recast the broadcast

Changes who is presenting this broadcast. Breaks already written for it in the outgoing character are written again in the new one

📄️Extend the running order

Queues a refill and returns at once. Generating a set walks the catalog, and an operator pressing a button should not be held open through it

Queues a fresh set for everything the player is not already holding, and swaps it in once it exists. The old tail keeps playing until then, because emptying the running order first would take the station off air while the model was still choosing

📄️Request a break

Asks the station to say something now rather than when the format clock next calls for it: the news, the weather, a word from the host. The director decides where it goes. A decline is answered rather than thrown, with the station's reason, because "breaks are off" and "it was asked for a moment ago" are things the person pressing the button needs to read

📄️Preview an artist route

Finds a route from one artist to another through artists the library holds, and says how each stop connects to the one before. Nothing goes on air: this is what a route would be

📄️Hold the station against the schedule

Holds the running order against the schedule, so a block boundary does not take back what an operator put on. A takeover is otherwise stamped with whichever slot was in force and is replaced when that block ends, which is correct and gives nobody any warning

📄️Release the station to the schedule

Releases a hold, so the next block boundary changes the station over as it ordinarily would. A station with no hold is unchanged rather than refused

📄️Keep the station quiet

Keeps the station's own breaks off the air for the next so many records, and takes out the ones already planned across them. Asking again replaces the count

📄️End the quiet spell

Ends a quiet spell now, so the station talks again at its next break. A station that is not quiet is unchanged rather than refused

📄️Shuffle the running order

Shuffles the records not yet handed to the player, and plants the breaks again around the new sequence. The head is already in the player's hands and is left alone

📄️Add a segment to the running order

Puts something the station says into the running order. A segment with no audio yet is refused here rather than accepted and skipped when it comes round, so an operator is told why it cannot play

📄️Add a record to the running order

Puts a catalog record into the running order. A record whose audio is not local yet is refused here rather than accepted and held or skipped when its slot comes round, so an operator asking for a specific one is told why it cannot play. What makes this worth having on its own is undo: dropping an item only ever marks a segment, but a track is spliced out of the order entirely, so nothing could put one back until this existed

📄️Move a running order item

Moves an item. A position already handed to the player is refused rather than clamped

📄️Remove a running order item

Drops an item that has not been handed to the player yet

📄️Write a running order break again

Writes a break still to come again from nothing: its words, and any audio already made of them, are thrown away and the station writes it afresh as its slot nears, under whoever is presenting by then. Reaches a break that failed to be written, which nothing else retries, so a break that had nothing to say can be asked again after the phrasings change or the model is switched on. Only a break the station wrote itself and has not handed to the player, and never one turn of a programme on its own

📄️Skip to a running order item

Makes a record further down the running order the next thing heard. Everything still to come in front of it is marked skipped, anything the player was already holding from in front of it is taken back, and the item on air is cut. Only a record can be skipped to, and only one still to come