Get playout status
What the station is playing and what is queued behind it. The console polls this
Play a playlist
Loads a plugin playlist into the running order and starts handing it to the player. Replaces whatever was queued; what is on air finishes rather than being cut off
Play a station playlist
Loads a playlist the station owns into the running order and starts handing it to the player. The same replacement a plugin playlist makes, from records the library already holds
Play an album
Plays an album the library holds, whole and in the order it was made: by disc, then by track. A feature, so no breaks and no blends between its records, and what is on air finishes rather than being cut off. It stops at the end of the album, or when the schedule's next block starts
Play a chart
Builds the running order from a published chart and starts handing it to the player. The same replacement a playlist makes, from a document somebody else ranked
Skip the current item
Ends the item on air so the next one starts immediately. The station owns the decoder, so this lands at once rather than waiting out audio already committed to a player
Start playout
Puts the station back on air with the running order it already has, picking it up where Stop left it. Distinct from putting a playlist on air, which builds a new broadcast and throws away what was there. Refused when there is nothing left to resume
Stop playout
Stands the station down: stops what is on air at once and hands the mount back. The running order is LEFT as it is, so /playout/start can pick it up where this stopped it. deadair holds the mount on a lease it renews while it has something to play, so stopping goes quiet rather than falling through to a bed nobody programmed