Pause a Show
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Category: Aurora Sequencer Software
Forum Name: Feature Requests
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URL: http://www.aurorashow.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=613
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Topic: Pause a Show
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Subject: Pause a Show
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 4:02pm
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I'd like to be able to pause a show and make a announcement without it restarting all over. I've had a few people watching the show lately that have had their music up a tad bit on the loud side. I'd like to be able to pause my show for 10 second and kindly tell them to turn it down. Especially when they have 3 kids in the car and I can just about hear the words from the song in my house.
------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
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Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 5:33pm
Just patch in a micorphone to the show computer, turn the music down from your system tray and say "Oi, I can see and hear you, turn the music down"
That would scare the pants off them, almost ghost like
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Posted By: deweycooter
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 6:03pm
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Actually - I like the idea of being able to jump fwd / back or even to a specific sequence in the show instead of having to stop change the order... Toward the lower end of the priority list though. :) ------------- http://www.deweycooter.com/wiki/index.php/Aurora - Aurora Lights Wiki http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: Slinkard
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 8:17pm
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Aye, I'm with dewey on that. being able to minipulate the show in the scheduler w/o shutting it down would be a very useful feature for me. I take request in the front yard with my Iphone and I have to stop the show everytime then switch over to Aurora Seq to play there song.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 9:46pm
Edited: Not recommended to do per reasons below ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 9:53pm
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Chris,
While you are correct in that Borealis is designed as you described, some users inexplicably get a BOF/EOF error when attempting the procedure you describe. I haven't been able to replicate the circumstances which lead to the error (it's as if the ADO recordset is going out of scope... which makes no sense since it is a global object). Until that is fixed, the "official" word is that Borealis must be stopped before editing any schedules. Borealis actually does contain a "insert into playlist now" feature as well as skip forward/back features, but those have been disabled until the BOF/EOF error can be sorted out. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: bdkeen
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 9:53pm
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I've also had a few times it would be nice to pause rather than restart.. I've got a couple of handly little announcements I made using AT&T's text to speech demo (free online) and I just pop them up in Media Player.. lower the volume in for Borealis a little and give Media player full volume (since Vista lets you control sound from applications independently). Haven't had too many times I needed to use them but have them handy on the desktop just in case. ------------- 
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 10:17pm
I learn something new everyday.......I'm such a Vista Newbie....  ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |