[ItalianAce]

Anyone ever find a way to play jingles in rotation with music on Ipod or mp3 player or a device like it? For private use at home/work of course. Like being able to play one song from your music playlist and one song from your jingle collection. Kind of give it a “real radio station” feel when listening. If you have a set of say KHJ or WABC jingles and like to rotate them every other song into your shuffling It seems all I ever found were apps or media players or portable media players that had random (mindless) shuffle so youll hear fifteen songs before hearing a jingle or hear three jingls before hearing five songs. The shuffle and shuffle options on most mp3/ipod players are horrible and Windows Media and Real Player isn’t any better. If not, it’d be a cool idea. Have the device or app play one song from Playlist A, then play one song from your jingle playlist (Playlist , then back to playlist A for another and so back and forth. Yeah, it might sound silly, but it is a unique way to play music with jingles.

[GrahamCollins]

Don’t know anything that meshes two separate playlists….. defeats the point of having a playlist !

I did once toy with doing something like this with 6000 songs and 2000 jingles but came to the conclusion that random jingles into random songs (my taste is eclectic to say the least) just does not work or sound good – great care should be taken to match IDs to the music to make it seamless and flow.

If you still want to try, I suggest that you put copies of all your jingles and music tracks in one folder and if the number of tunes is similar to the number of IDs then you should get them to play almost alternately on shuffle mode. All files need to play individually, no cross-fading or you’ll miss the start of the new one at each junction. iTunes is not clever enough to start one track whilst intelligently fading out the first….

[ItalianAce]

Hi ya,

Thanks, I’ll probably do that. Even a playlist out with 75 percent jingles out of the 100 percent music. (2 or 3 jingles for every four songs). So the rotation will fairly even for playing (I wont hear six jingles at once, so on). Yeah, I keep my jingles in folders to that which fits the music (Oldies to Oldies, and so on). But I hear ya. Hearing an 80s neon rad Jingle for KISS-FM Top 40 doesnt go well with music from the 40s.

I experimented with the crossfade thing, and it doesnt really work unless the jingle is joined to the song itself (mp3 editing). I’ll mess around with it and see. These days I pretty much listen to just mp3 or HD2 as FM radio music wise is more geared for the 18-25, and the few stations that are in my age range (35 years old) plays the same “safe” 200-300 songs so I just use portable mp3 player now. Something I didnt have in 1993 as a 13 year old lol. We had AM/FM and recording was limited to audio cassette and that was about it. The technology to download/buy/seek out 100-500 songs and put it on a mini-sd card, and rotate shuffle on your own media device wasn’t there. Too bad there wasn’t an option (yet) on a mp3 device that can go to Folder A play one song, jump to Folder B and play a song (jingle), and back to Player A. Or routate Three folders in shuffle but consecative order. See…this is what happens when you’re a radio fanatics lolol…our brains think of this stuff that the non-radio person goes “WTF…you collect jingles that are radio station giving a call sign and frequency to music…why?” lol. Thanks for the reply, apperciated.

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