Common Advanced Properties - Black Box iCompel ICOMP-ICC User Manual

3. Understanding Media Types
The following specific properties apply to folders in a playlist:
Media Check the box to enable the relevant media player for the zone.
Management Check the Management box to enable ad hoc management of this folder.
If the ad hoc user places files in the indicated ad hoc media folder, the player plays them instead of those
in the current folder. If there are no suitable files in the ad hoc media folder, the player plays the files in the
current folder.
Item Selection Choose the properties that specify how you want the player to choose from and sequence the files:
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Item Synchronization If you need to synchronize between zones, select the appropriate option for your synchronization strategy:
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You can combine folder play properties to create complex sequences to meet specific requirements. For example, you may
wish to set up a playlist that showed a sequence of music videos in a fixed order, and between each video show two randomly
selected advertisements followed by a corporate logo for a fixed time.
To create this sequence of folders, follow these steps:
1. Create three folders on the iCC as follows:
Music
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Advertisements
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Logo
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2. Upload videos into the Music folder. Rename the video files as necessary to create the play order you want (for example,
'A Summer in the city.mpg, B Be my girl.mpg', and so on).
3. Upload the advertisements into the Advertisements folder.
4. Upload the logo into the Logo folder.
5. Create a playlist as follows:
Add the Music folder to the playlist (set to play all items sequentially).
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Add the Advertisements folder to the playlist (set to play only the first two items randomly).
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Add the logo image as an individual file (set duration 10 seconds).
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3.4.9 Common Advanced Properties

All media items have in common the set of properties present on the Advanced tab.
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Play all Items – Play all of the files.
Play only the first n items – Play just this number of files.
Play all Items in groups of n items – Jump this number of files before playing the next file.
Select items sequentially – Play files in file name order. Numbers come before letters and uppercase
characters before lowercase (for example, '1' comes before 'A' which comes before 'a').
Select items at random – Play files at random (shuffle play).
Slave - track changes to Master – The media shown in this zone is controlled from a master zone.
Master – This zone controls the media shown in a slave zone.
Synchronizing Playlist Displays Between Zones for more details.