GUIDELINES FOR IMPORTING TRAFFIC AND MUSIC LOGS

WireReady systems can import any ASCII text file that has 
at minimum the matching cart name or number in a column 
somewhere in the text file.  Any 1-8 character 
alphanumeric name/number is accepted.   On the same line 
as each cart name or number, an airtime is also strongly 
preferred.   The airtime can be in military or civilian 
time format with colons.   For example 23:59:00 would be 
acceptable, as would 11:59:00 p or 11:59:00 pm   These 
columns can be located anywhere in the file, and other 
extraneous information is automatically ignored by our 
program.  The a/p am/pm notation used with civilian time 
can abut or be located any number of spaces away from the 
time.   Every audio cut in the log does not have to have a 
full time.   For example

500		11:59:00
1100	        :59:30
600		

Would all be acceptable, as the WireReady software will 
remember it's the 11 hour, even if that value doesn't 
repeat.  In general we hold the last HH, MM, or SS of the 
previous read-in audio cut, if the full time doesn't 
appear on every cut within a break, and that will not hurt 
anything.   If partial times are used though, they should 
still line up in their respective columns.

Our import engine will automatically ignore lines that 
have other non-audio play data, so a washed report is not 
necessary.  Many stations redirect their printed logs to a 
file and that works fine.

If you need more information, please see importing traffic 
logs on our web site.  Go to tech support, online 
documentation, controlready/musicready, and click on:  
AUTO-LOG.TXT Working with traffic, music and confirmation 
logs.