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WHAT IS A TAG?
Tagging is the means by which you can assign a specific audio file to play to "announce" an individual song. Tags can only be applied to songs, but to any song in your library. It can be a forward announcement: "This song is called…." or a Backward Announcement: "That song was…". There are two types of tags: General Song Tags and Announcer Song Tags. General Song Tags can be forward and Backward Announcements. Announcer Song tags can only be forward announcements. General Song Tags are recorded in the general voice you use for all your automation, Announcer Song Tags are used when you are using simulated live announcers and recorded in each unique announcers voice.
So we have three distinct categories of tag's:
ANNOUNCER SONG TAG (Forward) - Recorded in the voice of a specific hours announcer. A Forward tag is a prior tag i.e. "This is". Represented in the format by TAGAF.
TAGS - GENERAL (Forward) - Recorded in the general single voice used for all the automation. A Forward tag is a prior tag i.e. "This is". Represented in the format TAGGF.
TAGS - GENERAL (Back) - Recorded in the general single voice used for all the automation. A Backward tag is an after tag i.e. "That Was". Represented in the format by TAGGB.
Each song can have any of the three or all three available to it (the three types of audio tags are stored by robot in different folders making this possible). However, regardless of whether a tag (or all three tags) exist for any particular song, tags are only played if a tag command (eg. a TAGAF item) is placed in the format in the block corresponding to the song.
STEP 1: Prepare the Audio
Before you can use tag commands in the format you need to set up some tag audio. You can record an announcement for every song, or just some of the songs you wish to tag (you may for example only want to tag the songs from one particular song group). Because tag's will only be played if the command to play them is also placed in the format you may decide to only record tags for the music covered in the hours with tag commands (eg. TAGGF) in them. If you are only playing music from one unique group during these hours, there is also little point in tagging every single song in your library in the other groups. You also may only wish certain songs to be announced to save having to tag every single song file in your library from scratch (for example new release songs as they come to hand). This will also work: even if you put tag commands into the format of every single hour of every day: if there is a tag command (eg. TAGGF) and no tag exists for the song playing, whilst naturally you will not hear a tag announcement, robot will simply ignore the command.
Recording The Audio
You can either record the tag announcements using a separate editor (in which case you would be "importing" them as tags from a hard drive folder on the left side of the library screen) or use the Quick Record function on the Library screen (in which case you would be "Quick Recording them"). In either case, the filename is not important as it will be changed automatically when applied as a tag. Decide what type of tag you would like to apply to the song (remember each song can have all three types, but you may only be using one type of tag command such as TAGGF in your format--not much point in giving each song all 3 types if your not then going to use them in the format!). Prepare the audio for the tag for the song in question (either for import or with Quick Record) using the chart below:
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