Intent of Auto Intro

[NickPollock]

I’m wanting to establish Auto Intro for specific purposes, those are for specific track condition, for example; I use a formula of programming in such a way where the Genre is the top music category, M_Rock, M_Pop, M_Accoustic, M_Smooth. Under those Genre libraries are sub-categories based on specific sections of the library, such as under M_Rock we have Rock_70s80s, and Rock_90s.

What my question is regarding Auto Intro is. Should the file being used for Auto Intro be a file type set as a “Sweeper”? in the help menu you refer to the term “Jingle”, not “Sweeper”, yet to use an Auto Intro condition it must be a sweeper set as a file type set as a Voice Track.

Let’s look at “Position On Track”, should that have two rows in the conditions, Not one? Why this matters is because it would then determine the length of the Auto Intro. To put this in a real world situation, you have a 7 second introduction to a song “Sweeper”, you’d need to condition the Auto Intro to play a “Sweeper” at the desired intro length of the track, or does it play between the “Outro” of the previous track into the Intro point marker of the next track?

 

[djsoft]

What my question is regarding Auto Intro is. Should the file being used for Auto Intro be a file type set as a “Sweeper”? in the help menu you refer to the term “Jingle”, not “Sweeper”, yet to use an Auto Intro condition it must be a sweeper set as a file type set as a Voice Track.

Intros (music files) that play via the Auto Intro feature can be of any file type, as it's not checked and no file type parameters are applied for the intro.

Let’s look at “Position On Track”, should that have two rows in the conditions, Not one?

"Position on track" controls where the intro will play. Conditions control if it will be played at all. Those two are not related.

To put this in a real world situation, you have a 7 second introduction to a song “Sweeper”, you’d need to condition the Auto Intro to play a “Sweeper” at the desired intro length of the track, or does it play between the “Outro” of the previous track into the Intro point marker of the next track?

Currently it would just select any intro file that passes the filters (the "Filter..." button when you edit the auto intro rule). It has one option that the intro file must fit available audio space - and that depends on "Position on track" configuration. For example, if you set "End at: Fade In" then available space would be = music track's fade in point minus track's start point.