8.1 Importing a 3rd Party Playlist (v.5.x)

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Last updated: Jun 12, 2024 by Manuel Grund
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just:play allows you to import plain text Playlists in any standard delimited format such as comma-separated values (.CSV), tab, colon, semicolon, or pipe (“|”) separated values.

Importing a Plain-Text Playlist

  1. Go to the menu “File → Import Text (CSV) Playlist”.

  2. The “Import” dialog shows up.

     

  • Text Encoding: Select the appropriate encoding. You may select from “ASCII”, “Japanese EUC”, “UTF-8,” “ISO Latin 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1)”, “ISO Latin 2 (ISO/IEC 8859-2)”, “Shift JIS”, “UFT-16 (Unicode)”, “Windows Cyrillic”, “Windows Latin 1”, “Windows Latin 2”, “Windows Greek”, “Windows Turkish”, ”ISO 2022 Japanese” and “macOS Roman” encoding.

  • Delimiter: Select the Delimiter.

  • Quoted Strings: Enable this option if the content of the imported Playlist is in quotes.

Within the text file one or more columns of data may be defined, and these columns can be mapped to Full Path, Path Only and File Only when importing.

  • Full Path: Only one column of data is required, which contains the complete path and filename of the clip to play.

  • Path Only/Filename Only Column: Two columns of data are required, where the first defines the path and the second defines the filename of the clip. Together, these define the full path of the clip to Playout, such as “/Volumes/…/" and "Example.mov” to give the full path “/Volumes/…/Example.mov”.

  • Column Settings: If there are additional fields in the imported data, you can define if these columns should be used as labels for the contents of the just:play Workbench.

  • Duration Column: If the length of the Videos is already known, a column with the duration of the Videos can be added to the text file and selected here. If the Video can be found during import and the length of the Video is defined in the Playlist, the length defined in the Playlist will be taken. If the Video can be found during the import process and the length of the Video is NOT defined in the Playlist, the length of the Video will be taken. If the Video is not available, the defined length will be taken, or a default of “30” seconds, if no length column is available.

  • Ignore First Row: Enable this option if the first row of data specifies the names of the columns of data rather than actual data.

Click on the “Import” button. A Playlist with the appropriate content will be saved in the Playlist Repository folder. If any of the clips in the Playlist are not found during the import process, they will be listed in the Import Log.

To import a Just Out As-Run Log you must select the “UTF-8” format. Do not select ASCII.

When using Apple's TextEdit application to build the Playlist, make sure the text file is saved in “Plain Text” (menu Format → Make Plain Text).

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