Thank you very much for RedCast, I have been using it for the past 3 years at a local TV station with 24/7 broadcasting in live shows and scheduled programs.
It has been a very reliable tool, very stable, no nonsense, just the right amount of customisation and settings necessary. I was so afraid that at one point RedCast would be forgotten or discontinued that I made several backups, locally, cloud, and on some physical storage just to have it for future use...
So I was genuinely happy to se that Plycast takes RedCast into a more modern approach...but you have to bring back the daily playlist (or daily template, i guess) back into Plycast as well. It is the backbone of a broadcasting palyout program. And I was happy to see that it's called template instead of playlist, at first, when I first opened the new Plycast, because I was hopping that there is finally a way of making daily templates, but it's not the case.
So after 3 years of using RedCast on a daily basis, if you guys can pack as manny good features from RedCast in Plycast that would be truly awesome, but it is necessary that you have a daily playlist function and a daily template.
By daily template I mean, each day of the week should have a preset program with fixed positions, but not run times, and each position, a name and a watch folder with options to run either the newest file in the folder, or a dropdown with the available files in the folder, a date picker and a save button. The way it would work is that the master template creates the daily template automatically. So when you create a master template for Monday for example you can generate a daily template for that day based on those watchfolders contents. In addition to that if a daily template is not present before a specific time, it should make one based on the master template, last file in the watchfolders.
There was also a goo function in RedCast that didn't work that well, but was a very good ideea, the autostart. As I understood, if a daily list is present, it should autostart from where it was las scheduled to play, but somehow it never worked as I was hopping it would. But it was a very good ideea that if you have a schedule and the playout server restarts it should continue from where the schedule is supposed to be like it was still running in the background this whole time the computer was off.
I am not an expert at programming but I am not a noob either, I am willing to help with what I can to make this software better...It's the least I can do for using it the last 3 years for free.
Many thanks again for this awesome software!
