Myriad Playout

Myriad Playout

About Cart Numbers / CutIDs
You do not have necessarily to have any defined Cart Numbers for Myriad to import from a MyLibrary CSV Export - However, it is advisable as once you've assigned a Cart Number and sent the file to Myriad, if a matching filename appears later on (such as from a compilation album) it will have a Cart Number as well as all the other attributes. This would alert you to a potential duplicate in the playout system (or your music library).

Myriad v5/v6 Multi-Field TSV and XML
This is a tabbed-text file and similar to the older style used by v4. Not all fields are required/exported - and MyLibrary will only output the fields that have a value. With regards Intro1/2/3 in MyLibrary, the highest Intro Marker will be used.

The contents of an accompanying Myriad XML file can also be seen in the Show Tags for this File right-click menu.

file title artist1 album item type category year cutid audiostartms audioendms introstartms introendms hookstartms hookendms extroms endtype issweeper
C:\SONGS\10CC - DREADLOCK HOLIDAY.wav DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC Song Imported 1978 12345 0 266843 0 18341 0 0 259029 Fades

The following shows an example of the XML format - some fields are obtained from MyLibrary during export, others are fixed:

<mediaItem contentType="AudioFile" type="song">
<mediaId>12345</mediaId>
<revision>5</revision>
<title>
    <title><![CDATA[DANCING QUEEN]]></title>
</title>
<artists>
    <artist index="1">
      <name><![CDATA[ABBA]]></name>
    </artist>
</artists>
<categoryName>Imported</categoryName>
<itemAttributes>
    <itemAttribute stationId="0" type="Category" index="1">
    <number>7</number>
    </itemAttribute>
</itemAttributes>
<firstReleaseYear>1976</firstReleaseYear>
<timings>
    <mediaLength>
      <end>00:03:47.4800000</end>
    </mediaLength>
    <intro>
      <end>00:00:19.2140000</end>
    </intro>
    <hook>
      <start>00:01:25.1940000</start>
      <end>00:01:35.6770000</end>
    </hook>
    <extro>
      <start>00:03:38.6310000</start>
    </extro>
    <totalLength>00:03:47.4800000</totalLength>
</timings>
<copyright>
    <startOffset>00:00:00</startOffset>
    <custom index= "1">70S/AC1/ACHITS/DISCO</custom>
    <custom index="2">O:Opener/E:Fade//Y:1976/G:Group/T:Medium</custom>
</copyright>
<ending>Fade</ending>
<created>2025-12-10T10:44:21.00Z>/created>
<lastModified>2025-12-10T10:44:21.000Z</lastModified>
</mediaItem>

Using either Myriad's AutoImporter or the Media Import Wizard, you can override some of the exported defaults (such as Category, Item Type).

The Custom 1 field is a string of all the assigned Genres/Styles. The Custom 2 field currently merges the following properties: Opener, EndType, Year, Gender and Tempo (with appropriate prefixes). This can be helpful when managing data within AutoTrack, eg: find all tracks with a "Talkup" opener which can then be set as a Song "Type" in AutoTrack. This allows you to specify an A-List song with a "Type" as a "Talkup" meaning the song has a significant intro time for voice-tracking. An actual "Opener" value could be used at the top of hour or out of ad-breaks for a high impact return to music.

The Library Actions page details a new SQL Update generator for putting updated information into an existing Myriad v5 database - and this is to be used with care!

Myriad Transport File
A Myriad Transport file is a ZIP file containing audio and meta-data allowing you to move a Mediawall item from one system to another whilst preserving the name+timing information. The ZIP file is named CART-ARTIST-TITLE.zip enabling the Media AutoImporter to ingest them automatically into the same MediaID value as MyLibrary's Cart field.

The audio MUST be a WAV file. If MP3, the Extro defaults to "auto-detect" (as per your Station Database settings). This could be related to the "FormatType" parameter or your global Mediawall config (WAV vs MP3). As linear WAV is typically used for playout systems, I've yet to see what an MP3 export looks like!

To create the Transport File, you must first export the relevant XML file/s. These will be placed alongside your audio file as will the resulting Transport File. The AutoImporter can read the Cart-Number portion of the filename when deciding where to place it on the target Myriad Mediawall.

Myriad CartChunk
The CartChunk PostTimer values are the same across versions but some of the "extra" data within the Chunk may vary between major Myriad versions.

AUDs - CueIn
INTe - Intro 1
SEG1 - Segue/Extro
MRK1 - Hook In
MRK2 - Hook Out

Myriad v3/v4 Legacy Support
The following relates to the older v3+v4 software from PSquared (aka Broadcast Radio). Their current product is v6, which is detailed above.

Myriad v3/v4 Bug Alert - In older versions (3.6.3, 3.6.6 and 4.0.14) there appears to be an issue with importing Intro+Segue timings using the CSV files - The Artist, Title, EndType and Content/Genre import OK but the Segue icon shows a warning sign (exclamation mark). v3.6.2 is OK as is v4.0.15 onwards. For users of the last few v4 releases - this is NOT an issue for you.

AutoTrack v4 Issue - When you import an XLS spreadsheet into AutoTrack v4.x, the "sheet" must be named Sheet1. If you've converted it from a CSV/TXT, the sheet is generally titled as per the filename - which doesn't appear to work. AutoTrack v3 did not have this "bug". This is no longer an issue with the current AutoTrackSE product.

In addition to the WAV CartChunk tag, you can also import a selection of songs using Myriad's Import Wizard by offering it a CSV file containing your song data. This is an example of the format used:

Cart,Title,Artist1,TrimStart,IntroEnd,HookStart,HookEnd,Extro,EndType,FileName,ContentType,Genre
28808,GOLD ON THE CEILING,BLACK KEYS,0.00,27.90,64.96,72.90,217.95,End,C:\My Music\BLACK KEYS - GOLD ON THE CEILING.mp3,Music,Pop

Due to the delmiter used - you must not have any commas in your Artist/Title/Filename!

When importing into Myriad, the AudioStart refers to the CueIn from MyLibrary - if this is set, there is an Import Wizard option to trim the audio to this marker, ie: delete all audio before that cue point. In most cases, you would want this to happen.

Myriad Audio Single CSV - to accompany each audio file
The single CSV file accompanies an audio file and allows you to specify ContentType+Genre which some v3 versions of Myriad did not allow you to specify via the CSV Import List.

CutID,Title,Artist,TrimStart,IntroEnd,HookStart,HookEnd,Extro,EndType,ContentType,Genre
28808,GOLD ON THE CEILING,BLACK KEYS,0.00,27.90,64.96,72.90,217.95,End,Music,10s

Myriad Audio CSV - for Advanced Tools Pack (a legacy v3 utility)
With this export option, you can create a CSV list of songs with override information for your Myriad Audiowall. A good example of this feature is "slipstreaming" new cue data (such as Hooks) into your Myriad system as well as correcting bad intro/segue points. This makes it possible to import songs into Myriad but later update their Intro/Hook/Segue markers having set them in MyLibrary - which not only offers a faster way of tagging the files but can be done at home or any computer where you have a copy of the audio tracks (they don't even need to be in Cart filename format!). So long as you have the JMD files that preserve the filename-vs-cart-number, it's easy to manage a Myriad system away from your studio.

Cart,Title,Artist1,AudioStart,IntroEnd,HookStart,HookEnd,Extro,EndType
28808,GOLD ON THE CEILING,BLACK KEYS,0.00,27.90,64.96,72.90,217.95,E