New Features
Playlist Intervals: (Scheduling)
Playlist Intervals have been added to the client side SP left menu, allowing you to create endless combinations of automatic playlist scheduling with AutoDJ. With this update, any playlist including root user shared playlists can be scheduled as intervals - jingles, daily playlists, specific days, news, top songs, hourly IDs, or anything you can imagine. Clients should create jingle playlists and upload their jingles there - jingles are now treated as regular playlists as well.
This feature includes options:
Play number of songs every X minutes
Play all songs every X minutes
Play number of songs after every X songs
Play number of songs every hour at specific :MM
Play number of songs everyday at HH:MM
Play number of songs on specific days at HH:MM
Play number of songs every X Hours at :MM
and a unique optional On Air Mix
Another unique feature of this system is hourly and daily scheduling. You can schedule any playlist to play at an exact days and minutes, such as :00, which will play the playlist every hour on the exact minute :00 or at specific days. Total scheduling freedom.
One of the most unique aspects of this system is its timezone awareness and supports general scheduled playlists. The SonicPanel Playlist Interval system uses the client’s timezone, ensuring that intervals run at the exact correct minutes rather than relying on the AutoDJ process start time. Read Playlist Intervals Details
The interval features prevent songs from repeating in random mode, ensuring that the same track does not play back-to-back or too close to each other.
FTP Uploads:
This is one of the most requested features, and it is now available. All clients who have AutoDJ permission only can connect to the server via port 21 and domain of the server, using their existed SonicPanel login username and password through any FTP client software to upload/download or delete music files from their playlists. The service provides access only to playlist folders, and only valid .mp3 files or entire music folders are allowed to be uploaded. Any other file type even with .mp3 extension that is not audio will be deleted automatically.
As expected from SonicPanel quality: If the client uploads an entire folder containing .mp3 files, SonicPanel will automatically create a new playlist under the client account. The same goes for .mp3 file uploads, any uploaded/deleted .mp3 file will be detected by sonicpanel playlists/AutoDJ automatically. This playlist becomes instantly manageable from the Playlist Manager without needing to refresh the page.
Re-naming files and creating subfolders are not allowed. Each playlist has its own main folder, and only .mp3 files should be placed inside these playlist folders. Any attempt to rename a file, upload or create subfolders will be rejected by the FTP service with an error.
Deleting a main playlist folder via FTP will remove the entire playlist record from SonicPanel, along with all .mp3 files contained in it.
Client hosting space limits are enforced. If a client exceeds their available hosting space, the FTP service will disconnect during upload and return a 550 quota-exceeded error. Some FTP client software may not display this error on screen, so be sure to check the client’s hosting space limit in the root SonicPanel. Increase the limit or offer an upgrade option to the customer if necessary.
Brute-force protection is enabled by default. Multiple failed login attempts to FTP port 21 will result in a 15-minute ban. This protection can be disabled and blocked IPs can be released using SSH commands. For details, please refer to this FTP Knowledge Base Article.
