PlayIt Software Support

I have recently been looking into plugin scripts on playIt Live and wondered if you could help me with a couple of questions I can't find the answer to:

App.LiveAssistMode.QueueTrack(track);

Is there any way to control where the track is inserted using this or a similar command? It appears to always insert after the last thing scheduled for the day. (ie if it's 13:00, there is nothing scheduled at 14:00 but there is something scheduled at 16:00 it will schedule the track after what's scheduled at 16:00).

TrackQueueItem[] queueItems = App.LiveAssistMode.GetQueueItems();

Similarly is there any effective way to get the current location using the above command. I have achieved this by iterating through the TrackQueueItems comparing the starttimes to the current time. However there is often a lot of QueueItem before the current time so this doesn't feel like an effective way of doing things.

Hi Jason thank you for your response. 

We get a news recording delivered to us once an hour which is always 1:30 long. I have imported a track to the system which has a 2 second intro on it then 1:30 of bed. Using the App.LiveAssistMode.OnPlayerStart event the plugin detects the track has started playing,copies the news file to a temporary location,loads it into a quickcart and plays it.

This approach works ok but relies on the news file always being the right length so I was looking into if it would be possible to do something similar but actually insert it into the log instead of using a quickcart.

I was also considering the idea of writing a similar plugin to play insert adverts (building some logic into the plugin to determine which adverts should be inserted depending on the day/time)

Thankyou for your advice about not using the plugin API to modify data, I had realized that this was probably the case so have avoided using the functions for inserting tracks, modifying groups etc.