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DIGILINK 2 MANUAL?

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HoosierNtheKnow

I really need to find a copy of the manual for the DigiLInk II system! I specifically need to find out how to re-activate recognition of start/stop dates for commercials!!! Can anyone help?
 
If you downloaded the software, the manual should be in the "Help" section as it was with the ORIGINAL Digilink Automation--a quick trip to their site turned up nothing of any help--perhaps a call to Arrakis might help...
 
I'm remembering it is a one-line setting "use kill dates" or something like that, and it would be found if you drill down on the left side of the screen. There's a whole list of settings.

I have a DG II book and can look tomorrow if you'll remind me. [email protected]
 
If you drill down into settings on the left and get to the options screen, there will be a field about using kill dates. Set it to Y and restart the system.

I haven't used one of those monsters in about 15 years. I feel for you.
 
We recently upgraded to windows-based automation, and there's a part of me that really misses Digilink. It does some things very reliably much better than the new systems.

The biggest reason for offloading the old systems was that with five stations in one building, it was getting damned difficult to dub each new spot five times in real time. There were other issues with Digilinks but I would have a difficult time finding fault with the software.

Even posting this is bringing new tears to my eyes.
 
Digilink was a beast at running satellite... But it sucked for music on hard drive automation.

It was a tank as far as satellite went, though.
 
I'm running it for music & audio from Hard Drive & don't experience any problems--what kind of issues did you experience?
 
Music problems... It sounded like crap due to the compression. No Voicetracking. Had to build index on every reboot before it could play audio.

I can't see any reason why anyone would be trying to use something so old and limited for music on hard drive. Even back in its 'glory days' and with Digilink 3, they really tried to shy you away from music on hard drive.

I'm glad you aren't having issues, but I did and I was SO happy to eliminate them from my life.
 
Of course you don't need to use compression, but you're right about indexing. Can take a long time when needed, which is every once in a while even when you're just playing spots and liners. And defrag isn't something you can do without taking the system off line for 30 minutes.

Digilink was a great product in its time, and some of the operational features have still never been duplicated in any current windows-based system (including their own Digilink Extreme). But multi-station clusters can't live with the labor-intensive dubbing and lack of ability to use a server for the audio files.

The Digilink III had more features than the II, but was not as stable in my experience.
 
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