Synchronising Data
PlayIt Live data can be remotely managed and synchronised to multiple PlayIt Live instances by using PlayIt Manager. PlayIt Manager can be downloaded from https://www.playitsoftware.com/Products/Manager. Details on how to use PlayIt Manager can be found on that page.
PlayIt Live can connect to PlayIt Manager via a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). This is the base web address of your PlayIt Manager instance. For example: http://<server name goes here>:25432. For more information on how to connect to PlayIt Manager, see the Connect PlayIt Live page on PlayIt Manager.
When PlayIt Live connects to PlayIt Manager, it switches to using a separate 'synced' database to the normal 'local' PlayIt Live database to store the remote data. When you first connect, you may notice all your tracks 'disappear'. This happens as you will now be using the empty 'synced' database instead of the 'local' one. While PlayIt Live is connected to PlayIt Manager it synchronises changes and applies them to the database. This process will populate the data to match the ones seen on PlayIt Manager. When changes are made to PlayIt Manager the same changes will immediately be applied to PlayIt Live.
When you disconnect PlayIt Live from PlayIt Manager, it will switch back to using the normal 'local' database, and your previous local data will be displayed.
If for whatever reason you notice that data is out of sync, disconnect from PlayIt Manager and connect again, except hold SHIFT while clicking the Connect button to clear you synced data and resync from scratch.
While connected to PlayIt Manager it is not possible to manage PlayIt Live data directly from PlayIt Live. The only exception to this is the playout log - modifications made to the playout log via the main window will be synced to PlayIt Manager.
Track path substitutions
When PlayIt Live is connected to PlayIt Manager it will be using tracks that were added to PlayIt Manager. If PlayIt Manager is installed on a different machine to PlayIt Live, the track files added to PlayIt Manager will not be present on the PlayIt Live machine. In order to resolve this problem, PlayIt Manager has track path substitutions which can be configured from the Settings page on PlayIt Manager. These are designed to substitute parts of the file path on the PlayIt Manager server with a file path that can be accessed by the PlayIt Live machine.
For example, the audio store on PlayIt Manager is C:\ProgramData\PlayIt Manager\AudioStore. A network share can be created by going to the folder properties and creating a share via Advanced Sharing...
This will enable other machines on the network to access the audio files on the PlayIt Manager machine. On PlayIt Manager you should then add a track path substitution of:
From: C:\ProgramData\PlayIt Manager\AudioStore
To: \\SERVER\AudioStore$
When track data is synchronised to PlayIt Live, the track path substitutions will be applied when loading tracks for playout.