I've wished for something like that!
During a live show you could have sound effects, voice drop-ins, little music bumpers, commercials and of course jingles.
Gotta have one.
Oh wait, I don't do a live show.
I downloaded it and toyed with it a few minutes. It's actually pretty nice. It's a 8mb download, and came preloaded with a bunch of jingles and some sound effects, making it real easy to get the feel of it right off the bat.
Loading your own files is simple, you just left click a button to assign a sound file to it, in the same way you can also assign volume levels for each individual jingle or sound effect, as well as set it to play as a loop or not.
You can load an umlimited number of audio files, with 30 buttons on each pallette.. then you name and select the palletes so with a simple click you can pull up that board of 30 jingles.
It has the abilty to play files from a remote URL locations, and you can configure a time announce feature along with a jingle delay at a particular time.. Not sure how that would be useful for this application, but it's there.
There's a help file included in the program under the settings tab, but I doubt anyone would need to read it, since the program it is compleatly self explanitory.
It feels so lightweight and I checked the taskmager while running it and the program uses next to nothing in system resources.
And Carl, I checked the documentation and it does not require that you to do a live show to utilize this program, however, you yourself must be live to press the buttons, otherwise it won't work.
Very cool! Very similar to a hardware player I own, the Kowa PX10
http://radiomagonline.com/studio_audio/recording/radio_kowa_px/
Its a great bit of software. I have been using it for years now and had no problems with it.
That PX10 looks nice. I'd much prefer hardware solutions over software, but I imagine something like that PX10 cost a pretty penny.
I have seen simular type units on ebay before.. one of these days I'll get one, but for the meantime this freebie lightweght software fits the bill just fine!