When you have several hours a day of Christmas music playing in a loop, on a low power FM radio, it is really common to wonder how to go about playing more music the rest of the day.  As long as your show PC is running Windows XP, there is a really nice free solution, called Zara Radio.  The current web page for the free version is http://www.zararadio.org.  From there, follow the link for downloads, and the very first one should be the installer for Zara Radio (most likely the 1.6.1 version)  Click on the link, and save it to your desktop, or any folder you want to keep a backup copy of the installer in. 

When you run the installer, tell it that it is OK to run the installer from an unknown publisher, and it should come back asking for the install language.  I left it as english, and clicked OK.  From there, you can click next on the welcome screen, click I accept on the license agreement, and then next.  I've always left the install folder as the default, and clicked next.  Same with the start menu folder.  It is up to you if you want it to create a desktop icon to start it.  I usually leave it out.  Then it should come back with a brief summary of what it is supposed to do in the install.  If all looks OK, just click install.  It should go pretty quickly, and come back with a click finish to install box, with the option to launch the program.  The first time you run it, it will come up with a dialog asking which language to use.  I selected English, and clicked OK.  (Note that for me, this time the dialog did not come up on front, I had to find it in the task bar)

If you are doing this outside of your show window, probably the first thing you want to do is get some music playing.  So start by clicking on playlist, and add tracks.  You can use shift and control click to add ranges, and individual selections to the list.  The right bottom box of the application screen should show the list you created.  I prefer not to play mine in order, so I select playlist, shuffle, to mix them all up.   Then, in the tool bar below the menu bar, there is a drop down that probably still says repeat.  This will have the playlist repeat over and over in the current order.  But I want it to shuffle the music every time, so I change this to shuffle.

Now to get the music going.  Click the blue play button near the bottom left corner.  The top two windows should start showing the on air song, and the next song.  As well as remaining time in this track and the end time for this track.  Also, the volume will probably be about twice what the LOR show is putting out.  So there is a volume slider in between the on air, and next boxes.  Set it to about 50%, so that this music is not being transmitted louder than the show music. 

If we left it like this, the music would never stop for the show.  So we need to add events.  Under the on air box is one that says upcoming events.  To the right of that text is a yellow checkmark, and a clock.  Click on the clock icon.  It should bring up a currently empty dialog for events.  Click on new.

This should have brought up an event dialog.  You want it to happen once a day, with the immediate box checked.  Set the time to be just before your LOR show goes live.  I usually set the priority to high.  If your show starts at the same time every day, you will only need one stop event, and have it apply to all days.  Then in the event type, the third option should be stop.  Select that, and click OK. 

Now you need events to cause Zara to start playing again after the end of the show.  The quick way is to accept some dead air between the end of LOR, and the start of the radio again.  To get this, find out how long my longest sequence in LOR is, as this is the latest after the scheduled end time that the show will run.  For example, if my longest sequence is 6 minutes, and my show ends at 10PM, I set Zara to start at 10:06PM.  I also run my show later on Friday and Saturday than on the rest of the week.  So I make two separate start events.  One with Friday and Saturday checked, the other with the rest of the days of the week.  Don't forget to make them immediate events, type is play, once a day, with the start times you want. 

Then you can save your events before clicking OK..   When you are back at the main screen, the upcoming events window will probably still be blank, as it only shows something like the next 15 minutes of events.  But you do want to be sure the text of Upcoming events is solid black, not greyed out.  If it is greyed out. click on that yellow checkmark to enable events.    Also, when you are happy with the list of songs as your playlist, go into file, save, and save the playlist, so you can reload it easily later.