Hi Maurocal
The new teaser plugin is used to tease upcoming songs in the playlist. From RDJ 1.6.5.8 RC3 two new cue points were added to CUE editor 'Hook In' and 'Hook Out' which you can add to tracks just like you can the 'intro' and the 'outro' ect. Not sure if you know, but in music a 'hook' is defined as the most catchy part of a song, the bit that the listeners rememebers and loves the most (usually the chorus, but its up to you to to decide where the hook would be)
Once you have these points set on a track, and it is in the main playlist, you can use a keyboard shortcut or event to allow RDJ to detect which songs in the playlist have these 'Hook In' and 'Hook OUT' points set, and can load just the 'Hook In' and 'Hook out' segment of these tracks into the playlist. You can then play this, and the hook of the song will play, a bit like a clip.
This is how it can be useful for me. I am in a live hour and I want listeners to stay tuned because there are some BRILLIANT songs in the next hour. So I press 'f12' (the keyboard shortcut I set to load a dry tease) and the hooks of some of the songs will then appear at the top of the playlist and I can play them. Providing that I have set the Hook points of at least one song in the playlist. I can then say coming up we have 'xx' and a clip of that song can be played and it sounds rather proffesional.
Hope that explains things. To be honest, I can't really get my head around the 'Intro' 'trainsition' and 'Endings' elements, but I'm sure somebody else can explain that to you!
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