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Linking Tracks To Songs

Apr 26
Posted by stevewarren in Clocks, Scheduling

Everyone who uses Music 1/Professional knows it also schedules voice tracks, jingles, promos, stagers, programs and all non-music things, as well.

Not everyone knows about our exceptionally smart Linking functions. You can have M1 automatically schedule certain voice tracks or stagers next to songs. Say you have some Hit Year Stagers, M1 drop-in the “Hit Year 2001″ just before a song from 2001. Next hour, if an oldie from 1999 happens to be scheduled in the same format postion, M1 will put a “Hit Year 1999″ stager just before it.

Or maybe you have a lot of Artist Drops and you want one to be broadcast every hour at 15 past. If a Lady GaGa song schedules at 1:15, M1 will put a GaGa Drop just before it. Then, at 2:15, if a Coldplay song is scheduled, M1 puts a Coldplay Drop next to it. Now, if a song schedules that does NOT have a track linked to it, you can tell M1 either to ignore the call for a link and leave the slot empty, or to schedule a Generic track in the slot.

This is quite easy to set up. Here are some screen shots showing how it’s done:

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Linked Tracks – Hit Year

Apr 13
Posted by stevewarren in Clocks

I have some Hit Year stagers. I want to link them to my songs so the correct Hit Year stager will be scheduled before a song. A 1999 song should have a “1999″ stager before it; a 2003 song should have a “2003″ stager before it. How do i get this done?

I’m assuming you already know how to link the tracks to the songs. If not, there’s a video on the M1 website showing how it’s donie. To do the type of linking you need there are a few set-up steps. First, you need to create a Link Type. Then you apply that type to the tracks. And finally after you’ve added the Linked Track unit to a format clock, you select your Link Type. Here are some screen shots showing what to do.

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Help Me With My Rotations

Apr 11
Posted by stevewarren in Categories, Rotations

I’ve looked at some of my category rotatin prediction charts and some of mine suck – we’re talking lines straight down with no diagonal period.  Yikes!  So generally speaking, which is better for rotaion correction?

Use Flip only in the most rare of circumstances. Example: you have a Power Current category with 4 songs in it and you schedule 1 an hour 24-hours a day. The same song(s) would come up in same hour every day….you don’t want 3 songs in the category, you don’t want 5…you absolutely want 4, no more, no less. But 4 gives a terrible rotation…so, you tell M1 to Flip 1. Each time it loads a new/empty log to schedule it flips the song in Power Current that’s at the top of the stack. It starts Monday with song #1, Tuesday with song #2, Wednesday with song #3.

The best thing to do, always, is to set-up your Categories with a proper and acceptable ‘natural’ rotation pattern. Here’s a video about doing that:

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Upgrade – Revision 175

Apr 11
Posted by stevewarren in Upgrades

Traffecta updates in this one:

1) The Invoices default sort is EndDate (last to first) for status = Issued, and Balance (highest to lowest) for all other status types (Ready, Pending, or next).

2) You can delete an order item that ends before last date charged.

For stations using StationPlaylistStudio, we’ve now added an new playlist export to work with their “Creator” software.

Our “Import From Sound File Tags” function now parses audio file data the same way as is done with our “Import From CSV”; so any file that is 60 seconds or less and/or any file that does not have anything entered in the mp3 meta-data Artist field, will be imported onto a M1 non-music card. This will mean there’ll be less “converting” needed for units that might get imported onto a card of the wrong type.

 

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Version 7 Upgrade 7.0.173

Apr 05
Posted by stevewarren in Upgrades

We’ve updated M1′s output for the AudioVault automation system, adding a “Play ID” to the schedule M1 produces for that system.  Now when using Traffecta with AudioVault, if a scheduled commercial is manually moved to another hour, anywhere in the day, the M1/Traffecta reconcile function will find it, register it and report the exact playtime in reports and affidavits issued to advertisers.  Previously, it could reconcile correctly only if the the commercial were moved to some other break within the original hour.

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