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End-Date Display Selection
How to Select the Format You SeeNon-music cards in M1 and Spot cards in TrafficOne may sometimes have start and end dates. You can add those fields to one of your category views, then select the way you want to see the dates.
How to Back-up M1 and T1
Do This RegularlyYou may have noticed the “backup” button has been removed from the start-up screen. The function was giving us problems when the datbase(s) we kept on servers instead of local machines. Also, all smart operators have server data backup systems in place anyway. I’ve always thought it was just as easy to simply copy the M1/T1 databases to…
Artist Separation
More Trouble Than It Need BeToday’s world. The label says the song is a duet by This Singer and That Singer featuring Third Singer. The question comes to me regularly: How do I add separation for the Third Artist. Back in my consulting days, people have paid me money for this advice: Artist separation of more than an hour is…
Radio Drops #1 - Care for Drive-Time Repeats
Launching a Mini-BlogWhile talking with the owner/manager of a station in Geogia a few weeks ago, I went into one of my rambles about this thing we do, music radio. We chatted a while, then the guy said you oughta’ have a podcast and talk about this stuff, he said. I don’t think so, said I. No audience for it. …
Scheduling Stops On Same Song...a quick hack
It happens to us all…Everybody runs into this at one time or another….M1 starts giving editing stops during the scheduling run with the Same Song showing up as the culprit. That one can usually be fixed by simply moving the song UP in rank order within its category.Here’s a video demonstration. It runs 2:27
The Category 35% Rule
This Doesn’t Do What We Think It Might DoThis is a minor category rule that seems more important than it actually is. The “Allow Repeat after X-% of Song have played…” You should leave that box at the 35% default. The only reason for it is to ensure that some songs do not come up much too early after a…
Category Rules 101
The most important rules are those you set in Format clocks. Category rules are minor few and as a general policy it is best to leave these with the default settings. The video below covers everything you see on thje Category rules screen. It runs five minutes.
