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Categories

  • Categories 101 - The Need To Know Basics
  • Category Rules 101
  • How Do I Change the Scheduling Order Of My Categories?
  • Selection Categories
  • Shuffling Categories
  • Shuffling Categories - Update
  • Shuffle the HOT category weekly? Is that good to do?
  • Shuffle and Shuffling Categories
  • Rotation Prediction - Average Turnover Chart
  • Packets? How Do I Use Them?
  • Packets - When To Packet
  • Packets - How do I create a packet?
  • Packet Removal
  • Packets - No Rotation Prediction
  • The Flip/Don't Flip Category Rule
  • A Question About The Average Turnover Number
  • Play Number
  • Play Number Explained In Detail
  • Play Number Option
  • Play Number, Total Plays and Category Spins
  • Can I Search For Songs From A Specific Year?
  • Category View Design
  • Category - Rank Order Fix
  • Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
  • Controlling the Tempo Mix
  • Customizing the Start/End Date Columns
  • How can I set it so a song doesn't repeat for 14 days?
  • How can I change the way the 'date added' field is displayed?
  • Help Me With My Rotations
  • How Can I Make Some Songs By An Artist Play More Than Other Songs By The Artist?
  • How do I make a simple report that will show me the percentage of plays by Category? I want to see if my formatting is delivering 15% Hot Current, 20% Medium Current and so on.
  • How Do I Change The Fonts In My Categories?
  • How does Title Separation work within the categories?
  • I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
  • Play By Percentage
  • Power Oldie Rotation Evaluation - What To Look For
  • Allow Repeat Play After x-% of Tracks Have Played
  • Selection Category - Removing
  • Removing Duplicates
  • Recycle Categories
  • On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
  • On the Category Rules screen, I see: Maximum Number of Choices and an option to "set automatically." What exactly is that feature?

Clocks

  • Format Clocks 101
  • Over Ruled
  • New Clock to Dayformat (Hour Clock Lineup)
  • Linked Tracks - Hit Year
  • Linked Tracks - Advanced
  • Linked Tracks - Linking To Songs
  • Clock Rules: Separation vs Run
  • Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
  • Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
  • Adding Spot Break Units
  • Importing Traffic Log Files
  • Clock Rules - Mass Change Sound Code Rules
  • Can I set it so the hour will never end with a song that has a “cold” ending?
  • Clock Rules - Female Separation
  • Managing Female Content
  • Clock Rules Time/Content
  • Controlling the Tempo Mix
  • Format Clock - Clusters
  • How Do I Tell M1 To Schedule An Item At A Specific Time?
  • How do I merge my commercials into M1?
  • How do I add Spot Break Markers to my clocks?
  • Clock Items - How To Mass Change
  • Formatting Christmas with Music 1
  • How can I schedule programs that are more than an Hour in length?
  • How To Delete A Format Clock
  • I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
  • Can I Schedule Some Hours With No Slow Songs At All?
  • Importing Natural Log advertising logs.
  • TrafficONE Spot Breaks - Fixed Start Time Enabled
  • Tempo / Transition Jingles
  • Linked Tracks - Video

Formatting

  • A Primer On Three Formatting Basics
  • Adding Spot Break Units
  • Over Ruled
  • Formatting Syndicated Shows - Wolfman Jack
  • Formatting Hit Year Stagers
  • Formatting Hit Year Stagers - Second Option
  • Formatting No Repeat Workdays
  • Format An Open Slot for DJ Choice
  • Formatting Tempo'd Jingles
  • Importing Traffic Log Files
  • How do I merge my commercials into M1?
  • Announcers - Naming & Dayparting
  • Adding Song Notes to the Log
  • Daylight Saving Time Shift
  • Linking Hit Year Intros and Stagers
  • Packets to Limit or Increase Airplay of Songs
  • Voice Track - Auto Numbering
  • Platooning for Tempo Control
  • How do I prevent a jingle which fades out slowly from being followed by a song where the artist starts singing immediately?
  • How Do I Tell M1 To Schedule An Item At A Specific Time?
  • How Do I Schedule Day-Specific Jingles?
  • How to Schedule A Promo 3x's More Than the Others
  • I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
  • Play By Percentage
  • We’re going to be running a 70s and 80’s Gold Program on weekends and I need to have a lot of songs from those years to schedule on Saturday night but I don’t want to have to move them out of their regular categories that are used during the week. Is there a way to have songs in TWO categories at the same time?
  • Why would I want to merge the commercials into M1 when my automation system has its own merge function that does the same thing?

Song Cards

  • Song Cards 101
  • Non-Music Cards
  • Converting Tracks to the Other Card Type
  • Mass Change Sound Codes
  • Mass Change Tempo
  • Importing and Merging New Song Data
  • Scheduling Daily Voice Tracks and Rotators
  • Play Number Option
  • Removing Duplicates
  • Can I Search For Songs From A Specific Year?
  • Importing Audio Tag Data - Unique Titles
  • Merging Song Data onto MusicONE Song Cards
  • Change the Drive Letter and Path on Song Cards
  • Total Plays Re-Set
  • I'm playing two versions of the same song, a 'live' and a 'studio' recording. How can I make sure those two get separated and don't schedule too close together?
  • Is there a way to go into a single Log after I've scheduled and check song roations?
  • Player Controller

Rotations

  • Daypart Rotation
  • A Question About The Average Turnover Number
  • How can I change the Song Rotation Chart Settings?
  • Power Oldie Rotation Evaluation - What To Look For
  • Play Number
  • Can I get M1 to schedule one song every hour?
  • Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
  • Counting "Song From Search" Plays
  • How can I set it so a song doesn't repeat for 14 days?
  • Help Me With My Rotations
  • How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
  • I had a song schedule today much sooner than it should. It is in a category with a 5 day turnover. What happened?
  • I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
  • Is there a way that I can check the average turnover of a SINGLE track?
  • Other than by category scheduling, how can I control spins of individual (current) songs within a category?
  • On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
  • Recycle Categories
  • Song Rotation Grid During Scheduling
  • Viewing The Song Rotation Chart During Scheduling
  • Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
  • Play Number Explained In Detail

Scheduling

  • Scheduling Basics
  • Over Ruled
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2
  • Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
  • Scheduling in Automatic vs. Interactive
  • Scheduling With A "Search"
  • Scheduling A Specific Track
  • Scheduling A Non-Audio Unit
  • Scheduling - Automatic Scheduling
  • Scheduling Two-For Tuesdays
  • Scheduling End-Dated Units
  • Scheduling In Automatic Mode
  • Logs - Delete and Reschedule
  • Re-Schedule Hours or Delete a Log
  • How To Search and Schedule a Song
  • Drag, Drop and Swap During Scheduling
  • Rule Violation: Time
  • Song Swap and Move
  • Artist Time Violation: What does that mean?
  • Artist Separation - During Scheduling
  • Scheduling Countdown Shows
  • Flip Function - Category Refresher
  • Counting "Song From Search" Plays
  • Importing Traffic Log Files
  • Including Spots in the Playout Schedule
  • Alternative Categories
  • Can I set it so the hour will never end with a song that has a “cold” ending?
  • Can I make M1 schedule exactly 60 minutes' content in the hour?
  • Can I get M1 to schedule one song every hour?
  • Artist Separation Problem Investigation
  • Changing Font Preferences In Scheduling View
  • Changing the Columns and Colors in the Scheduling View
  • Errors Found During Load Message
  • Editing Tip: De-glitching An Artist Separation Anomaly
  • How can I schedule programs that are more than an Hour in length?
  • How can I get M1 to schedule the whole day without stopping for rule violations?
  • How can I change the Song Rotation Chart Settings?
  • How do I insert a specific non-music thing?
  • How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
  • How do I prevent a jingle which fades out slowly from being followed by a song where the artist starts singing immediately?
  • I had a song schedule today much sooner than it should. It is in a category with a 5 day turnover. What happened?
  • I have a problem scheduling Female songs...
  • I haven't made a log for today (I used an older one), now I need to schedule a playlist for tomorrow, but M1 will only do one for today's date...
  • Hybrid Scheduling System
  • I'm scheduling a full day's worth of music, but my playout system always comes up short.
  • I've got a category that has a 3 day turnover, but one song got scheduled twice within three hours. How did that happen?
  • Artist Separation - Problem, But Not Every Day
  • Log Dating Trick
  • M1 keeps stopping as it schedules with the rule violation "Same Song Previous Day". What can I do to fix that?
  • My "Dig" Button Is Not Working
  • My "Last Played" Data Isn't The Same As the Song Rotation Chart
  • Playlist Hack - Use A Past Schedule on a New Date
  • Quick Scheduling Pop Up Promos
  • Reconcile - Why I Don't
  • Running Radio Remotely
  • Scheduling Stop With No Choices Showing
  • Song Search
  • Setting The Player Behavior
  • Song Rotation Grid During Scheduling
  • Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
  • Stuck In View-Only And Recovering From It
  • We’re going to be running a 70s and 80’s Gold Program on weekends and I need to have a lot of songs from those years to schedule on Saturday night but I don’t want to have to move them out of their regular categories that are used during the week. Is there a way to have songs in TWO categories at the same time?
  • Viewing The Song Rotation Chart During Scheduling
  • View Only and the .ML File
  • What's the Easiest Way to Manually schedule some Artist "Drops"?
  • What does "Overplay" Mean?
  • Why Does M1 Stop As It Schedules?
  • Why Doesn't M1 Search the Entire Category to Find A Song That Won't Violate One of My Formatting Rules?

Rules

  • Artist Separation From Previous Day
  • Artist Separation Not Working
  • Allow Repeat Play After x-% of Tracks Have Played
  • Artist Separation - History, Theory and Music Radio Today
  • Can I Schedule Some Hours With No Slow Songs At All?
  • Category Rules - Refresher
  • Clock Rules - Female Separation
  • Clock Rules Time/Content
  • Clock Rules: Separation vs Run
  • Daypart Rotation
  • Controlling the Tempo Mix
  • The Flip/Don't Flip Category Rule
  • How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
  • How do I prevent Fast and Slow songs from scheduling next to each other?
  • I have a problem scheduling Female songs...
  • I'm a bit confused about Sound Codes. What should mine be?
  • How To Mass-Change / Mass-Apply Hour Restrictions
  • Artist Separation - Problem Investigation 2
  • M1 keeps stopping as it schedules with the rule violation "Same Song Previous Day". What can I do to fix that?
  • Managing Female Content
  • On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
  • On my finished schedule, every song is showing in red (violations) font. What does this mean?
  • Over Ruled
  • Rule Violation: Time
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-
  • Common Rule Violation Notices
  • Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
  • Some Rules to Disengage in SE Version 7
  • Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
  • Tempo Flow Rules
  • Tempo / Transition Jingles
  • Tempo Rule Problem
  • Tempo'd Jingles
  • Title Separation Rule
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2
  • Rule Violation: Artist Period. What does that mean?
  • Artist Time Violation: What does that mean?
  • What does "Overplay" Mean?

Rule Violations

  • Artist Separation - During Scheduling
  • Artist Separation Not Working
  • My "Last Played" Data Isn't The Same As the Song Rotation Chart
  • On my finished schedule, every song is showing in red (violations) font. What does this mean?
  • Products and Product Rules
  • Rule Violation: Song Prev Day
  • Rule Violations - Artist Separation
  • Rule Violation: Time
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-
  • Common Rule Violation Notices
  • Tempo Rule Problem
  • Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2

Artists

  • Artist Separation From Previous Day
  • Artist Separation - During Scheduling
  • Artist Grouping - Link One Artist to Another
  • Artist Separation Not Working
  • Artist Separation Problem - Special Case
  • Artist Separation - History, Theory and Music Radio Today
  • Artist Separation Problem Investigation
  • Artist Separation - Problem Investigation 2
  • Artist Separation - Problem, But Not Every Day
  • Mass Change Artist Genders
  • Setting Default Genders
  • Sorting "The" Artist
  • Artist Separation Setting
  • What Are Double-Shots?

Reports

  • Artist Content Report
  • Can I Print a Playlist To PDF? And, Can I Make It In Color?
  • BMI, ASCAP and SoundExchange Reports
  • Category Statistics Report
  • Design a Weekly Spins Report
  • How do I make a simple report that will show me the percentage of plays by Category? I want to see if my formatting is delivering 15% Hot Current, 20% Medium Current and so on.
  • How do a get M1 to print the playlist in color?
  • How Do I Create A "Spins" Report
  • Is there a way that I can go into a single LOG after I've scheduled it and check the rotations?
  • Make A Report Showing Average Tempo's, Genders, Sound Codes
  • Merging Song Data onto MusicONE Song Cards
  • NPR/SoundExchange Report
  • Print a Playlist
  • Printing to PDF
  • Printing List of Most Recent Adds
  • Printing PDF Playlists for Announcers
  • Report Design
  • Reports - Exporting to CSV
  • Song Plays Report
  • SoundExchange Reporting
  • Track Plays Report
  • Designing Templates for Printing Logs / Playlists

Automation Systems

  • PlayoutONE

    • Importing and Not Importing from PlayoutONE
    • Add Social Media Posts to PlayoutONE
    • Adding New Announcements & Arranging Them in M1
    • Connect M1 to PlayoutONE sql
    • Delete From M1-Leave In P1
    • PlayoutONE - Music 1 Setup
    • PlayoutONE Commands - Hard and Soft Syncs
    • PlayoutONE - Adding Voice Track Markers
    • PlayoutONE - Disconnecting M1 To Work Remotely
    • PlayoutONE and Music 1 On Separate Computers
    • PlayoutONE Time Update Player Commands
    • PlayoutONE Processsor Settings
    • PlayoutONE - Importing Types
    • PlayoutONE - Log Notes
    • PlayoutONE - Import Settings
    • PlayoutONE - MusicONE Connections
    • Switching To PlayoutONE From Another System
    • PlayoutONE Start-Up
  • AudioVault

    • AudioVault Flex - Exporting and Importing into M1
  • Enco / DadPro

    • Dadpro Log File and Player Command Setup
    • Enco Digilink Output For Multiple Streams
  • StationPlaylist

    • Hard Syncs and Soft Syncs for StationPlaylist Creator
    • Player Commands For StationPlaylist Creator
    • StationPlaylist Creator Log Importer Settings
    • StationPlaylist Creator Setup
  • WideOrbit

    • Importing Data From WideOrbit
    • WideOrbit - WorkFlow Commands
    • WideOrbit Time Updates
  • Simian OptX

    • Importing from Simian
    • Simian Commands in Music 1/Professional
  • SAM Broadcaster

    • SAM Broadcaster - Moving to Music 1 Scheduling System
    • Music 1 with SAM Broadcaster
    • SAM Broadcaster - PAL Scripts
    • Sam Cloud and Music 1
    • SAM Broadcaster Timing Issues
  • All Installed Automation System Outputs
  • Automation / Playout System Selection
  • Audio folders for Internet Radio
  • Automation Format Selection
  • Automation General Tab
  • Audio Folders
  • Automation - Rivendell
  • Cloud Storage - Log Folders
  • Date Fields In Automation Log Formats
  • Folders vs Categories
  • I'm Using the Jazler Automation System. How Do I Configure M1 To Work With it?
  • Jazler Commercial Breaks
  • Log Folder
  • M3U Playlists
  • Player Commands
  • Player Commands 2
  • Player Commands - Overview
  • PlayIt Live Library Import / Playlist Export
  • Proppfrexx Event Type Customization
  • RadioDJ - Hourly Playlists
  • Radio DJ - Exporting and Importing Library Data
  • Re-Importing Library Data
  • Rivendell Connection
  • Reconcile - Why I Don't
  • Skylla Commands
  • System Settings - Automation Params
  • Using Player Commands
  • We're switching from our old automation system to SS32, what do we need to do with M1 to get it to work with the new system?

TrafficONE

  • A TrafficONE Demo Video
  • Convert a Non-Music Card To a Spot Card
  • Add the Station Logo to Invoices
  • Importing Advert Schedule From TrafficONE
  • TrafficONE Spot Breaks - Fixed Start Time Enabled
  • TrafficONE - Agency Billing
  • TrafficONE- Convert Tracks
  • TrafficONE- Break Balancing
  • TrafficONE- Auto Fill With Only One Spot
  • TrafficONE - Entering Complicated Ad Orders
  • TrafficONE User Manual Being Updated
  • TrafficONE- Packets
  • TrafficONE - Spot Break Insert/Fill Function
  • TrafficONE - Order With Different Rates
  • TrafficONE - Scheduling Spots for Specific Hours
  • TrafficONE - Splits
  • TrafficONE - Formatting a News Sponsorship Order
  • TrafficONE - Scheduling Spots 2 to 1
  • TrafficONE and Avail Types
  • TrafficONE - Mass Delete Old Orders
  • TrafficONE - Product Separation
  • TrafficONE User Manual Update

Installation

  • Automation Format Selection
  • Automation General Tab
  • Audio Folders
  • How To Backup Your M1 Database
  • "error initializing audio reader"
  • I see I've got about five years worth of old log files in my M1 Logs folder. What's the best way to delete them?
  • Installing Music 1
  • Moving Music 1 to Another Computer
  • Using Dropbox with M1

System Settings

  • Automation Format Selection
  • Automation General Tab
  • Automatic Shutdown
  • How To Backup Your M1 Database
  • Canadian Content
  • Click-and-Hear Auditioning
  • I see I've got about five years worth of old log files in my M1 Logs folder. What's the best way to delete them?
  • Log Folder
  • Lost Database Recovery
  • Locate Your M1 or T1 Database
  • Multi-User Mode Passwords
  • Multi-User Update
  • System Settings - Insert Tab
  • System Settings - Automation Params
  • Spam & Phishing
  • The Music 1 Player Isn't Working
  • Auto-Shut Down
  • Using Dropbox with M1

Importing Data

  • AudioVault Flex - Exporting and Importing into M1
  • Click-and-Hear Auditioning
  • Folders vs Categories
  • Edit mp3 Tags - How to
  • Converting Tracks to the Other Card Type
  • Importing Data from Mp3Tag software
  • Importing Audio Tag Data - Unique Titles
  • Importing from Simian
  • Importing and Merging New Song Data
  • Importing Natural Log advertising logs.
  • Importing Song Data From Mp3 Tags
  • Importing Library Data From Text Files
  • Mp3 Tags - Explained
  • Meta-Data Editing with Mp3Tag
  • Re-Importing Library Data
  • Using MediaMonkey To Edit mp3 Tags
  • What's the best way to name my audio files?
  • When I import from a .csv, not all of the records are imported.

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  • What Is A Format?
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  • How do I merge my commercials into M1?
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