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This is everything, gang. The first post on this blog was 13/May, 2009. The sole purpose of the MusicONE blog is to dispense information, training and useful tips about the music scheduler. You can usually find an article or video with an answer to your question by typing a word or two into the Search field. But if you scan down the page, you may find some things M1 does that you didn't know about.
How Many Songs Should I Be Playing?
Mike Joseph Invented The Tight List…in 1958.The question comes to me with some regularity. How many songs does a successful music radio station have in its library. My half-joking reply is: Probably half the number of songs you are now playing. There really is no winning number. Top rated Current-Hits stations play fewer than 500. Stations going after older demos…
Standard Rule Enforcement Settings
Enforce Only the Formatting Rules That You Use Music 1 has more rules settings than 99.5% of people need. That last half percent would be the music director whose job is to produce music schedules for dozens of stations or streams each day. He could use the Breakable and Un-Breakable rules hierarchy and Alternative categories then set M1 to run…
The Death of Radio?
That’s What the Man Said Bob Lefsetz is a bodacious blogger about all things and culture. Primarily, he is a music guy who seems to know every living person involved in the music business or else someone who does know the famous person. His blog post with that headline hit the first of the week and, of course, has gotten …
Keeping Safe From Ransomware
Enabling the Russian language on the computer may protect it from ransomware attacks.
Why Today's Radio Sucks
Why Radio Plays The Same Songs Over and Over You may know of Pat Holiday’s YouTube channel. He’s a veteran program director from my generation now doing a valuable job teaching things we all used to learn by doing. From its invention in the 50’s to the end of the century, radio guys learned the craft by working with groups…
Faster Scheduling for TrafficONE
Revision 840 = Faster Scheduling for T1 Stations that use our advertising schedule and billing extension, TrafficONE should subscribe to the T1 blog, if not already. We don’t do a lot of blog updates; ours are just stuff a good many of our users should know about. Like the new speed improvements made within the M1 engine that makes the…
