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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.
Talent Tips 1991
Positioning Statement Ideas From 1991 In Radio Drops #17, I talked about Positioning as the marketing mantra before it came to being called: Branding today. From my radio archives, I found the article below. Jay Trachman was a radio personality “coach”. He wrote a lot of articles in our trade papers and published several small, handy books about the DJ…
Bill Gavin's Advice To A New Music Director
Program Notes From Bill GavinYou don’t know who he was? Gavin was one of the most important men in the music radio business. I would go so far as to say he was the most important radio music director who ever lived. Bill was into middle-age when Rock ‘n Roll hit. He was an announcer and music director at stations…
MusicBrainz
The Latest Ultimate TaggerI’ve just been tipped about this one. I regularly have M1 users who are moving from one automation system to another and then discover that their .wav files have no meta. Download the free app and point it to a folder filled with your song audio files and let it do some magic tagging for you. About the…
Talking About Radio
Radio veteran John Leslie has been talking with radio people on his podcast for about near two years now. And he’s talked with a lot of us. I was number 160! He and I did a sit-down in October (’24) for about 70 minutes. If I don’t have a script, I tend to ramble….Here’s a link to the podcast.
Links to the A.I. Toys
ElevenLabs and SunoIn my recent posts I’ve had examples of A.I. created jingles and my voice replicant. That was was made at ElevenLabs.com. Here is a link to the site. The jingle came from the ‘make a song about anything’ site Suno.com and here is a link.I’ve not put any time into the voice generator myself, but I did toy…
The DAX system in the UK and EU
Internet Radio MonitizationI’ve been wondering why nobody’s done it before now. Well, that’s not quite right; there have been a few failed attempts. It’s always been obvious that we ought to aggregate internet streams into one big “network” for advertisers. If it costs an advertiser $25 to put his message into the ears of one thousand radio listeners in a…