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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.

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· Categories

Adding New Announcements into Rotation

Spread Them OutWhen new items are added to a non-music category, they appear at the bottom of the list.  Here’s how to spread them through the list so they new ones won’t schedule close together.  The other way is to simply shuffle the category a few times. The video is less than two minutes.

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Year End Countdown

Scheduling the Year End Top Hits CountdownA couple of calls came in this week asking about how do to this.  Here’s a four-minute instructrion video about it.This function uses a Selection category and only the Pro edition of M1 has those.

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Christmas Formatting - A bit of History

Handling so many songs with the same title Here’s as link to my Christmas Formatting article.A long time ago, it was common for Pop music stations to not add Holiday music until Christmas week., strange as that may seem now.  But then again, there wasn’t much to choose from.  Yes, there was that wonderful, timeless Elvis Christmas album released in ’57.  “Blue…

Steve Warren

· Formatting

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…

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Formatting for the Quarter Hour

Radio sells advertising by the quarter hour; specifically the average number of listeners will hear an advertiser’s message in the quarter hour where it airs. So, smart program directors format for quarter hour maintenance.

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Linking - Elvis Intros

It is easy to record a bunch of Artist intros and link them to songs by the singers. Simple little things like this can make a fully automated station come alive. There are a couple more videos on the M1 site about linking.  Here’s a refresher. The vid below runs 3:35

Steve Warren