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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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· Formatting

Formatting Christmas

Video How-toIt’s pretty much the same every year.  A few new titles maybe. We’ve always got to deal with Title separation and multiple songs by the singers. For some help, we have three videos about formatting the Christmas season. Click to the Videos

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Stagers Linked To Selected Songs

Stagers Linked to Some, Not All Songs In A CategoryLinking Promos, Stagers and other tracks to schedule before certain songs or types of songs has been covered in some other videos on the site.  The question about the topic came up again this week and here’s the new video about it.  It runs 3:37

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Schedule A Full Hour

Never Less Than 60 MinutesMost commercial stations over-schedule a song or two each hour so there’ll be extras available in case the hour’s spot load is lighter than normal. If you are someone who wants a minimum of 60 minutes in the scheduled hour, you can set a clock rule to guarantee nothing less than that.Set Minimum Hour ContentMinimum Hour…

Steve Warren

· Formatting

Sound Codes Used to Format Pre-Song Stagers

Schedule a Voice Track or Schedule A SweeperSituation:  You have two types of Stagers that you schedule before songs. Produced Sweepers (or Jingles) are to play before songs with Voice-Opens (like, Take A Chance On Me/Abba) and Dry-Voicers are to schedule next to songs with Intros (like, Mama Mia/Abba).  Then, the automation system will lay that voice track over the…

Steve Warren

· 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