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Artist Separation

More Trouble Than It Need BeToday’s world.  The label says the song is a duet by This Singer and That Singer featuring Third Singer. The question comes to me regularly: How do I add separation for the Third Artist. Back in my consulting days, people have paid me money for this advice:  Artist separation of more than an hour is…

Steve Warren

· Radio Drops

Radio Drops #1 - Care for Drive-Time Repeats

Launching a Mini-BlogWhile talking with the owner/manager of a station in Geogia a few weeks ago, I went into one of my rambles about this thing we do, music radio. We chatted a while, then the guy said you oughta’ have a podcast and talk about this stuff, he said. I don’t think so, said I. No audience for it. …

Steve Warren

· Scheduling

Scheduling Stops On Same Song...a quick hack

It happens to us all…Everybody runs into this at one time or another….M1 starts giving editing stops during the scheduling run with the Same Song showing up as the culprit. That one can usually be fixed by simply moving the song UP in rank order within its category.Here’s a video demonstration. It runs 2:27

Steve Warren

· Categories

The Category 35% Rule

This Doesn’t Do What We Think It Might DoThis is a minor category rule that seems more important than it actually is. The “Allow Repeat after X-% of Song have played…”  You should leave that box at the 35% default.  The only reason for it is to ensure that some songs do not  come up much too early after a…

Steve Warren

· Categories

Category Rules 101

 The most important rules are those you set in Format clocks. Category rules are minor few and as a general policy it is best to leave these with the default settings.  The video below covers everything you see on thje Category rules screen. It runs five minutes.

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

· 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