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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

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…

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.

Identify Your Station. Identify Your Station. Identify Your Station.At first, saying your call-letters once between the records was sufficient; listeners easily remembered the station when it was the only one in town playing their type of music. Then music listeners moved to FM and there were more and more choices. Then the streaming tsunami and the number of listening options…

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

It Wasn’t Always This WayIn the beginning, you played a song, you played some commercials.  You played another song, you played some more commercials. In the late 60’s, FM Album Rock stations appeared. They were the anti-Top 40 and their positioning and formatting tactic was to cluster the commercials in one or two Spot breaks an hour. Worked for them. …

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…

1951, Todd Storz and the 45 rpm Record 

Packeting and PlatooningAn Artist separation problem is the first scheduling problem most people encounter when they get MusicOne.  Or any other scheduler, for that matter. When an Artist is giving you problems, the first thing to do is to go to the Artists tab and run a Computed Separation on the singer.  See what is possible for the artist and…

There’s this old music radio saying:  It’s what’s between the records that counts.