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The essence of what we do is to play the favorite songs of our target listeners over and over. The challenge is to do that in such a way that our listeners will not get the feeling that we're playing a much smaller song library than we actually are.
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This category rule doesn't do what you think it does. It doesn't improve song rotations nor efficiency. We created it as a balm for two specific scenarios. First, it prevents songs from scheduling again much too soon after a category shuffle. Second, it helps ensure that songs you might manually search-and-schedule won't be scheduled by M1 close to that manually scheduled one.
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Selection Categories are the type that allow having songs in two categories at the same time. When a Selection category (or any other) is no longer needed, you can delete it. But first, you have to remove all the song cards that it contains.
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Some stations get a lot of duplicate tracks in MusicONE when they do a mass-import of a lot of song meta-data. This usually happens when the station is converting from one Automation system to another and the previous system had the duplicates. Here's how to quickly remove the dupes.
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Recycling is a process whereby songs that are scheduled in one part of the day are re-scheduled in another part of the day. Video and screen shots are included in this post.
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