Categories

• Categories 101 - The Need To Know Basics
• Rotation Prediction - Average Turnover Chart
• Category Rules 101
• Category - Rank Order Fix
• Category View Design
• Selection Categories
• Selection Category - Removing
• Shuffling Categories
• Shuffle the HOT category weekly? Is that good to do?
• Shuffle and Shuffling Categories
• Shuffling Categories - Update
• A Question About The Average Turnover Number
• Allow Repeat Play After x-% of Tracks Have Played
• Can I Search For Songs From A Specific Year?
• Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
• Controlling the Tempo Mix
• Customizing the Start/End Date Columns
• Packets - When To Packet
• Packets? How Do I Use Them?
• Packets - How do I create a packet?
• Packet Removal
• Packets - No Rotation Prediction
• Play Number
• Play Number Explained In Detail
• Play Number Option
• Play Number, Total Plays and Category Spins
• Help Me With My Rotations
• How can I change the way the 'date added' field is displayed?
• How Can I Make Some Songs By An Artist Play More Than Other Songs By The Artist?
• How can I set it so a song doesn't repeat for 14 days?
• How Do I Change The Fonts In My Categories?
• How Do I Change the Scheduling Order Of My Categories?
• How do I make a simple report that will show me the percentage of plays by Category? I want to see if my formatting is delivering 15% Hot Current, 20% Medium Current and so on.
• How does Title Separation work within the categories?
• I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
• On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
• On the Category Rules screen, I see: Maximum Number of Choices and an option to "set automatically." What exactly is that feature?
• Play By Percentage
• Power Oldie Rotation Evaluation - What To Look For
• Recycle Categories
• Removing Duplicates
• The Flip/Don't Flip Category Rule

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Song Cards

• Song Cards 101
• Converting Tracks to the Other Card Type
• Non-Music Cards
• Importing and Merging New Song Data
• Merging Song Data onto MusicONE Song Cards
• Importing Audio Tag Data - Unique Titles
• Removing Duplicates
• Mass Change Sound Codes
• Mass Change Tempo
• Play Number Option
• Player Controller
• Change the Drive Letter and Path on Song Cards
• Scheduling Daily Voice Tracks and Rotators
• Total Plays Re-Set
• Can I Search For Songs From A Specific Year?
• Is there a way to go into a single Log after I've scheduled and check song roations?
• I'm playing two versions of the same song, a 'live' and a 'studio' recording. How can I make sure those two get separated and don't schedule too close together?

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Clocks

• Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
• Over Ruled
• Adding Spot Break Units
• How do I add Spot Break Markers to my clocks?
• New Clock to Dayformat (Hour Clock Lineup)
• Clock Items - How To Mass Change
• Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
• Clock Rules - Female Separation
• Clock Rules: Separation vs Run
• Clock Rules - Mass Change Sound Code Rules
• Clock Rules Time/Content
• Controlling the Tempo Mix
• Format Clock - Clusters
• How To Delete A Format Clock
• Formatting Christmas with Music 1
• How can I put some empty space onto the clocks to make room for announcer talk?
• How can I schedule programs that are more than an Hour in length?
• Can I Schedule Some Hours With No Slow Songs At All?
• I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
• Linked Tracks - Advanced
• Linked Tracks - Hit Year
• Linked Tracks - Linking To Songs
• Linked Tracks - Video
• Managing Female Content
• Tempo / Transition Jingles
• TrafficONE Spot Breaks - Fixed Start Time Enabled
• How do I merge my commercials into M1?
• Importing Traffic Log Files
• Can I set it so the hour will never end with a song that has a “cold” ending?
• Importing Natural Log advertising logs.
• How Do I Tell M1 To Schedule An Item At A Specific Time?

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Formatting

• A Primer On Three Formatting Basics
• Linked Tracks - Linking To Songs
• Over Ruled
• Daylight Saving Time Shift
• Formatting Syndicated Shows - Wolfman Jack
• Voice Track - Auto Numbering
• Formatting Tempo'd Jingles
• Formatting Hit Year Stagers
• Formatting Hit Year Stagers - Second Option
• Format An Open Slot for DJ Choice
• Formatting No Repeat Workdays
• Linking Hit Year Intros and Stagers
• Linked Tracks - Video
• Announcers - Naming & Dayparting
• Adding Spot Break Units
• Adding Song Notes to the Log
• How to Schedule A Promo 3x's More Than the Others
• Scheduling Category Tracks vs Scheduling Rotators
• Platooning for Tempo Control
• Packets to Limit or Increase Airplay of Songs
• Play By Percentage
• I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
• Importing Traffic Log Files
• How Do I Schedule Day-Specific Jingles?
• How Do I Tell M1 To Schedule An Item At A Specific Time?
• How do I prevent a jingle which fades out slowly from being followed by a song where the artist starts singing immediately?
• We’re going to be running a 70s and 80’s Gold Program on weekends and I need to have a lot of songs from those years to schedule on Saturday night but I don’t want to have to move them out of their regular categories that are used during the week. Is there a way to have songs in TWO categories at the same time?
• Why would I want to merge the commercials into M1 when my automation system has its own merge function that does the same thing?
• How do I merge my commercials into M1?

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Artists

• Artist Separation - History, Theory and Music Radio Today
• Artist Separation Setting
• Artist Grouping - Link One Artist to Another
• Artist Separation - During Scheduling
• Artist Separation From Previous Day
• Artist Separation Not Working
• Artist Separation Problem - Special Case
• Artist Separation Problem Investigation
• Artist Separation - Problem Investigation 2
• Artist Separation - Problem, But Not Every Day
• Mass Change Artist Genders
• Setting Default Genders
• Sorting "The" Artist
• What Are Double-Shots?

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Scheduling

• Scheduling Basics
• Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
• Scheduling - Automatic Scheduling
• Scheduling in Automatic vs. Interactive
• Hybrid Scheduling System
• Scheduling In Automatic Mode
• Logs - Delete and Reschedule
• Re-Schedule Hours or Delete a Log
• How To Search and Schedule a Song
• Importing Traffic Log Files
• Over Ruled
• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2
• Alternative Categories
• Artist Separation - During Scheduling
• Can I get M1 to schedule one song every hour?
• Can I make M1 schedule exactly 60 minutes' content in the hour?
• Can I set it so the hour will never end with a song that has a “cold” ending?
• Artist Separation Problem Investigation
• Changing Font Preferences In Scheduling View
• Changing the Columns and Colors in the Scheduling View
• Counting "Song From Search" Plays
• Designing Templates for Printing Logs / Playlists
• Drag, Drop and Swap During Scheduling
• Editing Tip: De-glitching An Artist Separation Anomaly
• Flip Function - Category Refresher
• How can I change the Song Rotation Chart Settings?
• How can I get M1 to schedule the whole day without stopping for rule violations?
• How can I put some empty space onto the clocks to make room for announcer talk?
• How can I schedule programs that are more than an Hour in length?
• How Do I Change the Scheduling Order Of My Categories?
• How do I insert a specific non-music thing?
• How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
• How do I prevent a jingle which fades out slowly from being followed by a song where the artist starts singing immediately?
• I had a song schedule today much sooner than it should. It is in a category with a 5 day turnover. What happened?
• I have a problem scheduling Female songs...
• I haven't made a log for today (I used an older one), now I need to schedule a playlist for tomorrow, but M1 will only do one for today's date...
• I'm scheduling a full day's worth of music, but my playout system always comes up short.
• I've got a category that has a 3 day turnover, but one song got scheduled twice within three hours. How did that happen?
• Artist Separation - Problem, But Not Every Day
• Linked Tracks - Advanced
• Log Dating Trick
• M1 keeps stopping as it schedules with the rule violation "Same Song Previous Day". What can I do to fix that?
• My "Dig" Button Is Not Working
• My "Last Played" Data Isn't The Same As the Song Rotation Chart
• Play Number Explained In Detail
• Playlist Hack - Use A Past Schedule on a New Date
• Quick Scheduling Pop Up Promos
• Rule Violation: Time
• Running Radio Remotely
• Scheduling A Non-Audio Unit
• Scheduling A Specific Track
• Scheduling Countdown Shows
• Scheduling End-Dated Units
• Scheduling Stop With No Choices Showing
• Scheduling Two-For Tuesdays
• Scheduling With A "Search"
• See The Timing Boxes - Make The Taskbar Go Away
• Setting The Player Behavior
• Song Rotation Grid During Scheduling
• Song Search
• Song Swap and Move
• Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
• The Updated QuickStart Manual
• View Only and the .ML File
• Viewing The Song Rotation Chart During Scheduling
• We’re going to be running a 70s and 80’s Gold Program on weekends and I need to have a lot of songs from those years to schedule on Saturday night but I don’t want to have to move them out of their regular categories that are used during the week. Is there a way to have songs in TWO categories at the same time?
• What does "Overplay" Mean?
• What's the Easiest Way to Manually schedule some Artist "Drops"?
• Artist Time Violation: What does that mean?
• Reconcile - Why I Don't
• Why Does M1 Stop As It Schedules?
• Why Doesn't M1 Search the Entire Category to Find A Song That Won't Violate One of My Formatting Rules?
• Stuck In View-Only And Recovering From It
• Including Spots in the Playout Schedule
• Errors Found During Load Message
• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-

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Rotations

• A Question About The Average Turnover Number
• Can I get M1 to schedule one song every hour?
• Category Rotation Changes With Clocks
• Counting "Song From Search" Plays
• Daypart Rotation
• Help Me With My Rotations
• How can I change the Song Rotation Chart Settings?
• How can I set it so a song doesn't repeat for 14 days?
• How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
• I had a song schedule today much sooner than it should. It is in a category with a 5 day turnover. What happened?
• I'm not seeing the rotation grid..says "category not included in any clock" or something like that for each category??
• Is there a way that I can check the average turnover of a SINGLE track?
• On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
• Other than by category scheduling, how can I control spins of individual (current) songs within a category?
• Play Number
• Power Oldie Rotation Evaluation - What To Look For
• Recycle Categories
• Song Rotation Grid During Scheduling
• Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
• Viewing The Song Rotation Chart During Scheduling

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Rules

• Over Ruled
• Scheduling Rules - Basic Settings
• Category Rules - Refresher
• Clock Rules: Separation vs Run
• Clock Rules Time/Content
• Clock Rules - Female Separation
• Tempo Flow Rules
• Tempo / Transition Jingles
• Title Separation Rule
• The Flip/Don't Flip Category Rule
• Common Rule Violation Notices
• Rule Violation: Time
• Allow Repeat Play After x-% of Tracks Have Played
• Artist Separation - History, Theory and Music Radio Today
• Artist Separation From Previous Day
• Artist Separation - Problem Investigation 2
• Artist Separation Not Working
• Can I Schedule Some Hours With No Slow Songs At All?
• Controlling the Tempo Mix
• Daypart Rotation
• How Do I Make Sure GOLD songs don't play within the same day part of the previous day?
• How do I prevent Fast and Slow songs from scheduling next to each other?
• How To Mass-Change / Mass-Apply Hour Restrictions
• I'm a bit confused about Sound Codes. What should mine be?
• M1 keeps stopping as it schedules with the rule violation "Same Song Previous Day". What can I do to fix that?
• Managing Female Content
• I have a problem scheduling Female songs...
• On my finished schedule, every song is showing in red (violations) font. What does this mean?
• On one of my rotation prediction charts, I've got some Orange squares mixed in with the normal Blue squares. What's up with that?
• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-
• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2
• Artist Time Violation: What does that mean?
• Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.
• Tempo Rule Problem
• Tempo'd Jingles
• What does "Overplay" Mean?
• Rule Violation: Artist Period. What does that mean?
• Some Rules to Disengage in SE Version 7

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Rule Violations

• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling -1-
• Understanding Rule Violations When Scheduling - 2
• Common Rule Violation Notices
• Rule Violation: Time
• On my finished schedule, every song is showing in red (violations) font. What does this mean?
• Artist Separation - During Scheduling
• Rule Violations - Artist Separation
• Artist Separation Not Working
• My "Last Played" Data Isn't The Same As the Song Rotation Chart
• Products and Product Rules
• Rule Violation: Song Prev Day
• Tempo Rule Problem

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TrafficONE

• A TrafficONE Demo Video
• Convert a Non-Music Card To a Spot Card
• Importing Advert Schedule From TrafficONE
• TrafficONE - Agency Billing
• TrafficONE - Entering Complicated Ad Orders
• TrafficONE - Formatting a News Sponsorship Order
• TrafficONE - Mass Delete Old Orders
• TrafficONE - Order With Different Rates
• TrafficONE - Product Separation
• TrafficONE - Scheduling Spots 2 to 1
• TrafficONE - Scheduling Spots for Specific Hours
• TrafficONE - Splits
• TrafficONE - Spot Break Insert/Fill Function
• TrafficONE and Avail Types
• TrafficONE Spot Breaks - Fixed Start Time Enabled
• TrafficONE User Manual Being Updated
• TrafficONE User Manual Update
• TrafficONE- Auto Fill With Only One Spot
• TrafficONE- Break Balancing
• TrafficONE- Convert Tracks
• TrafficONE- Packets

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Importing Data

• Importing Library Data From Text Files
• Click-and-Hear Auditioning
• Converting Tracks to the Other Card Type
• Edit mp3 Tags - How to
• Importing and Merging New Song Data
• Importing Audio Tag Data - Unique Titles
• Importing Data from Mp3Tag software
• Importing Song Data From Mp3 Tags
• Meta-Data Editing with Mp3Tag
• Re-Importing Library Data
• Using MediaMonkey To Edit mp3 Tags
• When I import from a .csv, not all of the records are imported.
• Folders vs Categories
• What's the best way to name my audio files?
• Mp3 Tags - Explained
• Importing Natural Log advertising logs.
• Importing from Simian
• AudioVault Flex - Exporting and Importing into M1

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Automation Systems

• PlayoutONE

  • PlayoutONE - Music 1 Setup
  • PlayoutONE Start-Up
  • Connect M1 to PlayoutONE sql
  • PlayoutONE - Import Settings
  • PlayoutONE - Importing Types
  • PlayoutONE - MusicONE Connections
  • PlayoutONE Commands - Hard and Soft Syncs
  • Adding New Announcements & Arranging Them in M1
  • Importing and Not Importing from PlayoutONE
  • PlayoutONE - Adding Voice Track Markers
  • PlayoutONE - Disconnecting M1 To Work Remotely
  • PlayoutONE - Log Notes
  • PlayoutONE and Music 1 On Separate Computers
  • PlayoutONE Processsor Settings
  • PlayoutONE Time Update Player Commands
  • Switching To PlayoutONE From Another System
  • Add Social Media Posts to PlayoutONE
  • Delete From M1-Leave In P1
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• AudioVault

  • AudioVault Flex - Exporting and Importing into M1

• StationPlaylist

  • StationPlaylist Creator Setup
  • StationPlaylist Creator Log Importer Settings
  • Hard Syncs and Soft Syncs for StationPlaylist Creator
  • Player Commands For StationPlaylist Creator

• SAM Broadcaster

  • Sam Cloud and Music 1
  • SAM Broadcaster - Moving to Music 1 Scheduling System
  • Music 1 with SAM Broadcaster
  • SAM Broadcaster Timing Issues
  • SAM Broadcaster - PAL Scripts

• Simian OptX

  • Importing from Simian
  • Simian Commands in Music 1/Professional

• WideOrbit

  • WideOrbit Time Updates
  • WideOrbit - WorkFlow Commands
  • Importing Data From WideOrbit

• Enco / DadPro

  • Enco Digilink Output For Multiple Streams
  • Dadpro Log File and Player Command Setup

• PlayIt Live Library Import / Playlist Export
• All Installed Automation System Outputs
• Audio Folders
• Audio folders for Internet Radio
• Automation - Rivendell
• Automation / Playout System Selection
• Automation Format Selection
• Automation General Tab
• Cloud Storage - Log Folders
• Date Fields In Automation Log Formats
• Folders vs Categories
• I'm Using the Jazler Automation System. How Do I Configure M1 To Work With it?
• Jazler Commercial Breaks
• Log Folder
• M3U Playlists
• Player Commands
• Player Commands - Overview
• Player Commands 2
• Proppfrexx Event Type Customization
• Radio DJ - Exporting and Importing Library Data
• RadioDJ - Hourly Playlists
• Re-Importing Library Data
• Reconcile - Why I Don't
• Rivendell Connection
• Skylla Commands
• System Settings - Automation Params
• Using Player Commands
• We're switching from our old automation system to SS32, what do we need to do with M1 to get it to work with the new system?

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System Settings

• How To Backup Your M1 Database
• Automatic Shutdown
• Automation Format Selection
• Automation General Tab
• Canadian Content
• Lost Database Recovery
• Multi-User Mode Passwords
• Multi-User Update
• System Settings - Automation Params
• System Settings - Insert Tab
• The Music 1 Player Isn't Working
• Auto-Shut Down
• Spam & Phishing
• Click-and-Hear Auditioning
• Using Dropbox with M1
• Log Folder
• I see I've got about five years worth of old log files in my M1 Logs folder. What's the best way to delete them?

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Reports

• Report Design
• BMI, ASCAP and SoundExchange Reports
• SoundExchange Reporting
• NPR/SoundExchange Report
• Category Statistics Report
• Design a Weekly Spins Report
• How Do I Create A "Spins" Report
• Reports - Exporting to CSV
• Print a Playlist
• Printing to PDF
• Printing PDF Playlists for Announcers
• Can I Print a Playlist To PDF? And, Can I Make It In Color?
• Printing List of Most Recent Adds
• Artist Content Report
• Song Plays Report
• Track Plays Report
• Make A Report Showing Average Tempo's, Genders, Sound Codes
• Is there a way that I can go into a single LOG after I've scheduled it and check the rotations?
• Merging Song Data onto MusicONE Song Cards
• How do a get M1 to print the playlist in color?
• Track Plays Report
• How do I make a simple report that will show me the percentage of plays by Category? I want to see if my formatting is delivering 15% Hot Current, 20% Medium Current and so on.

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Radio Stuff

• Music Radio - The Early Years
• Genesis of the Music Scheduler
• What Is A Format?
• Music Information Site
• Production Service & Monitoring Service
• The RodeCaster Pro
• Products Old and New

Installation

• Installing Music 1
• How To Backup Your M1 Database
• Can I Run Music 1 On A Network From Different Computers?
• Music 1 on a network...Multi-User Mode
• Moving Music 1 to Another Computer
• Using Dropbox with M1
• "error initializing audio reader"
• Audio Folders
• Automation Format Selection
• Automation General Tab
• I see I've got about five years worth of old log files in my M1 Logs folder. What's the best way to delete them?

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