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Hard Syncs and Soft Syncs for StationPlaylist Creator
Music 1 can deliver both “hard” and “soft” start times to StationPlaylist Studio when you are also using the company’s “Creator” tool. There are two ways to do this. One way is to put a ‘command’ into the cart field on a non-music unit. There’s another post about that here.
In newer versions of Music 1, we added our Player Command functionality in the SPS/Creator output. Below are screenshot instructions:
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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
- Format Clocks 101
- 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
- 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
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- 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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- 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
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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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