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Category – Rank Order Fix

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  • By: Steve Warren
  • Categories: Categories
M1 schedules the Categories in Rank Order, one after another. Selected categories can be set to schedule in the same pass order. If joined together, the categories will have the same Rank number. Here's how to link and un-link Categories pass-order.
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Selection Category – Removing

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  • By: Steve Warren
  • Categories: Categories
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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Shuffling Categories – Update

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  • By: Steve Warren
  • Categories: Categories
The reasons for shuffling are two-fold.  First, songs by the same artists should be spread evenly through the category to prevent them from scheduling consistently close together. Second, we want to avoid the "predictability" of groups of song titles always being scheduled close together.
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Allow Repeat Play After x-% of Tracks Have Played

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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