Scheduling in Automatic vs. Interactive

Music 1 has two scheduling modes; Interactive and Automatic.

Rule Violations – Artist Separation

Artist Separation – Problem, But Not Every Day

It seems I have this issue about every three days. M1 schedules all of my Album/Edge category with very few stops for rule violations, then on the third day I get to about 8pm and it is constantly stopping with artist separation violation flags.  And it shows me only a few choices.  The search depth… Continue reading Artist Separation – Problem, But Not Every Day

Why Doesn’t M1 Search the Entire Category to Find A Song That Won’t Violate One of My Formatting Rules?

We have a lot of violations in the categories with more songs (the last ones), and I can understand why, but I don’t understand one thing: why M1 only searches a song with no violations in the first 20 positions of the stack instead of searching in the whole category? …….because if it could search… Continue reading Why Doesn’t M1 Search the Entire Category to Find A Song That Won’t Violate One of My Formatting Rules?

One of my Currents just scheduled way sooner than it should, how come?

I have satellite on the overnight shift, so the first hour I schedule is 6am.  My currents have a 3:20 turnover.  This morning (monday), One of the Currents scheduled at 6:05 and the same song scheduled again at 7:20.  How could that happen? You’d ‘shuffled’ the category after scheduling Sunday, so the Monday schedule was… Continue reading One of my Currents just scheduled way sooner than it should, how come?

Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.

I see there is a title separation rule for each category. Does that mean that the title separation rule applies to the individual songs in each category, or does it apply universally? Title separation only applies to songs of same title in “other” categories. if you have “Chattahoochie”  and “Chattahoochie – Live”  both in Power… Continue reading Tell me how the Title Separation rule works.