There are two ways to get M1 to schedule a Hit Year stager immediately before an Oldie. One way is with Linked Tracks and user-defined Link Types and you can see a tutorial about that one here. Below is a video showing the second way it can be done.
Category: <span>Scheduling</span>
You know those little productions that say: “Hit Year 1998” and are scheduled directly before an Oldie from that year. They sound slick and they are easy to format. There are two ways to do it with Music 1.
A reconcile removes from play history any song that Music 1 scheduled but that then didn’t actually get played. M1 has a reconcile function for some, not all of the world’s radio automation system. But I don’t think it’s worth the trouble of doing.
Non-music units may have start and end dates and also start and end times. This can minimize the need to move promos (for example) into and out of the category during the campaign run.
Formatting countdown shows is straight forward and easy to accomplish. Once you have it set-up, your countdown show will schedule precisely as you want it to.
After the initial shuffle of a category, there is usually little reason to shuffle. If there are major changes to the category, maybe a lot of new songs added to…
There are three ways to schedule with Music 1. Inter-active, which is the original inter-active algorithm. Hybrid, a cross-mix with the traditional music schedulng algorithm which has the software making choices about rule violations. And this one. Automatic has M1 scheduling the full day, every day without any stops for editing decisions.
With just a few settings changes, you can use a hybrid scheduling routine that will have M1 making choices and over-riding minor rules problem slots when it has to, and stopping for inter-active edits when unbreakable rules problems are encountered.
Music 1 has two scheduling modes; Interactive and Automatic.
How can I schedule syndicated programs, like my weekly Oldies show? Typical syndicated show may have 5 segments an hour and maybe it is a 3 hour show; so, 15…