This question came from a webcaster using SAMBroadcaster, but what I talk about below applies to all broadcast and webcast automation systems. The playout sytems get no ‘timing’ information about…
Category: <span>Scheduling</span>
There are two ways that hour-restricted songs can be handled. First, here’s a brief explanation of the problem. When a song is hour-restricted, most scheduling software will “hold” that song…
I’m getting all kinds of stops for Artist separation problems. M1 didn’t use to stop so much during scheduling. Now, its taking me fifteen or twenty minutes to schedule and…
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…
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…
I have a category of ’90s gold that comes up between 2 and 3 times per hour, throughout the day. The category is filled with 131 songs, so the average…
Yes, this can be done with Version 6, but it is seldom necessary or wise. To do it, you add one of the special “fit to time” units to a…
the best way to do that is to create a category, maybe name it something like: “Closers” and put only songs that end with a fade into the category. that…
Basically, to prevent rotation snafu’s. Category rotations are always a formula based on two things. 1) the number of songs in a category and 2) the number of times the…
This shows in the LE version only. P means: Played. As M1 begins scheduling from the top of the category card stack. As a song is scheduled, it gets this…