The question came up again about Grouping solo songs with the singer’s Group for Artist Separation. The Jacksons was one of his examples and the PD asked if packets might…
Category: <span>Categories</span>
This is something most of us need to do occasionally: Schedule one promo or announcement more than the other tracks in the category. This is super-simple as you’ll see in…
When you want to increase the spins for songs on one category, a quick change on a format clock is the way to get it done.
Recycling is a process whereby songs that are scheduled in one part of the day are re-scheduled in another part of the day. Video and screen shots are included in this post.
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.
The essence of what we do is to play the favorite songs of our target listeners over and over. The challenge is to do that in such a way that our listeners will not get the feeling that we’re playing a much smaller song library than we actually are.
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.
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.
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…
Selection Categories allow songs to be in two categories at the same time. In this demo, I’m making a Selection category and filling it with Rolling Stones songs. Then I…