Music 1 allows you to custom-design reports that include the fields of your choice; any field that you see on a song card can be included in a report. Those reports can then be printed to paper, to a file or exported as data that can be imported into other applications.
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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.
Last week, I got a full look at the latest release from Cirrus Streaming. If I were programming a radio station today, this is the one I’d want. And I’d probably switch hosting to get it.
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.
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.
Traffecta has the ability to ‘balance’ the content length of the commercial breaks on two or more transmitters so they will not necessarily have to always be a set-time.
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.
Music 1 should not be left running. There is an automatic shut-down function in System Settings that should be enabled. If you are not working with it, close it out. Have our auto-shutdown enabled, as well.
The reasons for this are twofold. First, M1 makes a backup of your library database each day. If it is left running for many days and then find yourself in need of a restore back a day or two, there won’t be one and you’ll have to restore back to an even earlier time than you’d prefer. Second and most importantly, if Music 1 is not properly closed, it will ask for a re-activation code the next time you go to load it. The last thing M1 does when you close it is to set an internal flag saying “this is a licensed database.” If M1 is running and Windows does a re-start, it will not properly close M1 before it does, the internal flag won’t be set and you’ll be asked for re-activation the next time you start it. This can also happen if M1 is running and the computer loses power.
Rotators are often used for generic voice tracks that play over and over, like Station ID’s. Rotators can also be used for jingles, bumpers and drops. Auto-numbered tracks are useful for Daily Voice tracks, those live-voicers that are recorded for one-time use; song intros, morning traffic announcements and such. Mostly this type of track is used for creating a live-sounding DJ shift using announcers often in far away places. Here’s how it works.
When you need to install M1 on a different computer, just copying the folder from one computer to the new one won’t work. You must first run the Music 1 installer for you version. Then you must also run the latest update to the M1 engine.