Some stations get a lot of duplicate tracks in MusicONE when they do a mass-import of a lot of song meta-data. This usually happens when the station is converting from one Automation system to another and the previous system had the duplicates. Here’s how to quickly remove the dupes.
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Several times a year, we get an urgent call from a MusicONE user reporting that his database ‘has been deleted’. That can be scary, but it can’t happen, M1 can not delete its own database. Here’s what’s really happened…
It didn’t happen to me because I was fortunate to be born with a “radio” voice that sounded adult the first time I heard it on the tape recorder in…
A lot of new users have joined the MusicONE family this year and I figured I should provide this quick post about enforcing some scheduling rules while disabling enforcement of things that don’t matter to you.
If you have jingles of different tempos, you have have Music 1 Pro put only Fast jingles before Fast songs and Slow Jingles before Slow ones.
Online Radio Box has now added something new, a “quotes” pop-up feature. If something by The Police is playing, there’ll be a quote from Sting. The screenshot below is the first time I saw it. How are they doing it, I don’t know. But, if I were programming a station today, I’d put my webmaster on the project; find out how to do it and get it on my homepage.
In conjunction with our partnership with Envision Networks, we are giving our traffic/billing software Traffecta a new name: TrafficONE The software will soon his its own website/blog and we’ll alert…
For the first 25 years of modern Pop Music radio formatting, artist separation was: One Hour…..
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.
If you go to delete a clock and M1 says it’s can’t because the clock is on a Dayformat, it will also tell you which Dayformat(s) have the clock. Here’s what to do: