Music 1 Version 6 Videos

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About InterActive Scheduling explains why scheduling and editing with M1 is so much quicker and more accurate. (4:19)

Scheduling Views You can design different 'views' for the M1 scheduling and editing screen. Customize to your liking. (3:40)

Scheduling Start Time One more thing about the scheduling/editing view...the start time display for each unit. It can be set to show "hour" time, that being from the start of the hour. Or "cumulative" time, from the start of the day. Since many people over-schedule each hour a bit, it is sometimes helpful to see the cumulative time for the day's content. (2:00)

Categories Overview of the categories screen; how to set the scheduling order, how to show and sort the song views (3:34)

Creating Categories How to create them. (1:10)

Moving Songs Click and drag songs from one category to another (1:36)

Hour Restrictions Here's how to tell M1 to keep a song from scheduling in certain hours. (1:57)

Song Search M1 version 6 has an entirely new search engine than our earlier versions. (5:00)

Linking Tracks To Songs/Part 1 If you have "artist drops", you can have M1 automatically schedule one of the sound bites next to songs by the artists(s). If you have "Hit Year Stagers", you can get M1 to automatically schedule a stager from the proper year just before songs that were hits in that year. You'll find other creative ways to link non-music audio tracks to songs, too. (3:11)

Linking Tracks to Songs/Part 2 After you've linked tracks and songs, you tell M1 where to do the linking function. This way it won't schedule one of the linked tracks every time the song is scheduled, it will only do it in the specific clock positions that you define. (1:52)

Reports How to design library and category reports. You can design any number of report templates, each one containing just the data fields you choose. Reports can be printed to paper, or exported to a file for import into other database or word processing software. (4:50)

Rotation Prediction Chart This is one of the most important screens in M1. It gives you a picture of what the rotation pattern is going to be for each category. A well-planned rotation means more accurate and efficient scheduling sessions (3:32)

Average Turnover Change-and-Flip This function on the Rotation Prediction chart helps you spot potentioal scheduling problems and plan for better rotations. (4:22)

Artists How to Tell M1 to sort the Artists; how to associate solo artists with groups. (2:41)

Artist Set-Up How to correct misspellings of names in the Artist table and getting M1 to automatically apply the correction to any song cards which had the misspelling. (2:20)

Artist Separation Time There are three ways to set artist separation times to ensure M1 does not schedule songs by artists too close to other songs by the same artists. (2:56)

Artist Genders Setting the default gender for artists and applying the gender to all songs by each artist. (1:19)

Creating Clocks How to create format clocks (4:33)

Clock Rules Explanation of the formatting and scheduling rules that can be set in the M1 clocks.(4:05)

Clock Rules 2 How to copy scheduling rules form one clock to other clocks. More things to know about clock rules. (6:30)

DayFormats How to tell M1 which clock to use in each hour of the day. (2:43)

Defining DayParts A 'daypart' is a defined time period of the day. Like "mornings" or "evenings". You might define "mornings" to be from 5am until 10am, or maybe from 6am until noon. After you've defined dayparts, you can tell M1 to not schedule a song at a certain time of day. Or, you can make sure songs schedule in "other" dayparts before being re-scheduled in any one daypart. (2:09)

Automation Selection M1 interfaces smoothly with all broadcast digital players. More than 50 different log file selections are built in. And you can custom design your own export for a digital player, if need be. (2:14)

Importing Commercials You can merge the commercial/advertising log from your traffic & billing software into Music 1. Here's how to set up units in the format clocks so the software will read the advertising log and import the right commercial cluster into the proper slots. (3:41)

Traffic Import Design If you are going to import commercials and one of the pre-defined imports do not properly read your traffic log, you can custom design an import template. Here's how to do that. (5:00)

Log Print Design With M1, you can custom-design your music log, selecting just the data fields you want printed, where you want each field to be positioned on the page, even select the font, style, size and color. (6:15)

Preparing a Text File for Import Into Music 1 If you are going to export your data from another music scheduler or from a professional broadcast digital automation system, this video explains the basics. (3:36)

Importing Delimited Files Music 1 can import song library data. First you would export your data from another software, music scheduler or automation system into a text file, then import that file into M1. This video shows how to import tab- or comma-delimited files. (7:15)

Importing Fixed Width Files The process is much the same as importing delimited files, there's a different way to cue-in on the data within the text file, though. If you are going to import a file, it would be good to watch both of the videos about importing regardless of which kind of file you are going to be importing. You'll get some extra information from one video that isn't in the other one. (9:06)