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Music 1 Professional Edition Videos
These tutorials were made with Version 6. Version 7 has now been released and there are some changes on various
screens, but all the basics demonstrated in the videos are essentially the same in both editions. You can stream each of the videos from this list or by using the navigation bar(s) on the left side
of the screen.
Introduction
A three-minute orientation showing the
basic functions, Categories, Song Cards, Clocks and Scheduling/Editing.
Scheduling Basics
A
demonstration of M1's manual scheduling and editing function. This is how the software was designed to funcion. It works with you, finding formatting and music flow problems, then letting
you make personal decisions about how to resolve them. It's called Inter-active scheduling. (4:57)
Scheduling In Automatic Mode
Normally, manual schedule is
best, but if you so desire, you can make M1 schedule the entire day without stopping. It will then 'flag' all the slots where songs that violated rules were scheduled. You can then find
and fix those problems. (3:22)
Play The Hooks
Version 6
has a built-in player. While doing scheduling and editing, you can click and hear your songs. And further, you can set it to play the hooks of the songs. (3:24)
Button Tour
Short explanations about each of the buttons at the top of the Music 1 application screen. (3:57)
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)
Song Search M1
This shows how to do basic and more targeted searches. (2:44)
Hour Restrictions
Here's how to tell M1 to keep a song from
scheduling in certain hours. (1:57)
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)
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)
Rotation Prediction: 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
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. (3:13)
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 (3:53)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 M1
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)
Converting Tracks
When importing a library text file that
contains records of both Songs and non-music units, M1 does some parsing, putting the two types onto the proper type of "card" in the M1 database. Some mistakes may be made; it might get a
non-music unit onto a Song card or vice/versa. Here's how to 'convert' a unit from one type of card to the other. (1:16)
Folder View
A look into the Music 1 Folder after it's been installed on
the computer (2:09)
Backup and Restore
Music 1
automatically makes an on-board backup clone of your library file each day. When needed, you can quickly restore back to an earlier copy of your database. (2:25)
Zip Backup Utility
This tool makes a quick zip file that contains both
your library database and the saved log files. (2:13)
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