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The best way to learn the software is to watch these tutorials. You can watch them online here. You can also negoatiate to
the videos using the navigation buttons on the left side of the screen.
Introduction
If
you've not used professional music scheduling software before, this video provides an overview of the tool. (3:43)
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)
Installing Music 1 SE
Here you see what's inside the
M1 folder and what you need to backup. (2:15)
First Run/SetUp
After
you install, use tag editing software to check and update your audio tags. Export the song data. Import the library file into M1. Make categories, then clocks. (5:54)
Playlist and Log Folders
When you save a new schedule, M1
makes two files; one for its own uses and another for your automation/playout system. That one is the playlist file. You tell M1 how to name(date) it and where to save it on your computer.
(3:13)
Automation Selection
The automation or
Playout system is your player, it's what delivers your audio stream to the net. Most webcasting systems read and use a simple .m3u-type playlist file. There are a few variations on the
format and here's how to select the output. (4:35)
Editing Mp3 Tags
This
is the first thing to do. Before you begin to import library data, it is important to check and edit the meta-data/tags on your audio files. (3:53)
Importing Library Data Directly from Mp3 Tags
Music
1 doesn't necessarily have to be installed on the same computer with your playout/automation system, nor does it have to have access to the audio files broadcast by your station. But if you do have M1 installed on the machine that has your automation system and your broadcast library files, then you can import mp3 tags (your library data) directly. (3:29)
Using MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a nice and free software that
can scan your audio folders and export a .csv file to import into M1. Use it to check, edit and correct your audio tags before exporting the data for import into M1. It works with all the common
audio formats. Get it at www.MediaMonkey.com. This video shows how to use it. (3:37)
Using Mp3Tag
Mp3Tag is another free tag editor. This video shows how to use it. (2:15)
Tag Editing with Windows
Both Windows 7 and Windows
8 allow you to edit tags directly from the audio files in the folders. It's not quite as efficient as editing tags with a dedicated tag editor software, but it is a handy tool when you need to tag
just a few files. (2:21)
Exporting from SAM Broadcaster
Beginning
with SAM4, there is a built-in function to export the data to a .csv file. (2:10)
PAL Script Editing For SAM Broadcaster
Many webcasters use M1 with SAM Broadcaster. That system needs a PAL script to tell it to automatically load the next
day's playlist at the end of the day and launch it at midnight. We supply the needed script, but you may need to edit it. Here's how. (3:18)
Importing .CSV Files
After you've edited and updated your
meta tags and exported the data to a text file, here's how to get your library data into Music 1 SE. (2:55)
Live365.com Data Import
For webcasters using the Live365.com
"locker" system, M1 has a built in function to import the library data directly from the server. (2:49)
Live365.com Playlist Upload
After you've scheduled
and saved new playlists, with two clicks of the mouse, you upload them to the Live365.com "locker". (1:16)
Creating Categories
In M1, Categories are "rotation groups".
These are something like folders, but not exactly. Here's the explanation. (2:13)
Song Cards
Basic information about the Music and Non-Music cards in SE1. (3:24)
Song Cards 2
More information about Song cards (3:32)
Song Cards - Duets
When you have a song by two singers who
both have solo songs in your library, you shouldn't have both artist names in the same Artist field on a Song Card. This is where you use the Artist2 field. With each artist
name in a separate field, M1 can more easily separate the Solo songs from the the Duets. (1:31)
Moving Songs
Two ways to move songs from one category to another. (1:36)
Song Search
The basics about searching for songs (2:44)
Mass Changes
You can apply some characteristics to a lot of songs at
the same time. For example, if you wanted to apply a certain Tempo or Sound Code to many songs at once, here's how to do it. (1:27)
Converting Tracks
There are two types of
"cards" in M1. Music Cards and Non-Music Cards. It is more efficient to schedule jingles, liners, promos, station IDs and such as non-music units. Sometimes after you've imported data,
you may find a few mistakes. If you see a "song" has been imported onto a non-music card, it can be converted to the correct type. (1:15)
Creating Clocks
You can create up to 10 "format" clocks with this
version of M1. Any clock can be slotted to be used in any hour of the day, any clock can be used in multiple hours. (3:32)
Clock Rules
With these formatting rules, you're able to control
the scheduling of your music flow with great precision. (4:05
Clock Rules 2
More
to know about clock rules (6:30)
Clock LineUp
On this gride,
you tell M1 which of the Clocks you've created to use in each of the hours of the day. (1:01)
Rotation Prediction
The Average Turnover grid is
one of the most helpful tools in M1. With it, you can see a 'picture' of the rotation pattern of each category. (4:22)
Rotation - Change And Flip
This handy tool provides a quick
fix for rotation patterns that have a bad "formula" (4:22)
Artist Set-Up
Here's
how to correct mis-spelled artists in the artist table and how to "group" or associate artists with other artists or groups. For example, if you want to have solo hits by Stevie Nicks
separated from her songs recorded with Fleetwood Mac. (2:27)
Artist Genders
Mp3
tags don't have a field for Gender. You'll need to set the proper gender for each artist so you can tell M1 to not schedule too many Females in a row, or to not schedule Duets close together.
Here's how to set the genders. (1:32)
Artist Separations
You'll
want to tell M1 to not schedule songs by the same artist too close together. Here's how to set artist separations. (2:55)
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