Getting to Know Your Station by Analyzing Your Library
by Brian Wheeler - You had your rules perfectly set. Your categories were looking good, rotations were purring along, things were going nicely. But in recent days, things aren’t rotating quite like they were. Your well-oiled machine is now running like a misfiring jalopy. What could it be? It might be time to analyze your data.
First, don't beat yourself up. It happens to the best of us! Data changes over time when you’ve got music moving in and out. Even something so simple as modifying your coding and cleaning up errant information in fields can alter the overall makeup of your library.
A few recent conversations I've had with a few MusicMaster users have brought this phenomenon to light, so I thought it would be a good time to point out a feature in MusicMaster you may have forgotten about...
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Troubleshooting Special Sets
by Marianne Burkett -
Special Sets in MusicMaster are a great way to do things like twofers, matching up artist liners to songs, etc. As we build our clocks with special sets, sometimes we do things in a hurry and forget the important details section. In the example below, you’ll see the special set is matching up Title Keywords with the setting of All(Exact). It is looking at Next Song (Music Only). In the bottom area we’re using rules from the category “Artist Intros” and Bypassing any rules that might keep Title Keywords apart.
A Special Set in this configuration would need an Exact Match in the Title Keyword Field in both the Non-Music Artist liner category and the Music Category that comes after the Special Set in the clock. It will only work with an Exact Match from Field to Field. The liner is looking at the next song scheduled. Continue Reading in Blog