Ch-03 Music Categories - Natural Broadcast Systems
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1. If you schedule this function to occur too often an Artist with many songs would have his songs spread out have in the Music Category and they would not rotate to the top as evenly as another artist with fewer songs Manual Spread Artists You can manually spread all artists songs in a Music Category at any time by highlighting the Music Category and clicking the Spread Artists button in Setup Music Codes Music Categories Use Rules This allows you to tell the system to turn music code rule tests OFF and or Artist Separation rule tests OFF for a particular category This can be useful for hot rotating current categories that you want to be logged in the exact order in which they appear in the category without regard to music rule violations Your choices are All Recommended This will consider all rules when logging music for this category Artist Rules Only This turns music flow testing off but the system will consider the Artist Separation rules only It will not consider music flow rules such as Gender Tempo Intensity Mood Style Other and Also Protect Daypart Protection rules are always used even if you enter Artist Rules Only here No Artist Rules This turns Artist Rules off but leaves all other music flow testing ON and might be useful for Jingles Sweepers etc It will consider music flow rules such as Gender Tempo Intensity Mood Style or Other Daypart Protection rules are always used even if you enter No2. To change any settings for a Music Category highlight the Category and click Open and you will see the Music category Edit screen shown on the next page Natural Music User Manual Page 3 1 Music Categories cont Edit Music Category x Music Category 2 Character a ID Code Description A roup One Hot pF Save Uncategorized A Group One Hot B Group One Medium C Group One Low ha Category Settings Help Category Rank fi Logging Order Search Depth fio x Minimum Song Rest Normal E Normal or HH MM Cancel Shuffle Twice Weekly 7 Spread Artists Normal 7 Use Rules al 7 Category Rank Natural Music creates a Music Log by plotting songs into the Format Clocks for each Music Category in the order the Music Categories are shown in Setup Music Codes Music Categories It plots all songs for one Music Category for the entire day before going to the next Category You may select a Rank number on the screen shown above OR Drag and Drop the Music Categories into your desired logging order on the screen shown on the previous page Remember Fast Rotating and Small Music Categories Rank your fast rotating Music Categories first so they log first Songs from early Music Categories are less likely to be precluded by rule violations Slower Rotating and Larger Music Categories As the Music Log is filled more Rule violations occur so your large Music categories should be
3. Artist Rules here None This turns music flow rule tests off including Artist Separation AlsoProtect Gender Tempo Intensity Mood Style Other and Also Protect Daypart Protection rules are always used even if you enter None here CountDown This turns all rule tests off including Daypart Rules and simply plots the songs in descending order by the Category Rank as entered on the Music Research tab during song entry See CountDown Shows in Section 4 Page 3 4 Natural Music User Manual Music Categories Format Analysis Tools Format Analysis will provide you with an analysis of your Music Category rotations based on Your Music Category song assignments Your Format Clock setup and assignments The Selected Clock Assignment Grid w Sample Format Analysis Song Category Name Repeats Week Holiday 2 Group One Hot 148 Group Two Hot 144 Group One Medium 244 Group Two Medium 267 Group One Low 83 Group Two Low 142 Christmas Pop 12 Christmas Traditional 42 Cruising Classic 100 Disco 81 Possibilities 42 amp g Analyze using Clack Assignment Grid Normal 7 Print Help U E B F E G Y Z V Q P Song Repeats per Week This is the number of times a song in this Music category will repeat in a week Average Song Rotation Hours The average number of hours before a song in this Music category repeats Average Category Songs per Hour The average number of
4. logged last so Natural Music will have a large selection of songs to fill in around the already logged songs while complying with your Rules Search Depth This determines how deep into a Music Category stack Natural Music will dig trying to find a song that meets all of your Rules If Natural Music finds an acceptable song between the top of the category stack and the Search Depth it uses the song Then that song is moved to the back of the category stack and all the songs in the category move up one slot in the stack Setting the Search Depth is a tradeoff between conflicting goals Use 10 as a starting point until you get the hang of it Large Search Depths make it ess likely you are going to have missed songs to fill in during Music Log editing but you are more likely to have a song repeat too soon due to Natural Music searching deep in the category stack for a non Rule violating song Large search depths also result in long search times and slower Music Log generation Small Search Depths make it more likely you are going to have missed songs which you have to log during Music Log Editing but you are ess likely to have songs repeat too soon The Natural Music system search won t search too deep in the category stack for a non Rule violating song but will give up and mark it as a missed song Page 3 2 Natural Music User Manual Music Categories cont Minimum Song Rest NOTE NORMAL is recommended to allow songs to
5. repeat as they move back to the top of the category stack as more rested songs higher in the category stack are played If you insist on setting a minimum rest period before a song may repeat in a category you may set this value using the format HH MM Setting this incorrectly can result in many Missed Song errors during log generation Shuffle You may automatically shuffle the songs in a Music Category on a pre determined schedule This may be set to Normal which is the recommended value in which case no automatic shuffling occurs If you do decide to use automatic shuffling to determine which shuffle frequency is right for each Music Category you need to know how often that Music Category repeats songs Use the Tools Format Analysis and check the Individual Song Avg Rot Hours column to determine how often songs in a Music Category repeat Then apply the following guidelines Daily Shuffling automatically shuffles songs in this Music Category every day Use this only on current Music Categories that repeat more than once per day Twice Weekly Shuffling automatically shuffles songs in this Music Category before creating Music Logs for Monday and Thursday Use for Music Categories that repeat in 1 to 3 days Weekly Shuffling automatically shuffles songs in this Music Category every Monday before creating the Monday Music Log Use for any Music Category that repeats in 3 to 7 days Semi Monthly Shuffling automatically shuffles s
6. Music Categories Music Categories Defined Music Categories allow you to control the amount of the various type s of music your system schedules Each slot on a Format Clock is plotted from the Music Category specified for that Format Clock slot How you define your Music Categories is up to you and depends heavily on your format CHR stations might define Music Categories as Hot Currents Medium Currents Recurrents An oldies station might define their Music Categories as 50 s 60 s 70 s and 80 s A Christian music station might categorize their music as Contemporary Southern Gospel etc Music Category Identifiers Music Categories are identified by combinations of 1 or 2 letters or numbers such as A 1 A7 AA ij Sample Music Categories ojx File WiewSongs Tools Help DI x 8 New E Delete Print B Ne ss ho Ne Sort Sort by CategoRank x CategoryRank Search Spread le el ll Group One Hot Normal Twi kly Normal Memorial Day 500 Normal Normal Normal CountDown Group Two Hot 03 45 Twice Weekly Normal 4ll Group One Medium Normal Weekly Normal All Group Two Medium Normal Weekly Normal All Group One Low Normal Semi Monthly Normal 4ll Group Two Low Normal Semi Monthly Normal All Christmas Pop Normal Weekly Normal All Christmas Traditional Normal Weekly Normal 4ll Disco Normal Weekly Normal Artist Rules Only UnCategorized Normal Normal Normal None woon4no amp Ww Be Oo
7. nch of new songs and you d like to spread them out in the category Natural Music User Manual Page 3 3 Music Categories cont Spread Artists in Category Sometimes one or more songs from one or more Artists may become bunched together in a Music Category Natural Music has a Spread Artist function You may automatically spread artists songs out in a Music category on a pre determined schedule This may be set to Normal which is the recommended value in which case no automatic Artist Spreading occurs Daily Twice Weekly Monday and Thursday Weekly Shuffling Every Monday Semi Monthly Shuffling 1st amp 15th days of month Monthly Shuffling 1st day of the month Spread Artist Warning The Spread Artist function has nothing to do with artist separation rules it simply re separates artists songs in the category stack after they have bunched up due to multiple artist separation rule violations See Chapter 4 of this manual to for artist separation rules Do not schedule this automatic function to occur very often as it can cause very uneven rotation of songs if used too much It is best not to use this automatic feature but instead run the Manual Spread Artists function described below only when you see many songs from one artist bunching up together in a category The artist bunching only occurs after 4 or more complete rotations of the music category so never use this spread artist function before a category has rotated 4 times
8. ongs in this Music Category before creating the Music Logs on the 1st and 15th days of each month Use for Music Categories that repeat in 7 to 15 days Monthly Shuffling automatically shuffles songs in this Music Category before creating the Music Log for the 1st day of the month Use this for any Music Category that repeats in 15 to 30 days Shuffle Warning You can cause serious music rotation problems by using incorrect shuffling of Music Categories As a general rule shuffle a category less often than it rotates Examples Assume your Gold 1 category will repeat in about 3 days You d never want to shuffle this category more often than twice a week approximately every 3 days Your Hot Currents and Re Currents probably repeat at least once per day so they can probably be shuffled daily Manual Shuffle You can manually shuffle the songs in a Music Category at any time by highlighting the Music Category and clicking the Shuffle button in Setup Music Codes Music Categories 1 Standard This breaks the category up into 10 partitions and shuffles only within each partition This provides some song shuffling but also keeps the recently played songs from moving up to the top of the category 2 Deep Shuffle This shuffles all songs within the category and may cause some recently played songs to pop up to the top of the category and some that haven t played to the bottom of the category This might be useful if you added a bu
9. times per hour this Music category is scheduled on all clocks in use Category of Total Clocks The percent of total songs scheduled in a week that are from this Music Category Average Song Length This is the average length for all songs in each Music Category Natural Music User Manual Page 3 5 Music Categories Library Analysis Tools Library Analysis will provide you with an analysis of the Music Coding of your entire Music Library or individual Music Categories This will show what or song count exists in your music library for each Gender Tempo Intensity Mood Style and Other code You may select the display in or an actual song count in the Display window The display will switch to or song count without the need to click ReAnalyze You may also restrict the analysis to certain Music Category s Note after selecting the Music Category s you must click the ReAnalyze button to recompute the analysis using your Music Category selections w Sample Library Analysis iof x Intensity Mood Tempo Analysis ee el ee ee ce te 2 Slow Medium Slow Medium Medium Fast Fast Music Categories 1884 Songs Analyzed AllMusic Categories Selected Music Categories Display Percent of Total Songs Group One Hot k Song Count B Group One Medium C Gra One Low amp R Print Help Close Page 3 6 Natural Music User Manual
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