Ch-05 Rules - Natural Broadcast Systems
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1. Create a New Style Code Style Codes are user defined and are identified by a single letter from A Z From the Main Natural Music screen select Setup MusicCodes StyleCodes to create these Style Codes and assign meaningful descriptions Rules for Style Codes With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Style For each Style code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Style code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Style code which may play in a row before a different Style code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Style code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Style code may not Segue TO the Style codes listed in this column ia Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 Oy x Rule Type Rule Type Restriction ype No Segue To Restricted Code Doo wap Style W Doo wap No Seque To Style s Preferred Rule Style s ave Preferred Violation Points 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule fT Style s R 5 gt f o f x of x Help J w e s ri gt Page 5 8 Natural Music User Manual Other Custom Rules Create a New Style Code Other Codes are user defined Custom2. Preferred Rule 1 30 hh mm Save Preferred Violation Points 1100 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule 45 hh mm Q m e Help Artist Minimum Separation Artist Separation is the minimum hours and minutes protection before an Artist may repeat This is the default protection for all artists played while this RuleSet is in force unless this Rule is overridden for specific Artists See Artists Special Protection Artist Prior Day Separation This allows you to prevent the same Artist from appearing near the same time on consecutive days You should specify this in hours minutes A particular Artist may not play within hours minutes of the time that artist played yesterday This prevents an Artist from appearing 2 days in a row at exactly the same time This rule is usually only used by Classic Rock or Classical format stations This rule sets up prohibited play time window That is if you set it to 00 45 the same artist will not play today within 45 minutes of the time that artist played yesterday On fast rotating categories a large Artist Prior Day Separation can cause problems We recommend that this rule NOT be set up as Never Violate Instead set it up as Preferred with a value of no greater than 00 45 You decide the importance of this rule by setting the Violation Points value 1 is lowest importance and 999 is highest Natural Music User Manual Page 5 3 Gender Rules With the appropriate
3. Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Mood ia Sample Add New Rule to RuleSet 1 OF Xx Rule Type Rule Type Mood 7 Se RestrictionT ype Max per Hour x Restricted Code 1 Down 7 Mood 1 Down Max per Hour Prefered Rule 3 Songs ave Preferred Violation Points 100 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule i Songs R ong 20930355 Help This will allow you to create and edit Rules in the currently selected RuleSet only to be applied to songs coded with Mood 1 through 5 Down to Up when this RuleSet is in force For each Mood code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Mood code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Mood code which may play in a row before a different Mood code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Mood code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Mood code may not Segue TO the Mood codes listed in this column Minimum Average This sets a minimum average Mood over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 0 Maximum Average This sets a maximum average Mood over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 5 Natural Music User Manual Page 5 7 Style Rules
4. as Prior Day ia Sample Add New Rule to RuleSet 1 x Rule Type Rule Type Prior Day RestrictionT ype Minimum Separation 7 Set Rule Type Restriction Type Restricted Code Then set PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE Rule Levels Prior Day Minimum Separation Preferred Rule 30 hh mm Preferred Violation Points 100 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule 15 hh mm R Hel Sets the amount of separation required in hh mm 00 00 to 12 00 between the time a song played yesterday and the time it can play today This entry allows you to prevent the same song from appearing near the same time on consecutive days You should specify this in hours minutes A particular song may not play within hours minutes of the time it played yesterday This prevents a song from appearing 2 days in a row at exactly the same time On fast rotating categories a large Prior Day Separation can cause problems We recommend that this rule NOT be set up as Never Violate Instead set it up as Preferred with a value of no greater than 00 45 You decide the importance of this rule by setting the Violation Points value 1 is lowest importance and 999 is highest To force hour and daypart rotation use the Circulation rules see next page not this Prior Day Separation Page 5 10 Natural Music User Manual Song Circulation Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may cli
5. Rule If you set up a Preferred restriction you should also assign a Violation Points value between 1 and 999 This sets the importance of the rule 1 is lowest and 999 is highest importance Violation Points If a song complies with the Never Violate rule but the Preferred Rule is violated Natural Music computes a score using the prorated Violation Points computed for the amount that the song violates the Preferred restriction Search Depth Natural Music scans songs up to the user defined Search Depth see Music Categories and then will schedule the song with the lowest score i e the best song that violates NO Never Violate rules Guidelines for Creating Rules The particular Rules you use depends heavily on your format Use only the Rules you absolutely need Most stations use Gender and Tempo only The more restrictive your rules the more Missed Songs you ll have to fill in manually on your Music Logs Be reasonable with your rules particularly the Never Violate restrictions and the system will have few Missed Songs making your Music Log editing job easier Page 5 2 Natural Music User Manual Artist Separation Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule is Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 Ioj x Rule Type Artist Rule Type Restriction ype Minimum Separation Artist Minimum Separation
6. exactly the same title Enter hh mm 00 00 to 999 00 separation in either or both of the PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE boxes above Also see Edit RuleSets Page 5 12 Natural Music User Manual No Repeat Zone Rule With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as No Repeat Zone ia Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 x Rule Type Rule Type No Repeat Zone RuleT ype is NOT changeable To change RuleType or RestrictionT ype delete this Rule and add new Rule No Repeat Zone Do NOT apply to Category s in Li R When this rule is in effect no song can play more than once on this day within any hours which have a ruleset with a No Repeat Zone tule applies to all categories UNLESS you x EXCLUDE 1 or more category s separated by commas Cancel This entry allows you create No Repeat periods within a single day The No Repeat Zone is a never violate rule only This does not control how often a song repeats except as described below Assume you want to create a No Repeat workday from 9AM 5PM Within the RuleSet s used in those hours add the No Repeat Zone rule NM5 will never repeat a song on the same day within the hours in which a RuleSet containing the No Repeat Zone rule is in effect Exclude Some Categories from the No Repeat Zone Restriction The No Repeat Zone restri
7. yellow and show the RuleSet number to be used Natural Music User Manual Page 5 1 Create and Edit Rules Edit RuleSets With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule These rule types are described on the following pages of this manual gt Artist Separation Rules See page 5 3 gt Gender Rules See page 5 4 gt Tempo Rules See page 5 5 gt Intensity Rules See page 5 6 gt Mood Rules See page 5 7 gt Style Rules See page 5 8 gt Other Rules See page 5 9 gt Prior Day Separation Rules See page 5 10 gt Circulation Rules See page 5 11 gt Song Version See page 5 12 gt No Repeat Zone See page 5 13 Note The following restrictions are not part of an individual RuleSet so they apply at all times if used and are treated as Never Violate These restrictions are accessed through SetUp MusicCodes gt DayPart Restrictions See page 5 14 gt Also Protect Restrictions See page 5 15 FlexRules Defined For each type of Rule in each RuleSet you can set up any combination of Never Violate and Preferred restrictions The Preferred restrictions are flexible and may be violated but will generate a score based on the severity of the violation Natural Music always selects the song with the lowest violation score Also see Edit RuleSets Never Violate Rules Natural Music NEVER schedules a song which violates one of these rules Preferred
8. Assigning Rules You may create and edit Rules from the main Natural Music screen by clicking Setup Rules w Sample Rules x File Edit Artist Blocks Help amp R RuleSet 1 z Copy Rules Print Help Close RuleSet 1 Rules nus Never Voina Restricted Code 0 H Minimum Separation 1 30 100 Add Rule F Female Max in a Row F Female Max per Hour re Instrumental Minimum Separation M Male Max in a Riow Edit Rule J Pre 5 Max per Hour J Pre 5 Minimum Separation x J Pre 5 No Segue To Kill Rule K 57 63 Max in a Row RuleSets Defined Natural Music RuleSets are groups of Rules for Artist Separation Gender Tempo Intensity Mood Style Otherfuser defined Prior Day Separation Song Circulation and Song Version separation You can create up to 9 completely separate RuleSets and assign them to be used during various days and or hours Also see Assign RuleSets Assign RuleSets to Days Hours In Setup Rules you will see a grid at the bottom of the screen which displays which RuleSet is in use for each hour of each day of the week At the top of the screen the currently displayed RuleSet is chosen using a dropdown box Each hour and day for which the currently selected RuleSet is in use is color coded as yellow in the assignment grid To assign the currently displayed RuleSet to an hour or day simply click in the grid cell for the day and hour That cell will turn
9. RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Gender is Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 oj x Rule Type Rule Type E ender 7 eS Restiction ype Max in a Row Restricted Code F Female Gender F Female Max in a Row Preferred Rule Songs Preferred Violation Points 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule 2 Songs Ea Help Cancel This will allow you to create and edit Rules in the currently selected RuleSet only to be applied to songs coded as Gender Male Female Duet Group or Instrumental when this RuleSet is in force For each Gender code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Gender Code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Gender code which may play in a row before a different Gender code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Gender code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Gender code may not Segue TO the Gender codes listed in this column Page 5 4 Natural Music User Manual Tempo Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Tempo ia Sample Edit Rule for RuleS
10. ck on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Circulation ia Sample Add New Rule to RuleSet 1 Eg Rule Type Rule Type Circulation 7 RestrictionT ype Hour x Set Rule Type Restriction Type Restricted Code Then set PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE Rule Levels Circulation Preferred Rule 10 0 to 15 Hours Preferred Violation Points fi oo 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule 3 0 to 15 Hours RQ Hel Sets the number of different Hour s in which a song must appear nh before it may reappear in an hour Enter the of hours in either or both of the PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE boxes x above Cancel This entry allows you force a song to appear in a number of hours or dayparts before repeating that hour or daypart There are 5 Dayparts for Circulation purposes Mid 6A 6A 10A 10A 3P 3P 7P and 7P 12Mid We recommend that this rule NOT be set up as Never Violate Instead set it up as Preferred rule and assign it a value for Violation Points A reasonable starting point is to set the Preferred rule to 10 hours or 2 dayparts You decide the importance of this rule by setting the Violation Points value 1 is lowest importance and 999 is highest To force a song not to appear 2 days in a row at exactly the same time use the Prior Day Separation rule Circulation Rules for Dayparted Songs Circulation Rules are adjusted for Dayparted songs s
11. ction applies to all categories unless they are specifically excluded from the rule To exclude 1 or more categories such as liners jingles etc from the No Repeat Zone rule type the category ID s in the Do NOT apply to Category s box on the No Repeat Zone rule screen If you want to exclude multiple categories separate them with commas Any categories excluded from the No Repeat Zone rule will be allowed to repeat in the No Repeat Zone Natural Music User Manual Page 5 13 Song DayPart Restrictions To create or edit DayPart codes click Setup Music Codes DayPart Codes from the Natural Music main screen w Sample DayPart Codes Eile Fa File View Songs Help D x amp D D E A New Open Delete Print Songs Help Close Sort by D ayPartiD x DayPartID DayPart Name Action Onto cong county No Drives Or Prime Rotate Song No Daytime At All Rotate Song Saturday Only Cruise Rotate Song Cruising Only Rotate Song No Weekday Middays A No Drives Or Prim po CANo Drives Or Prime _ S S OS OS O OSS OSS S O Dap te ta Baa a Fale aa TAR Apap Ee aa stae NOT allowed in these hours Left Click Prohibit Right Click Allow DayParts Defined DayPart codes allow you to prevent songs from playing at inappropriate times of the day or days of the week When you change the allowed days times for one of these cod
12. ectName x Protection HH MM Never Violation a 10 Also Protect Name te Pere ri Soe co AA Animals B Medley Baby Need Lovin 4K Beatles Diana Ross F Valli Get Ready Heard Grapevine Let It Be Me Light Fire Mama Cass Mamas amp Papas Paul Simon Proud Mar N w N N N NONN NN ow MN Also Protect Codes Defined You may define up to 676 different Also Protect Codes identified by AA through ZZ Each can have a different amount of time hours minutes protection before another song with the same Also Protect Code may be played Click Open to change any settings for an existing Also Protect code Each song can have up to 2 Also Protect Codes assigned to it These Protections can be any combination of Never Violate and Preferred protection If you enter a Preferred protection be sure to enter the Violation Points to be applied Enter the Protections as HH MM up to 24 hours Uses for Also Protect Codes Related Artists Also Protect codes are useful for protecting related artists For example you may want to protect all songs by individual members of the Beatles from Beatles songs and from each other by 45 minutes You would set up an Also Protect code for Beatles songs for example BT with a protection of 45 minutes Then any Beatles song or song related to Beatles can have the BT Also Protect code assigned to it and it will then be protected from all other songs ha
13. es it immediately applies this change to all songs to which this code is applied These DayPart codes are defined by you and identified by a single letter code A Z How to Setup DayPart Restrictions Select the desired DayPart code in the dropdown selection box Then Left Click in the DayPart restriction grid on any day row and hour column to change the cell from blank to X An X in the cell indicates that songs with this DayPart code will not play in this hour of this day To rename a DayPart code click Open with the desired DayPart Code highlighted Rotate on DayPart Failure Select Yes to tell the system to rotate songs to the back of the category if the DayPart Code doesn t allow them to play This is very useful to prevent the DayParted songs from stacking up at the top of the category stack and then all being logged at once when the DayPart Code expires Example Your Night Only dayparted songs will stack up all day at the top of your category stacks due to the DayPart restriction and your first Night hour will be overloaded with Night Only songs that haven t been able to play earlier in the day Page 5 14 Natural Music User Manual Also Protect Restrictions To create or edit AlsoProtect codes click Setup Music Codes AlsoProtect Codes from the Natural Music main screen i Sample AlsoProtect Codes iof x File View Songs Help Dlx S 2 Bl New Open Delete Print Songs Help Close Sort AlsoProt
14. et 1 iof x Rule Type Rule Type Tempo Restiction ype Max in a Row Restricted Code Tempo 1 Slow Max in a Row Preferred Rule fi Songs ave Preferred Violation Points 1100 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule 2 Songs Q Cancel This will allow you to create and edit Rules in the currently selected RuleSet only to be applied to songs coded with Tempo 1 through 5 slow to fast when this RuleSet is in force For each Tempo code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Tempo Code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Tempo code which may play in a row before a different Tempo code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Tempo code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Tempo code may not Segue TO the Tempo codes listed in this column Minimum Average This sets a minimum average Tempo over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 0 Maximum Average This sets a maxmimum average Tempo over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 5 Natural Music User Manual Page 5 5 Intensity Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Inte
15. nsity ia Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 iof x Rule Type Rule Type Intensity z Restiction ype Max per Hour Restricted Code 1 Low v RA n Intensity 1 Low Max per Hour Preferred Rule 3 Songs Save Preferred Violation Points ft oo 0 to 1000 Points A Help Never Violate Rule 4 Songs x Cancel This will allow you to create and edit Rules in the currently selected RuleSet only to be applied to songs coded with Intensity 1 through 5 Low to High when this RuleSet is in force For each Intensity code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Intensity Code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Intensity code which may play in a row before a different Intensity code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Intensity code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Intensity code may not Segue TO the Intensity codes listed in this column Minimum Average This sets a minimum average Intensity over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 0 Maximum Average This sets a maximum average Intensity over 3 songs which must be maintained To turn this control off set it to 5 Page 5 6 Natural Music User Manual Mood Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from
16. o Dayparted songs don t get precluded from playing by Circulation Rules Example Suppose you have a Circulation Rule of 10 hours and a song is Dayparted so that it can only play 7P 12Midnight The 10 hour Circulation Rule would allow the song to play once in each hour 7P 12Midnight but then never play again because the song could never appear in 10 other hours before repeating an hour Natural Music will automatically adjust the Circulation Rule for this Dayparted song to 2 hours This is calculated as 10 x 5 24 which is the 10 hour normal circulation rule multiplied by the 5 hours in which the song may play divided by 24 hours in a normal day Natural Music User Manual Page 5 11 Song Version Rules w Buzz DB Add New Rule to RuleSet 1 Ed Rule Type Rule Type Song Version z RestrictionT ype Minimum Separation 7 Set Rule Type Restriction Type Restricted Code Then set PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE Rule Levels Song Yersion Minimum Separation Preferred Rule hh mm Preferred Violation Points 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule hh mm Sets the amount of separation required in hh mm between DIFFERENT VERSIONS of a song with exactly the same title Enter hh mm 00 00 to 999 00 separation in either or both of the x PREFERRED and or NEVER VIOLATE boxes above Cai Song Version Rule sets the amount of separation required in hh mm between DIFFERENT versions of a song with
17. restrictions and are identified by a single letter from A Z From the Main Natural Music screen select Setup MusicCodes OtherCodes to create these Other Codes and assign meaningful descriptions Rules for Other Codes With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType as Other For each Style code you may set up rules for any of these Restriction Types Minimum Song Separation This is the minimum number of songs which must play before this Other Code may repeat Max in a Row This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Other Code which may play in a row before a different Other Code must play Max per Hour This is the maximum number of songs coded with this Other Code which may play in a given hour No Segue TO This Other Code may not Segue TO the Other Codes listed in this column i Sample Edit Rule for RuleSet 1 Torx Rule Type Rule Type Other r Restriction ype Minimum Separation Y Restricted Code Other J Pre 57 Minimum Separation Preferred Rule Songs ave Preferred Violation Points 0 to 1000 Points Never Violate Rule ft Songs R Help Cancel Natural Music User Manual Page 5 9 Prior Day Separation Rules With the appropriate RuleSet selected from Setup Rules you may click on Add Edit or Kill for the currently selected rule Select RuleType
18. rumental Minimum Separation Edit Rule M Male Max in a Rlow J Pre 5 Max per Hour J Pre 5 Minimum Separation x J Pre 57 No Seque Ta Kill Rule K 57 63 Max in a Row You can then set the Artist Block override rules on the following screen ia ArtistBlock Settings ie x Minimum Song Count for an Artist to Qualify for an Artist Block 5 x Songs R Help Allowable Category SeachDepth to Create an Artist Block 20 x Use Rules During Artist Blocks jail These settings override normal settings during Artist Blocks An Artist Block is when you want to play more than 1 song in a row by the SAME artist Page 5 16 Natural Music User Manual Natural Music User Manual Page 5 17
19. ving the BT code by at least 45 minutes Title Separation This can also be used to prevent 2 versions of the same song from appearing too close together There are few times this situation might occur but it if does such as for Christmas songs you can create an Also Protect code and assign it to all versions of a song to get the requisite separation NOTE as of version 5 0 230 this can also be accomplished more easily using a Song Version rule See RULES in section 5 Other Uses You can use this for any other protection you need Just create a 2 letter code enter the protection time desired and assign the code to all songs to be protected from each other Natural Music User Manual Page 5 15 Suspending Rules in Artist Blocks You may get excessive missed songs in Artist Blocks This can be caused if an artist has few songs in your library if many of an artist s songs are precluded from filling an Artist Block by rules violations or by Category Search Depth restrictions NM5 allows you to override some normal settings by clicking Setup Rules from the main NM5 screen Then click Artist Blocks on the Rules menu w Sample Rules x File Edit Artist Blocks Help amp RuleSet 1 zl Copy Rules Print Help Close m RuleSet 1 Rules Rule Never Mialanan E p Restricted Code Restriction Type Ba O f Artist Minimum Separation 30 Ei Add Rule F Female Max in a Row F Female Max per Hour Inst
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