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1. 16 Edit Your Music 16 PINE Your Musie 17 To Create Your Dream Log 18 MOM s Features 20 Mast PERU EEEE esa 20 Create EE ER been chi ab Error Bookmark not defined Generate Music LOGSE iss 20 Delete Last EEEE ahead cc eee een ee 37 Delete Logs ss Error Bookmark not defined Return to Main Mente acvvosecsciasavvatiecivhinasiabeasvinaaseaeastueased on Error Bookmark not defined Edit Musie 33 Print 37 TRH NE Ea IRONS 20 Speed Keys E EER E E E AE E REE EN E E dias esi db aida A E a 23 Keys Bias ves Se i ea bag ovis he dea hac AEE V A E ENE evo Meas a ee 24 Dajp trting Windows he abs ed aes ues be ee eden eT ee eee 26 Separation Category E E ra iii 28 Adding or 28 Setup 38 39 SEDATION Categories 40 Hour 42 Sod 44 Se 45 Formatting Your Logs
2. 62 Commonly Asked Questions 64 Technical Support 67 Appendix 69 Making Copies Of MOM suns 69 Index 70 Introduction Introduction Do you refuse to read manuals Turn to our QuickStart section on Page 8 It highlights some of the most important features to get you up and running as soon as possible Are you upgrading from an earlier version of MOM install program will automatically update your data and most of the setup information But because she has many new features you should go over your data and setup information to see what the upgrade process did and make sure it reflects your station s requirements Help MOM offers on screen help When in doubt press lt F1 gt for a list of keyboard commands tailored to the particular screen that you are on You will also find a list of commonly asked questions on page 64 Welcome to Welcome to MOM stands for Music Operations Manager MOM is a powerful and sophisticated radio station music scheduling program What MOM does MOM keeps track of your station s entire Music Library 1 2 3 MOM stores your Music Library by category as many categories as you want MOM randomly rotates the songs picked from each song category MOM lets you easily add songs remove songs move them from one category to another and change a song s position in the play order MOM prints out you
3. Music Operations Manager Music Scheduling Software for Your Station Extrasensory Software Music Operations Manager Music Scheduling Software for Your Station Version 3 Extrasensory Software Copyright Under the copyright laws neither the documentation nor the software may be copied photocopied reproduced translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form in whole or in part except in the manner described in the documentation Copyright 1990 2000 Extrasensory Software P O Box 3038 Glendale CA 91221 0038 voice 1 818 550 9487 fax 1 818 550 8275 e mail sales extrasensory com All rights reserved Printed in the United States For IBM compatible systems operating under MS DOS Version 3 3 and above MOM Version 3 was created by Ira Emus of Extrasensory Software manual was written by Ira Emus and Robyn Wiener IBM is a Registered Trademark of IBM Incorporated Extrasensory Software is a registered trademark of Extrasensory Software Special thanks to our dedicated beta testers and advisors and an extra special thanks to Ange Canessa U S Government Restricted Rights The software and documentation are provided with restricted rights Use duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252 227 7013 or subparagraphs c 1
4. miss she could get locked up in an endless loop never able to find a song that fits all of your separation rules Forcing now and then alerts you to potential problems If a song seems to get too much airplay make sure you haven t put two copies of the same song in the library This happens more often than you might think For example you might have put copies of the same song in two different categories Spelling and punctuation are critical in the Music Library As far as MOM is concerned Sophie B Hawkins and Sophie B Hawkins are two different artists Make it a habit to check your Artist Names occasionally and look for errors like this We program four stopsets an hour but sometimes the commercial load is so light we can skip one or two Any way to get MOM to program a cover song for those times If you have flexible stopsets that you may or may not run program the clock like this Instead of programming say 3 minutes for the stopset program zero minutes and call it stopset or Follow this with a cover song from a general category If the spots do run the jock plays them and skips the cover song The dummy time MOM allots for the cover song will be filled by the spots If there are no spots scheduled the jock plays the cover song MOM sometimes uses two pages just to print hour What can I do to stop this You can use less detail for your non music elements For example rath
5. Exit back to the main menu Edit Menu The Log Editor Edit menu contains the following options Add Item Add a new line or replace the current line with something else Edit Song Edit this song in the Music Library Delete Item Delete the current line Locate Next Play Find the next occurrence of the current song View Menu The Log Editor View menu contains the following options Mark Category Highlight all of the songs in a Music or Separation Category Filter by Category Only show songs in a particular Music Category Toggle Noisy Filter Display or hide all non musical elements Zoom Toggle between 25 and 50 line modes Song History Display the play history of the current song Change Menu The Log Editor Change menu contains the following options Mark This Song Mark the current song This becomes the marked song Swap with Marked Swap the current song with the marked song This allows exchanging 2 songs with each other Move Marked Here Moved the marked song above the cursor Change Time Allows changing the play time Move Up Down Move the current song up or down in the log 32 Music Logs e Fixup Hour Times If you have made a bunch of changes and think that the times on the left edge are out of whack this will fix them right up e Mark All Occurrences Highlights all occurrences of the current song Order Menu The selections on this menu allow you to
6. stand out Separator What to follow this item with e g any two characters blank for one space or XX for no following space Fail Codes reported by the lt force gt field 1 F Separation Category letter The song failed the May Not Follow rule for the indicated Separation Category 2 M Separation Category letter The song failed the Max in a row criteria of Separation Categories as indicated You can view them in the Edit Separation gt Category screen 3 SS The song failed the OK After Stopsets rule CD a song follows another song on the same CD 5 H1 H2 H3 and H4 The song failed the Horizontal Separation from yesterday H1 the day before H2 the day before that H3 or the day before that H4 53 Formatting Your Logs and Printouts 6 DY The song failed the Dayparting restriction Because of the way MOM handles dayparting this will rarely happen except perhaps in very small categories 7 VS The song failed the Vertical Artist Separation test Edit Log Definition Creating an Edit Log is very similar to creating a Log Format The one difference is that the time in HH MM SS format will always appear at the left edge of the screen This means that you probably won t want to include lt time gt Library Printout Definition This enables you to customize your Music Library printouts to fit your needs For instance you may want t
7. Display Order Order Played lt Alt O gt will display the songs in the order they are most likely to be played e g rotation order Order Brings up a list of display orders You may choose from Order Played Artist Last Name Song Title and Song Length The last order you select will be saved and used the next time you enter the Music Library Print Prints your Music Library as it is currently displayed This gives you a lot of freedom Printing from the Music Library respects any filter or order you might have chosen Among other things this enables you to generate a Music Library Printout that shows only the songs in a particular Separation Category Reverse Reverses the currently displayed order of your Music Library It toggles between A Z and Z A Add to Sublist Adds this song to a Sublist category A Sublist is a special type of category that may only contain songs that are part of another Music Category You can use this for placing an unusual set of songs in a particular spot each day We included this option at the request of someone who wanted to play a Love Song every morning at 8 15 This will work only if you have defined a Sublist category in Setup 25 Features When you re viewing the Music Library the following menu choices are available File Menu The Music Library File menu contains the following options Print Current Print a list of the songs currently displ
8. Require password for setup 45 Setup Minutes Between Same Artist How many minutes of Vertical Separation between artists do you want You can choose from 0 to 999 Entering Zero minutes tells MOM not to worry about Vertical Separation of artists Remember the higher the number the more songs MOM may have to reject While MOM allows up to 999 minutes 16 65 hours of separation choosing a very large separation period will cause severe Vertical Separation failures in most Music Libraries Thirty to 90 minutes of separation works fine for most formats Days of Horizontal Separation This is the number of days that you want between two plays of the same song in the same hour For example 0 means ignore Horizontal Separation while 4 means allow four days between same hour plays It is reasonable to set the Horizontal Separation to 4 and just accept that your small fast rotation categories will have Horizontal Separation failures We put the Red Flag Line in the Select Log Reject Order screen for exactly this reason If you place the 2 3 and 4 day separation lines above the Red Flag Line then you can ignore most of the yellow flagged errors Minutes of Horizontal Separation This is the number of minutes a song played today must be displaced from the time the same song was played the day s before This number can be set from 1 to 99 For example if you set this to 60 MOM will check the previous days for
9. SCCHING 005 biel heed 40 Pipbletits 52 QuickStart eee 9 50 48 Reject See Log Reject Order Restore from 54 Rotation Analysis 48 Separate same CD 13 40 Separation Categories 9 10 15 33 Max Ina 10 71 Index May Not 10 Speed 25 Setup Information 31 PEMA nna a nas 31 45 Since See Period Counter Speed Keys DaypartiNg ise 25 Music Library Sinisen 25 Separation 25 SU sts isis aid aeri 10 Technical Featnres 51 Technical 58 Vertical Separation MINUTES Of 39 View Last 50 72
10. You d probably want Horizontal 1 day errors to show up red as that s a big no no Print Setup Information This prints your Setup information In addition to having it as a reference you will also be able to refer to it while entering your Music Library 48 Reset Reset The Reset Menu contains the following options Reset Period Counters Reset the period counters for all songs to zero Erase the Play History Erase the history entries for all songs in the Music Library Reset Month Counters Reset all 12 months of monthly play history to zero Reset Logs and Printouts Set the log and printout formats to their defaults Randomize the Library Randomize the play order of your Music Library Check and repair clocks This will correct any problems in your clocks If your computer crashes and you get errors when trying to create logs you should always try this first It shouldn t do anything but if there is a problem it will fix it If there was a problem that this fixed you should go through all of your clocks to see if anything needs fixing Delete all Music logs This will delete every music log from your disk and will not change any history You should never need this but if you want to start fresh and don t care about history you might want this Calculate average song times This checks every song in every category figures out the average song time and puts them in the Average Song Time
11. lt Right gt and then you can see the recycle depth screen by pressing lt Right gt a second time To jump to a specific section of your Music Library type the first letter of the current display order Speed Search feature will take you there This works only when Artist Last Name CD Cartno or Title is the selected display order The bottom of the screen contains detailed information about the currently highlighted song The detail screen displays the following information Title Title of the song Artist Artist s name Category Music category optionally followed by Sub Category Tempo Use this for tempo or for anything else you can think of Plays Since XX XX Period Counters The number of times a song has been played on Music Logs printed since the indicated date Under this is a second Since 22 Features number This is the number of plays that occurred between those two dates We will refer to this second number as the Previous Period Counter Time Number of minutes and seconds of airtime Intro Can be used for single or double posts e g 04 13 Outro C for Cold F for Fade F C for a Fade with a Cold tail etc OK Out of Stops May this song be played out of stopsets lt gt or lt N gt CD Cart CD or Cart number Up to ten characters Handy MOM Tip Your logs can only be so wide Try to use the smallest number of chara
12. 25 change play order 27 choose display 27 COMMEDE scsvesscvaessereonsseontessevesnovennts 14 25 COMMENTS 29 Dayparting Restrictions 9 15 25 Dayparting 28 Editing 26 entering NEW 00 13 Filter by Separation 26 Increment play count 27 Intro seed ets eet 14 25 Move song to New 27 14 OK Out 14 25 Outro 09 14 25 printing comments in oo eee 43 printing current VIEW oo eee eee eeseeeees 27 Problems tcsicgesteesstctevsessveutouadeaseeovics 52 Remove song play cceceesseseeseeseeneenes 26 reversing display 27 saving your Changes s src 14 Separation 1 9 15 25 Separation Category 28 Show All 26 Speed 25 14 24 Track Number sc issscessisescevecstesesncees 14 25 view Song History ceceeseeeseeeseeeeeees 26 Music Log un hide cccccccecsssssesseteeeceeeeees 22 25 50 line v
13. I make a back up copy of my library and other data files 58 Technical Features amp Things You Need To Know Technical Features amp Things You Need To Know Your computer s internal date feature must be correct for MOM to work properly It should be set to today s date Check your computer s Instruction Manual or a DOS guide for instructions on how to set the correct date Commonly you just type lt gt at the DOS prompt and then enter the correct date 1 Details about files a The entire program is contained in one file MOM EXE b MOM creates a number of important data files automatically they are named dbf and smt Please do not delete these files or restore only part of them They contain a snapshot of your system and if they get mixed up with parts of a different snapshot you might notice MOM acting very strangely c SETUP DBF and SETUP SMT These files contain important things like your serial number and password MOM cannot operate without them d The files called YYYYMMDD are histories of the last few days logs Losing them only means that Horizontal Separation will not work right for a few days and Vertical Separation will not work right for the first hour or two You should back up all of these files using Backup Data Files from Extra Features menu 59 Emergencies Problems amp Special Operation Emergencies Problems amp Special Operat
14. Setup Menu sooner choose Setup Disable Setup Options Music Categories 1 Choose Setup Music Categories 2 Press lt Ins gt and fill in the columns a b d f g Category Type in up to three letters for the Music Category abbreviation Description Type in a description of your category Sublist For the time being leave this set to No Depth For the time being leave this set to 0 Block For the time being leave this set to 0 Qty Quantity is filled in automatically by MOM Time Set this to your estimated average time for a song in this category This is only used to make it easier for you to design your hours so for the moment an educated guess is all it needs 3 Repeat this for all of your Music Categories 4 Press lt Esc gt to exit Separation Categories 1 Choose Setup Separation Categories 2 Press lt Ins gt and fill in the columns a b Code Choose up to four letters for the Separation Category abbreviation Name Type in a description of your category QuickStart In a Row This can be set from 0 to 99 In the beginning we recommend that you do not set more than 1 or 2 categories below 7 d Minutes of Separation Tell MOM how many minutes to put between plays of songs in this category e May Not Follow Tell MOM which category this category may not follow You can only choose from previously ent
15. a massive computer crash wipes out a month s worth of work Clean Up Data Files This reorganizes your data files You should do this if things start to look strange and after a partial restore A partial restore being the restoration of any files from the MOM system without restoring all of them This might happen if you loose your password and have to recover it from your original MOM floppy Because things never should look strange you never should have to use this Other than that this will need to be run once for every two billion songs scheduled something that is unlikely to happen in your lifetime If you programmed one song per second it would be about 134 years before you d actually need to run this Reindex Data Files This enables you to reorganize your data files You should do this if things start to look strange Because things never should look strange you never should have to use this Normally this will only be needed after crashes power outages and the like There is no penalty for choosing this other than the few seconds it takes to run 55 Extra Features View last printed report If you have your printer set to VIEW or FILE this will show the last printed report without having to print it again If there is no report to show this menu option will vanish Edit Artist Names This brings up a list of all of your artists from every category Use this to view the artists in your Music Library especially after y
16. is filled in and kept up to date by MOM 39 Setup Time The average play time of a song in this category This is used by MOM to show you the time while in the Edit Hour Clock screen In order to make editing hour clocks as easy as possible try to get this as close as possible To add a Music Category press lt Ins gt and fill in the required fields To delete a Music Category highlight the category and then press lt Del gt If a category contains any songs you will not be able to delete that category To edit the Music Category abbreviation or description Press lt Enter gt and make your changes If you change the abbreviation MOM will update all occurrences of the old abbreviation This will take a moment or two To arrange categories use lt Ctrl Up gt and lt Ctrl Down gt Handy MOM Tip Use a dummy category to rest songs Our sample station uses the DUM category Burned out songs are moved to the DUM category using lt Alt M gt Because DUM is not included in any Hour Clocks MOM never uses songs from that category Later those songs can be reassigned to an active category or just deleted Separation Categories Separation Categories are a way to describe your music to MOM You will use these Separation Categories to code each song s Tempo Gender male female group etc Style Rock Pop Metal Rap etc A country station may use Separation Categories to assign songs as Traditional o
17. never play at certain times Dayparting is a very powerful feature use it with caution in the beginning If you re going to be entering a number of songs with identical or similar dayparting rules you can copy the dayparting rules of the current song by choosing Edit Copy Daypart info You may then apply them to another song by choosing Edit Paste Daypart info or by pressing lt Ctrl V gt Now you have finished entering your first song When you have finished entering your entire library or enough of your library that you are ready to try generating a log you can go onto the next step Generate A Log Press lt gt until you are back at the Main Menu Choose File Music Logs If this is the first time you ve chosen this you will be told that there are no logs to view and asked if you d like to generate one If you get this question say Yes Otherwise you will be presented with a list of logs available to view If you are viewing a log you may generate an additional log by choosing File Create a new Log As soon as MOM finishes creating the log you will be placed in the log editor Edit Your Music Log There are six different types of lines on your log They are 1 Regular Songs white text on dark blue 2 Stopsets Comments white text on dark blue 3 Hour markers black text on cyan or greenish 16 QuickStart 4 Yellow rejected songs yellow text on dark blue 5 Red rejected songs red text on dark blue 6 F
18. so she single spaces it There are five different types of lines on your log They are 1 Regular Songs white text on dark blue 33 Music Logs 2 Stopsets Comments white text on dark blue 3 Hour markers black text on cyan or greenish 4 Yellow rejected songs yellow text on dark blue 5 Red rejected songs red text on dark blue 6 Fill Songs yellow text on dark blue The header at the top of each hour tells you what hour and day you are in It also tells MOM where the page breaks are MOM highlights all songs that have been forced rejected or that are Fill songs Fill songs and less important rejections are highlighted in yellow Rejected songs that you may want to fix are highlighted in red MOM keeps information on what types of reject reasons are flagged red under Setup Edit Reject Rules or File Edit Reject Rules The lt Arrow gt keys move the highlight bar up and down and move the screen sideways if you have more information than can fit in 80 columns Handy MOM Tip If you show more information than can fit on your screen put the most important information on the left side of the screen The following keys allow you to edit your log lt Ctrl Up Arrow gt and lt Ctrl Down Arrow gt move the current song up or down one row at a time lt Esc gt Exits this screen lt Del gt Deletes the current item MOM always asks if you re sure you want to do this lt Ins gt Inserts a new lin
19. the same song played within 60 minutes of the current time Printer Port MOM needs to know where your printer is connected If you don t know type VIEW You can go always go back to Setup and change your printer port selection later The options are LPT 1 LPT2 LPT3 FILE or VIEW If you have a question please ask your resident computer person for help FILE prints to a file called print txt that can be viewed or printed later VIEW prints to a file called print txt and brings it up in an on screen viewer From the viewer you may print to LPT1 LPT2 or LPT3 46 Setup Page Length lines MOM needs to know how many lines per page your printer supports The default setting is 60 MOM allows values between 35 and 99 Separate Same CD Songs If two songs have the exact same CD Cart number this will keep them from playing back to back Note If you set this to Yes and also make all of your CD Cart numbers the same as one of our beta testers did you ll find that every single song is rejected for this reason Program Minutes Per Hour MOM programs each hour until she reaches this number of minutes This allows you to adjust the average length of the Music Logs MOM will generate You may select any number between 56 and 64 Edit Reject Rules If MOM can t find a song that meets your rules MOM will have to force a song Ideally this never will happen If you find that MOM is
20. view the log in 4 different orders Three of them have nothing to do with how the log will play so be very careful if you move things around when the log is not displayed By Time You may also find the alternate views most useful when used with the Noisy View lt Ctrl N gt The Log Editor Order menu contains the following options By Time Sort the items in the order in which they will be played e By Artist Sort the songs by Artist name The songs will appear at the end as the non musical elements have no artist By Category Sort the songs by category The songs will appear at the end as the non musical elements have no category Song Title Sort the items by title AM and PM Menus The selections on the AM and PM menus allow you to jump directly to an hour Edit Music Log This selection displays a list of logs available for you to edit MOM updates the Library s history and counters to reflect a Music Log when you first print it Until then you may edit to your heart s content Music Logs that have been printed are displayed with a leading asterisk If you need to edit a Music Log after printing you must manually update MOM s histories play counts and period counts Log Editor was designed to let you see as much information as possible in the least amount of space The printed log is double spaced for greater readability On screen MOM wants to show you as much as possible
21. you a different Day Clock for each day of each of your Week Clocks MOM uses military 24 hour time 17 00 5 00PM To edit a Day Clock select the Week Clock and day you wish to edit and then press lt Enter gt For each hour of each day that you want MOM to program enter the Hour Clock you want used If you mistype the name of an Hour Clock MOM will bring up a list from which you can choose Hint You can type in nonsense to bring up the list If you go off the air during certain hours simply leave those hours blank MOM will not schedule music during those hours Similarly if you sign on at 5 00AM leave the hours between midnight 00 00 and 4 00AM 04 00 blank 44 Setup Neremal Sunday Ageian an Hour Clock to every hour you want scheduled Clock 4 Because many stations program one day identically to the next MOM allows you to copy and paste Day Clocks While viewing a Day Clock you wish to copy choose Edit Copy While viewing a Day Clock you wish to look the same choose Edit Paste If you try to leave without saving your Hour Clock changes MOM will offer to save them for you General Setup General setup contains setup options that didn t fit anywhere else Minutes Between Same Artist Days of Horizontal Separation 2 Minutes of Horizontal Separation 9 Printer Port Page Length lt 1 Separate Same CD Songs Program minutes per hour Require password to start
22. your clock longer than one hour to guarantee that you will never get a fill song made a few changes in the Setup and added a brand new song out of the box So I want to re do tomorrow s Music Log Use File ReCreate this Log while viewing the problem log We program one hour of stock reports every morning at 4 00 How can I tell MOM to skip that hour Leave that hour in the Day Clock blank and it won t print MOM flags lot of my Top Ten songs with the error code a number What s wrong This is a common problem when you program a lot of songs from a Music Category that contains only a few songs Its MOM s Horizontal Separation feature which is designed to prevent listeners from hearing the same song at the same time on consecutive days You may want to change this to just one day of Horizontal Separation in the Setup section Or turn it OFF by entering a zero Note Small fast rotation categories will have Horizontal Separation failures if you turn on Horizontal Separation This doesn t mean that you shouldn t use it but it does mean that you can probably ignore all Horizontal Separation failures greater than one day You may find it useful to set your Log Reject Order so that Horizontal Separation failures greater than one day are displayed in yellow 64 Commonly Asked Questions Why does MOM ever play rejected songs If MOM were NOT allowed to force a song that is play a
23. 50 Log Format Definition ivsscttiercset es 50 Fail Codes reported by the lt force gt 53 ise 54 Library Printout Definitions 54 Print Setup Information sip 48 Select Lo 47 Information On System Error Bookmark not defined Extra Features 55 T 29 SONG EATA 55 Backup Data ice A Sit 55 Clean Up Data EES tik A 55 Reindex Data Tiles sic Sot Macs 55 Edit Artist NAMES 56 Vew Last 57 Technical Features amp Things You Need To Know 59 Emergencies Problems amp Special Operation 60 Power Failure or Accidental Reset A E E eiai 60 Music Library gs 60 Losine Your Passov 61 MOM Command Line Error Bookmark not defined DOS File cs ie seat ek acess 61 Major File
24. 6 in Artist Name list 49 in Log Format 0 43 7 in Music Library 25 26 in password entry 8 in Report Viewers 50 in text entry 7 Library Printout 45 Log Format 41 CHEATING 17 eG ee 45 printing comments in eee 43 Log Format Editor kes ied it 43 Log Reject 13 viewing and 46 Main Menu features AS 19 Making Copies Of 60 Max 34 Not Follows 34 Menus Red highlighted letters tee ee eeeeeees 7 7 Minutes between same 12 Month Counters ZETO seceded ede eid eaten ices 31 Music 1 10 32 Cate POLY 32 32 QUAN e 32 10 32 Music 23 add song to Sublist 27 Artist Name 14 ALLISt 29 Artists for Separation 14 29 CategOnes 9 24 e E 14
25. DBF h SEPCATS DBF i SETUP DBF j SETUP SMT Delete your indexes by typing DEL NSX lt Enter gt 4 Backup your data to one or more blank floppies by typing COPY DBF A lt Enter gt and COPY SMT A lt Enter gt Or make sure you have a very recent backup 5 Delete your data by typing DEL DBF lt Enter gt and DEL SMT lt Enter gt 62 Emergencies Problems amp Special Operation 6 Copy the data from your most recent backup by typing COPY A lt Enter gt from the MOM directory Do this for each of the backup disks if there is more than one This should copy the files listed in step 2 7 Run MOM by typing MOM She will reindex your files and all should be well again 63 Commonly Asked Questions Commonly Asked Questions MOM adds a lot of Fill songs to certain hours every time Why Probably your assigned Average Song Lengths on your Define Music Categories screen are too long which means MOM fills in all the assigned songs and still has clock time left over Try shortening the Song Lengths by 10 or 15 seconds Then edit your hour clocks again to be sure stopsets and other elements are hitting at the right time You may have to make some adjustments e g adding a song or two to the clock Handy MOM Tip MOM allows Hour Clocks to be up to 90 minutes long But MOM will only schedule until she s used up 60 minutes This means that you can program
26. M SS lt tempo length gt Tempo up to 5 characters lt outro length gt lt categor gt Music Category this is always 3 characters lt sep length gt Separation Categories up to 20 characters This displays a list of capital letters that represent the Separation Categories assigned to this song If you look in Setup Separation Categories you will see the corresponding letters for your Separation Categories You also can see them if you print your Setup information Fail code shows why this song was forced 2 Formatting Your Logs and Printouts characters See Fail codes on Page 53 for an explanation of what they mean lt stop Y N gt OK out of stopset MOM will ask you to choose what to print for yes and what to print for no You can enter up to 6 characters for each of the two answers lt comment indent gt Comments will print on the line below Indent will be replaced by the number of spaces that the comment will be indented The lt comment gt is special No matter where you put it in the line it will print on the following line A song without a comment will not create an extra blank line lt daypart length gt Daypart list up to 20 characters This displays a list of lower case letters that represent this songs Dayparting rules If you look in Setup Hour Clocks you will see the corresponding letters f
27. OM will ask if you d like to decrement the Previous Period Counter If you say No MOM will decrement the Period Counter Choose Brings up the Separation Category window See the description at the end of the list of keys Daypart Brings up the Dayparting window See the description at the end of the list of keys Filter Filters by Separation Category Allows you to look at all the songs in your Music Library belonging to a particular Separation Category lt Ctrl A gt will remove the filter 24 lt Ctri H gt lt Ctri Il gt lt Ctril M gt lt Alt O gt lt Ctri P gt lt Ctri R gt lt Ctri X gt Features History Show or edit this song s history MOM keeps track of the last 100 plays of this song This feature is also available from the Edit Music Log screen If there is no history the history window will not appear Increment Adds one play to the Month Counter and one play to the Period Counter or the Previous Period Counter When you press lt 1 1 gt MOM will ask if you really want to do this If you say Yes MOM will ask if you d like to increment the Previous Period Counter If you say No MOM will increment the Period Counter Move Moves this song to another category and allows you to place it anywhere in the rotation of the new category Use this to adjust a song s place in the rotation order in the current category by leaving the category the same Choosing
28. Un Hide headers and stopsets This is a toggle It enables you to hide everything that isn t music making it easier to see how the music has been scheduled Swap Enables you to swap any two songs in the log First mark the song you want to swap with lt Space gt Then find the song you want to swap with and press lt Alt S gt Voila The songs have changed places and all of the times have been updated Zoom Enables toggling between 25 and 50 line mode If you have a VGA monitor that supports 50 line mode this will enable you to view the log 47 lines at a time instead of the normal 22 lines Our programmer suggests you try this to see if you like it Reformat Recreates the log display If you change the Edit Log format in File Edit Display Format after creating your log this will update your view to the latest Edit Log format 35 Music Logs Editing Your Music Log There are five different types of lines on your log They are 1 Regular Songs white text on dark blue 2 Stopsets Comments white text on dark blue 3 Hour markers black text on cyan or greenish 4 Yellow rejected songs yellow text on dark blue 5 Red rejected songs red text on dark blue 6 Fill Songs yellow text on dark blue There are several ways that you can view and edit your log You now are looking at the See Everything view MOM also offers the Music Only view which you can get into or out of by pres
29. Vertical and Horizontal Separation settings e Follows Same CD setting Also the Period and Previous Period Since XX XX dates will be lost DOS File Handle Error When you first run MOM you MAY get this error Error There are not enough available file handles to run the MOM program Please refer to the MOM documentation to fix the problem Press any key 61 Emergencies Problems amp Special Operation If you get this error when you try to run MOM your computer is being asked by MOM to open more files than it can You may have to contact your computer whiz to correct this problem or consult your computer or DOS manual Here is the procedure to follow To correct Modify your CONFIG SYS file normally C CONFIG SYS so that it includes the line FILES 99 If you don t have a CONFIG SYS file create one It s an ASCII text file that Windows or DOS looks for and gets instructions from when your computer starts Be sure to reboot reset your computer after changing this file Major Crash amp File Restore Sometimes hard disks fail Sometimes disgruntled ex employees wreak revenge To restore your data from a backup follow these steps 1 Change to your MOM directory CD MOM lt Enter gt 2 Make sure that you have a backup disk or disks that contains at least the following 9 files a ARTISTS DBF b CLOCK DBF c CLOCK DBF d WEEKCLOK DBF e LIBRARY DBF f LOGDEFS DBF LISTS
30. abbreviations Select the one that you want and press lt Enter gt This field comes up blank so that you may enter songs into any category Note If you enter a song for another category it will be placed into the proper category as soon as you save it If you want to view your entry and you ve placed it into a category other than the viewing you must press lt Alt G gt and change to that category Or you may just press lt gt to place yourself into View All Categories mode If this seems too confusing you can enter your songs one category at a time Sort Use the Mouse or the left and right arrow keys to move the pointer to where you want MOM to alphabetize this artist in the Artist by Last Name sort order For Natalie Merchant you d probably want the pointer under the M in Merchant Tempo Enter the song s tempo NOTE This field is only for your information Use your separation categories if you wish to sort by tempo Artists for Separation Additional artists that MOM can use to enhance her ability to maintain your Vertical Separation rules MOM will help by suggesting names that you have already entered If the name that you are entering is a new one MOM will ask if you want to add it You might use this to add John Lennon and Paul McCartney to a Beatles song so that MOM will not play the Beatles immediately followed by John Lennon Time Enter the Song Length minutes sec
31. and 2 of the Commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52 227 19 as applicable Contents Introduction 1 Do you refuse to tead mantal iioii teed apii 1 Are you upgrading from an earlier version of 1 Welcome to 2 What MOM 2 What you will do to operate 3 Installing Mom On Your Computer 5 pe 5 Uperiade Error Bookmark not defined Running Moni For sea sees oai 5 Ghoosine tele 6 QuickStart 8 MUSIC Categories ics Bcc aE AGES aa va Ta a vue habs Yesebung i encens P E a oa iaai ai 9 SEPATALLON CAUCE roi cscs TA ER EE 9 Hour Clocksis astonis iisti aa tes tvks 10 GIOCRS ini 11 General 12 Select Order Aa AE seeds 13 Print Set p Information ve danse ry belay Woah svi beaded 13 Enter your Music Libratyiccscce toss cnet ak in cians 13 Generate A LOG sis cece steele ae dash Oe
32. ayed in the order they are currently displayed Print All Print all of the songs in the library Edit Artists Edit artist s names You should look at this occasionally to check for duplicate and misspelled names Edit Print Format Edit the look of your Music Library printouts Exit Return to the main menu Edit Menu The Music Library Edit menu contains the following options Add Add a new song Add Packet Add a new packet Edit Edit the current song Delete Delete the current song Copy Daypart info Save a copy of the current songs daypart information Paste Daypart info Apply the saved daypart info to the current song This can dramatically speed up dayparting a group of similar songs View Menu The Music Library View menu contains the following options All Songs View all of your songs at one time in one of 9 different orders Filter by SepCat Displays all of the songs in your library in a particular separation category in an order you select Filter by Daypart Displays all of songs in your library which can play particular hour clock in an order you select 26 Features e History Display the songs play history Shows the last 98 plays of the current song This display is only accurate to within 10 minutes or so e Reverse Display This causes your music to display in an order opposite the current display A Z becomes Z A Choosing this a sec
33. blem U S Mail Write to MOM Technical Support Extrasensory Software P O Box 3038 Glendale California 91221 Telephone 1 818 550 9487 Note Telephone technical support is available Monday through Friday between 10 00AM and 4 00PM California time Technical support messages that are left before 10 00AM or after 4 00PM will be atomized Fax 1 818 550 8275 e mail techsupport extrasensory com BRIGHT RED If you get a red box that says Oops Something went wrong Please see Emergencies in your manual Exit Please do the following 1 Ata DOS prompt in your MOM directory type DEL NSX 2 Try running MOM again If this doesn t fix it you ve got a more serious problem and you ll need to take the following three steps 3 At the DOS prompt type DEL PS_ERROR LOG Run MOM one more time and recreate the crash 67 Technical Support 5 Email copy of the file PS_ERROR LOG to techsupport extrasensory com 6 if you don t have email fax us a copy of the file PS_LERROR LOG Handy MOM Tip You are smarter than you think Ninety nine per cent of the problems you might encounter can be solved simply by consulting this manual When you contact us with a Technical Support question the first thing we will say to you is Did you check your manual If your answer is No you will be asked to call us back after you have done so 68 Appendix Appendix Making Copies Of Mo
34. cks sors Goes 12 37 COPYING 12 CEEA NE E 12 CAINE 12 Day parting 9 applying memorized 26 MEMONZIDG 26 25 Dayparting 15 Delete Musie 20 Teast 20 Emergencies 52 Bx Aire e Seas See Quit Extra 47 Failure Codes on Music 44 Features esp sitet 19 File Handle 53 11 35 General 12 39 Generate Music 15 19 TE 1 Horizontal Separation days 39 minut s Of 5 0 5 40 setting days 12 setting Minutes 12 Hout Clocks 9 10 35 average song length 11 35 avoiding Fill Songs 0 eee 11 36 defining 11 entering a SONG 11 entering 11 Fill Cate Gory 11 35 Installing NeWiiiesarisestecsstacesncnsvsteavscacestesdestsevsdnenseens 5 Upgrade 5 See Music Library 1 Keystrokes defined
35. cters so that you can maximize the amount of information on your printed logs Track Number The song s track number Comment This 50 character field can be used for anything you want If there is information in this field and you have added lt comment gt to your log format or library printout definitions the comment will be placed directly under the song Expires The date after which the comment stops being shown on logs Dayparting Restrictions The list against the right edge of the detail screen shows this song s dayparting restrictions If you daypart a song the Hour Clocks in which the song will not be allowed to play appear dimmed on the list If you have defined more hour clocks than will fit on the screen MOM will display only the clocks in which the song is allowed to play and then only as many as there is room for You can view all of the dayparting information by pressing lt Ctrl D gt to bring up the Dayparting window Separation Categories The column just to the left of the Dayparting list shows the Separation Categories assigned to this song Each song may belong to none some or all of the Separation Categories You get to the Separation Category window by pressing lt Ctri C gt Speed Keys MOM provides the following Speed Keys to help you in your editing chores lt Alt 1 gt Instantly select or de select the chosen Separation Categories These through keys work on the first twelve Separation Cat
36. e Cat column of the slot in which you wish to place the song Press lt Enter gt and then type in the Music Category abbreviation MOM will automatically fill in the description If you misspell the code MOM will bring up a list of your Music Categories from which to select MOM will display the Song average time in the Time column To add a Stopset highlight the Description column and press lt Enter gt Then fill in the description and press lt Enter gt Next highlight the Time column press lt Enter gt and input the Stopset length in minutes and seconds Use the key to move the cursor from minutes to seconds Finally decide if you want this Stopset to trigger your post stopset restriction rules Press lt Alt gt to set Stopset to Yes or lt gt to set it to No The Cart column is only used for integration with some hard disk based playback systems To insert a new line press lt Ins gt and MOM will insert a blank line under the highlight Mom allows only 50 items in an Hour Clock If slot 50 is used MOM will check with you to see if it is OK to remove that line in order to add the new one To delete a line press lt Del gt To move a line up or down in the Hour Clock use lt Ctrl Up gt or lt Ctri Down gt To save your changes press lt Alt S gt If you try to leave without saving MOM will prompt you to make sure that s really what you want to do 43 Setup Week C
37. e or replaces the current one After you press the insert key you will be offered three options 1 Replace this line with a new song 2 Add a new song 3 Add a new stopset comment If you replace this line or add a new line MOM will bring up a list of your song categories Choose a category and press lt Enter gt then choose a song and press 34 Music Logs lt Enter gt When adding a new song MOM places the song above the line that you have highlighted Add a new stopset comment lets you put anything in the space above the line you have highlighted lt Space gt lt Alt F gt lt Alt G gt lt Alt H gt lt Alt M gt lt AlIt N gt lt Alt S gt lt Alt Z gt lt Ctri F10 gt Tag Marks the current song Used in conjunction with lt Alt S gt the swap feature Filter Enables you to filter by Music Category Find Find the next scheduled play of the currently highlighted song When the end of the log is reached the search is continued from the beginning of the log If the current song has only one play it will appear as though nothing has happened History Displays the current song s history A songs history is updated only when you first print a log Therefore the song play you have selected when you press lt Alt H gt will not be shown in the history unless you ve already printed the log Mark All Marks all plays of the currently highlighted song Noise
38. egories Press lt Ctrl S gt 23 Features lt Alt gt lt Alt F1 gt through lt Alt F12 gt lt Ctri V gt Editing Keys lt Ins gt lt Del gt lt Enter gt lt Ctri A gt lt Ctri B gt lt Ctrl S gt lt Ctri D gt lt Ctri F gt to see a list of the key assignments Instantly select or de select the chosen Hour Clock These keys work on the first 12 Hour Clocks Press lt Ctrl D gt to see a list of the key assignments Paste Daypart Info Update Apply the previously memorized Dayparting restrictions to the current song If you goof and do this by accident immediately pressing lt Ctrl V gt a second time will undo this The Dayparting restrictions of the current song may be memorized by choosing Edit Copy Daypart Info Insert Add a new song Delete Deletes the current song In a Sublist remove the current song from the sublist Edit Edits the current song Show All Toggles show all songs Removes and replaces the song categories filter Allows you to view all of the songs in all of the Music Categories in your Music Library at once When show all is on column 3 of the browse will contain the song category Back out Removes the record of the last play of the current song This includes one play from either the Period Counter or the Previous Period Counter and one play from the Month Counter MOM will ask if you really want to do this If you say Yes M
39. entions e All keystrokes look like this lt Keystroke gt e lt gt means press the lt Alt gt key and while holding the lt Alt gt key down press the lt A gt key or whatever key is requested e Setup Select Log Reject Order means go to the Setup menu and select Log Reject Order or whatever menus are indicated MOM has several keystrokes and features that are virtually universal throughout the program You will see them used without further explanation when they have the following standard uses In menus tables and other menu like places the keystrokes are lt Up gt and lt Down gt arrows move your scroll bar lt Esc gt backs you out of the screen or menu that you are in Installing Mom On Your Computer lt Enter gt makes a selection or allows you to edit the line that is highlighted lt Alt S gt saves your work lt Home gt and lt End gt take you to the top or bottom of lists Red highlighted letters Pressing a red highlighted character will immediately make that selection In text entry fields the keystrokes are lt gt Exits back one level lt ins gt Toggles between insert and overtype mode lt Ctrl gt Delete the text from the cursor to the end of the line lt Ctrl T gt Delete the word to the right of the cursor lt Ctrl Backspace gt Delete the word to the left of the cursor lt Alt S gt Saves your work and exits the screen lt Tab gt Move the cursor to the nex
40. er than enter a break with 2 minutes of spots and 30 seconds of weather plus a 10 second promo just program in a 2 40 Stopset on one line You may also be listing 5 second sweepers between songs That extra information uses up lines on your Music Log How many songs will MOM hold in the library and how big will the files be The MOM program can safely handle a library with over one billion songs in it A station with a thousand songs will easily run using only 4 or 5 megabytes of hard disk space noticed that some of my Separation Categories are wrong Is there a quick way to check them Use lt Alt F gt in the Music Library to view one Separation Category at a time 65 Commonly Asked Questions Applying Dayparting restrictions seems so slow How do I speed it up Use Edit Copy Daypart Info and lt Ctrl V gt to speed up applying Dayparting information Use lt Alt F gt to limit your view to songs that have similar Dayparting requirements Use the speed keys lt Alt F gt on the left side of the Dayparting list lt Ctrl D gt Applying Separation Categories seems so slow How do I speed it up Use the speed keys lt Alt gt on the left side of the Separation Category list lt Ctril C gt MOM refuses to generate tomorrow s log Either you ve already generated it the date on your computer is set wrong or the day clock for that day is blank How do I adjust the location of a song in t
41. ered categories Use with care until you have played with the program for a little while 3 Repeat this for all of your Separation Categories 4 Press lt Esc gt to exit Note that setting Max In a Row and May Not Follow overly restrictive may cause problems when MOM attempts to create Music Logs Hour Clocks Name as many different format clocks as you wish to use at your station Then assign music and non music elements to each one using lt Ctrl C gt to edit each clock Choose Setup Hour Clocks 1 Press lt Ins gt and fill in the columns a Unique Code Choose up to three letters for the Hour Clock abbreviation b Description Type in a description of your Hour Clock c Fill MOM is asking for a Music Category to use when she runs out of songs in an hour Press lt Enter gt to see a list of Music Categories 2 Repeat this for all of your Hour Clocks 3 Press lt Esc gt to exit For each clock you will now determine what the hour looks like 1 Press lt Ctrl C gt to edit the currently selected Hour Clock 2 There are two kinds of entries songs and stopsets comments 10 9 QuickStart For each song insert the Music Category in the Cat column If you enter a category that has not been defined MOM will display a list of categories for you to choose from For a Stopset Comment you need to fill in the Description and Time columns In addition you will need to decide whether or not t
42. field on the Music Separation Category screen Disable Reset Options This hides the reset menu options and requires the password to re enable them 49 Formatting Your Logs and Printouts Formatting Your Logs and Printouts Log Format Definition This section describes the features of the log and printout format definition screens You might want to skim this section create a format definition from scratch using the step by step instructions under How To Create Your Dream Log section on Page 18 then return here to review the rest of the features MOM offers you the freedom to choose what information appears on your logs and printouts in what order and how it looks The best way to familiarize yourself with this screen is to have it on your monitor in front of you while you are reading The Log and Printout definition screens operate identically the only difference between the 2 screens is the list of available fields lengths 1 L 5j charac Oo of ers MEH Cs 8 18 characters max 4 Z characters 5 characters harecters to length shown eo length indent This screen consists of three sections 1 The top portion contains your Log Definition It shows you how assembled the pieces from the middle portion of the screen When length appears after a field MOM will ask you how many characters of this field to display in your log If y
43. forcing more songs than you like you should ease up on your restrictions This screen affords you the ability to control exactly how MOM chooses forced songs To change the order of the rejection rules highlight the rule you wish to move and use the lt CtrltUp gt and lt Ctrl Down gt keys to move the rule to its new location or just grab a rule with your mouse and drag it The least offensive rule goes at the top and the most offensive rule goes at the bottom Here are the rules that MOM uses Horizontal 4 day Horizontal 3 day Horizontal 2 day Horizontal 1 day Vertical separation for both Artists and Separation Categories May not follow Max in row Out of stops 47 Setup e Follows same CD e Dayparting MOM also has a RED FLAG LINE and a DO NOT PLACE LINE Rejected songs with reasons above the RED FLAG LINE will be colored yellow Rejected songs with reasons below the RED FLAG LINE will be colored red Rejected songs below the DO NOT PLACE LINE will not be placed If a song is not placed MOM will show NO PLACEABLE SONGS for that line The red flag line is to allow you to see songs that might have serious placement problems If you choose 4 days of horizontal separation and have a top ten category that plays 2 songs per hour you will have Horizontal Separation errors for that category You d probably want them to show in yellow so you know they happened but can mostly ignore them
44. gt Now that you have finished entering the first part of your song s information here is how to enter the Separation and Dayparting information 15 Separation Categories allows each song to belong to none some or all of your Separation Categories To begin assigning Separation Categories press lt Ctrl S gt You will be presented with a small browse of Separation Categories Press lt Space gt to select or deselect your chosen categories A check mark will appear next to the selected categories When you are finished here press lt gt to return to the browse MOM displays your chosen Separation Categories in a list near the right edge of the Detail Screen 15 QuickStart 16 Dayparting Restrictions MOM allows each song to belong to all some or none of your Hour Clocks To begin Dayparting press lt Ctrl D gt You will be presented with a small browse of Hour Clocks Press lt Space gt to select or deselect your chosen Clocks A check mark will appear next to the selected Clocks When you are finished here press lt gt to return to the browse MOM displays your Dayparting information in list at the right edge of the Detail Screen The Hour Clocks in which that the song will not be allowed to play appear dimmed on that list If there are too many clocks to fit on the screen MOM will display as many as she can fit Dayparting can wind up confusing you leaving you wondering why certain songs
45. he Play Order Use lt Alt M gt in the Music Library Editor to Move the song Leave the category alone and use Where in the list shall this go to tell MOM where to put the song I need to know how many times each song has played in the last period week month etc What can I do a Reset Period Counter after printing report b Print a report after the first printing of the last log that the report covers c The Since date is the date on which you reset the period counters not necessarily the date the report covers d An example might be that every Friday you generate logs for Saturday Sunday and Monday but you want the period counts for Monday through Sunday You would generate and print the Saturday and Sunday logs reset the Period Counters and then Generate and print Monday s log On Monday you ll need to correct the Previous Period Counters for songs that were omitted from or added to your logs over the weekend After that you can print a Library Listing containing lt lastperiod gt 66 Technical Support Technical Support Our goal is to provide the best technical support in the business Technical Support is available by phone fax or e mail for free for the 90 days After that we will send you a contract for one or two years If you need help or wish to report a bug or problem please contact us by one of the methods listed below Please provide as much information as possible about your pro
46. hedule music if you do not assign a clock to a given hour If you enter an invalid Hour Clock Code MOM will display a list of possible choices Repeat this for all of your Day Clocks You can also copy a Day Clock from one day to another a Select Edit Copy to copy the current day clock then select another Day and select Edit Paste b You may want to do this for Monday through Friday if your weekdays are similar Remember you can always change them if needed Press lt Esc gt to exit General Setup Tell MOM a bunch of general information she needs to do a good job of programming your music 1 Minutes between the same artist Minimum Vertical Separation of artists Choose 0 off to 999 The default is 60 While MOM allows you to set this as high as 999 we highly recommend you don t choose a number bigger than 120 until you ve used her for a while and know it s OK Days of Horizontal Separation of songs Choose 1 2 3 or 4 days or 0 to disable Horizontal Separation Minutes of Horizontal Separation of songs Choose a number between 0 and 99 This is the number of minutes a song played today must be separated from the time the same song was played up to Horizontal Separation day s before Printer Port Where your printer is hooked up This can be set to LPT 1 LPT2 LPT3 FILE or VIEW We recommend that you set it to VIEW which allows you to view your reports on screen and then optionally
47. his stopset comment should prevent songs with the May Not Follow attribute from following this stopset comment There are several ways to set May Not Follow a Press lt Space gt while the Stopset field is highlighted to toggle between Yes and No b Press lt gt or lt N gt while the Stopset field is highlighted Press lt gt or lt Alt N gt from any column Fill up 60 minutes or more of your clock As you fill in your hour the time elapsed is automatically updated to reflect the time used We recommend you fill up 65 to 70 minutes worth of entries This way if the hour runs short MOM will not pull from the fill category but will program a selection you choose You do not have to fill in all 50 slots The Current Fill Music Category is set on the previous screen You cannot edit it here For a stopset you may also fill in the Cart column which will be used for the cartno column when printing logs Press lt Esc gt to exit Day Clocks Tell MOM which clock to use each for each hour of the day for each day of the week 1 2 Choose Setup Day Clocks Pick the Default Week Clock by selecting Week from the pull down menus and choosing Normal Pick a day to edit by selecting Day from the pull down menus 11 QuickStart 4 J 8 Choose Edit Edit or just press lt Enter gt and assign an Hour Clock Code to each hour of the day that you want to have programmed MOM will not sc
48. ideo 22 Cancel Printing 23 Colors editors kaniini 16 del t oldilogs 2 23 stu 23 deleting all logs eee eeeseeeeeseeneeeee 20 deleting last 20 16 20 21 filter by Music 22 find next 22 QENETALING ce eeeeeeeeeseseeesseeeseeeereeees 15 19 highlighted 21 information displayed cesses 21 mark all plays of a 22 Music Only view ccecceeceeeceeseeeeeeeseeeees 16 NAVIGATING sveveseraccvessesecsevareodsesceduchoseesey 21 nek keane 16 16 23 reformats ai ai i 22 SWAP CWO 5095 22 view song histOry eseeeeeeseeseeseeeeeees 22 See Music Library Password 7 53 Period Counter 24 TESEE TO ZENO GEE SRR 31 Play History CTASE 31 Power Failure recovering from 52 Print Musie Library tsssccesicscssescasccadecasecatecastes 47 Musie Lg 16 23 Music Rotation 48 2 ues 40 setting page length 13 setting POLE ors 13 Setup 45 Printer 13
49. ill Songs yellow text on dark blue There are several ways that you can view and edit your log You now are looking at the See Everything view MOM also offers the Music Only view which you can get into or out of by pressing lt Ctrl N gt for Noisy Next you probably want to change things so they match your idea of perfection The following keys will help you to optimize your log 1 lt Del gt Delete this line 2 lt ins gt Insert a new line or replace the current one 3 lt Ctrl Up gt lt Ctrl Down gt Move the current line up or down one line at a time This lets you exchange two adjacent lines You may also use the mouse to drag a song to another location 4 lt Space gt or lt Double Click gt Mark this song for later use 5 lt Ctrl S gt Swap this song with the song you previously marked with lt Space gt These are the basic things you ll need to do here to get started You can get an idea what the rest of the features are by looking through the menus When you have finished making changes to the log you will want to print it Print Your Music Log Choose File Print or File Test Print and pick any log format Test Print allows you to look at the log on paper without committing the plays to the database MOM will not consider that she has printed the log until you choose File Print If you have selected VIEW as we suggested earlier you ll soon be viewing your log in MOM s on screen file viewe
50. ime gt and then put it back First highlight lt time gt and press lt Del gt Now highlight lt intro gt press lt Ins gt pick lt time gt and follow it with Now we have what we want OK now we re done Now you know the important features of this screen and can easily create the Log of your Dreams Press lt Alt S gt to save the new format 19 Features Features This section will describe all of features We will discuss the features in the order they appear on MOM s menus This has nothing to do with how you ll use the program Please see the QuickStart for those instructions File Menu The main menu contains the following options Extras Music Library View and edit your Music Library Music Logs View Create and Edit daily Music Logs About MOM Displays copyright and contact information Exit Quit MOM and return to DOS The Extras menu contains the following options Song Rotation Analysis Generate a Song Rotation Analysis report Backup Data Files Backs up your MOM data files to another drive Clean up Data Files Does minor housekeeping on your MOM data files Reindex Data files Recreates the index files MOM uses to find things in your data View last printed report If you use View as a printer than this option will appear when there is a last printed report to view Setup Menu The Setup menu contains the following options M
51. ion Power Failure or Accidental Reset In most cases this will cause no problem If MOM was creating or printing a Music Log you probably will want to use Delete Last Log and generate the log again If MOM is unable to Delete Last Log e g MOM crashes you should delete the YYYYMMDD files for the problem day from the DOS prompt After an abnormal exit MOM will reindex her files upon startup Usually this will clear up any problems caused by the power failure Still it would be wise to check the last few things you did before the failure to make sure that nothing went wrong The worst time for the power to fail would be right after you press lt Enter gt after entering a new password If you happen to be in a place where you have constant power failures we highly recommend you acquire and use an Uninterruptible Power Supply Do zor turn off the power or soft boot your computer while MOM is running If MOM insists on crashing every time you try to start her try the following Start MOM by typing MOM R lt Enter gt MOM will reindex the Music Library and then should operate normally OR if for some reason MOM still crashes on startup 1 Change to the MOM directory CD or something similar 2 Delete all of the index files DEL NSX lt Enter gt 3 Restart MOM by typing MOM lt Enter gt MOM will reindex the Music Library and then should operate normally Music Library Problems For almost an
52. is field is 10 characters long If you only use four characters for your CD Cart numbers you will want to answer 4 for the length Press lt Ins gt and select the lt intro gt field Next MOM will ask you for the length tell her the number of characters you want to use on your log for the intro field Then tell MOM to follow this with a Press lt Ins gt and select the lt outro gt field Next MOM will ask you for the length Tell her the number of characters you want to use on your log for the lt outro gt field Then tell MOM to follow this with a space Now your log will show lt intro gt lt outro gt Press lt Ins gt and select the lt stop gt field MOM will ask What should I say for Yes Type up to six letters that indicate this song is OK out of a stopset Next MOM will ask the same thing about No Type up to six letters that indicate this song is not OK out of a stopset MOM will allow as much space as the longer of the two words It seems like we done but maybe you d be happier if lt time gt was between lt intro gt and lt outro gt Let s try it Use lt Left gt or lt Right gt to highlight lt time gt and then use lt Ctrl Left gt or lt Ctrl Right gt to move lt time gt in between lt intro gt and lt outro gt Oops we now have lt intro gt lt time gt lt outro gt but we really want lt intro gt lt time gt lt outro gt To fix this we ll need to delete lt t
53. l Music logs This will delete every music log from your disk and will not change any history You should never need this but if you want to start fresh and don t care about history you might want this Disable Reset Options This hides the reset menu options and requires the password to re enable them Music Library When you choose Music Library from the Main Menu you will be given a choice of categories to work on Pick one and press lt Enter gt This is where MOM allows you to enter edit view and print your music If you pick a Sublist Category you will only be 21 Features able to view to edit a song you will need to go to its actual Music Category The Music Library view screen looks like this Ant D DEVEL MOM MOUSE C BAT File Edit View Order Categor Title Artist Song Length fug Jul Jun May Apr Do It Me Again Soulsearcher 3 16 amp Fly Girls Bomfunk MC s 3 11 S Club Party 5 Club 7 3 11 Have A Nice Day lt Live gt Stereophonics 3 11 Itch Vitamin 3 11 Walking On Water Madasun 3 12 Title Category Artist Tempo Plays 68 63 Time Intro Outro Since 68 63 OK Out of Stops CD Cart Track Comment Runs through Repeat Annually The top of the screen allows you to scroll through your songs It includes the title artist song length and a monthly play history You can see the rest of the history screen by pressing
54. locks A Week Clock is a container for Day Clocks Each Week Clocks contains a name a start date a stop date and an advance These allow you change your music based on the calendar You will need at least one called Normal that starts before today ends far in the future and has a 0 advance This Week Clock will be used whenever no other Week Clock fits Using week clocks you can easily program special music for holidays or a blues night every 4 Friday Name can be anything start date and end date are the dates during which this clock will be used advance is how far MOM will advance both dates after the end date has passed If you set advance to 365 MOM will assume you mean 1 year and will adjust for the extra day in leap years For all other numbers MOM will just advance both dates the indicated number of days The order in which the week clocks appear in the list is significant Whenever MOM starts to program a day she starts at the top of the list and looks for the first Week Clock with a date range containing the date about to be programmed If there is no Week Clock containing the target date you will be warned Make sure to put your Normal clock last so that your Special clocks are found when it s their time The order of your Week Clocks can be adjusted using lt Ctrl Up gt and lt Ctrl Down gt Day Clocks A Day Clock defines your station s day You create Day Clocks by stringing together your Hour Clocks MOM gives
55. lphabetize the list according to your new placement of the pointer Updates your Music Library to match sort changes You should do this if you make changes to the sort orders of any of the artists This process may take a moment or two Allows you to choose among the available display orders Prints the artist list in the currently displayed order Replaces this artist with another one Exits back to the Extra Menu Handy MOM Tip By pressing a letter from A Z you will immediately go to that section of the alphabet View Last Report If this appears on the Extra Menu it will display the last report you generated when you printer was defined as FILE or VIEW If there is no report to view this menu option will be hidden lt Esc gt lt P gt lt Z gt lt Ctrl PgUp gt lt Ctrl PgDn gt lt Home gt lt End gt Exit back to the Extra Menu Print this file choose between LPT 1 LPT2 or LPT3 Zoom between 25 and 50 lines VGA only Move to the top of the file Move to the bottom of the file Move left edge into view Move right edge into view POTENTIALLY USEFUL TIP View Last Report displays a file called PRINT TXT If the file PRINT TXT exists the menu option will appear You can use the PRINT TXT file to edit the report in your word processor 57 Extra Features Quit Mom Press lt Alt X gt lt Alt F4 gt or choose File Exit at the Main Menu to exit MOM Handy MOM Tip Every time you exit MOM ask yourself Did
56. m MOM is so nifty you may be tempted to make copies for all your friends at every radio station around the country Or at least for your sister station s This is dishonest We ve priced MOM so low that anyone afford to buy it from us A second copy for your combo station same city is very inexpensive But if you decide to steal this program from us please bear in mind MOM is copyrighted If you know this is a pirated copy of MOM call Extrasensory Software at 818 550 9487 and let us know We ll prosecute the pirate and give you a reward upon successful prosecution The published commercial rate for use of this software is 250 U S per user per day This is the rate our company can collect for unauthorized use MOM has protection features designed to prevent theft Copyright 1990 2001 Extrasensory Software All Rights Reserved 69 Index Appendix even ay aren one eon on nee 60 Artist Names 49 13 Backing your data ossos 48 Command Line 53 See Stopset Commonly Asked Questions 55 Excessive Horizontal Separation Errors 55 Full 55 Setup 55 Create Music 19 Data Files backing p msiri oien atine eine 48 Clean r coos ot ee 48 48 Day Clo
57. many clocks to fit on the screen MOM will display as many as she can fit Separation Category Window MOM allows each song to belong to none some or all of your Separation Categories To bring up the Separation Category Window press lt Ctrl S gt You will be presented with a small browse of Separation Categories Press lt Space gt to select or deselect your chosen categories A check mark will appear next to the selected categories When you are finished here press lt gt to return to the browse MOM displays your chosen Separation Categories in a list near 1 the right edge of the Detail Screen l If there are too many categories to fit on the screen MOM will display as many as she can fit Adding or Editing a Song lt Space gt Toggle lt Esc gt Exit When you add lt Ins gt or Edit lt Enter gt a song you will see this screen Title Artist Category 885 Sort f Tempo Mead Artists for Separation Artisti Artist2 Artist3 Artist4 Author UARUCASTIE Time 2008 Intro 7 Outro OK Out of Stops CD Cart M227 Track 82 FileName Comment Runs through Pa Repeat Annually 28 Features It is similar to the one under the Music Library browse with these few additional features Sort You can choose where an artist name will be sorted alphabetically by moving the sort arrow under Artist This is especially useful for artists who have three
58. names e g Mary Chapin Carpenter This way MOM will alphabetize exactly according to your wishes Artists and Artists for Separation Artists names Artists for Separation contains room to insert up to four additional artists This is great for duets trios etc allowing you to avoid playing Genesis and Phil Collins back to back As you begin typing in these fields MOM will bring up the most likely artist from the names your Music Library This not only makes it easier for you to enter the information it also helps to prevent duplicates and misspellings that will prevent MOM from properly programming your music Comment A place to put anything you want Please note that although the Comment field will always be displayed in the Music Library it will only appear on the log if your Log Format contains lt comment gt Please see the section on Log Format Definition on page 50 for more information Runs A date range during which the comment will be printed Repeat Annually Shall I print this comment every year during these dates When you are editing a song on the Detail Screen lt Up gt lt Down gt lt Tab gt and lt Shift Tab gt will move you between fields After entering your information press lt Alt S gt to save your work For more information see the section about Keystrokes in Text Entry Fields on page 6 Handy MOM Tip We suggest that you use both Upper and Lower Case letters when entering song
59. o print out one Music Library that has your comment information and a second one that doesn t Creating a Library Printout is very similar to creating a Log Format The commands and features are the same The only difference is in the list of fields Handy MOM Tip If you wonder how any of these fields will appear just try using them MOM will display them at the bottom of your screen If you don t like what you see just press lt Del gt 54 Extra Features Extra Features Song Rotation Analysis You also may choose to print out a special Song Rotation Analysis report that tells how many songs are in your library by category how many of each category you have programmed into each clock and how often each song is likely to get played average repeat time Backup Data Files MOM makes it easy for you to make regular back ups Have one or more formatted high density blank disks ready Then choose Backup Data Files and follow the directions Mom will backup to any drive in your system or onto a network drive Once your library data exceeds the size of a single high density floppy MOM will no longer be able to do backups At that time we suggest you acquire an Iomega ZIP disk Imation SuperDisk or other high capacity removable disk system and use that for backups MOM SAYS Make a backup at the end of every session in which you add delete or alter information Unfortunately most people learn this lesson the hard way after
60. ode songs by Era 50s 60s 705 Plan how you want to use this feature now so you don t end up having to change your entire library later You can use up to 39 Separation Categories Dayparting MOM allows you to Daypart every song in your library to restrict the song from playing during certain hours e g a slow current song during drive time Hour Clocks You can create as many Hour Clocks as you need You might want to make an AM Drive clock a PM Drive clock a Mid Day clock an Evening clock an Overnight clock and a Weekend clock Day Clocks A day clock is a collection of 24 hour clocks A day clock defines the programming for one day Each day of the week has it s own day clock Week Clock A week clock consists of 7 day clocks and a beginning and ending date Week clocks allow you to change your programming by controlling which day clocks are used during which seasons of the year You will need to create a Default clock that is used whenever somethings special is not QuickStart happening beyond that you might create a week clock for the Christmas season for Superbowl week or spring break The first thing that you need to do after installing MOM is to set up these features Choose Setup from the Main Menu MOM will ask you for a password which is initially set to MOM Once you ve put in the password MOM will enable the setup menu for about an hour If you wish to disable the
61. on Sublist Depth Glock Oty lime LU il MUSIC You can have as many Music Categories as you wish Pick a reasonable number for your station Too few is probably as big a problem as too many so spend some time making sure you get this correct MOM also has a feature called Sublists A Sublist may only contain songs that already are members of an existing Music Category Sublists might be used for things like The Beatles or Love Songs A Music Category consists of the following fields Category A three letter abbreviation for this Music Category Description A description of this Music Category Sublist Is this category a Sublist Depth How far down the category should MOM look for a song The default 0 is 2 the category Most of the time leaving it at 0 is the correct solution 1 is a special case that tells MOM to always use the first placeable song in the category 1 is another special case that tells MOM to just place the first song no matter what Block This tells mom how many songs from the top of this category to save space for It causes MOM to consider that the top Block songs in this category have just been played thereby reserving space for them to be placed Please use this only for small fast rotation categories and please use the smallest number that works Block is allowed to be set between 0 and 5 we recommend you start with 2 Qty How many songs are in this category This field
62. ond time puts the display back the way it was Change Menu The Music Library Change menu contains the following options e Separation Display the separation category window e Daypart Display the Dayparting window e Add Play Add a play to the current song s month counter and period counter Delete Play Remove a play from the current song s month counter and period counter e Move Move the current song to another category or to another place in the play order of this category e Add to Packet Add this song to a packet Remove from packet Remove this song from its packet e Add to Sublist Add the current song to a sublist Remove From Sublist Remove the current song from it s sublist Dayparting Window MOM allows each song to be played during some or none of your Hour Clocks To access the Dayparting Window press lt Ctri D gt You will be presented with a small browse of Hour BURT ANK HOUR CLOCK Clocks Press lt Space gt to select Space Toggle lt Esc gt Exit or deselect your chosen Clocks A check mark will appear next to the selected Clocks When you are finished here press lt Esc gt to return to the browse MOM displays your Dayparting information in a list at 27 b d F h 1 Features the right edge of the Detail Screen The Hour Clocks in which that the song will not be allowed to play appear dimmed on that list If there are too
63. onds 14 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 QuickStart Intro Enter up to nine characters You can use it for single or double posts e g 04 13 Outro Enter up to three characters You may want to use C for Cold F for Fade F C for a Fade with a Cold tail etc OK Out of Stops May this song play out of stopsets CD Cart Enter up to 10 characters If you want MOM to separate same CD songs you store music by CD Cart numbers or you re exporting to a another program you must make sure to get this correct Track Number Enter a track number for this song 0 to 99 File Name Enter the path and name of the file on disk containing this song Comment This 50 character field can be used for anything you want If there is information in this field and you have added lt comment gt to your Log Format or Library Printout definitions the comment will be placed directly under the song Runs Set a date range during which the comment will print on logs If you leave the dates empty the comment will always run Repeat Annually Y if you wish this comment to repeat during these dates every year Save When you are finished entering your song press lt Alt S gt to save your work MOM will bring up a box asking you where in the play order you d like this song placed For more clarification consult the on screen instructions Enter a number from 0 to 100 and press lt Enter
64. options Music Categories Create and define your Music Categories Separation Categories Create and edit your Separation Categories Hour Clocks Define or edit your Hour Clocks Day Clocks Define your station s sound for each day of the week Week Clocks Define your week clocks Allows changing your programming during different times of the year Select Log Reject Order Set the rules which MOM uses to reject songs This is also available from the File menu of the log editor General Setup Setup information that didn t fit somewhere else Print Setup Information Handy to have while entering music and for future reference Export Setup Allows you to chose an automation and enter the necessary information for MOM to create The Setup Screens are what you will use to define the rules that MOM will use to schedule your music It may take several tries to get these screens exactly where you want them We suggest that in the beginning you don t make the rules overly strict You will know if your restrictions are too tight by the large number of forced songs If you have more than 2 3 red flagged songs per day you should return here to adjust your restrictions Entering Setup Choose Setup and you will be asked for your password Enter your password and press lt Enter gt Now when you choose Setup you will see the Setup menu 38 Setup Music Categories Define Husie Categories Category Descripti
65. or your Dayparts You also can see them in your printed setup information lt period gt Plays since last period reset 5 characters long lt lastperiod gt Plays during previous period 5 characters long lt history length gt Play history In this case length tells MOM how many months of history to display Each month takes up 4 spaces lt newline indent gt Insert a line break and define how many spaces to indent the next line lt Del gt Delete the current item lt Ins gt Insert a new item in front of the currently selected item If the last item is selected MOM will ask you if this item should be placed at the end lt Right gt Move the cursor highlight to the right Formatting Your Logs and Printouts lt Left gt Move the cursor highlight to the left lt Ctri Right gt Move the location of the current item one to the right lt Ctri Left gt Move the location of the current item one to the left lt Up gt lt Down gt Scroll through the log containing the log entry displayed at the bottom of the screen lt Alt S gt Save the current changes Length The maximum number of characters to allow that field Yes What to print if the item is positive For example Y Yes or OK No What to print if the item is negative For example N No or nothing to make the Yes
66. ou have a greater number of characters entered in a field in your Music Library than you allow to be displayed in your log any characters after that number will not be displayed If you have entered fewer characters than you allow to be displayed here there will be trailing blank space s 50 Formatting Your Logs and Printouts 2 The middle section contains a list of possible fields It is displayed as a guide to help you remember what the fields mean as you create your log format It becomes the menu when you press lt Ins gt to insert a new field 3 The bottom section shows how a line of your log will look with your current format It also shows you the current width of your report In the following table the column labeled Screen shows the fields as they will be displayed at the top of the screen The following are the fields that can be placed on your reports Screen Definition lt artist length gt Artist s name the number of characters displayed lt title length gt Song title the number of characters displayed lt author length gt Authors s name the number of characters displayed Song or stopset length MM SS Minutes and Seconds lt intro length gt Intro 1 to 9 characters Outro up to 3 characters sas length gt CD Cart number up to 10 characters Track number this is always 2 characters Time into hour 5 characters M
67. ou initially have entered your library or upgraded from a previous version This will enable you to catch and fix duplicate entries due to misspellings or name variations and to help make sure that your library is exactly as you want it In addition duplicates prevent Vertical Separation from working correctly We suggest you browse the library in both first and last name order to give yourself a better chance at finding problems Comment Birthday cat wt Ao gt ft ft 212 1 Hi A minimum artist entry consists of the artist name You may optionally add a comment that can be printed on your logs and printouts an date range during which the comment will be printed and a birth date If you add the artist s birth date MOM will note that on their songs which play on the artist s birthday You do not add artists here artists will be added as you add to your Music Library lt Enter gt Allows you to edit the artist s name comment comment expiration date and birthday lt Del gt Delete this artist MOM will not allow you to delete an artist who is currently assigned to a song 56 lt Right Left gt lt Alt U gt lt Alt O gt lt Alt P gt lt Alt R gt lt Esc gt Extra Features Moves the last name sort pointer especially helpful for three or more name artists like Ricki Lee Jones Notice that soon after you move the pointer MOM will re a
68. p and set Require password to start to Y Ifyou do this MOM will ask for the password at startup and anyone not knowing the password will not be able to see anything You may also set Require password for setup to N and MOM will not bother with passwords at all QuickStart QuickStart This section is designed to get you up and running with MOM as quickly as possible It does not explain all of MOM s many features just the ones you need to get started We suggest that you read this manual in its entirety so that you are able to use MOM as effectively as possible Before you start entering data into MOM you should spend a few minutes thinking about the following 1 Music Categories How do you divide your Music Library Some stations keep things as simple as Currents amp Oldies Others divide things into more complex categories such as Power Hits Recurrents and Lunar Oldies You can create as many categories as you wish Separation Categories When you enter your Music Library into MOM s database you can code each one with different Separation Categories This simply is a way to describe your music You may want to use these Separation Categories to code each song s Tempo Gender male female group etc Style Rock Pop Metal Rap etc A country station may use Separation Categories to assign songs as Traditional or Contemporary An Oldies station may want to use Separation Categories to c
69. password If security is an issue at your station you should always choose this as soon as you re finished with the setup menu Don t worry too much because even if you forget to do this it will automatically be disabled one hour after you enable it Enter your Music Library Now that you ve finished entering your Setup information you ll need to enter your Music Library From the opening screen choose File Music Library You will be placed in the first Music Categories If this is an empty category you will be at the add a new song screen otherwise you will find yourself in the Music Library browse screen 13 QuickStart If you re not at the add a new song screen press lt Ins gt to begin entering a new song Press lt Tab gt or lt Enter gt after entering each field to move to the next one You may also use lt Up gt and lt Down gt to move between fields Here are the fields and the order in which they appear 1 2 Title Enter the song title Artist MOM will help by suggesting names that you have already entered If the name that you are entering is a new one MOM will ask if you want to add it This is to help prevent misspellings and duplicates Please be careful not to enter the same artist multiple times with slightly different spellings Category Enter the letter s of the chosen Music Category If you leave this field blank and press lt Enter gt MOM will bring up a list of your Music Category
70. print them Page Length lines However many lines your printer can handle This is usually set to 60 but you may need to adjust it to suit your printer 12 QuickStart 6 Separate same CD songs Yes or No This prevents MOM from playing two songs from the same CD back to back 7 Program minutes per hour This allows you to choose how long MOM will program your hours MOM will stop programming as soon as the programmed hour is past this many minutes 8 Require password to start If you set this you Y MOM will display the password dialog box upon startup allowing you a bit more security This setting only controls the program startup so you will still need to know the password to access the Setup and Reset menus 9 Require password for Setup If you set this to MOM will no longer require a password to access the Setup or Reset menus Select Log Reject Order This controls how MOM chooses which songs to play and which songs to avoid when scheduling music The default settings are probably OK for now 1 Choose Setup Edit Reject Rules 2 Read the help on this screen and follow the directions Print Setup Information At this point it may be helpful to print out your Setup information In addition to having it as a reference you will also be able to refer to it while entering your Music Library Disable Setup Options This allows you to hide the setup menu from people who don t know the
71. r You ll now be able to view your log before committing it to paper When you are ready to print the log press lt P gt and choose the correct printer port Don t worry you ll only have to get it right once MOM will remember your last choice Remember to make sure your printer has lots of paper logs can take more than 24 pages to print Congratulations You ve made it through the QuickStart We strongly encourage you to read the rest of this manual 17 QuickStart The final part of this section describes the log editor You will want to go through this at some point but unlike the part you just finished you don t need to do this now How To Create Your Dream Log These are step by step instructions to create a log format definition Once you have gone through these instructions you should be able to create or modify log and printout definitions without difficulty 1 While viewing a log choose File Edit Print Format These same instructions will also apply to File Edit Display Format and to the File Edit Print Format accessible from the Music Library Editor To create a new format choose Edit Add New Format Then enter a name for this printout and the name of the person who is going to design it You will now be placed in the edit screen looking at the default format Since we want to start with a blank slate you ll need to delete all the existing fields Do this by pressing lt Del gt followed by l
72. r Contemporary Country An Oldies station may want to use Separation Categories to code songs by Era 50s 60s etc Plan how you want to use this feature now so you don t end up having to change your entire library later You can use up to 38 Separation Categories The first 12 Separation Categories are special because they quickly can be assigned using the speed keys mentioned on Page 23 The order of Separation Categories may not be changed It is helpful to decide which categories will be the most utilized and place those within the first twelve slots 40 Setup Minutes of May Not Name Separation Follow Slow Medium Fast Light Medium Heavy Female Male Group Instrumental Australian Overseas Fade finish 190 Fast 12 8 Slow 16 2 16 Ligh 16 Grou a a 15 Girl A B G H I J K L M NWN Wet Ae Code Up to four letters representing the abbreviation Name A longer description of this separation category Max In A Row The number of songs within that Separation Category that are allowed before MOM would have to force a song Minutes of Separation The number of minutes MOM will wait before playing another song from this category May Not Follow Allows you to choose a Separation Category that this one never will be allowed to follow Handy MOM Tip Avoid mixing Max In a Row and May Not Follow With 38 Separation Categories the flexibilit
73. r Music Library whenever you wish in any order you want For example you can print a list containing only one Music Category only one Separation Category or only songs played in the last period MOM creates daily Music Logs according to your programming instructions 1 MOM maintains Horizontal Separation of songs this prevents your listeners from hearing the same song at the same time of day up to four days in a row MOM maintains Vertical Separation of artists this prevents an artist from playing multiple times in your chosen time period You select from 0 to 999 minutes 16 65 hours of separation MOM maintains your custom separation of artists and songs For example Don t play female artists back to back Don t play fast song after ballad Don t play more than three 60s era songs in a row MOM can prevent any song from following a non musical element MOM allows you to decide if songs with the May Not Follow attribute should be prevented from following a particular non musical element MOM allows you to define the maximum number of songs that may be played in a row from any given Separation Category MOM can prevent two songs from the same CD from playing back to back Welcome to 8 MOM allows you to daypart your music i e to prohibit any particular song from playing during any one or more Hour Clocks MOM prints any number of customizable formats of the daily Music Logs for
74. se from Generate A Log Generate a new log by choosing File Create a new Log As soon as MOM finishes creating the log you will be place in the log editor viewing the newly created log If you have created a log and then realize you forgot to add some new songs you may go to the Music Library add the new songs come back to the Music Log Editor viewing the problem log and choose File ReCreate this Log which will undo the current log and create a new one for the same day When you re viewing the Music Log the following menu choices are available In all of the description below the current song refers to a song containing the cursor If the cursor is on a stopset or other non musical element choices referring to the current song may not work File Menu The Log Editor File menu contains the following options e Print Print this log and commit the data e Test Print Print this log but do not mark it as printed Open Another Log View a Music Log for another day e Create a New Log Create the next Music Log ReCreate this Log Undo this Music Log and then make another one for the same day This only works for unprinted logs e Edit Display Format Change the way your logs display in the log editor 31 Music Logs Edit Print Format Edit the way your logs print Edit Reject Rules Edit the rules MOM uses to pick a song when there are no songs that don t fail a rule Help Exit
75. sing lt Ctrl N gt for Noisy Next you probably want to change things so they match your idea of perfection The following keys will help you to optimize your log 1 lt Del gt Delete this line 2 lt ins gt Insert a new line or replace the current one 3 lt Ctrl Up gt lt Ctrl Down gt Move the current line up or down one line at a time This lets you exchange two adjacent lines You may also use the mouse to drag a song to another location 4 lt Space gt or lt Double Click gt Mark this song for later use 5 lt Ctrl S gt Swap this song with the song you previously marked with lt Space gt These are the basic things you ll need to do here to get started You can get an idea what the rest of the features are by looking through the menus When you have finished making changes to the log you will want to print it Handy MOM Tip While it might seem more efficient to generate a bunch of logs at one time the only way to generate logs that adhere tightly to your restrictions is to create edit and print them one at a time That way your edits to each log are reflected when you create the next log 36 Music Logs While MOM is creating your logs the she will keep you appraised of her progress Press lt Esc gt to interrupt Music Log creation You may jump directly to any hour by using the AM or PM menus You may view your log in 4 different orders These are accessed from the Order menu Note that viewing
76. t gt until all of the fields are gone Press lt Ins gt to insert the first field A bar will appear on the menu in the middle of the screen Pick Artist by highlighting Artist and pressing lt gt MOM will now ask for the length of this field you want displayed enter 22 and press lt Enter gt Next MOM will ask What should follow this You have three choices leave it blank and MOM will follow it with a space type XX and MOM will not follow it with anything or type any 1 or 2 characters except XX and MOM will use them If you type only one character MOM will remove the trailing space and use only the single character you entered Press lt Ins gt and insert the next field lt title gt Now you ll see a new question Place at end MOM always places a new field in front of the current field except when you are at the end Here MOM will ask if you want the new field at the end Say Yes by pressing lt gt and then tell MOM you want lt title gt to be 25 characters long Press lt Ins gt and select the lt time gt field Place this and all of the rest of the fields we are about to insert at the end For this field MOM will only ask you what to follow this with The lt time gt field is always 5 characters long 18 10 11 12 13 14 QuickStart Press lt Ins gt and select the lt cdcart gt field Next MOM will ask you for the length On the Song Detail screen th
77. t Alt gt key and then press lt R gt 4 The importance of backing up your data files Welcome to 5 How to re code the binary sublogic extensions for transitional 8 x 16 interlocution No That s okay We just put 5 in there to see if you re really reading these instructions We have no idea what binary sublogic extensions are and we hope that you don t either Installing On Your Computer Installing Mom On Your Computer Installation 1 Place the MOM program disk into your floppy disk drive then select Start Run type in A SETUP and then press OK Follow the instructions in the setup program to install MOM 2 Remove the master MOM Program disk and store it in a safe place 3 The setup program will install a shortcut to MOM on your desktop and on your Start menu 4 The setup program will run MOM so she can do all the stuff she has to do to finish the installation Occasionally MOM will have an error on the very first she is run If this should happen just start MOM a second time and everything should be OK 5 The password was set to MOM when MOM was first installed Running Mom For The First Time Once you ve loaded MOM into your computer you ready to set up your station s Music Rotation Rules and Music Library To start MOM click on the MOM icon on your desktop or change to the MOM directory and type MOM lt Enter gt In this manual we use the following conv
78. t field lt Shift Tab gt Move the cursor to the previous field lt Up gt Move the cursor to the previous field lt Down gt Move the cursor to the next field Choosing A Password By default MOM will let anyone who can turn your computer on create your daily Music Logs and make alterations to the Music Library e g changing the list of current songs But only the person with the password can make changes to the brains the clocks music separation categories etc If you don t like this behavior you may make MOM require a password to start or not require passwords at all When you first start working with MOM the password is set to If you d like to keep others from having access to your setup information you should change the password Choose a password of at least three characters and no more than ten You might want to make it the call letters of the first station you ever worked at Whatever it is make sure you remember it The password will be set to MOM when you run MOM for the first time Installing Mom On Your Computer Enter Password lt Alt P gt Change Password Change the password by choosing Setup from the Main Menu and immediately pressing lt Alt P gt MOM will ask for the old password first and then for the new password twice If you enter the old password correctly and the new password twice the password will be changed Note that you may go to Setup General Setu
79. the log in an order other than By Time will probably not be very useful It s there to help you find an artist or song Print Music Log When you choose Print or Test Print MOM will present you with a selection of print definitions to choose from Pick one and MOM will print the log currently displayed on screen To cancel printing of a log at any time before the printing has finished press lt Esc gt MOM will ask if you really want to stop printing Answer lt gt or lt N gt If you cancel the first printing of a log that log s updates to the Music Library will be erased and the log will not be marked as printed When you are finished printing MOM will ask if it s OK to delete old logs if they exist Unless you ve been playing with the date on your computer you should do so MOM will only delete logs that are no longer needed Test Print This allows you to print a log without committing it to the music library Use this to review a log over lunch They do let you have lunch don t they Well this way you can tell them it s a working lunch ReCreate This Log If you have created a log and then realize you forgot to add some new songs or if you just hate it the way it is you may choose this option to erase and then recreate the current log This option is only available for unprinted logs and should only be used on the most recently generated log 37 Setup Setup The Setup Menu contains the following
80. tion s sound during each hour of the day Once you have named the Hour Clocks you will need to edit them to dictate what each hour s programming will look like Defime or Edit Hour Clock Information Uni que Fill Code Clock Description Category 15 SONGS RECURRENT GOLD RE POWER GO RECURIRIEN GOLD FRIDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY R G R R R G e Unique Code Up to three letters for the Hour Clock abbreviation Clock Description A longer description of your Hour Clock e Category A Music Category to use when MOM runs out of songs while programming for an hour Press lt Enter gt on a bad or empty Fill Category to see a list of available Music Categories Make sure that you include a Fill Category for each Hour Clock To add an Hour Clock press lt Ins gt and enter the required fields 42 Setup To delete an Hour Clock highlight the Clock and press lt Del gt If the Hour Clock is used in any day clocks MOM will alert you to that fact and you will not be able to delete that Hour Clock To edit the Hour Clock description Press lt Enter gt and make the changes you want If you change the abbreviation MOM will update all Day Clocks that contain the old abbreviation This will take a moment or two In addition to naming your clocks you must define the music that plays in each Hour Clock by highlighting each one and pressing lt Ctrl C gt To add a song highlight th
81. titles and artists most users find them easier to read Printing your Music Library When you select File Print All you ll be given another menu that enables you to print your entire Music Library by e CD Cart Number e Artist e Last Name 29 Features Song Title Song Length shortest to longest Current Period Count Previous Period Count Category Order Played Category Artist Category Last Name Category Song Title Category Song Length If you pick an order starting with Category MOM will print your log alphabetically by the Music Category abbreviation followed by the order you selected MOM then will ask if you only want songs that have been played in the Current Period or Previous Period Next MOM will ask you to choose one of your library printout definitions These are customizable printouts similar to the log printout customization See page 54 for more about customizing your library printouts MOM then will ask you if you want the list in Reverse Order Now MOM will print your Music Library When you select File Print Current MOM will offer to print the set of songs you are currently viewing Before choosing this you may choose any of the View menu options to select the list of songs you wish to print Additional Music features There 2 more screens available while you re in the Music Library viewer They may be accessed by pressing the right arrow key The first press allows you to
82. usic Categories Create and define your Music Categories Separation Categories Create and edit your Separation Categories Hour Clocks Define or edit your Hour Clocks Day Clocks Define your station s sound for each day of the week 20 Reset Features Week Clocks Define your week clocks Allows changing your programming during different times of the year Edit Reject Rules Set the rules which MOM uses to reject songs General Setup Setup information that didn t fit somewhere else Print Setup Information Handy to have while entering music and for future reference Disable Setup Options Turns off access to the setup menu The Reset Menu contains the following options Reset Period Counters Reset the period counters to zero Erase the Play History Erase the history entries in the Music Library Reset Month Counters Reset all 12 months of monthly play history to zero Reset Logs and Printouts Set the log and printout formats to their defaults Randomize the Library Randomize the play order of your Music Library Check and repair clocks This will correct any problems in your clocks If your computer crashes and you get errors when trying to create logs you should always try this first It shouldn t do anything but if there is a problem it will fix it If there was a problem that this fixed you should go through all of your clocks to see if anything needs fixing Delete al
83. view the last year of play history The second press gets you to the recycle depth screen This screen allows you to change the play frequency of a song in a category during all or part of the year If the recycle depth is set to 100 it means that when a song is played it it placed all the way at the bottom of the pile If you set the recycle depth to 50 it will be placed in the middle of the pile and will play again in about the average expected play time for it s category You use the lt gt plus to make the number bigger and the lt gt minus keys to make the number smaller The key alone moves the number up or down by 1 if you also press lt Ctrl gt it moves by 10 and if you also press lt Alt gt it moves by 50 30 Music Logs Music Logs The music Log editor is accessed from the main menu under File Music Logs When you choose this option you will either be presented with a list of logs to edit or you will be asked if you wish to generate a log We recommend that you generate edit and then print each log before you generate the next one When you print the log MOM writes some information to the Music library which she will use to generate the next log If you generate 2 logs in a row without printing the first and then edit the first one you may accidentally create a horizontal separation failure If you just want to create a Music Log then you may simply press lt Enter gt when you are presented with the list of logs to choo
84. y Music Library problem e g songs disappear the trouble usually is in the special Index files MOM creates to keep track of your station s library A power glitch may have damaged the index file MOM usually catches these glitches and automatically reindexes the Music Library If your Library seems erratic reindex the file manually as follows 1 Go to Extra Features 2 Choose Reindex Data Files 60 Emergencies Problems amp Special Operation MOM won t generate a log without crashing From the Extras Menu choose Clean up Data files and then Reindex Data Files Next enable the Reset Menu and then choose Reset Check and Repair Clocks MOM won t Start Reindex without crashing Sometimes MOMs index files get so messed up she can t fix them You ll know this happened when you try to Reindex and MOM crashes or if MOM just crashes at startup If this happens you should try the following 1 Change to the MOM directory CD MOM or something similar 2 Delete all of the index files DEL NSX lt Enter gt 3 Restart MOM by typing MOM lt Enter gt Losing Your Password If you lose or forget your password you will need to copy setup into the MOM directory of your hard disk from the Master Program disk This will return your password to MOM You will need to re enter the following Setup information e Printer Port and Lines Per Page e Log and Printout definitions Reject Order e
85. y you ll gain by keeping them separate will usually outweigh the cost of having additional categories To add a Separation Category press lt Ins gt and fill in the required fields MOM will place the new entry at the bottom of the list Separation Categories cannot be deleted If you wish to stop using one blank it out and reuse it later Before you do this however you should use Filter lt Alt F gt in the Music Library to view all the songs that have this Separation Category and remove it Otherwise when you reuse a Separation Category all the songs originally assigned to this Separation Category will be assigned to the new one 41 Setup To edit the Separation Category abbreviation or description Press lt Enter gt and make the changes you want If you change the abbreviation MOM will update all occurrences of the old abbreviation This will take a moment or two Handy MOM Tip To allow the most flexibility create a Separation Category specifically for not following another category with a maximum in a row of zero This way some ballads may not follow fast songs but others can Handy MOM Tip Setting separation category restrictions overly strict can make it very difficult for MOM to program your music It may also cause a large number of red and yellow flagged songs in your logs In order to allow MOM to work her best try to make your rules as flexible as possible Hour Clocks Hour Clocks are used to control the sta
86. you and your staff to use MOM allows you to make changes to your Music Logs before you print them e g to insert a special mystery song or even a whole ball game These changes will be reflected in your music history What you will do to operate MOM Install MOM on your computer Read this manual completely in order to learn to program MOM Customize MOM for your station You do this in two steps 1 Set up the program with your own Song Categories Clocks etc 2 Enter your station s Music Library This of course is the most tedious part of turning your music programming over to a computer system Every song must be typed in Artist Title Time Separation Categories and whatever other fields you decide to utilize Other Things You Will Need To Know This manual is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to operating a computer or a radio station You should understand a few things before attempting to operate Go through this quick checklist If you re unclear about anything refer to your computer s operation guide check your operating system manual or ask your resident computer geek Do You Understand 1 How to get toa DOS prompt 2 Where certain special keys are on your keyboard e g lt Page Up gt lt Page Down gt lt Esc gt lt Ins gt lt Del gt lt Alt gt lt Ctrl gt lt Home gt and lt End gt 3 That the term Press lt Alt R gt means Press and hold the l

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