MusicMaster Blog

MusicMaster Pro 8.0.17 is now available. You can update now via Help, Check for Update, or download from the MusicMaster website. Changes are as follows:

• Added a new Exclusive Day Offset hour rotation rule for keywords.
• Added a new Optimum Hour Timing goal that can give higher priority to songs that are more beneficial to meeting the required hour timing limits.
• The Airplay Affidavit report can now optionally include Lognotes, with a text filter to determine which are eligible to include. Note that Lognotes cannot be included when you are reporting on archived history hours.
• The [Alt-F5] swap songs function in the Schedule Editor can no longer be used on elements that are not scheduled songs.
• Added a vertical scrollbar to the song memo editor, which also allows scrolling with the mouse wheel.
• When using the Library Query filters for Last or Next X scheduled days, the last scheduled date is included for Last X but not for Next X. These are based on the Automatic Scheduler last scheduled hour.
• Added a new NPR Digital Cadence Special History Report.
• Added a new Gramex Music Content Special History Report for Finland.
• The element property User1 and User 2 fields can now hold up to 110 characters of data each.
• Added additional options for user tools command line options for Schedule Editor elements. You can now access element property values using %VFLD:TRANSITION%, %VFLD:USER1% and %VFLD:USER2%
• Additional fixes and minor improvements

You can find the full list of changes under Help, Release notes. Please contact your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant if you have any questions.

MusicMaster Pro 8.0.16 is now available. You can update now via Help, Check for Update, or download from the MusicMaster website. Changes are as follows:

• The Format Clock Editor properties column for clock filters now shows a new icon for Library Query elements that have query filters.
• Improved the accuracy of the progress bar on the Automatic Scheduler status dialog.
• Improved the Optimize by Field arrangement function when used on a multiple keyword field when there were songs where multiple heavily used keywords appeared on the same songs.
• Adjusted the way Exact Hour Timing works when the TimingFlexibility option is enabled. This will now have a greater ability to leave positions unscheduled in favor of using longer songs to hit the timing requirement early.
• The Schedule Editor function to remove all remaining unscheduled positions will now take the broadcast week into account.
• When reconciling elements via Nexus, it is now possible to change the song that played in an element while you are updating the start time and runtime.
• Updated Special History Reports for Finland, Hong Kong and Italy
• Corrected an issue that could cause an application crash after changing to a different station
• Additional fixes and minor improvements

You can find the full list of changes under Help, Release notes. Please contact your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant if you have any questions.

MusicMaster Pro 8.0.15 is now available under Help, Check for Update. Changes are as follows:

• The Schedule Calendar setup dialog now has a setting to indicate which date should be shown in the center of the dates listed on the Infobar scheduler tab. This tab will now show between 15-30 total days based on the sizing of the panel.
• You can now add up to three additional fields to the Chart Editor to show reference data.
• The Packet Editor will now show marked songs using the standard song mark colors.
• The Schedule Editor schedule statistics dialog was only applying the range filter coloring to the day total row. This will now also apply to all of the hourly rows as well.
• Added a new ASCAP Special History Report.
• Added online help in Italian.
• Made some changes to the installer to improve compatibility with newer operating systems, including Server 2025.
• Added additional Nexus commands to get and set the format clocks to be used when scheduling specific future history hours. See the Nexus documentation for details of getClockList, getAssignedClocks, and setAssignedClocks.

You can find the full list of changes under Help, Release notes. Contact your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant with any questions.

The latest maintenance release for MusicMaster PRO is now available.  It contains fixes for several recently reported issues.  We recommend that you update your software using Help, Check for Updates to get this new version.

The latest service release for MusicMaster PRO is now available.  You’ll find 7.0.7 available in Help, Check for Updates.  Here are just a few of the new things you’ll have available:

Filter elements in your clocks based upon category type and element type, which means you can just hide elements that schedule songs from non-music categories.

Date, Length and Numeric fields will now show the minimum, average and maximum values when using Library Analysis.

Import from Network now allows you specify a list of categories that will be unscheduled and replaced during the import.

Classical users will certainly be among the biggest fans of the update in the Packet Editor.  You’ll now be able to show three user fields along with the current defaults.

You’ll now be able to limit your Category Moves Report to a certain date range.

Internationally, we’ve updated the CRTC Airplay Log Special History report and continue to update the Help system the French and Spanish languages.

We’ve released MusicMaster 7.0.3 today.  This maintenance update contains minor improvements for your user experience.  You can get this update by going to Help, Check for Updates.  Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your Music Scheduling Consultant.