MusicMaster Blog

by Vicky James

Are you over-clogging your database with duplicate titles in multiple categories to achieve a desired rotation for a specialty show or feature?

The Multiple Categories feature eliminates duplicating songs, allowing a single song the ability to be assigned to multiple categories while simultaneously maintaining its place in a normal rotation. You can add a song to as many different categories as you need.

For example, if you have an 80s Category, you may also want to use titles from that category to rotate during a specialty hour, such as The Party Playlist show featured on the weekends.

Here’s how to set it up:

To control this in CS, click the Edit Helper in the Category Field of a song in the library, and it will populate a box allowing you to select the Category.

Next, simply check each desired category where you wish the song to now live.

As seen in the image below, the song “1999″ by Prince is in the 80s Category. I have checked the PP category, and now “1999” will live in both categories.

Once the song has been added to the desired categories,  you can see it resides in both.

The Multiple Category feature is also available in the Web Client with nearly the same process.

In the Library Maintenance window, hover over the Edit Helper in the category field.

When you click into the editor, you can check each category to which “1999″ should be added.

As you can see in the image, I have selected the PP category. Now, “1999” will live in both categories.

Now, if you query that song, you will see it is in both categories!

For further help on Multiple Categories or to learn about more features in CS or the Web Client, feel free to reach out to your support rep!