MusicMaster Blog

by Dave Tyler

For many years, the need for each of us at the radio station to wear more hats has increased. The idea of being just a Production Director or just an afternoon talent is long gone. Today, you might be the PD doing the morning show, followed by assigning production, cutting spots, sitting in a meeting with sales, doing a live remote, and back to voicetrack for your sister station. In many cases, we are programming multiple stations, and in extreme cases, multiple markets! There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, right? Enter MusicMaster CS.

MusicMaster CS has a powerful set of tools, functions, and even automated tasks ( for more on Automated Tasks, check out this blog….brilliantly written by….um…well, ok, I wrote it, but it is still pretty solid!) https://musicmaster.com/?p=11521>.

Let’s say I am the Market PD and I need to schedule music for the week for several stations. Using MMCS, I no longer need to do them one at a time. I can schedule all of them at the same time! Crazy right?! Here’s how you do it. Just open the Automatic Scheduler in the Enterprise and select the stations you need to schedule. Configure your settings. Check the box to “Schedule Simultaneously” and click OK.

It is an incredible time saver, but now that you’re sitting there in disbelief, it is time for me to blow your mind! Remember earlier when I mentioned Automated Tasks? You can set up an Automated Task to do the scheduling at a time you prefer. Imagine having MMCS schedule your stations for the entire week while you’re at home sleeping! Review my Automated Task blog to see how. It is pretty cool to walk into the station the next morning and only have to edit/massage the logs. Heck, you can even set up an automated task to export the logs!

MusicMaster CS solves a lot of problems and gives today’s modern user/music scheduler some incredible abilities to lift our mounting responsibilities and allow us to pay attention to the really important details of our workday.