MusicMaster Blog

by Brian Wheeler

With the ability to manage your data at the Enterprise level comes some interesting and valuable perks. One such perk is the easy management of shared assets across the many stations you manage. Should you decide to require cross-station song rest across multiple stations using the same songs, it’s very easy to enforce in our CS and Web products.

Here is how the rules would look in your CS software. Your available rules appear on the right, with controls for song rest, as well as Keyword time separation available for any keyword fields that are shared.

In this photo, I’ve enacted the Cross-station minimum rest and have made it unbreakable in all categories with a setting of 1 hour and 15 minutes minimum rest across all applicable stations. When you enforce this rule, another screen appears, and you’re able to select the stations that may share these titles that will also adhere to these rules.

This feature is also available in our Web Client. Here you can see that I’ve enabled a Cross-station keyword time separation of 45 minutes.

And below, I’ve been able to set the stations participating in this separation. A couple of clicks and I’m cross-protecting multiple stations at once!

In most cases, you may also wish to consider ignoring individual keyword settings when enacting this rule. By checking the box seen below, the rule adheres to the specific setting you apply for all stations.

In this case, 17 minutes is just enough to provide a cross-station buffer. That way, you’re not handcuffing another station with your stricter individual keyword settings.

This is just one of many exciting new features available to our MusicMaster CS and Web Client customers.