MusicMaster Blog

by Brian Wheeler

How cool would it be to be able to add songs to your station with just a click or two? I want to highlight a feature in MusicMaster Client-Server and the Web Client that allows you to ingest songs that are in the Enterprise database but not currently in your specific station.

This feature can be accessed through the Library menu, or when in the Library Maintenance menu, you can click on the icon on the toolbar to access the function.

To access this in your station, you must first have rights to access Enterprise and the setup. Once you have rights, you can add or modify the available assets in your station.

To configure the query that will enable your search of the available assets in Enterprise, you must first open Import Enterprise Songs within Enterprise. It’s here that you’ll provide a query for users to find songs they want to import into their station.

Add a new query, starting with the name of the query. Try to be specific in the description so it’s easy to tell precisely what the user can find using this query.

Now select the station(s) you want to receive these new songs.

The last step will be to create the actual prompts. Use the Query Prompt steps you’d normally use to create a Query, then save your settings.

Now that the preliminary settings are in place, if a user decides to import songs from Enterprise, they can click on Import Enterprise Songs at the station level and proceed to find their desired songs for importing.
This is how the query looks in the Web Client, which is similar to the CS view.

In this case, I’m looking for “Summer” songs for a bit I’m doing for a weekend show. The songs in gray are songs that already exist in the station. White songs are not currently in the station. I’ll select two more songs (seen here in gold) that are in Enterprise for my purposes.

and in the Web Client:

You may see that I elected to drop these songs into my Uncategorized folder. You can select any category to drop those songs in from Enterprise.

As with a library layout, you can add additional fields to the view by clicking on the Design option and adding fields to the view.

Now I’m ready to click Select and add these songs to my station! Pretty slick. Later, I can move these songs to any category I wish.

Of course you can use quite a few fields in your query, so if you’re searching for music with more subtle features, perhaps songs that match a mood or theme, you can search for those as well. As long as the songs exist in Enterprise and are coded accordingly, you can find them and import them.

If you have more questions regarding this or any other feature in MusicMaster CS or the Web Client, feel free to contact any of the MusicMaster Scheduling Consultants to get the answers.