KSOM, KSWI – Atlantic, IA; KFIS, KRYP – Portland, OR; WRWT – Wawasee, IN; WYKX – Escanaba, MI; KSFI – Salt Lake City, UT
Check out the new, recently-launched MusicMaster website. Complete with a new look, it’s now easier to use than ever! Quickly find out everything you need to know about the software, get in touch with us, listen to streams from stations using MusicMaster, and more.
MusicMaster’s Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day recently at Much Music in Toronto working with their staff of music librarians and programmers. They covered all sorts of topics from analyzing histories to enhanced rule trees to scheduling shortcuts. Educational for all in attendance!
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The Much Music Librarian team: Jodie Epstein, Heather Middleton, and Liz Houlihan
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Greg Baptiste – Programmer, Jodie Epstein – Librarian, Heather Middleton – Librarian, and Liz Houlihan – Librarian
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Darren Bourne – Programmer and Joe Knapp – MusicMaster President
Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day with the program and music directors at Central Ontario Broadcasting. From the get-go the room was buzzing with excitement…and it continued throughout the course of the full Genius Day. They discussed CanCon and Emerging Artists, ways to use Auto-Platooning, Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-R in the library for quick searches, history linking and tons more.
From left to right: Paul Ziino – MusicMaster; Dave Carr – VP of Programming, Central Ontario Broadcasting; Adam Thompson – Program Director, Indie 88; Charlie Vigna – Music Director, Cool FM; Michael Religa – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Indie 88; Craig Ross – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Rock 95; Joe Knapp – President, MusicMaster.
“Thumbs up!” for MusicMaster at Central Ontario Broadcasting! Craig Ross, Dave Carr, Adam Thompson, Charlie Vigna, Michael Religa, and Joe Knapp in the foreground.
Aaron Taylor and Jesus Rodriguez took part in the largest convention for Spanish and Latin American broadcasters hosted by Monitor Latino in Los Angeles at the Pacific Palms Resort.
Jesus Rodriguez hosted a workshop where he demonstrated the power of MusicMaster scheduling software. He spoke about all the new versions of MusicMaster such as PE, LT, and PRO to current and future clients that joined us! Jesus Rodriguez then participated in a live and recorded interview feed to the Monitor Latino and Radio Nota members that could not make it to the convention but were logged in via the web and discussed MusicMaster’s key benefits.
Aaron Taylor, Monitor Latino’s Juan Carlos Ortizand, Jesus Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos “JC” Hidalgo at the Monitor Latino Convention
The Convention Floor
Jesus demonstrating MusicMaster in action at his workshop
Jesus interviewed by RadioNotas live stream to discuss the benefits of MusicMaster and recap of the work shop.
Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor made a surprise visit to MusicMaster client Univision Radio during their Los Angeles visit. At every corner there was a computer with MusicMaster in action. Beware! Your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant might surprise you too someday so make sure those rotations are tight. We kid! We kid! Well, as long as you schedule our favorite song.
Univision Building
Univision Radio LA Stations
Aaron Taylor, Nando (Music Research Dept.), Jesus Rodriguez, and JJ Ayala (Music Research Department)
Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor visited MusicMaster clients Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) during their Los Angeles visit to see if night DJs really have the most fun. They got the opportunity to hang out with DJ Pato and his show doing big things in the LA market.
Last month in our MusicMaster Newsletter we had “Give Your Station a Shout Out” winner, Corey Tremere, Program Director at Ocean100 a NewCap Station.
We actually had a tie and our other WINNER is Craig Powers, Vice President of Cameron Broadcasting, home of stations KFLG Country, LUCKY, the knack Top 40 Hits, KAAA, KZZZ All Talk, and K-Star Legends.
All of us at MusicMaster thank Craig for giving an amazing “SHOUT OUT” to his Stations on MusicMaster Facebook and being a dedicated user of MusicMaster Scheduling. Your awesome gym bag is on its way to you.
Ronald Sebök
Music Director and Assistant Program Director
100% NL
Naarden, Netherlands
Radiocorp runs two national radio stations. 100% NL: an AC format with mostly popular music by Dutch artists, primarily in the Dutch Language. Currently the radio station has an overall nationwide market share of 4.5% and peaks in women 20-49. The second station is Radio 10, the oldest commercial radio station in The Netherlands, running an oldies based format. Radio 10 is the fastest grower in the Dutch 20-49 market.
Ronald says: “Do what you love. Love what you do. After working with RCS Selector and Powergold, I am really enthusiastic about MusicMaster. It is the first scheduling software that is able to do what I want instead of dealing with workarounds. MusicMaster really improved our rotations and sound. We use the software to the edge. Our favorite Optimum Goal is The Optimum Radial Spread. I know, it’s not magic. But it really seems like it is!”
Quick Tip: Queries and Song Lists for Specific UsersIf you are using the security system (Tools, Options, Dataset Security), you can create library queries and Song Lists that only specific users can see. When you save your query or Song List, add “@username”, where “username” is replaced by the named user in the Dataset Security system. Anyone who is logged in as Administrator would see these as well. One of the benefits of this is that the user might see a greatly reduced list of options when accessing these areas allowing them to focus on just the ones they need to use.
Summer Holiday Scheduling
By Jesus Rodriguez
You may already have a holiday grid ready to go for the winter break. You may possibly even have clocks that flip your station to an all Christmas channel 24/7. Those concepts are great tools to have so that you’re prepared for the holiday season every year. What about all the other holidays? (Read more.)
Spotlight on a New Feature in 5.0sr13 – Clone Hours
By Aaron Taylor
You now have the ability to clone portions of a scheduled log into another part of the day or other days entirely. This allows you very easily to reuse already scheduled content with very little effort, perhaps a countdown show, or a special feature or hours that might be time consuming to recreate “by hand”. Many MusicMaster users have asked for this functionality, and now it is finally available starting with version 5.0sr13! (Read more.)
There are industry events and conventions every month around the world. We always appreciate meeting our customers and finding out how MusicMaster is working for them. If you’re planning on attending any of these events, let us know. We’d love to meet with you if possible.
Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor visited MusicMaster clients Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) during their Los Angeles visit to see if night DJs really have the most fun. They got the opportunity to hang out with DJ Pato and his show doing big things in the LA market.
By Paul Ziino
Open a Music Category in Library Maintenance and add in the field called “Performance.” (more…)
Jesus Rodriguez and Aaron Taylor made a surprise visit to MusicMaster client Univision Radio during their Los Angeles visit. At every corner there was a computer with MusicMaster in action. Beware! Your MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant might surprise you too someday so make sure those rotations are tight. We kid! We kid! Well, as long as you schedule our favorite song.
Univision Building
Univision Radio LA Stations
Aaron Taylor, Nando (Music Research Dept.), Jesus Rodriguez, and JJ Ayala (Music Research Department)
Aaron Taylor and Jesus Rodriguez took part in the largest convention for Spanish and Latin American broadcasters hosted by Monitor Latino in Los Angeles at the Pacific Palms Resort.
Jesus Rodriguez hosted a workshop where he demonstrated the power of MusicMaster scheduling software. He spoke about all the new versions of MusicMaster such as PE, LT, and PRO to current and future clients that joined us! Jesus Rodriguez then participated in a live and recorded interview feed to the Monitor Latino and Radio Nota members that could not make it to the convention but were logged in via the web and discussed MusicMaster’s key benefits.
Aaron Taylor, Monitor Latino’s Juan Carlos Ortizand, Jesus Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos “JC” Hidalgo at the Monitor Latino Convention
The Convention Floor
Jesus demonstrating MusicMaster in action at his workshop
Jesus interviewed by RadioNotas live stream to discuss the benefits of MusicMaster and recap of the work shop.
By Sean Ross
A few weeks ago, I was ready to give the Song of Summer 2014 to “Rude” by Magic!
It was reggae. It was inescapable, that week. It was briefly part of the zeitgeist. It would have been the third summer in a row for a talented Canadian act (and one that might have had trouble following up). “Fancy” and “Problem,” its competitors, were finally spending themselves out.
I considered Disclosure’s “Latch.” It was the song that remained ubiquitous all summer. Being EDM, but not really, made it the perfect representative of top 40 radio in summer 2014. But that would have been like choosing “Lights” or “Radioactive” or some other long-running hit that was amiably neutral.
But there was no clear winner. And not in that 2012 way when “Party Rock Anthem” won, but “Give Me Everything” or “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” would have worked as well. Friends and readers asked for their opinion this week are split between the three contenders.
But in the end, the Summer Song of 2014 winner wasn’t hard to call at all.
It was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
It had ubiquity. It had the right mix of content and frivolity. Its timing depended on summer – the willingness to participate might not have been quite the same if it was 45 degrees outside and you weren’t already goofing around with your friends on the patio.
Okay, there wasn’t really a song attached, although there were a few that might have been appropriate. Meme plus song would have been “Call Me Maybe” and made it an easy call. But ever since “Harlem Shake” was allowed to chart off the use of a song snippet in user-generated-videos, the meme/song distinction has been pretty well broken down anyway.
Clearly, the Ice Bucket Challenge is the shared experience that Song of Summer 2014 didn’t deliver this year. This was going to be that moment when radio controlled the cultural agenda again. The U.K.’s holiday No. 1 hit might be TV-driven, but being the Summer Song winner in America required radio’s critical mass.
Too much buildup might have been Song of Summer’s problem, though. Last August, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” was already the upset winner. This year, the lack of an obvious choice spurred several prominent variants on that journalistic fallback: the “how we didn’t get the story” story. Or at least the “why there is no story” story.
The increased consumer press scrutiny itself probably had something to do with the relative ennui. The Song of Summer coverage didn’t quite draw the type of music writer who never liked mainstream pop music in the first place. But critics are gonna critique. “Blurred Lines” made it through last summer with the public’s enthusiasm mostly intact. “Rude” was under siege before it even hit No. 1 in America.
The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn’t just the summer’s biggest hit song, it was also the biggest wacky radio charity stunt ever. You certainly can’t say that radio drove it, as much as joined in. If anything, it was yet another incidence of morning TV glomming on to radio’s shtick. Or it was proof that some listeners, having already learned to program their own music station online, can now do morning show bits, too. That radio provided the training is, well, cold comfort.
Radio and music people still want the summer song to go out with a big splash of its own. Billboard’s Rich Appel is among those suggesting the real excitement has come at the end of the summer: “All About That Bass,” “Bang Bang,” “Bailando,” “Anaconda,” and especially Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” That song actually showed up in the slot that always marked the opening salvo of the Q4 sales season before. But a few people are genuinely ready to give it Song of Summer with two weeks availability.
But that was the summer we had: a half-dozen songs-of-the-fortnight. Like Ed Sheeran’s “Sing,” tipped as a major contender for about two weeks in May until “Problem” hit, Swift’s challenge will be keeping a sustained pace through Q4, which is particularly difficult when your song has just posted a weekly gain of more than 8,000 spins. Maybe the Christmas No. 1, with its three weeks of activity, is right for Americans after all. At least until the “Ice Bucket Santa” videos start showing up.
Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day with the program and music directors at Central Ontario Broadcasting. From the get-go the room was buzzing with excitement…and it continued throughout the course of the full Genius Day. They discussed CanCon and Emerging Artists, ways to use Auto-Platooning, Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-R in the library for quick searches, history linking and tons more.
From left to right: Paul Ziino – MusicMaster; Dave Carr – VP of Programming, Central Ontario Broadcasting; Adam Thompson – Program Director, Indie 88; Charlie Vigna – Music Director, Cool FM; Michael Religa – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Indie 88; Craig Ross – Assistant Program Director/Music Director, Rock 95; Joe Knapp – President, MusicMaster.
“Thumbs up!” for MusicMaster at Central Ontario Broadcasting! Craig Ross, Dave Carr, Adam Thompson, Charlie Vigna, Michael Religa, and Joe Knapp in the foreground.
MusicMaster’s Joe Knapp, Malcolm Sinclair, and Paul Ziino spent a day recently at Much Music in Toronto working with their staff of music librarians and programmers. They covered all sorts of topics from analyzing histories to enhanced rule trees to scheduling shortcuts. Educational for all in attendance!
The Much Music Librarian team: Jodie Epstein, Heather Middleton, and Liz Houlihan
Greg Baptiste – Programmer, Jodie Epstein – Librarian, Heather Middleton – Librarian, and Liz Houlihan – Librarian
Darren Bourne – Programmer and Joe Knapp – MusicMaster President
By Aaron Taylor
If you’re using MusicMaster Version 5.0 or later, you have the ability to clone portions of a scheduled log into another part of the day or other days entirely. This allows you very easily to reuse already scheduled content with very little effort, perhaps a countdown show, or a special feature or hours that might be time consuming to recreate “by hand”.
FashionTV – Tel Aviv, Israel; Radio Arabella – Vienna, Austria; WINC-FM – Winchester, VA; Christian FM – Vero Beach, FL; KCWU – Ellensburg, WA; KSFI – Salt Lake City, UT; KRSP – Salt Lake City, UT; KPRI – San Diego, CA
MusicMaster is thrilled and honored to welcome the legendary Scott Shannon to the MusicMaster family. In July, Scott launched his popular True Oldies Channel format online and it is powered by MusicMaster! Hear Scott at TrueOldiesChannel.com every day and hear our very own Drew Bennett from 7pm-12am on the TOC as well! Watch for more news coming from the TOC camp in the future! Welcome, Scott! We are so proud to have you on board with us!
Software Giant Enhances Information Technology, Support, and Accounting Departments
MusicMaster announced recently the addition of three new team members, including an award-winning Florida radio program director, a longtime Las Vegas corporate director of digital technology, and a senior accountant.
Joining the company as a Music Scheduling Consultant is former JVC PD Dave Tyler, an entertaining voice on Florida radio for over 25 years. Tyler says, “I have been with WTRS alone for 16 years and there are few gigs that could entice me away from my JVC Broadcasting family, but this is one that checked every box on my wish list, the most important of which is the chance to work with Joe Knapp, whom I’ve known and admired for a long time.”
Longtime digital technology expert, Jeff Schroeder joins the MusicMaster team as Senior Technical Consultant for onsite installation, technical documentation, and automation interface expertise. Jeff shared, “I’ve known Joe Knapp and CTO Scott Wirt for almost 20 years, and I’ve been a fan of MusicMaster since then. I couldn’t be more thrilled at the opportunity to work with them and the amazing team they’ve put together.”
Additionally, Lorie Robers joins the corporate office as Senior Accountant. Lorie brings years of accounting experience to the international business offices of MusicMaster. Robers says, “I’m happy to be working with VP/Finance, Susan Averbeck. Joining an exciting, growing company like MusicMaster will allow me to utilize my talents and expertise.”
President and founder Joe Knapp, adds, “The exponential growth of this company has filled me with overwhelming pride and joy. It still blows my mind that the simple music scheduling program I created over thirty years ago evolved into this huge global company with thousands of MusicMaster users in every variety of entertainment platforms across dozens of countries around the world.”
Knapp founded MusicMaster in 1983 and it continues to be the world’s largest Windows-based music scheduling software for media outlets including radio and television stations.
MusicMaster patrocinará la 7ª Convención Anual del Monitor Latino el 24 agosto – día 26 la reunión más grande de las emisoras latinas de los Estados Unidos, México y toda América Latina. La convención se llevará a cabo en el Pacific Palms Resort en Los Ángeles, California. Si usted va a ir a este gran evento, nos gustaría invitarlo a visitar nuestro Consultores de MusicMaster Aaron Taylor y Jesús Rodríguez para consultaciones si eres un usuario o interesado en la posibilidad de incorporarse a nuestra familia de MusicMaster.
El equipo de Consultores de MusicMaster también tendran un taller Bilingüe el martes 26 de agosto a las 10:30 am en el salon “Cherry Hill”. Esto es muy útil para todos aquellos interesados en los productos de MusicMaster, así como algunos trucos de programación para los usuarios actuales. El propósito y el contenido de este taller consiste en demostrar las ventajas de las nuevas herramientas que MusicMaster PE, LT, y PRO tienen para ofrecer a los canals de musica de radio y televisión. Únase a nosotros y formar parte de este taller para todos los ejecutivos de la radio, programadores, locutores, estaciones de Internet, y para cualquier amante de la música y el radio.
MusicMaster will be sponsoring the 7th Annual Monitor Latino Convention on August 24th – 26th the largest gathering of Latino broadcasters from the United States, Mexico, and all Latin America. The convention will be hosted at the Pacific Palms Resort in Los Angles, California. If you will be going to this great event, we would like to invite you to visit our booth to meet MusicMaster Scheduling Consultants Aaron Taylor and Jesus Rodriguez for some one-on-one consulting whether you are a current user or considering joining our MusicMaster family.
The MusicMaster Scheduling Consultant team will also be hosting a Bilingual workshop on Tuesday August 26th at 10:30 am in the “Cherry Hill” ballroom. This is great for all those interested in MusicMaster products as well as some programming tricks for current users. The purpose and content of this workshop is to demonstrate the advantages of the new tools that MusicMaster PE, LT, and PRO have to offer radio and television music channels. Join us and become a part of this content-filled workshop for all radio executives, programmers, announcers, Internet broadcasters, DJ’s, radio hobbyists, and any radio or music lover.
MusicMaster Sheriff, Joe Knapp welcomes fellow Texans attending the 61st Annual Convention and Trade Show August 6-7 at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. Over a thousand will join Knapp at the largest state broadcast association convention in the nation.
Look for MusicMaster as we team up with automation partners, ENCO and Wide Orbit in the exhibit hall, and mark your agenda for Joe’s big presentation, “The Artistry and Science of Music Scheduling” Thursday, August 7 at 2:15pm.
Not registered for the full convention? Joe has a hat-full of free trade show guest passes. E-mail MusicMaster’s man from Austin, Drew Bennett, to reserve your guest pass.
The Broken Spoke may never be the same.
Joe Knapp and Aaron Taylor, along with Jason Singleterry from Wide Orbit joined forces with the 103.5 QMFM, Bell Media-Vancouver, B.C. Programming, Engineering and IT teams this month to help launch CHQM-FM and CFBT-FM on MusicMaster and Wide Orbit in their beautiful new facility. What a great experience we had together, and are proud to welcome another Bell Media station cluster to the MusicMaster/A-Ware Software family!
From left to right: Aaron Taylor, Music Scheduling Consultant, A-Ware Software; Troy Wylie, Regional IT Manager, Bell Media; Leah Koepenick, Engineering/I.T. Technician, Bell Media/Vancouver; Joe Knapp, CEO/President, A-Ware Software; Brad Challoner, Music Director, CHQM-FM; Curtis Strange, Program Director, CFBT-FM/CHQM-FM; Jason Singleterry, Project Manager Radio Automation, Wide Orbit; Jasmina Koga, Music Director, CFBT-FM; Chris Larke, Chief Engineer Radio, Bell Media/Vancouver; and John Bolwitt, Engineering/I.T. Technician, Bell Media/Vancouver
On his last tour through Asia, Rainer Eichhorn had great meetings with existing and new clients.
Gregory Wong, of our Hong Kong-based partner company BTL, was putting together a string of very good meetings and some cool Dim Sum lunches.
We are looking forward to the next projects in this wonderful City.
Check out the happy faces! GM’s, PD’s, MD’s and listeners of Bayern 3, FFH, Radio Paradiso, WDR 2, Hitradio Niedersachsen and Antenne Bayern went crazy during the World Cup earlier in July. Soccer was everywhere and everyday, in the studio, on the street or at parties at night. Many stations, like Antenne Bayern, took their listeners to party and meet the World Cup team in Berlin.
The team from ON AIR wishes all MusicMaster users around the globe a great summer! At least to those who are in summer now (the northern hemisphere). And to those who are in winter now (southern hemisphere), a great next summer!
This picture was taken during a ON AIR company meeting in Berlin. From the left, Justus, Thomas, Andreas, Ellen, Gabriele, Max and Kevin. Two members of the team were missing, Matthias was in Iran and Rainer was in Manila, obviously working.
MusicMaster congratulates Tom Kent and his TKRN team for hitting the 450 station mark!
TKRN CEO Tom Kent: “It’s all about the FUN and oh what fun it is to be adding yet even more great stations. Mucho Gracias to Midwest Family and Radio
Jones for taking us to this incredible 450 station milestone!”
TKRN is comprised of over 450 great radio stations in the United States, Canada
and Mexico.
The winner of the contest “Give a Shout Out to your Station” is Corey Tremere, Program Director at Ocean 100, NewCap Radio.
Thank you Corey for being a passionate user of MusicMaster.
Corey will be receiving his awesome MusicMaster gym bag soon.
Dave-o Thompson
Founder and Programmer
Ariel Stream
Harrisburg, PA
If you had your own radio station, whose favorite music would you play? Rockers? Country purists? Northern Soul fanatics?
When major market radio veteran Dave-o Thompson started Ariel Stream, he went with…nobody’s favorite music. What started as an idea for brand-extension on HD2 signals for AC stations, has morphed into an online identity of its own, uniquely speaking to audiences who are used to getting family-friendly selections from other formats’ music, playlists copied from market-to-market, and no-brainer familiarity.
“I’m trying to present fresher music mixing the ‘WTF’ flow of a Jack, with the earnestness and breadth of a Triple-A”, says Thompson. “The presentation is more low-key, without dialing-back to the energy level heard on ‘Lite’ formats. I even adopted a new name – Peter Aurielle – so I wouldn’t be tempted to lapse back into the caffeinated snark and left-brain thinking more suited to what I do as Dave-o.”
In addition to the Aurielle voice tracks, Dic Ervasti serves as voiceover guy, and plans are in the works to produce jingles, and add a female station voice as well, and add more of an internet presence.
Musically, Ariel Stream isn’t looking for trends, but simply that “ear-candy” quality of unique songs and production that fit well together, but still gives listeners fresher musical discovery within their own comfort zone. If you like pure Bluegrass, the full spectrum of Electronica or the artists that define Chill…don’t expect that here. But, you’ll get enough of a taste of these, and several other niche genres, to know that there’s plenty out there to discover that’s compatible with your tastes, then you probably missed out on.
A singular playlist benefits from uncommon scheduling strategies. “The barrage of unfamiliar music can still get fatiguing to some, particularly for ’passive’ audiences. So I actually have categories for a sparse collection of more familiar songs, as well as recognizable artists and covers, to give the brain a ‘musical lily pad’ now and then. There are also night-centric categories that beef-up the basic playlist for listeners putting far more time-spent than typical commuter, and office-workday listening.”
“MusicMaster is particularly suited for seasonal songs that can automatically come back into play, or just move to a higher rotation automatically, then drop back away from prominence when seasons change. And then there’s the Christmas rotation, shuffling December, holiday, relationship-vs.-spiritual songs, even Wintertime titles that stick around into January: moving titles, clocks and rule tree modifications automatically gives you more control with less effort.”
“Ariel uses lots of different ways to categorize songs beyond standard artist codes and tempos. Moods, cultural or international origin, instrumentation (synth vs. acoustic, for instance) and the intensity of the song, be it angels awash in echo, or starting and ending low-key but with a pounding middle section; these are all things I keep watch of. It‘s important because most of the music is unfamiliar to this audience, so I want to give them the best chance to keep the music from all running together in their heads.”
Musicmaster’s Joe Knapp and Drew Bennett bring considerable technical knowledge to Ariel Stream; (“Un”)consultant Keith Hill helps Dave-o with any MusicMaster for Windows issues. In fact, Keith, Joe, and MusicMaster’s Shane Finch were all present at the inception, and encouraged Dave-o to develop his “Anti-AC for AC listeners” concept, despite their bewilderment. He has also consulted with OM Bill Shannon of the Tom Kent Radio Network, musicologist and host of Echoes John Diliberto, and print magazine publisher Harris Toser.
Ariel Stream is online at arielstream.com, or Live365, and for devices through any app that streams Live365 internet radio stations.
Favorite positioning statements:
It’s not a radio station; it’s more like…a message in a bottle.
We don’t “Soft Rock”; we don’t “Lite Rock”; we don’t “alt Rock”, or “Pop Rock”, or even “Sweater Rock”. Fact is, we don’t rock at all. We just…don’t.
Cutting-edge music…without the “cutting edge”!
A whole new world of music to discover…in YOUR comfort zone!
Let Ariel Stream take you down the road not taken; up the scenic route; through the secret passageway…ANY way, but the mainstream…!
Quick Tip: LogNote PurgeLogNotes can pile up in a hurry. There is no harm in leaving LogNotes in the program, but you may wish to purge these from time-to-time to make search lists more streamlined. When you open the LogNote Editor you will see a Purge option at the top. When you open this you’ll have two options. You can either use the automatic settings or manually set a cutoff date. We recommend the default option because it only removes LogNotes that are not in any clocks or logs. If you choose the manual option, you’ll pick a date and time for the purging. Any LogNotes prior to that date and time will be removed, even if they are in the active history. Either way, LogNote Purge is a great way to keep your LogNote list neat and tidy.
Fail Alerts!
By Drew Bennett
MusicMaster continues to listen to our users and add new features to our products. With the release of MusicMaster Pro 5.0sr13, you will now find a new feature called Fail Alerts. Fail Alerts let you know when a song fails a rule in the Schedule Editor. To turn on Fail Alerts, head to Tools, Options Additional Properties. Look for a field called FailAlert in the Scheduler section. Turn on Fail Alerts using one of three methods. (Read more.)
MusicMaster Rules: What’s behind your Exclusion Mask?
By Marianne Burkett
There are all types of rules available to you in the MusicMaster Rule Tree to keep songs from playing in or around the same hour they last played. In working with so many clients, I’ve come to find many who are daring enough to use the Day or Play Exclusion Mask rules, but have them set up strangely. So, I will explain to the best of my ability how to set them up properly. Let me start with the Day Exclusion Mask. What does it do and what rules can it replace? (Read more.)
There are industry events and conventions every month around the world. We always appreciate meeting our customers and finding out how MusicMaster is working for them. If you’re planning on attending any of these events, let us know. We’d love to meet with you if possible.
