.....Edit Property Screen

This is where you enter the artist or company name of the audio cut to be recorded.

         

          For Example:

         

          GARTH BROOKS

          CAR TOWN USA

          CORONA

 

 

 

A category is a letter designating a group of songs with common play-frequency requirements.  You can have up to 52 categories and you use either a single letter, <A> through <Z> or a double letter <AA> to <ZZ> to identify each category.  Categories are defined in the Audio Menu under Category List and you should define your categories prior to starting to work with the Digital juke Box.

         

          For example:

         

          Category <A> = Heavy Currents

          Category <B> = Medium Currents

          Category <C> = Light Currents

          Category <J> = Jingles

         

Leave the category field blank if you do not wish to use our built-in scheduler or if you do not wish to rotate this audio cut in a category manner.

 

The Category List can be edited in the Category List Menu Option of the Audio Menu.

 

When you click the Audio Type box, a list of types will drop down.  Please select the type as close to the type that it is.

 

 

This tells the Digital Juke Box whether this audio cut can be played or not.  We call the choices dead or alive. 

 

Dead songs will not appear in any audio cuts choice screen.  It will only appear in the audio cuts database.

 

This is a way to rest a song without removing the category letter.

 

 

This is simply the year of the release of this audio cut.

 

 

The Start Date and Hour are the Date and Time that you would like this audio cut to start being able to be scheduled.  The Digital Juke Box will not schedule this audio cut to play prior to the Start Date and Time  Your options for this field are to either enter a date or leave blank for none.

 

 

The End Date and End Hour are the last Date and Hour that you would like this audio cut to play.  The Digital Juke Box will not schedule this audio cut to play past the End Date and End Hour  Your options for this field are to either enter an end date or leave blank for none.

         

It is the job of the traffic person to ultimately put the correct end dates in the traffic system and not the job of the digital juke box to enforce end dates.  If a spot expires and the spot it still in your traffic system as being scheduled, it’s the traffic persons responsibility to make sure the spot didn’t schedule in the traffic software in the first place.

 

This is where you will enter the title of the audio cut to be recorded.  This will be the title of the song, the spot title, jingle title, etc...

         

          For Example:

         

          THUNDER ROLLS

          JULY 4TH SALE-A-BRATION

          RYTHEM OF THE NIGHT

 

For title protection to work, each same title audio cut needs to have the exact same title.

 

 

 

Since you need to print Composer reports from time to time, we have provided this field for you to list the composer.

 

Tempo Field

The tempo is used to create a better flow of music.  Just select the overall tempo of this song.  If you are not interested in tempo, then just don’t worry about this field.

 

 

 

This is the outcue of the Commercial or it could display the ending of a song with a special ending.

 

Fade last Event

 

Do you want to force the event prior to this event to fade when the segue occurs?

         

If you answer yes, a forced fade of the previous audio during On-Air playback will happen.

         

Normally you would not want to force a fade on your audio cuts since most songs are already fading when the next song starts.

         

The length of the fade is a setting in the Master Settings section on the Utilities menu.

 

 

Do you want this event to force fade into the next event when the segue occurs?

         

If you answer yes, this cut will fade into the next audio cut during On-Air playback.

         

This should be used on fill music, songs with a long applause ending, etc...

         

Normally you would not want to force a fade on your audio cuts since most songs are already fading when the next song starts.

         

The length of the fade is a setting in the Master Settings section on the Utilities Menu.

 

 

Dayparts

 

This is where you can edit the scheduling dayparts of this audio cut.  Check each hour this audio cut can play.  You can adjust the dayparts for Weekdays, Saturday and Sunday.

 

If you want daypart protection used, you need to answer <Y> to the question "Do you want to use daypart protection?" in the Scheduling Settings, on the Scheduling Menu.

 

 

 

 

Since some traffic systems do not allow for a 5 digit cart number, we have added this so that you can refer a 4 digit numbered cart to one of the Multiple cut carts 5 digit numbers during the import of traffic.

 

So, let's say you have a cart 8000 that is a King Chevrolet Referal Cart and in this referal field, you select 30100.  when you import traffic and it tries to import 8000, it will see that you are refering to Multi Cart 30100 and the system will go to that Multiple Cut Cart Number 30100 and play the next cart from that Multiple Cut Cart.

 

This field is here for future use.

 

You can currently place only two commands in the Power field.

This command means you wish to playback a recording in progress by the back ground recorder.

 

RECORDING IN PROGRESS

 

If this audio cut is going to be recorded by the background recorder and played back while it is still being recorded, you will need to place "-RIP-" as the first 5 charactors of the title.  this will tell the on-air screen to play back this audio cut using a different method.

 

The Filename is the actual filename that this audio cut is recorded as on your computer.

 

If you ever change this or an audio cut stops playingback, it is most likely because you do not have the correct filename in here.

 

Memo can be used for any information you want.  They will be displayed for the length of time that the audio cut is on the air.

 

This is the Peak Chart Position for this song.

 

If you want this audio cut when called for to activate an audio input or relay on any of the broadcast tools boxes, you can tell this field which relays to turn on and the type of switch.

 

NOTE:  You MUST have some piece of audio, even dead air recorded for at least  second in order to have a command that will just do a relay command.  Just record a really small audio cut on the audio file.

 

Length(s)

 

This is the length of this audio cut, in seconds.  This number is set when you record or import the audio cut.

         

You can not edit this field.