PlayIt Live Integrations

Radio stations use MusicOne to build music logs that are ready for air the moment they're scheduled. Music Directors set the rotation and the scheduler keeps to it: each song in a category is played as often as planned, with no favourites overplayed and no difficult tracks left behind, while songs travel through the dayparts as intended. Rather than leaving a gap in the log when every candidate would break a rule, the software pauses, lists the songs that are due with the rules each would break, and lets the Music Director choose; the rest of the day is then built around that decision. Over time it recognises the songs that are hardest to place at that station and moves them up the queue. Rules come in two kinds: unbreakable ones that guard the sound, such as keeping the same artist apart, and breakable ones that shape the flow of tempo, gender and sound codes. A flexibility score, tested on a simulated week of the station's own library, reveals which rules give the music room and which work against it, and separation is calculated individually for high-rotation artists. Before changing a category, programmers can check a 14-day rotation forecast and a play heat map for any song. The cloud version works in a web browser and in apps for phone and tablet. Several people can edit at once and see changes live, and a group can manage multiple stations from one login. On the studio PC, the CloudSync helper hands each finished log to the automation system, with two-way integrations for PlayoutONE, PlayIt Live and NextKast. Existing libraries come in from the current scheduler or a CSV file. Pricing is per station: $49 a month for internet-only stations and $99 a month for FM, AM and DAB broadcasters, billed annually, including setup help and phone support, with a 30-day trial that needs no credit card. Steve Warren, in radio since 1964, created Music 1 in 1994 as the first music scheduler for Windows; MusicOne is its successor.