October 2026 — Mobile companion, Station backups, Music Intelligence and more

October was a busy one. While the leaves were falling, we were busy shipping features: rules for your jingles, a smarter shuffle, a phone app for your pocket, and a long list of fixes for things you’ve told us about.

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who sent ideas, bug reports and the occasional “would be nice if …”. Many of the changes we deliver started from your inbox. Keep them coming! Now, grab a coffee (a small one, it’s not that long) and see what’s new.

New features

The MusicOne phone app — MusicOne is now on iPhone, iPad and Android. Build and send schedule days, edit clocks, categories, songs and rules, and fix a stopped day from your phone. On a wide iPad screen, category lists and schedule days show as full tables. Switch on Mobile access from Preferences → Addons.

Music intelligence — Check your songs against a large music database. Scan a station from the new Music intelligence page in Preferences, then fill in missing gender, tempo, ISRC and composer with one click. Where the database disagrees with what you’ve set, you choose Use new or Keep mine, and a new Song details tab on the song card shows the same for each song. Switch it on from Preferences → Addons.

Station backups — Every night MusicOne can save a copy of each station. The new Backups page in Preferences shows when each station was last saved, and Restore… rolls a station back to a saved night: its library, categories, clocks, rules, play history and schedules. The station is saved first, so you can undo the restore. Switch it on per station from Preferences → Addons → Station backup.

Unschedule part of a day — Right-click a scheduled row to unschedule its category in that hour, its category across the whole day, or everything in the hour, or right-click an hour header to unschedule the hour. The slots go back to empty, and you can fill one by hand. Reschedule then fills only the gaps: each song gets its rotation place back, so a rescheduled hour brings back the same songs. The day can’t be sent until it is rescheduled, and hours that have started and past days can’t be unscheduled.

Drag songs onto a category — Drag selected songs onto a category in the sidebar to move or copy them there, after a confirmation that also mentions songs hidden by your filters.

Rules for production — The Rules page now has a Production side, with title separation and playtime separation for production categories, and a new Tempo transition rule. Production items can carry a start and an end tempo (in the item dialog, as list columns and from the bulk bar), and the rule is set with sentences such as “After Slow, the next may be…”, so a jingle is kept beside songs it fits.

A song’s history while you pick — In the replace, manual-stop and add-song panels, a history icon on each candidate opens a floating window with its last play, its separation at that slot, its plays this week and a 14-day hour-by-hour grid.

Optional production categories — A production category has a new option, “Do not require this category to be scheduled”. If nothing in it can play in a slot, the slot is skipped and kept in the day for you to fill by hand, instead of the schedule stopping there.

Download the log from the CloudSync button — Press and hold the CloudSync button on the schedule page for about half a second to download the day’s log file in your browser instead of sending it. A normal click syncs as before.

Clock change nights — On the night the clocks go back, the repeated hour is now built with two hours of content, and on the night they go forward the skipped hour is left out of the log. MusicOne works out the night from your station’s timezone, so there is nothing to set. This covers PlayoutONE, PlayIt Live, Myriad, AudioVault, mAirList, Jazler, Audisi, NexGen, Simian, NextKast and Other (.m3u), each in the form its automation software expects.

Improved

A more flexible Categories list — Drag the edge of a column heading to resize it, or drag the heading to move the column (Title and a few fixed columns stay put), and right-click the heading row to choose which columns show. The filter icon shows and hides a bar of filter chips; filters keep working while the bar is hidden, and the icon turns amber so you know. A × clears the search in one click.

Production item dates — Set a production item’s start and end in one calendar, and show Start date and End date as sortable columns. Select several rows and use Edit fields to set restricted hours on songs or production items, or dates on production items, all at once. A date picked anywhere east of the UK now airs on the day you picked instead of a day early.

CSV import does more — A new Duplicates choice, “Update duplicates and move them to the file’s category”, moves existing songs to the category your file names, and shows how many will move (with a full list) before you import. Sound codes can come from several columns, a blank tempo or gender on a new song stays unknown instead of becoming Medium or Mixed, and songs already on screen show the imported values without a reload.

Shuffle spreads artists evenly — Shuffling a music category now spreads each artist’s songs evenly through the list, spreads newly added songs instead of bunching them at the top, and judges how recently a song played by its latest scheduled air time instead of when the schedule was made.

Deleted items stay deleted — Items that only sat in the old system’s deleted folders are no longer brought back by a .m1 import, unless a clock still uses that exact song or track. CloudSync no longer creates them in Unassigned either, unless the same cart is still live on another of your stations. Items you already have stay as they are.

Your team has moved — Inviting and removing team members and setting their access now happens in Preferences → Addons → Team seats.

Replace a clock’s category with a double-click — Double-click a category item in a clock to open a Replace category dialog with the same searchable list as the menu.

Fixed

Title separation covers every version — Title separation now keeps apart different recordings that share a title, not only the same recording, as Music 1 did.

Rule settings save reliably — On the Rules page, a setting you change, save and then change back in the same visit is now saved again.

Database imports — Music 1 (.m1) and MusicMaster imports no longer fail on a stray hidden character, re-importing over an existing library no longer times out (PowerGold too), and a song the old system filed in several categories now lands in just one, the one your clocks schedule it from.

Reloads after an update — If a page can’t load part of itself just after an update, it now shows “Loading the latest version…” and reloads once, instead of showing “Something went wrong”.

The database file step — The new-station form accepts only the file type of the database you chose and says why it refuses a file, and choosing a database without a file now asks whether to create the station without one.

A simpler new-station form — Creating a station no longer asks for a timezone: your browser’s is used, and you can change it later in the station’s settings, where the station name and type now sit side by side.

CloudSync

New

Categories carried into PlayoutONE — On a station ticked in CloudSync’s PlayoutONE station mapping, creating, renaming or deleting a songs or tracks category in MusicOne is now carried into PlayoutONE straight away, so a rename no longer leaves a duplicate category behind. A category is only removed in PlayoutONE once no cart uses it. Needs CloudSync 1.11.6 or later.

Improved

Easier installs and quiet updates — CloudSync 1.12.0 comes as a Windows setup that installs just for your user and takes updates silently, with no administrator needed, and as a disk image for Apple Silicon Macs. An MSI is still offered for computers whose IT only allows MSI installers. Before an update installs, CloudSync waits up to five minutes for the sync and any schedule it is writing to finish. The first time you run the Windows setup, Windows may say “Windows protected your PC”: choose More info, then Run anyway.

One computer per organisation — Connecting CloudSync on a new computer with a pairing code now signs out the computer that was connected before, even if it’s switched off. To use that one again, connect it with a new code.

That’s October wrapped for you!, we’ll see you in November with more!