Tempo’d Jingles

You want your Fast jingles to schedule going into Fast songs and the Slow jingles dropping in before the Slow songs. While non-music Cards don’t have a Tempo field like Song cards do, here’s how to apply tempo instructions to non-music tracks.

Here’s what to do with a Fast jingle that is to schedule only next to Fast songs.

Transition Jingles are cool, if you have them. Those are ones that start Slow and end Fast, or vice/versa.

Tempo and transition jingles

My station has jingles that are fast, medium and slow. How can I get M1 to schedule only slow jingles next to slow songs and fast jingles next to fast ones?

There’s a screen shot below. If you have what are called “transition” jingles, those can be managed as well. Transition jingles are those that start with one tempo and end with another. So, a Slow-to-Fast Transition jingle would be scheduled between two songs, the one ending being a slow song and the one following the jingle being a fast one.

Making tempo’d jingles rotate

Long ago, we called them “Transition Jingles.” Maybe that’s still the moniker, it’s been a long time since I ordered jingles. My jingle package from Dallas included jingles that started Fast and ended Slow; started Slow and ended Fast, started Medium and ended Medium; all the combinations. So, if you were segueing from a soft Carole King ballad into a rocker by Bad Company, the Slow-to-Fast Jingle made for a smoother mix in the ear. Recently one of our stations called to ask how to get M1 to properly schedule those Transition Jingles. Here’s how:

All of the Tempo’d jingles can be in one Non-music category. You must change the category rules in your Jingles categories as follows (see picture, below):

1. Set the Scheduling mode to Rotate with multiple choices.

2. Set the number of choices to the number of tracks in the category.

3. Set the minimum repeat play percent to 10%.

If you do this then the correct tempo jingles schedule and they rotate as well.