Rules & rule violations

Choose which rules to enforce, from tempo and gender to artist and title separation, and what Auto Jump does.

See why M1 stops for a rule violation as it schedules, how to place the song without breaking a rule, and how to tell when your rules are too tight.

Read the most common rule violation notices, and spot the rules that clash with your library when the same one keeps coming up.

Cut down editing stops by setting rules that fit your library, with a worked example of a female rule that can’t work.

Set artist separation times your rotations can actually meet, with a worked example of why a one-hour setting can’t work.

Read an artist separation stop, like "Rod Stewart Artist 1:35", and make the standard edit that resolves it.

Work through the checklist when artist separation seems ignored: computed separations, spellings, rank order, enforcement and mode.

See why stops pile up when M1 reaches the bottom of a category, and three ways to make the category run smoother.

Stop artist separation stops in a specialty show with few artists, like a polka show, without changing the rest of the week.

Keep an artist out of the same time slot on the next day with the Artist Previous/Next Day rule, and set it carefully.

Let M1 allow two songs in a row by selected artists, turn a separation problem into a feature, and control how often.

Understand the Artist Period (DMCA) violation for internet stations, and why a one-hour artist separation avoids it.

Know how title separation works across categories, how to space same-title songs in one category, and why M1 caps the setting.

Set the clock tempo rules so two Fast songs never play back to back and Fast and Slow songs don’t meet.

Change the tempo mix through the day the efficient way, with tempo-specific categories rather than clock rules.

Keep slow songs out of some hours with a zero tempo clock rule, and avoid the pile-up it can cause elsewhere.

Spot tempo rules that clash with your library’s content before they clog the schedule with stops.

Fix a library with more slow songs than your rules allow by platooning: resting part of a category and rotating it back in.

Schedule fast jingles into fast songs, slow into slow, and transition jingles between them, and keep them rotating.

Keep slow-fading jingles away from songs that start with a vocal, using a Voice Open sound code.

Balance male and female songs in every hour with run, separation and hour rules that match your library’s female share.

Keep female songs off both sides of a spot break with a five-minute female separation instead of the run rule.

Stop slow songs back to back with the Run rule, or spread them out with the much stricter Separation rule, best kept for sound codes.

Use sound codes to tag the songs you want to keep apart, like long songs or drinking songs, and use them lightly.

Hour-restrict promos and other non-music tracks, and apply the same restrictions to many cards at once.

Keep similar announcements apart with Products, and remove the unwanted ones that mp3-tag imports can create.

Set clock time and content rules so M1 won’t finish a log with an hour that is short of content.

Know why every song in an hour shows in red with a time in the Violations column: the hour is over its maximum content.

Understand the Song Previous Day rule, and fix the stops it causes by correcting the category’s rotation pattern.

Know what the Overplay flag means in a song search: a song ahead on plays or played too recently, and where to set it.

See which rules to switch off in Music 1 SE Version 7.