Song cards & artists

Get to know the Music and Non-music cards: which fields each has, which ones you must fill, and the Song Cards video series.

Learn the fields on a Non-music card: what you must fill, dates, announcers, percentage play, links, hours, rules and the custom fields.

Find out why some imports land on the wrong card type, and convert them to Music or Non-music cards with Track > Convert.

Keep two versions of a song apart, live and studio or two languages, by using brackets in the title.

Apply a new Sound Code to a group of songs at once with the rubber-stamp tool.

Add Tempo to many song cards at once after an import, since automation systems and audio tags don’t carry it.

Apply the artist Gender to all your song cards at once when your import file didn’t include it.

Understand why an import doesn’t fill the Artist table’s Gender, and set default genders so new song cards get them automatically.

Link an artist to another, such as a guest singer, so artist separation works when artists appear on each other’s songs.

Make artists such as The Beatles sort and print under T instead of B, or the other way round.

Set the total plays on your song cards back to zero, for example when you bring a database over from another station.

Fill the File field on your cards from tagged audio files, so you can audition songs with the built-in player.

Mass-change the drive letter or path in the File or Cart field on your cards, with a video and step-by-step screens.

Audition songs from the cards and in Scheduling mode: play hooks, segues and cross-fades to hear an hour in a couple of minutes.

Hear nothing when you click play on a song card? Turn up the player volume.