The Station Features window in Setup is used to specify options for, among other areas, Twofers/Artist Block, History, No-Repeat, New Vocalist, Kick, New Clock Sequence, and Balance window features, including Rotation Rules. Settings are station-specific.
TIP: You may wish to consider restricting access to this screen, working with GSelector's Security features.
From any window in GSelector, click the Setup tab, then the Station tab, and finally the Features tab to access a window similar to this illustration.
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Clock and Schedule Columns settings
Setup Station windows all share the same toolbar. When you make a change in this window, the Save button is activated. Click to save your changes. If you do not click this button before exiting the window after editing a station setting, your changes are not saved. Click the Cancel button to delete any changes in this session. The Edit button is used to open the Master Control Settings window in the Interfaces tab.
Classic Twofers: Match with and Percentage Participation Required
The Allow Twofers option is enabled by default. This option will enable Twofers and Artists Blocks. When checked, Twofer and Artist Block Clock positions are available in the Clocks Definition window, and the Artist Block window is accessible. Uncheck to disable these features. Checking this box also creates a virtual <Twofer> Daypart. The <Twofer> Daypart works with the existing Daypart; it is not displayed in the Daypart window, but it is accessed in the Balance windows, from the Daypart Selection field. For more on the Twofers Process, see the Twofers notes in the Clocks Definition window topic. For more information on Artist Block Clock Positions, see the Artist Block topic.
GSelector can twofer on Artist or Vocalist based on the Match with setting selected in this section. Vocalist is selected by default. When Vocalist is selected, the Percentage Participation Required is also set, which is a minimum value. When this setting is enabled, the vocalist of any twofer scheduled must have a Percentage Participation equal to or greater than the specified value. The Classic Twofers settings will govern what happens when using the Replace with Same Artist/ Vocalist or "1" (Onefers) and when selecting Replace Twofers "CTRL 2" options in the Editor.
The value in the 'Additional Minimum Artist Song Count required for Artist Block consideration' field is used to control the range of artists available for Artist Block scheduling. If the value in this field is 0, then the Artist must have at least the same number of Songs called for in the Artist Block to be considered for scheduling in the Clock position. So if the value is 0 and the Artist Block count is 3, then Artists with only one or two active Songs will be filtered out of Artist Block consideration. If the value in this field is 1 and the Artist Block count is 3, then Artists with less than four songs will be filtered out; only Artists with four or more active Songs will be considered.
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Display Song Attribute Proportionally
Show Link Attributes for Songs
Show Song Attributes for Links
Use Reconciled Airtime and Status
Include Droppable Unscheduled Positions in Counts
Set the number of days to retain Play history in this field. The default setting is 399 days, but a minimum of 31 days and a maximum of 999 days can be specified. History for plays beyond the set value in the past is deleted when a station is loaded.
NOTE: Scheduling dates cannot be viewed prior to the date defined in this field. To retain history for a long period, specify the time period in this field. The longer the period, the greater the impact on performance.
Specify the Cutoff for Songs and Links and the Cutoff for Attributes (ex: Vocalists) to determine how far back in History the Scheduler can look when evaluating these items during the scheduling process. As with the Days in Past setting, the minimum setting is 4 days and the maximum is 999 days. The default for Cutoff (Songs and Links) is 30. The default for Cutoff (Attributes) is 15.
Note: The value in Cutoff cannot be greater than that in the Days in Past setting. If set to a greater number of days, a message is shown and the Cutoff setting will be set to match the Days in Past setting.
The Active Days setting determines how long complete and detailed information for each scheduled item is kept. The full schedule is stored for the entire Days in past history window. But GSelector deletes the scoring, clock, automation, and some other details to save space beyond the point specified in this setting. Inactive days can still be modified in the Editor, as well as view History Maps beyond the Active Day cutoff. The minimum number of Active days is 4 and the maximum is 999 days. However, the value in Active Days cannot be greater than the Days in Past setting.
The History Map section allows the user to adjust how the history map window in the editor is displayed and what is displayed.
Display Song Attribute Proportionally
Show Link Attributes for Songs
Show Song Attributes for Links
Use Reconciled Airtime and Status
The Advanced History Map Options enables controls and drawing features that will be available in all instances of history maps. These features will provide options for plotting of songs/links and their attributes within quarter hours. The default attributes for songs are artist, title, vocalist, song group and artist group. The default attributes for links are title and artist group. Use the Advanced Attribute Selection pane to select, add or remove attributes that will be shown in the History Map. Clicking the add 
button will add an attribute field to the bottom of the Attribute pane. The drop-down for each field can be used to select the desired attribute. Use the remove 
button to delete an unwanted field from the Attribute pane. Click and drag the value, using the column to the left of the value, to reorder the attributes. The Advanced History Map Options is enabled by default.
NOTE: The more attributes you add, the slower the performance.
The Vocalist Options allow the user to combine the plotting of multiple vocalists or plot vocalists individually. For individual display select Primary Artist Vocalist, All Artist Vocalists or All Vocalists. Define a Primary Artist Vocalist by dragging the vocalist that is to be the primary to the top of the vocalist list in the Artist Participants window of the song window. The All Artist Vocalists option will individually plot all artist vocalists and the All Vocalists option will individually plot all artist and song vocalists. The History map can have up to eight vocalist displayed. The appearance of these vocalist plots can be changed using the History Plot Appearances in the Global Settings Assignments window.
See the Song History Map or the Editor History Pane for more information on these features.
The Display Song Attribute Proportionally option will change the display of the song attribute plots in the history map. With this option disabled the History map will display a colored line in the 1/4 hour quadrant of the history map for a single song attribute. If multiple attributes are found, the line is portioned down to show all the attributes. When this option is enabled the plot is changed from a line to a proportional square plot for each attribute found. This option is disabled by default.
For example: In the following illustration, John Lennon is the only vocalist for the a link found in the 3rd quarter of the 3rd hour. When this option is disabled, the history map plot shows an orange line for the 3rd quadrant.
However, when the Display Song Attribute Proportionally option is enabled, the attribute is plotted as a proportional square as seen in the following illustration.
By default the row height for each day in the history map will scale automatically as the user switches between elements in the Editor Consideration window. When the 'Auto Scale Row Height' option is deselected the row height will remain at the scale set by the user. The user can set the scale of the row height using the slider bar to the right of the check boxes in the History map.
Use the Show Link Attributes for Songs option to see the schedule location of link attribute values matching those on a song, but not vice versa. When this option is deselected no links are shown when checking the attribute on a song. This option is enabled by default.
Use the Show Song Attributes for Links option to see the schedule location of song attribute values matching those on a link, but not vice versa. When this option is deselected no songs are shown when checking the attribute on a link. This option is enabled by default.
The Use Reconciled Airtime and Status option is applicable to systems using NexGen, Zetta, or Master Control integration. When this checkbox is selected, all reconciled schedule elements will be plotted in the hour they actually played in the History Map.
For example: If an element was scheduled for 2:58 PM but actually played at 3:02 PM, it will be plotted in the 3 PM hour of the History Map. Also, elements having a Status of Skipped will be suppressed from the History Map and will not be calculated in the Analysis window.
The Use Reconciled Airtime and Status option is enabled by default.
Note: The Goal Scheduling Test Engine continues to use the original airtime when plotting spread and separation values.
By default Songs with a Droppable status, in the Clocks Definition window, will not be counted in the unscheduled positions in the Scheduler window. To include these droppable unscheduled positions in the counts enable this 'Include Droppable Unscheduled Positions in Counts' setting.
The Setup | Station | Features | Balance settings affect the display of fields used in Balance windows. The checkboxes allow you to optionally display specific settings fields in Balance windows. For general details on working in Balance windows, see the Adjusting Demand notes.
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The Demand Limit field is used in Song Goals and Link Balance windows. Check this box to display the field, uncheck to suppress. See the Limit field notes in the Balance windows topic. If you activate this field and enter values in Balance windows, and later uncheck the box in this window, you will be prompted to confirm that you are deleting those settings. The Damand Limit option in unchecked by default.
Check this box to display the Maximum Per Hour field in Song Goals and Link Balance windows. If you activate this field and enter values in Balance windows, and later uncheck the box in this window, you will be prompted to confirm that you are deleting those settings. The Maximum Per Hour option is checked by default.
Check this box to activate the Alternate Category and Alternate Packet fields in the Song window station coding pane. This allows you to assign a different Category and Packet to each Daypart . If you activate this field and enter values in the station coding pane fields, and later uncheck the box in this window, you will be prompted to confirm that you are deleting those settings.
Selecting this option will allow Song/Link changes set in the Balance windows to be copied to all Dayparts in a Daypart Group. The Auto Copy Song/Link Data between Grouped Dayparts option is checked by default.
The Setup | Station | Features | Clock settings affect the display of fields used in the Clock windows.
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Advanced Clock/Schedule Columns
Default Chain Settings / Traffic Integration Settings
The Advanced Clock/Schedule Columns section is used to optionally display additional fields in Clocks and the Editor. These fields are typically used with Zetta, Master Control and other third party sequencers. The Chain, Fixed, Skip and Timing Columns are enabled by default.
The drop-down in the Editor Behavior column in this section is used to select whether to Juggle or Don't Juggle these values when two positions are juggled in the Editor. When GSelector is integrated with Zetta version 4.18.1 or higher, the Chain, Fixed and Timing support the Juggle or Don't Juggle values.
Check any of the field checkboxes to display that field in the Clock Definition window and the Editor browse formats. These fields can then be used in Clock format browse designs. When you check the Chain setting, you also display Chain Settings fields in the Fly-In position pane when defining a Fly-In Link relationship. Set the default chain type for each type of event using the Default Chain Settings. Use the drop-down in the Editor Behavior column to select Juggle or Don't Juggle. The default setting is to Juggle. The Timing Goal is not Juggled.
For more on the function of each field, follow these links to the Clocks Definition window topic:
Lock Level - Shown when S3 is enabled.
Note: The Don't Copy, External and Timing Goal options are not supported in Zetta and therefore cannot be shown in the Clock/Schedule for Zetta integrated stations.
The Advanced Clock Columns options are used to display the Song Position, Link Position and/or Spot Position columns in the Clocks | Definition window. As in our legacy Selector product, the position columns count the number of the associated element; songs, links or spots in the clock. These columns can also be added when working in the Setup | Browse Format | Formats windows.
Chain Settings are used with automation systems. A default chain type can be set for Songs, Links and Control events so that Newly Created Log Positions automatically have a chain type set. The user can also set a default chain type for Traffic Integration. Control Events in GSelector can take on a Pause or Overlap Chain. You can set or edit the Chain for a Control Event in a Clock or the Editor. Chains for Control Events are also supported in the GSelector Import/Export Web Service.
When creating a Clock (see notes here) in the New Clock window (see notes here), GSelector uses the default sequence specified in this field.
Song information is entered as a number, representing Songs per sweep.
Breaknote between Sweeps are defined with a comma, (Note: Breaknotes are disabled when NexGen Integration or Zetta Integration is enabled.)
Spotsets are inserted using the $ symbol
Automation System Event are inserted using the - symbol.
Use any combination of Songs, Breaknotes, Spotsets, and Automation System Events, or retain the default setting, or leave this field completely blank.
When you edit a Clock in the Clock Definition window, the above symbols are used. However, Song sweeps can also be defined by Links and Rolling Clock requests. If you add Link Clock requests or Rolling Clock requests later, these will also be indicated in the sequence of the clock by a comma.
The Start Offset - Song Intro for Start Offset Calculation is used to select the Intro to use when calculating the Start Offset for a song. To match Zetta's auto-post calculations select Intro (Highest).
The Exact Time Marker section is used to set the Default for New ETM to Hit, Reset, Soft or Hard. This value will be the default Type when adding an ETM to the Exact Time Markers tab in the Clocks window.
The Setup | Station | Features | Miscellaneous settings change many areas of GSelector.
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S3 Locked Unscheduled position warning level
Reposition Entries During Traffic Reintegration
Enable Auto-Save for Songs, Links and Notes
Count Daypart Ban and Hour Restriction Failure towards Search Depth
Enable Split Behavior Attribute
Include Average Runtime for Unscheduled Position
Case-sensitive Auto-complete in Song/Link Windows
Attribute Quick Search (Excluding Advanced Search)
Partial Search Match (Including Advanced Search)
Ignore same song plays in Legacy and Spread tests
Allow Manual Editing of Zetta Reconciled Schedule
Set Status to Skipped when Event Skipped in Log
Protect against future plays when testing Play Window
Calculate Minimum Separation from Asset End
Generate Spot Block Interstitials on Schedule Layin
Delete traffic file after integration
Include Spotset/Spot Block in Export when Spots are present
Insert Dummy Spot During Integration
Use Interstitials in Airtime Calculations of non integrated Spot Blocks
Use Runtime Override of Spot Block in Airtime Calculations
Include Spot Block Interstitials in Association Reports
Generate Interstitials on Spot Block Insert
Spot Block Interstitial Score Weighting
Generate Fly-In Links within Spot Blocks
Kick projected rotations are analyzed across a one-week period, beginning on the Kick Start Day defined here. The default value is Monday. If you use the Kick feature, then you should define a Kick Start day. This should be set to the day after music changes are made, or whatever day the changes should take effect.
This setting works with the No Repeat (see notes here ) window. The longest span that a No repeat period can be set is 7 days. Normally most No Repeat periods are shorter than this. A typical use for this setting might be when using a No-Repeat Holiday weekend, where the day might be set to Friday.
This field allows users to specify a Local ID in addition to the global ID used for Songs and Links in GSelector. The drop down field has three options: Hidden, Editable and Read Only. Select Editable or Read Only to enable the Song and Link Station-specific ID field in both the Song and Link windows.
TIP: Where Station-Specific ID is enabled, and IDs exist, this field information can be used in custom browse formats in the Editor, Consideration window, and Library Browse and Link Browse windows. See the notes on designing and assigning Browse formats.
The Library Browse Selection option is used to set how items in the Song, Link and Notes libraries are selected. This option has two selections, GSelector Legacy and Standard Windows Selection which is the default for new stations.
The GSelector Legacy option shows the checks in the Library browse window for selecting items to change. To unselect the items in the library click the check.
The Standard Windows Selection removes the checks for selection and instead uses the standard window keyboard selection keys SHIFT and CTRL.
Shift+up/down arrow: Continuous selection
Shift+click: Extend selection
Ctrl+click: Discontinuous selection
NOTE: If you have multiple records selected and your action would result in a single record selected, you will get a warning message to OK and accept the single record or Cancel to keep your multiple record selection. If you filter the list or open a saved filter/list, all the resulting records will be selected. All records will not be selected when the browse defaults to the all-set (all records displayed). The selected records are used throughout the system (ex: Multi Song Changer).
The Jump to Editor Hour setting tells GSelector where to jump to when the user double-clicks an hour in the Scheduler window. When this setting is set to Top of Hour, if the user double-clicks an hour in the scheduler they will be taken to the top of the hour for that hour. When this setting is set to First Unscheduled/Scheduled, if the user double-clicks an hour in the Unscheduled tab of the Scheduler then the user will be taken to the first unscheduled position in the Editor for that hour. However, if the user double-clicks an hour in the Scheduled tab of the Scheduler then the user will be taken to the first scheduled position in the Editor for that hour. If all positions are scheduled and the user double-clicks an hour in the Unscheduled tab of the Scheduler then the user will be taken to the first position in the Editor for that hour. However, if all positions are scheduled and the user double-clicks an hour in the Scheduled tab of the Scheduler then the user will be taken to the first scheduled song or link position in the Editor for that hour.
Note: The First Unscheduled/Scheduled jump location is dependent on the History Options Type selected in the Scheduler. If the Type is Song then GSelector will jump to the First Unscheduled/Scheduled song.
The 'S3 Locked Unscheduled position warning level' option governs what happens with respect to unscheduled positions when an hour is changed to the S3 Locked status. Choices are "Disabled" (turned off), "Songs Only" (warn if there are unscheduled songs) & "Songs or Links" (warn if there are unscheduled songs or links). Songs or Links is the default setting.
The Reposition Entries During Traffic Reintegration options allows for one of the following options when reintegrating traffic.
Default - Default attempts to perform a Match based upon the laid-in interstitials.
Match - When Match is selected, the laid-in interstitials must match the spot block interstitials by entry type, count and order exactly. The laid-in interstitials will be retained and in the exact same locations. If Match cannot find exact match by entry type, count and order then it will become a Merge.
Merge - A Merge retains the laid-in interstitials but inserts them relative to the top of the spot block.
Top - The Top option retains the laid-in interstitials but it moves them to the top of the spot block.
Bottom - The Bottom option retains the laid-in interstitials but it moves them to the bottom of the spot block.
Check this box to enable the Film Name Attribute . This allows you to use Film Name as an attribute, and add Film Names to Songs in the Song window. To enable Film Name as an attribute, check this box and click the Save button.
Check this box to enable the Auto-Save function in the Song, Link, and Notes windows. This means that all changes in Songs, Notes or Links are automatically saved.
If this facility is not enabled, the Song, Link and Note windows Save dialog boxes allow you to enable Auto-Save when you leave a Song, Link or Note window if you have not yet saved your changes. This option is enabled by default.
Check this box to enable Audit Trails in the Scheduler and Editor windows. This option is enabled by default.
NOTE: Generating Audit Trails may have a noticeable impact on performance of large systems. Audit Trails can be added to a Backup. In order to do this, this box must be enabled.
Check this box if you wish Songs that are excluded from consideration through Daypart Bans or Hour Restrictions to still be considered in Search Depth calculations. This option is enabled by default.
Check this box to activate the Sub-Formats, Definitions and Assignment tabs of the Advanced Export Formats option in the Interfaces | Export windows for the Schedule, Songs and Links export windows. This option is enabled by default.
The Enable Split Behavior Attribute option is used to enable the ability to set a split behavior on Songs, Links or Spot Blocks in GSelector. Once enabled the Split behavior can be set on the Song or Link using the Miscellaneous tab in the Station Coding section of the Song or Link window. The Split Behavior of a Spot Block is set on the Spot Block in the Clocks | Spot Blocks tab. This option is used with Splits feature in Zetta.
When Include Average Runtime for Unscheduled Position is checked, the Airtime of each position in the Editor following an unscheduled position will be adjusted to reflect the average runtime of the unscheduled position. Previously, in versions prior to 4.1.0 of GSelector, the Airtime of each position following an unscheduled position was the same as the airtime of the unscheduled position. This option is enabled by default.
The song and link windows have an auto-complete feature when entering values into the fields such as, artist and album. This auto-complete by default is not case-sensitive. To make auto-complete case sensitive, enable the Case-sensitive Auto-complete in Song/Link Windows option. This option is enabled by default.
The Attribute Quick Search is when a user starts typing in a field, e.g., Artist or Title, and GSelector matches what is typed with what is in the database.
For Example: If you open the library, select inline edit, then select the artist field to start typing, GSelector will search for matching results based on this Attribute Quick Search and the Partial Search Match settings.
These settings can be used to set how GSelector searches for a defined attribute in the Library, Link Library, New Song/Link windows and the Custom Song/Link windows. The following options are available for the Attribute Quick Search setting.
Begins With (Text beginning) - Active Assets - GSelector will search for a matching attribute that begins with the characters typed, searching all active assets for the station.
Contains Partial Text (Any word) - Active Assets - GSelector will search for a matching attribute that contains the characters typed, searching all active assets for the station. The Partial Search Match works in conjunction with this 'Contains Partial Text' setting.
Begins With (Text beginning) - All Assets - GSelector will search for a matching attribute that begins with the characters typed, searching all assets for the enterprise.
Contains Partial Text (Any word) - All Assets - GSelector will search for a matching attribute that contains the characters typed, searching all assets for the enterprise. The Partial Search Match works in conjunction with this 'Contains Partial Text' setting.
The Partial Search Match setting works in conjunction with the Attribute Quick Search and Advanced Search - 'Contains Partial text' setting to determine how to search for the typed information. In Advanced Search the Search Type must be set to 'Contains Partial Text" for these settings to be used when searching.
These settings can be used to set how GSelector searches for a defined attribute in the Advanced Search, Library, Link Library, New Song/Link windows and the Custom Song/Link windows. The following options are available for the Partial Search Match setting.
Match any part of the word (slower) - GSelector will search for matching characters in any part of the word. Selecting this option will be slower where there are a large number of songs/links in the Library.
Match from word beginning (faster) - GSelector will search for matching characters starting with the beginning of the word.
When the Ignore same song plays in Legacy and Spread tests option is selected, GSelector will ignore the same songs when applying Legacy and Spread goals during scheduling.
For example: For artist minimum separation, if checked, Bruce Springsteen / Born To Run would ignore Born To Run if it was the previous/next play. It would only protect against other Bruce Springsteen songs.
By default when GSelector is integrated with Zetta a reconciled log cannot be edited. When the Allow Manual Editing of Zetta Reconciled Schedule is enabled, the user will be able to make changes to past logs in the Editor.
When the 'Set Status to Skipped when Event Skipped in Log' option is enabled, if a scheduled event is set to Skip, the schedule status will be set to "Skipped". If the event is un-skipped, the status will revert to "Scheduled". If a song with a related link is set to Skip, the status of both the song and related link will be set to Skipped.
When the Play Window Rule is used in the Rotation Rules window it will protect against past plays. When this 'Protect against future plays when testing Play Window' option is selected the Play Window rule will protect against future and past plays.
When Minimum Separation is used, by default GSelector will calculate the Minimum Separation of an asset from the start of the asset to the start of the next asset by the same Artist, Attribute or Participant. When the 'Calculate Minimum Separation from Asset End' option is enabled, GSelector will calculate the Minimum Separation of an asset from the end of the asset to the start of the next asset by the same Artist, Attribute or Participant. Enabling this option will make a notable difference in separation for stations that play long songs, like Classical.
Check this box to enable Spot Blocks in Clocks. This option is enabled by default.
When the Generate Spot Block Interstitials on Schedule Layin option is enabled, GSelector will insert the interstitials set as 'Always' Condition into the spot block when the log is scheduled so the user can see them in the log before the traffic is integrated into the log. These Interstitials will show in the Editor with a calculated Runtime, but will not show a calculated Air Time until traffic has been integrated into the Spot Block.
This option allows for Song, Link and Control interstitials to be added to the spot block before the schedule is sent to Zetta. The Zetta Traffic Load Position can be place in a spot block as an interstitial to tell Zetta where to load the traffic in the spot block. The Zetta Fill Position can be added to a spot block as an interstitial to tell Zetta where to add fill material if needed for the spot block. Thus making this a nice option when traffic is loaded using a flat file in Zetta.
The Allow Mandatory Spot Blocks option enables the Mandatory options in Spot Blocks created for use in the Clocks. The Mandatory option will tell the automation system that the Spot Block must be played within the time specified.
Note: This feature requires an automation system that will accept these parameters. This is a future enhancement slotted for Zetta.
When 'Suppress Spot Block End' is selected, Spot Block End markers will not be included in a file generated in the Interface | Export | Schedule window. This option is used for some third party play out systems.
By default, when Traffic is integrated from a flat file, in the Linker | Traffic window, the file is automatically renamed and copied to a Processed Flat Files folder located in the path of the original flat file. The original file is still available in the original file path. To delete the traffic original flat file, enable the Delete traffic file after integration option. If for some reason the traffic file must be reintegrated into the schedule and GSelector cannot find the traffic file in the path specified it will look for a file with the date selected in the Processed Flat Files folder. If a file is found it will prompt the user to select the file from the previously integrated files.
The default action of GSelector is to output Spotsets and Spot Blocks when there are no spots integrated when Exporting a Schedule in the Interfaces | Export | Schedule tab. When this option is selected, GSelector will export all Spotsets and Spot Blocks even those Spotsets and Spot Blocks that have Spots.
When this option is enabled, GSelector Traffic Integration will place a Dummy Spot in every hour when the traffic file contains no spots in that hour. Uncheck this box to suppress scheduling of the Dummy Spot. You might want to do this if the presence of the Dummy Spot prevents proper Reconciliation back to the traffic system, or if you'd rather not have any Dummy Spots in your schedule and export files. This option is disabled by default.
If there are no spots scheduled in the Spot Block then this 'Use Interstitials in Airtime Calculations of non integrated Spot Blocks' setting is used to determine whether to use the spot block runtime or the runtime of the Interstitials. If this option is selected the runtime of the interstitials will be used as the spot block runtime for non integrated Spot Blocks instead of the set spot block runtime. If this option is not checked the runtime of the interstitials will be ignored and the runtime of the spot block will be used.
The Timing Goal uses the runtime of the spot block set under Clocks > Spot Blocks for Timing Goal calculations. This is very important because it protects against a partial or incomplete traffic load impacting the duration of songs scheduled in an hour. However, some Zetta users prefer the time used by the Timing Goal for an integrated hour to use the actual length. In this case they would check the "Use Runtime Override of Spot Block in Airtime Calculations".
This option is also used with the Zetta Splits 'Log / Traffic Import Needs to Trigger the Longest Break Renegotiation' option and the 'Renegotiate Split Spot Block Lengths' option of the Logs Module. After the traffic is imported into Zetta, the spot blocks will be renegotiated to determine the Longest Break between the Split master and the Splits clients. Zetta will then send an Override Runtime for the Spot Block back to GSelector. When the 'Use Runtime Override of Spot Block in Airtime Calculations' option is selected, GSelector will use this runtime override in the Airtime Calculations in the Editor. When this option is not selected GSelector will ignore the override runtime and keep the original runtime. This option is selected by default.
The 'Include Spot Block Interstitials in Association Reports' option is enabled by default. This option tells GSelector to include any interstitials scheduled within a Spot Block in the Association Reports. If this option is deselected, any scheduled interstitials in a Spot Block will not be included in the Association Reports. This option is enabled by default.
When the 'Generate Interstitials on Spot Block Insert' option is checked, Interstitials will be generated when a Spot Block is inserted into the log in the Editor. If this option is not enabled only the Spot Block and Spot Block End markers will be inserted. This option is disabled by default.
This option can be used to set score weighting on interstitials placed in spot blocks. This allows for separate scoring for songs and link interstitials during scheduling allowing the user to give less weight when scoring. This is a percentage from 0-100 and acts like percentage participation. This is applied to Song/Link/Attribute Linear Spreads and Minimum Separation rules.
The Timing of Interstitials section can be used to Allow Timing of Interstitials with a Stretch Percentage (similar to Zetta) when a Song Category Group, Theme Song or Browse List Interstitial is scheduled in a Spot Block. When this option is enabled, this GSelector looks for Interstitials that are marked as Timed in the Spot Block Interstitial window. Select Schedule Timed Spot Blocks in the Scheduler window to schedule the timed song interstitials. Optionally, select Run Scheduler after integration in the Traffic window to schedule the interstitial.
The Generate Fly-In Links within Spot Blocks option of the Miscellaneous tab can be used to enable or disable the adding of fly-in links in a Spot Block when scheduled or manually placed in the Log pane of the Editor. This feature is available to Song-Link fly-ins and Link-Link fly-ins. To disable or stop the adding of fly-in links into a Spot Block for songs simply uncheck the On Song-Link Fly-Ins option. To disable or stop the adding of fly-in links into a Spot Block for links simply uncheck the On Link-Link Fly-Ins option. Both the On Song-Link Fly-Ins and On Link-Link Fly-Ins options are enabled by default.
The Setup | Station | Features | Advanced settings are not normally be adjusted without consulting RCS Support.
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Maximum Airplay Starvation Turnover Percentage
Separate Linear and Radial Goals
Allow Removal of Fixed Priorities
Allow Attribute Specific Legacy Rule Priorities
Hide Lock Level field & Locked publication status if station has subscriptions
Time Granularity of Clock Assignment
Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports
Allow Duration fields in Hundredths and Seconds
Schedule Spring Forward Daylight Savings Hour
Suppress Fall Back Daylight Savings Hour
This field allows the user to increase the importance of the Radial component of Artist and Vocalist Spread Goals over the Linear component. The default setting for this field is 1. This field should only be adjusted under advice from RCS support, and then very cautiously.
The Maximum Airplay Starvation Turnover Percentage is used with the Airplay Starvation goal to determine when to schedule a song or link that has not played. The default setting is 200% the minimum value possible is 150% and the maximum value is 400%.
The default setting for this field is 3 hours. GSelector automatically tries to separate items from scheduling in the same hour the next day. However, Songs in Categories with a turnover which is equal or less than this threshold Setting are ignored; a rapid turnover invalidates this protection period. The higher the setting, the easier it is for fast turnover Categories to be scheduled; the lower the setting, the more difficult.
Check this option to split out the Radial and Linear elements of all Spread Goals into separate Goals. This affects both Song settings in the Goals section Priorities tab and Link settings in the Link Goals Priorities window.
See the notes on Separating Linear and Radial in the Song Goals Priorities topic, and Separating Linear and Radial in the Link Goals Priorities topic for full details.
Check this box to remove Fixed status from the default Spread Goals in the Song and Link Priorities windows. For more details, see the Fixed Song Goals and Fixed Link Goals notes. This option is enabled by default.
This option will separate the Legacy Rules by Attribute in the Goals | Priorities window. If the primary Rule is used, it enables the rule for all attributes, however if a separate rule is used for a specific attribute then the rule only focuses on songs/links with that attribute. This option is enabled by default.
For example: If Minimum Separation is in Goals | Priorities list, it works as before (pre 4.3.2) and enables MinSep for all attributes. If Minimum Separation Artist is in Goals | Priorities and Minimum Separation is not on the list, then songs will only get MinSep for artists. If both are in Goals | Priorities, then Minimum Separation Artist can be at one priority and Minimum Separation (covering all other attributes) can be at another making this a very powerful tool.
Check this option to split out like Bans.
For example: A user may have the following Segue Bans for Mood:
Ban Segue: Don't segue Song Mood 'Dark' into Song Mood 'Blinding'
Ban Segue: Don't segue Song Mood 'Blinding' into Song Mood 'Dark'
When unchecked these segue bans will be displayed in the Priorities tab as Ban: Segue Mood, by checking this option they will be separated, as shown above, allowing the user to define the Goal for each in the Priorities tab. This option is enabled by default.
User Defined Priority Scoring gives the user the power to more precisely Define Priority Rank and Define Legacy Rule Scoring. This option is enabled by default.
User Defined Priority Rank - When this option is enabled Weight and Goal Importance columns will be visible in the right pane of the Goals | Priorities | Definition and Linker | Link Goals | Priorities | Definition windows. This provides greater precision in specifying the importance of the selected priorities. Adjust the Weight of each priority to a value between 1 and 100. The higher the value the greater the importance of the associated priority during scheduling. Setting two or more priorities to the same Weight essentially ties their importance. With this option deselected adjusting GSelector priorities uses a simple ranking system to specify some priorities as being more important than others.
User Defined Legacy Rule Scoring - This feature provides precise control over the scoring of Legacy Rules failures in GSelector. Previously if a Legacy Rule was declared Unbreakable, all failures of the rule would score 0. When this feature is enabled the priority list will have a new “middle ground” known as ‘Fixed’ where a Value can be specified for rule failures. When the User Defined Priority Scoring option is enabled, a new Value column in the right pane of the Goals | Priorities | Definition and Linker | Link Goals | Priorities | Definition windows is displayed. This column shows the Fixed Failure Value when a goal is set as Fixed. Legacy Rules and Segue Bans can be set as Fixed when added or by right-clicking the goal field, in the Priorities pane and selecting Fixed. The selected rule will appear in the Fixed portion of the priority list, between Unbreakable and Breakable.
Check this option to enable Reverse Scheduling. This ground breaking scheduling technique is intended to optimize rotations of smaller categories containing songs which also appear in pre-scheduled special programming. For example, you might air a Countdown show from 8:00 to 8:30 PM that features many of your high-rotation songs. Typically you would first hand-schedule the Countdown show, then allow GSelector to schedule the other songs in the normal way. The problem is potential poor rotation of the high-rotation songs close to the start of the Countdown show as the Scheduler makes compromises to protect the pre-scheduled music. Reverse Scheduling solves this problem by laying songs from designated category groups into the schedule in reverse chronological order, starting at the point where the hand scheduled songs have been placed. The pre-scheduled music thus establishes the “starting point” of the scheduling order, to provide optimized rotation through the hours immediately preceding the Countdown show. See the Reverse Scheduling notes in the Scheduler window topic.
This option enables the Optimizations tab in Goals. The Optimizations tab is where Multi Shot, Floating Categories and Legacy Optimizations are defined and assigned to Dayparts and Categories. This option is enabled by default.
The Schedule Days Individually option is unchecked by default. This means that when two or more days are scheduled in a single session, GSelector will schedule pass 1 for the entire date range, then pass 2 and so on. If the Schedule Days Individually option is checked, GSelector will schedule all of day 1 in pass order, then all of day 2 in pass order and so on. However, slotted categories are always scheduled across the entire date range first, regardless of this setting.
This feature will allow local GSelector stations to subscribe to syndicated format programming. Subscribing implies near-automatic transfer of music and, optionally, imaging links from a central S3 GSelector database to the local station. When S3 is enabled the Lock Level Column option is available in the Advanced Clock/Schedule Columns section of the Clock tab. For more information on this feature see the S3_Subscription_Service_Operations_Manual.pdf and the S3_Music_Log_Subscription_Operations_Manual.pdf in the C:\Program Files\RCS\GSelector\ folder.
The 'Hide Lock Level field & Locked publication status if station has subscriptions’ option when check will hide the ’Default Lock Level for Inserted Clock/Schedule Positions’ option that is shown when Enable S3 is checked. This option will also hide the Lock Level Column option in the Advanced Clock/Schedule Columns section of the Clock tab.
The 'Time Granularity of Clock Assignment' option allows the user to change the granularity of the Clock Assignment grid allowing the user to set multiple clocks in a single hour or across multiple hours. When a clock shorter than an hour is used, the system will automatically add a System ETM (Hit). When the clock extended over an hour the user will need to enter an Hour Marker which can be found in the Clock elements.
When Hours is selected the Assign Clock window will look similar to the following:
When Minutes (FlexClocks™) is selected the Assign Clock window will look similar to the following:
In many GSelector areas, such as the Scheduler window, the Multi-Station scheduler, the Export Playlist, Analysis, Multi-Station Analysis and Reports, where the user needs to select a Time range, the time range by default begins at the start of the From hour and finishes at the end of the Thru hour. However with this 'Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports' option the granularity can be set to Hours, Minutes or Seconds allowing the user to specify a time, up to the minute or second.
When Hour is selected for the Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports option the time field will look similar to the following:
When Minutes is selected for the Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports option the time field will look similar to the following:
When Seconds is selected for the Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports option the time field will look similar to the following:
When Minute or Second is selected as the Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports option, GSelector will look for an ETM to determine the starting and ending points of the time range specified. The ETM can be a Hit, Reset, Soft or Hard ETM.
If no matching ETM is found for the time specified in the From time field, GSelector will find the closest ETM searching earlier in the hour.
For example:
A warning will be shown to the user when an ETM is not found for the specified From time. Click OK to continue or click Cancel to return to the underlying window to change the time.
If no matching ETM is found for the time specified in the Up to (but not including) time field, then GSelector will find the closest ETM searching later in the hour.
For example:
A warning will be shown to the user when an ETM is not found for the specified Up to (but not including) time. Click OK to continue or click Cancel to return to the underlying window to change the time.
The Allow Duration fields in Hundredths and Seconds option will change the durations and runtime fields (Intro, Runtime etc.) in Songs/Links and Editor to show the time in Minutes, Seconds and Hundredths of seconds. When this option is unchecked the runtime and duration fields are shown in Minutes and Seconds and GSelector will round up or down the hundredths of seconds where needed when calculating runtimes and durations.
The DMCA parameters in the Advanced tab can be used to adjust how the DMCA Rule detects violations to the rule.
The DMCA Execution drop-down is used to set how the DMCA Rule is executed. The default setting is Execute when on Priority List.
Execute when on Priority List – The DMCA rule must be explicitly added in Goals | Priorities. This option will only execute the DMCA Rule when it is placed in the Priority List for the station.
Execute Always - In this case, the DMCA rule will be implicitly applied on the station whether the DMCA Rule is on the Priority List or not.
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Important Note |
To implicitly set the DMCA Rule to always execute and not allow the user to change that setting, install GSelector with the command switch /DMCA=True. For Example: c:\Setup /DMCA=True This will enforce the DMCA Rule to Execute Always and the DMCA Execution Settings will be disabled so the setting can not be changed. This command switch applies to all databases/stations accessed from the Service Host computer. |
This parameter defaults to unchecked. When unchecked, GSelector does not count the same song as a different selection for the artist/vocalist and album tests.
For example: The same Taylor Swift song can play an unlimited number of times in the 3 hour window (or consecutively). It isn't until the 5th distinct Taylor Swift song or 4th distinct album song that the DMCA rule would kick in.
To have repeat plays of the same song count toward the DMCA limits select Count Repeated Plays of the Same Song in the Advanced tab of the Setup | Station | Features window.
This parameter defaults to checked. When checked, the song will be treated as coming from any album by that artist. Two different songs with no album by the same artist are assumed to be from the same album. One song with an album and another song without an album from the same artist will be treated as coming from the same album.
If the option 'Treat Blank Album as Matching any Album by Same Artist' is not checked, a song with no album is ignored with respect to the album test.
Vocalist will be ignored for the DMCA rule, if the percentage participation is below the cutoff set.
For example: If set to 100, any vocalist with a percentage participation of 99 or less will be ignored.
This option defaults to 100.
Use the Consecutive Songs Maximum Time Separation setting to set the maximum time between consecutive songs from the same album. The default setting is 10:00.
For Example: If you had a song in positions 8, 9 and 11 from the same album and a link of 10:01 at position 10 this would not fail the DMCA songs in a row test. However if the link was 10:00 or less, with this set to 10:00 then the 3rd song would fail.
NOTE: A song from another album or artist/vocalist will always stop the consecutive test, regardless of the air time separation. In other words if you have Boston/Long Time ending at 1:15:00, followed by Bruce Springsteen/Born To Run with a runtime of 4.31 then Boston/More Than A Feeling starting at 1:19:31, it will not test across the Springsteen song even though the 2 Boston songs are within this 10 minute setting.
If a label is checked in the Exempt Record Labels list, songs from the selected label (set in the Additional tab of the Song in the Library) are ignored in all of the DMCA tests. If a new label is added, it will be unchecked by default in the Exempt Record Labels list. Record labels can grant a user a waiver for meeting the DMCA rules.
This option allows the scheduling for the daylight savings adjustment for the DST hour in the Spring. The default setting is disabled, GSelector will skip the scheduling of the DST hour during Spring.
This option, when checked, will suppress the second DST hour in the fall for daylight savings. The default setting is disabled. When disabled, GSelector will add a second DST hour during Fall.
The Time Zone Override can be used to set the station to a different time zone than the service host. If not set, the time zone on the service host computer is used to determine when DST occurs. If the override is set, it uses that time zone. Click the drop-down to select the time zone for the station.
The Setup | Station | Features | Attributes tab is used to map song and link attributes to be Global or Station specific attributes. This tab is also used to select those attributes that can have Fallback attributes.
Click any tab in the image for help
Click any tab in the image for help
Global/Station Attribute Mappings
Use Attribute Percentage Participation
The left pane of the Attributes tab is used to set whether an attribute will be Global or Station specific. If the attribute is set to Station, then the attribute can be set for the asset in the Station Song Attributes or the Station Links Attributes window from the Song Window or the Link Window for the station. If the attribute is set to Global, use the Song Coding window or the Link Coding window to set a Global attribute for the song or link. Use the Attribute Type drop-down to change the selected attribute to Global or Station.
When configuring Child stations using the New Station window these station-specific attributes can be individually set to ignore, copy or inherit.
The Song Identification setting has the choices of 'Internal ID' or 'Artist / Title'. The default choice is Internal ID, which treats songs separately based on the Internal ID. This is the legacy behavior. When the option Artist / Title is selected, GSelector treats songs with the same artist/title as the same song for the following priorities.
Goals
Song Linear
Song Radial
Daypart
Hour Rotation Goal
Rules
Minimum Separation
Maximum Separation
Hour Rotation
Play Window
Yesterday
Prior Day
Past Day
No Repeat
Drive Protection
Note: Maximum Skip is ignored for Artist / Title
When a Failure occurs, the Failure Details window will show (Artist/Title) next to the failed Goal. GSelector also treats songs with the same artist/title as the same song in the History map.
Note: The Allow Attribute Specific Legacy Rule Priorities must be enabled and the Rule must be applied in Priorities to see the (Artist/Title) in the failure window.
A Fallback attribute is an attribute that GSelector can fallback to if the normal attribute scores too low to be scheduled.
For Example: A Song is normally genre “Dance” but could be treated as genre “Crossover” in a scheduling pinch because of the fallback attribute. Attribute Fallback Score Threshold is set to 65 in Goals | Priorities. The Scheduler will treat the song as “Dance” unless the song scores below 65, then it will treat the song as “Crossover” and test it again.
The Fallback Attributes pane is used to set the attributes that can be assigned to a song/link as a fallback attribute. The Attribute Fallback Score Threshold can be set by clicking the Threshold 
button in the toolbar of the Goals Priorities Definition tab for songs and the Link Goals Priorities Definition tab for links. When an attribute is selected in the Fallback Attributes pane additional columns to assign these attributes will be available in the song and link windows.
When the Use Attribute Percentage Participation is enabled, the percentage participation setting in the Song/Link window is applied to both the normal and fallback values. When it is not checked, the percentage participation setting only applies to the normal value and NOT the fallback value.
