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Paul, I think the answer to more than 32 Catergoies is to ugrade to Autoracks Pro.
You certainly seem to have a lot of caterogies, we've been there too however, so you're not alone. But presently my Music Manager is stream lining the database to as few as we can get away with! We've talked about just a dozen, however we don't have any specialist music on the system. Programmes that feature Rock, Blue, Country, Jazz, Classical, etc. are play from the presenters personal CD/vinyal collection, this reduces the burden on the library.
I speak from personal experience here, regarding many copies of one!
When Wayland Radio started using Myriad I setup the software and hardware and imported a music library that had a known provenace... in that it had no duplication of tracks for the various artists is contained. There were over 4000 individual unique tracks.
Our Music Manager, at the time, started the process of allocating to catergories, which wesoon ran out of, and this is when the whole thing started to fall about our knees. There was an issue too whereby tracks that he didn't know where deleted, even though they had been Top 20 chart busters, and tunes he thought he needed in multiple catergories were duplicated and therefore add again and again and again. The most extreme example of this was discovered when we recently purged the system and found over a dozen instances of 10CC's 'I'm Not In Love' in various catergories and/or spellings. It later became known to us that the man in cahrge of our music had missed almost a decade of his musical education trying to run a family business during the mid 80'searly 90's. The one thing we're still living with is having a song repeated in mulitple caterogires, unless you've got very good 'station rules' you can end up with the same song in a single programme more than once. We had until recently 'Beatles' tracks dotted around various catergoires and on the odd occasion would get 3 or more 'Beatles' track in one 3 hour sequence. Today Wayland's present Music Director is struggling to rebuild a live system with the legacy of the 'cock-up' created by the last manager. Just to give you an idea of the task he was presented when taking on the project 6 months ago is that he has had to add a lot of music, rebuild programme schedulles, top & tail hook, add pictues and check the levels correct labelling to many of the tracks recorded. And, he is still adding music that we should be playing but isn't on the system, just yesterday he add over 200 tracks, but he is still deletingtracks too that havebeen added by the team that are inappropriate for our music policy. What is noticiable given the last part of the above, is that when Autotracks starts schedulling the new tunes you notice them instantly, which lifts the output greatly.
Our music policy is a based on classic hits... instantly humable tunes, mixed with new music from the weekly R2 playist suggestions and the odd tune from the R1 selection, similar to guys at 'erewashsound' - great minds...
Roger.
Roger Woods
Producer/Presenter/Engineer
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