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01/09/2009Etere Music Scheduling

The complete solution for Music TV Broadcasters, it provides them with several features such as a music-oriented database, custom rules and filters, redundancy, automatic programming, and metadata management

Etere Music Manager is the complete solution to scheduling music programs.
The best broadcasters on the market have chosen it for its effectiveness and flexibility. Etere Music Manager integrates with Etere Automation to enhance music program scheduling performances. Etere Music Manager’s main scheduling characteristics are:
• A frame-accurate music scheduling system
• Traffic system integration without import/export procedures
• Last minute changes applied in real-time
Etere Music Manager quickly makes music formats with minimum usage of resources. The main strong points are:
• Management of several music formats/clocks at the same time
• Management of single video clip music format per clock
• Seasonal musical scheduling
• Files assignment to different categories
• Promo assignment to single video clips
• Categories management
• A unique archive handling several music formats





Music Manager is a must-have

Etere controls the movie titling using data retrieved from the Etere database.
Different formats can be used according to different parts of the day, as well as dedicated formats related to a specific program. The Videoclip is always kept clean and respective titles are put on separately.
Etere remote controls subtitling devices and can readily preview subtitles in low resolution.
Etere Music Manager provides operators with several amenities to make the clock and the play list.
Video clips can be managed according to:
• Play-list assignments
• Up and down play-list movements
• Categories editing
• “Open program” configuration
• “Random” configuration
Etere Music Manager is a must-have software to facilitate music scheduling. Video music clips statistics and reports are even available on a multi-channel basis and can be customized according to operators’ needs.
Frame-accurate information is given regarding video clips and their respective duration. Optimization of remaining hard-disk free space is also provided.

Etere Music Manager can handle Music rotation on a both multi-user and multi-channel basis. Genres, artists and bands can be easily selected (i.e. you can even differentiate the songs of a band from the songs of the single artist, e.g. Pink Floyd’s songs and Roger Water’s songs are distinguished).

Obviously, criteria must be previously edited to have a proper play-list composition. Rotation rules are fully customizable and based on genres, artists and bands as well as parts of the day, channels, etc. Rules can affect both repetitions and placements.

Etere Music Manager perfectly integrates with the automation, making any additional scheduling change simple and quick. Moreover, it is the only product of its kind giving low resolution previews. Through the browsing integration you can manage:
• Video effects to dynamically improve the schedule composition
• VJ’s, audio and video, to handle intro-insertions immediately
• Videoclip final broadcast simulation with large cost reduction
• Videoclip cross-fade emulating radio-oriented transmission




SMS Broadcast Innovation

Etere masters the SMS broadcast innovation as well. SMS messages can be broadcasted over two different events:
1. SMS during videoclip breaks
2. SMS while the clip runs.
In the first case, the video message is an Mpeg file played by a PC and the txt message can contain pictures as well.
In the second case, all messages are in XML format sent through a fire walled Ftp site.
Etere STMAN makes all necessary controls to avoid the SMS being broadcasted during the video titles broadcasting, so that just one graphic device is required. Etere can also be connected to external game systems.

The automation communicates with the game system in real time, providing information about both the game availability and when to start or stop the game service. Etere Music Manager shares all the benefits of the Etere distributed architecture – it is both inherently modular and fault tolerant.
Summarizing, Etere offers you the following musical scheduling features:
• Frame-Accurate Scheduling
• Multi User/Multi Channel
• Music-Oriented Database
• Easy to Use Rotation Rules
• Video Cross-Fade
• Titling Control
• SMS Broadcast