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Welcome to Meridian, the successor to MyLibrary... Meridian functions as an audio database and also offers scheduling functions for music enthusiasts and radio broadcasters. Many of the familiar features of MyLibrary are present in Meridian and much more... One of Meridian's advantages is separation of the Audio+Station Databases - This allows you to have a dedicated Station Database for each station/service (Clocks, Rules etc) but also a central audio storage common to all stations allowing changes to be reflected on your sister stations instantly. For instance, a song on your Hits station could be in a Gold Category. On your Oldies sister station it may be in the A-List. Somebody sets the Intro point while performing admin on the Hits database - that information is immediately visible on the Oldies database due to them using the same storage.
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Meridian
Setup v1.0.103
Meridian v1.0.103 Update
Meridian CHM Help FileLibrary Features
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Powerful enterprise-level database with separate Audio+Station storages
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MP2, MP3 and WAV Support plus AAC/FLAC with additional (free) plugin
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Audio Player - for PFL and/or tagging
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Audio Database - unlimited number of "stations" or libraries
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Easy import of existing data: APE/ID3, CartChunk, free-format CSV File, JMD etc
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Export data to CSV/HTML/M3U
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APE, FLAC and ID3 Tagging
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CartChunk - Broadcast Industry Tags
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Read/write BCX3 .bcx files
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Song Card with various item attributes: Year, Cue Points, Styles, ISRC etc
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Export library data to various automation systems via meta-data: Dalet XML, EncoDAD DropBox, PSquared CSV, RCS GUID XML etc
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Mass-change via the special properties window or drag 'n' drop tracks to a Category/Style for mass copy/move operations (very Powergold!)
Scheduling Features
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Music, Commercial, Jingle Scheduling
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Send schedules to various automation systems: Dalet, EncoDAD, mAirList, Myriad, Raduga, StationPlaylist Studio, Zara etc
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Enterprise-level database system: Separate Audio+Station databases allow for sharing of audio
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Advanced Daypart Restrictions on a "per-song" basis
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Simple Rules for quick yet creative scheduling: Artist, Title Repeat, Previous Play Time intervals, "No Repeat 9-5" etc
In comparison to MyLibrary, Meridian does NOT have these features:
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Waveform Editor
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Folder Loading, ie: open C:\MyMusic for tagging
Admin Licence
If you regularly work from home or like to manage/prepare your
station's clocks away from the studio, then the "Admin" licence is
also available for a low price - This has all the normal database
functions but does not allow any schedules to be generated.
You can, however, add audio, set attributes/cue points and manage
clocks/rules etc providing you have the database/station file and
access to the audio.
More Information
Meridian handles the placement of adverts, jingles and songs within a set of rules.
These rules can be enforced on a daily/hourly basis - essential for
setting-up "no repeat daytimes", love-song shows - even a quick change
of programming to reflect the weather! Rules can be made
"hard" or "soft" - this allows you to define how strict the rules
and policies are. By softening some rules, the amount of
possible un-scheduled positions decreases. In short, a
"soft" rule can be broken but a "hard" one would leave an
un-scheduled position if a suitable song could not be chosen.
A major concern for those who like to "tinker", especially home-users, bedroom DJs or small-scale stations is one of being able to import/export the data using Access/Excel or similar. Unlike some playout/schedulers, all of the data you enter will be able to export to plain text files for manipulation in other programs.
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