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USING MUSIC FROM THE DAD MUSIC LIBRARY IN YOUR PLAYLIST

Read this firstWe have two DAD Music libraries. The one called Music Library is for everything except classical Music. The DAD Classical Library is for classical music only. They work in the same way but these instructions are for the DAD Music Library only.

Our Music Librarians are the only people who ingest the music into the DAD Music Library. This is so we can ensure everything is added correctly and at the right audio quality. – making it fully searchable and reliable. All new music that has arrived at Radio Adelaide since March 2014 is in the DAD Music Library. Over the next three years we’ll progressively enter music from our CD libraries and our own recordings.

Now, do you know how to plan your program in DAD Prep? Open and save your program playlist?If not you need to do the basic DAD training first. You absolutely need to learn how the playlists work first. Enrol at the Training office

OK, now we’re ready to go

1. Log in to any computer with DAD Prep (not a studio computer) in plenty of time before your show

2. Click on DAD Prep on the desktop. Wait until it is fully loaded.

3. Find your program in the green Program Array and one click to open.

4. This will open your program’s group within the Programs Library. So far, this is exactly the same as when you have ingested your own content for broadcast. Now we’re going to add content from the Music Library, which is a different library to the Programs Library

5. Open your programs playlist:- In the top row of the Library click the turquoise Playlist button.- This brings up the Playlist Modify window shown here. It shows the cuts in your program

group on the left pane, and a blank pane on the right.

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- Now open your specific playlist by clicking the white Playlist button- Select the playlist and click the Green LOAD button

If there’s only one edition of your program each week, there should only be one playlist here. If there are several, like for this example here of the Breakfast program, make sure you pick the right playlist.

6. If you had already opened the music library before opening your playlist , then there will be no playlist listed. Don’t freak out! Because you’ve come in via the Music Library you need to do one more thing: go to ‘selected group’ at the bottom right and choose your Group from the drop down menu.


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7. Now it’s time to open the Music Library. Find the blue button ‘Music Library’ at the very bottom of the DAD screen. Click it.

8. The Music Library will open and look like this

9. As well as this, on the Playlist Modify screen you now have the music library on the left side and your program playlist on the right.

The dark pink button is showing LIB X: Music. If you want to go back to the Programs library you can change that here


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10. For now let’s use the Music Library screen. Look along the field titles. Each gives you a different piece of information about each song. Station workers have chosen these as the most important information for broadcasters. You can search the library for one of or a combination of these things.

Field Title DescriptionCut ID It’s unique number in DAD. You can always find a song exactly by searching on that

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Title The song titleArtist The full artist details including featured guestsLength Duration of that songAustralian YES or NOSA YES or NO If it is an SA song it will also be yes for Australian

Instrumental YES or NO A useful search for promos backing music or if you want a short track that you can fade

Indigenous YES or NO This is for Indigenous people’s music from any country in the world including Australia. If it is collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people is will be a yes here. Australian Aboriginal or Torres Islander music will be a YES here plus YES for Australian

RA Rec YES or NO This is for any music recorded by Radio Adelaide

Feature YES or NO All songs from any album chosen as a RA Feature Album since March 2014

Main Genre One of these options will be selectedGeneral Blues CountryElectronica Heavy Hip Hop/ RapJazz Reggae World/Folk

Sec Genres Another of these same options will be selectedGeneral Blues CountryElectronica Heavy Hip Hop/ RapJazz Reggae World/Folk

Album The album title Prod Date The Year the Album was released. This is handy to be able to distinguish original and re-

releases – a re-release will have the re-release date. In future we’ll get this field changed to ‘Year’ with DAD updates

Understanding The Genre FieldsThe Genre fields have been developed to be both consistent and flexible as music changes. Each song can be classified twice, so if there is some uncertainty about whether something is, for example, Jazz or Blues or is Country or Folk, the librarians will be able to give it two categories.

The General category is the biggest category as is covers pop music of any generation (eg Frank Sinatra’s hits of the 1940s, as well as current pop music), Rock music of any generation, and a range of sub-genres that come and go, eg surf music, grunge, funk, and anything else that isn’t easily classified as one of the other nine categories. A song could be classified as General /General – for example if it was Pop/Rock or Soul/Pop.

World and Folk have been put into one category that will be quite broad. The Heavy category is there so you can easily spot ‘heavy’ songs if they are not appropriate for your program/timeslot – or choose them if they are.

If you think a song has been incorrectly classified, please do a fault report.


11. Listen to any of the songs by selecting them and pressing the green ‘Play’ button in the bottom left of the window. Press the same button again to stop the cut.

12. The instructions for how to search come next in the document, but for practice, we’ll use any tracks you can see at the moment

13. Click on a song in the library and drag it into your program playlist, between the red lines only. You can drag songs from either the Music Library screen OR the Playlist Modify screen into your playlist.

14. Notice that music tracks from the Music Library are coloured orange. You’ll see this when you are in the studio as well.

15. Click and drag a few more, so you have at least 4 songs in your playlist. Here’s an example using the Friday Range.

16. Change the order they are set to play by clicking and dragging them, but still always between the red lines.

Each track will have a Red box with L at the right hand end. This is the standard transition setting for music tracks, but you can choose.

Here are the Transition Settings that you can choose for each cut on your playlist. - L: autoLoad: After the cut is played, the next cut in the playlist will be loaded but not

played. - A: Autoplay: After the cut is played, the next cut in the playlist will start automatically.- S: Segue: At the end of the cut, DAD will crossfade into the next cut in the playlist

automatically (with a default crossfade of half a second)- N: Normal – never use this – it will set to replay your cut, normal is BAD.

To change the transition setting for a cut, right-click on it, choose Transitions, and select the transition you want from the list.

Here are some things to remember You can also change the order cuts are set to play, and the transitions, when you are in the

studio. But by planning and arranging now in DAD Prep, you are free in the studio to focus on your listeners and performance in the studio.


Your playlist doesn’t store the cuts, it references the cuts stored in the library. If you delete songs from your playlist you are NOT deleting them from the library, so don’t worry!

You can delete items from your playlist by selecting them and clicking the red DELETE button. But NEVER delete anything from a playlist except your cuts. Your cuts all have this icon:

17. You will often also go back to your program group library and choose other content so your playlist will be a mix of cuts you have ingested (white background), cuts from the Music Library (orange background) and cuts from the station library, like IDs (aqua background)Here’s an example using the Friday Range again:

18. Don’t forget to save your playlist after you have finished working on it. This means clicking save twice and OK once.

Click on ‘Save’ and the dialog box to the right appears.

Do not change any of the settings, like the Filename, Description or Group. If you change these settings DAD will not know where to find the correct playlist for your program.

Click ‘Save’ and when asked if you want to overwrite the previous playlist, click ‘OK’. Otherwise DAD won’t find your playlist.

DURING YOUR SHOW, IN DAD STUDIO, you can follow these same steps to search for and add music to your playlist during your show. But make sure you are experienced and confident with doing it before the show first


Searching using ‘Quick Search’The search box is opened by clicking the white ‘Search’ button at the top of the library screen. It looks like the window below:

The first item in the search box is ‘Quick Search’. ‘Quick Search’ is the easiest way to search for music as you know something about what you want to find.

If you type a word, phrase, or sequence of letters (or the Cut ID if you know it) into this box and click Quick Search, DAD will search through the music library for any matches to what you have entered in the Artist, Title, Album, and Cut ID fields and display the results. You cannot search for genres using quick search. For example, if you search for something general like ‘love’ it will find any song, artist or album with ‘love’ in it.

To return to looking at the full list of songs or to try another search, click the blue ‘Refresh’ button.

Example 1: to search for any songs, albums or artists with the word ‘Angels’ in them, type Angels into the quick search box and press enter:

Sorting the music library by field1. Click on the heading of the ‘Title’ field and see how it rearranges the songs in Alphabetical order2. Now click on the heading Artist in the Artist field and see the same thing happen.

Any of the Title, Artist, Album, Duration, and Cut ID fields can be sorted in this way. You can sort cuts in the full library, or you can first do a quick search and then sort the results.


Using the full search to search using the yes/no fieldsWant to find instrumental music, or all the Australian Indigenous music, or do a search by genre? Then you need to use the full search, which is underneath Quick Search in the search box.

The Yes/No categories are ones specifically designed for us, to help us be able to meet our music commitments.

The full search allows you search by any field, or by a combination of fields.

1. Click on the white ‘Search’ button at the top of the library screen.

2. Enter your search. When doing searches using this window, you need to specify three things:- The field or fields that you wish to search by- The text that you want to search by for each field- The operator for the searches (AND or OR)See the examples on the following page to see how to enter your searches.

3. Click ‘Slower Full Search’ to see the results.

You can search by up to five fields, and the operator field says whether you want all the things you search on to be matched, or you just need one of them to be matched. For the Yes/No fields, make sure you only enter either the text ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ or you will not get any results!


Example 2: Search for all music by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

You would search for songs where Indigenous has ‘Yes’ AND where Australian has ‘Yes’.

Example 3: Search for artists with ‘Tom’ in the name that are South Australian.

You would search for songs where Artist has ‘Tom’ AND where SA has ‘Yes’.


Example 4: Search for all Electronic music that is a Radio Adelaide recording.

You would search for songs where Main Genre has ‘Electronica’ OR Sec Genre has ‘Electronica’ AND RA Rec has ‘Yes’.

By searching on BOTH genre fields we are sure to find every song classified as ‘Electronica’

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