Getting the most from your music scheduling software: What can you do with schedules?

So much of the day is automatic. Get up, open shop, break for lunch, hit the gym. And because it’s automatic, it’s efficient. You’re free to focus on other things if you don’t have to worry about procedures, or re-learning the same thing over and over.

The same goes for your business, and likewise whatever you’ve chosen to help your business succeed.

Soundtrack gives you more control

One question we get asked a lot by businesses is whether you can adjust things on the fly. You can end up changing music dozens of times through the day, and it’s important that you keep that choice and ability to go with the flow.

Other streaming services often just give you a generated playlist and a few controls, then leave you to it. There’s not a lot of advance planning you can do. You just have to figure it out every time and stay vigilant with your Next button.

Soundtrack gives you the best of both worlds. It’s super easy to generate playlists, import and combine them, refine or stack or stretch them however you want. Just press play, and the scheduling’s got you covered. Global chart toppers, your favorite label, imported Spotify playlists, holiday music, popular artists, daily trending lists - it’s all there.

Stacking playlists in a single schedule lets you combine your favorites, creating something that’s uniquely you. The songs playing shuffle from each playlist, and the priority of those lists can be reordered just by clicking.

But what’s really different is that you’re not just limited to skipping ahead to whatever’s next up on the queue. With the Soundtrack Unlimited plan, you can directly influence whatever’s playing right now, cut in a song request that’ll play next, and then go back to the scheduled selection automatically. It’s perfect for giving you a bit more control back, and it’s exactly the kind of functionality you’d expect from Spotify, or any other consumer service.

Schedules are super easy to set up

It might seem a lot, at first. The smallest schedule timeslot is 15 minutes, and you’re not limited to how many schedules you can add for a single day. That’s 96 possible schedules per day, or 672 a week!

Huge, right? But instead of thinking that’ll take hours to set up, there’s two things you should know.

First, you don’t have to go that granular. Not everyone’s a tyrant on the decks. All scheduling is entirely under your control.

You can literally fill an entire week’s worth of schedules only using the left mouse button. Top playlists can be dragged in from the sidebar to make new schedules, or combined with existing ones. They can be moved around just by clicking and stretched out to fill the time you need. 

And that weekly schedule gets carried over to the next week too, so you don’t have to reset them and do them over each time. It’s just that easy, we’ve put all our UX know-how into making sure of it.

And if it isn’t? We’ve got a step-by-step guide for quick starts, and popping our customer service team an email usually gets a response within 24 hours.