MusicVISTA: Leading Edge Music Research Software Update

An update regarding MusicVISTA, the most advanced music research tool in existence for commercial music stations.

MusicVISTA Enhancement – Custom Categories

Until Now…

MusicVISTA presents a list of 62 possible category choices, A-Z, a-z and 0-9. These can be used to help you organize the music.

Alan Logan at ARN has proposed some great improvements in this area:

· He points out that a more descriptive category name, like “Power 70s” is a lot more user friendly than “Q”.

· And 62 categories can mean a lot of unused categories to scroll through.

Paul Fairburn at Smooth also explained his problem with so many categories. He uses the lower case of a category as a place to put candidate songs, so he may be moving back and forth between, for example, “V” and “v”. Right now, that is a lot of scrolling.

Solution…

There is a new item on the Edit menu, Modify the category list:

This will bring up a list of all your categories.

You can edit this list as you wish. Delete all the categories you don’t want. Modify and/or add as many as you need. Arrange them in whatever order works best for you.

Note: We can also set this up when I build your MusicVISTA analysis. If you let me know what categories you need, I’ll customize MusicVISTA for you.

Enjoy!

Your further ideas and suggestions about this are welcome. As are any other ideas you have to make MusicVISTA a better tool when you implement your music tests.