MusicOne — Release Notes: July 2026

Date: 2026-07-31

What's New

Rule Violations in the Schedule View — The schedule listing now has a toggleable Violations column showing per-song rule breaches at a glance, backed by a live re-check pass that re-evaluates a finished schedule against your current rules — so if you tighten a rule after generating, you'll see what it now breaks without regenerating.

Rule Flexibility Badge — Each rule setting in the Rules list and rule forms now shows a measured flexibility score (colour-coded emerald/amber/red), calculated by simulating a full week against your library. It tells you at a glance whether a rule is realistic for your rotation or too tight to satisfy consistently.

Disregard Rules During Generation — Before generating a schedule, you can now pick specific rules to disregard for that run. A read-only summary afterward shows exactly which rules (including any since deleted) were set aside, so nothing is silently ignored.

Schedule Reminders — MusicOne now sends an automatic reminder email when a day still needs scheduling attention, deep-linking straight to that day. This relies on your station having a timezone set (see below) and is skipped for stations without one recognised.

Station Timezone — You can now set a timezone when creating a station, or change it later from station settings. This powers Schedule Reminders and other time-aware features going forward.

Replace Panel — Upcoming View — Opening the replace panel on a slot now shows the upcoming rotation choices for that slot, not just the immediate candidates, making it easier to pick a good swap.

Light Theme (Beta) — MusicOne now offers a light theme, toggled from the navbar account menu. Every major surface — schedules, categories, clocks, rules, settings, charts, tooltips, and pickers — has been migrated with accessibility-checked contrast.

Date & Time Format Preferences — Choose your preferred date, time, and week-start format from Preferences; it's now applied consistently across schedules, categories, preferences, and media history.

Categories — Bulk Actions, Packet Details & Track Artists — Multi-select song rows and packet items with a right-click menu and bulk-act on them from the action bar, even for songs inside a packet. Packet rows now show average length and rotation-stack distribution, and you can sort packets by name. Track rows also get an editable, sortable Artist column.

Collapsible Schedule Sidebar — Collapse the calendar sidebar to give the schedule list more room; your preference is saved.

CSV Category & Sound Code Import — CSV imports can now assign songs to categories and sound codes straight from spreadsheet columns, with a preview of any new categories the import will create. A "mood" column can also be mapped directly into sound codes.

Intro/Outro Sync (M1, CSV, CloudSync) — Set intro, outro, and ending points for a track from a new slider and cold/fade toggle in the media dialog. These fields now round-trip through CSV import/export and sync automatically to connected CloudSync automation software (P1).

Dynamic Cart IDs — Cart ID fields now accept variable placeholders (e.g. weekday, sequence number) that auto-expand per track occurrence, so you no longer have to hand-number carts that follow a pattern.

New Export Formats — Added Rivendell (.riv) and ENCO DADpro ASCII (.asc) schedule exporters, plus mAirList Block command export, expanding the list of playout systems MusicOne can hand a schedule to directly.

Category-Scoped Rules — Gender, tempo, sound code, and clock rules can now be scoped to specific categories rather than applying station-wide.

Safer Station Removal — Removing a station now snapshots it to secure storage first and emails the organisation owner, and MusicOne's operators can restore a removed station from that snapshot if needed. The removal flow itself is unchanged for you — this adds a safety net behind it.

Packets — a song can now belong to only one packet per station; packet creation is blocked inside virtual categories; packet membership resolves reliably across every row instead of an arbitrary one; damaged or gapped packet rankings are automatically repaired and normalised on import; packets with no songs are dropped rather than imported.

Scheduling engine — candidates are now evaluated at a slot's real position within the hour; a song being swapped out no longer counts against its own hourly limit; candidate lookups are correctly scoped to your organisation and station; rule-violation reports now list every setting a song actually breaks, not just the first match; two edge cases that could starve the candidate pool under "search depth" settings were closed.

Artist separation — the custom separation threshold now scales correctly with the slider and uses the rule's actual separation time (not double it); your slider position is no longer lost on save.

CSV import/export — a blank mapped Title cell no longer blanks the stored title; an unmapped Title column no longer renames tracks to their cart number; importing an artist-less file no longer wipes artist names off already-matched songs; file paths and durations now survive an export/import round trip intact; encoding is auto-detected instead of assumed UTF‑8; duplicate-drop warnings now name the actual song and packet involved; category CSV export now populates virtual categories and always includes the Category column.

Playout import/export mapping — PlayIt Live and PlayoutONE command imports now map to MusicOne's predefined command types instead of falling back to a generic passthrough; Note commands are prefixed so they're identifiable at a glance; command/marker labels show the correct start time; unset gender/tempo on .m1 imports stay blank instead of defaulting to male/medium; WAIT command export now derives its length from duration and formats hour-plus holds correctly.

Other — mobile slot swaps now resolve through the real slot instead of a temporary stand-in; media history now attributes every scheduled play to the correct category; a sync race that could let inbound CloudSync data collide with an in-progress import was fixed; preference migrations no longer needlessly re-run on every page load.

Internal refactors ahead of further scheduling work: loadScheduleContext extracted from schedule start-up; the replace panel's UI split into reusable components (UpcomingList, PanelModeToggle, PanelRow, Violations, LastPlaysSquares).

Rule flexibility simulation now runs as a background job (the scheduling core gained dry-run/collect-all modes) so measuring a rule's strictness no longer blocks the API.

CloudSync gained groundwork for routing media to the correct station by player type, plus a job that automatically sweeps stale import sessions.

Light theme groundwork: design tokens split into light/dark blocks with an automated audit script to catch any unmigrated colours.

CI now runs every package's tests via Turbo and reports all failures instead of stopping at the first one; new test coverage added for the CSV importer and packet logic.