![]() We have playlist templates built for our DJ team to build on-top of based on the type of event they’re performing at. The other huge benefit to us are the built in playlists. That lets me rest at ease knowing that no matter which staff member we have out, the music will sound great and flows perfectly. As an Owner, I’ve been able to set the perfect Segue point on all 28,000 tracks in our library. Our DJ Staff can focus on being good entertainers and personable with the crowd without worrying about the music transitions and song selection. ![]() MegaSeg has made it possible for us to perfectly execute 4 events every Friday and Saturday Night. MegaSeg has been a dream come true for our team of 9 DJs and assistants. I can now work directly out of iTunes, which makes the entire production so much more efficient, plus I can record the show just as if I was working live in a studio. Even though the show has to be semi-live for technical reasons, it seamlessly blends in with the live shows of my colleagues. With the Zen-like technical support of developer Jason Cox at Fidelity Media, I made the switch to MegaSeg Pro in the summer of 2013, just in time for the launch of my late night show for Radio 2, “Simone’s Songlines”. Within less than 30 seconds, she had found MegaSeg Pro. One fine day, I asked my daughter, who is of the Lightning-Fast-Research-Generation, whether she could check into the existence of Mac-based DJ software. I belong to the species of Absolute Apple Users and yet the DJ software I worked with for the first four years of my nomadic Radio life was Windows based, so I had to use Bootcamp and go between the two operating systems, which was time consuming and tedious. I produce and host a weekly, traveling music show from anywhere in the world for Holland’s largest public broadcaster AVROTROS on Radio 2. The learning curve is somewhat steep but, given its versatility, the rewards for using MegaSeg Pro 6 make the effort truly worth it. I’ve been running MegaSeg Pro on a 2007 MacBook Pro without a hiccup for a couple of years. At $199 MegaSeg Pro 6 is truly a bargain-costing hundreds and even thousands less than other automation packages-and it will run on older Mac iron. Thankfully, customer support (by email) has been great. And every function I’ve described will work equally well on audio and video files. But I haven’t mentioned all the file formats that MegaSeg Pro 6 is compatible with, its MIDI features, its waveform function or how it can display album art. I have really just touched on the basics of what all MegaSeg Pro 6 can do and tried to narrow the focus to just what is needed for broadcasting. The Rules tab is where you set restrictions as to how many times an artist or song is played in an hour or limit the number of tracks a particular album is to be aired in a given time block. In this case, MegaSeg pre-shuffles the music within a specific category and randomly plays songs from that category. The Scheduler tab is where you generate playlists based on category. For example, if you have a Category of PSAs, MegaSeg will pre-shuffle and sequentially play those PSAs either one at a designated time or multiple files. You can also instruct MegaSeg Pro to rotate files within a Category. You can insert a category of audio files, a playlist for a particular genre of music or music for certain “dayparts”, top of the hour ID’s or single audio files. The Events tab is where you set an action to occur at a particular time, date, day of the week or a trigger event (such as switching to a satellite or URL feed). Clicking on this button brings up the Preferences window which allows you to set the parameters for playback, devices, events, schedules, rules and logging. Settings where much of the “magic” of MegaSeg Pro occurs. But once you get used to working with it, the interface becomes intuitive and easy to use. The software’s interface, at first glance, can seem daunting and is certainly unconventional when compared to most other broadcast automation software. ![]() Of course, it has to be versatile since it is designed to fill the needs of not only radio and television broadcasters but mobile deejays, VJs and businesses such as restaurants and retail that need programmed music. ![]() MegaSeg Pro could easily be labeled the kitchen sink of automation software as its creators, Fidelity Media, seem to have thrown every conceivable feature into this software package. User Review: MegaSeg Music Automation Software by Carmine5 - Operator of Zebra Radio Read the full review at ![]()
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