The online program guide, playlist and SoundExchange report generator for public broadcasting.

NPR Digital Services: Composer Pro

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About Composer Pro

What is Composer Pro?Composer Pro is an online

program guide and playlist management tool.

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About Composer Pro

What is Composer Pro?Composer Pro is an online

program guide and playlist management tool.

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About Composer Pro

Your Composer Pro admin is broken up into sections based on the main tasks that you will be doing with the tool:

Program Guide Composer – where you will create and edit your program guide, or grid

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About Composer Pro

Your Composer Pro admin is broken up into sections based on the main tasks that you will be doing with the tool:

Playlist Composer – where you will create and edit your playlists, as well as create host accounts

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About Composer Pro

Your Composer Pro admin is broken up into sections based on the main tasks that you will be doing with the tool:

SoundExchange Dashboard – all of your SoundExchange Reporting tools

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About Composer Pro

If you have multiple Composer Pro accounts (one for each stream with programming), you can access them from the My Stations dropdown.

Editing and Managing the Program Guide

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Building & Managing Your Program Guide

Your online visitors can see both a Daily and Weekly view of your Program Schedule at

[your site URL]/schedule

Program Guide Daily View

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Building & Managing Your Program Guide

Your online visitors can see both a Daily and Weekly view of your Program Schedule at

[your site URL]/schedule

Program Guide Weekly View

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Program Guide Wizard – Controls how your program schedule will appear on your site (for non-Core Publisher Sites only)

Create/Edit Program Guide – Where you will be adding and editing programs to your guide (or schedule)

Manage Color-Coded Legend – Set up option to color code your program guide (for non-Core Publisher Sites only)

Building & Managing Your Program Guide

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In the Create/Edit Program Guide Menu, you can:• Add new programs to your schedule/grid• Edit an existing program• Delete an existing program*• View the scheduling for a selected week

Create/Edit Program Guide

* We suggest that you never (or rarely) delete programs. We’ll go over why later.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step One: Select the time block that you want your program to air, and click the green +.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

Select whether your program will air multiple times on schedule, or if will air only once.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

Select the time and days that your program will regularly air.

Select “No End Date” unless your show has a definite end date.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

Note whether your program air every week or biweekly.

Choose a Program Start date. Select “No End Date” unless your show has a definite end date.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

If your program is a syndicated show, you can select it from the dropdown.

If not, enter the name of the program in the local program name field.

Select the type of program from the Program Format list.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

Any information that you enter in these fields will be pulled into your Core Publisher site.

Always make sure that WS is selected under Streaming Status.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Two: Complete the fields with your program information.

Any information that you enter in these fields will be pulled into your Core Publisher site.

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Create/Edit Program GuideAdding a new program to your guide:

Step Three: On the Program Guide, you will see not live on the blocks where your program will air. Hit the go live with changes button to save your changes.

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A conflict lets you know that 2+ programs are overlapping or were scheduled for the same time.

To resolve a conflict, you can do one of two things:• Edit and change the program’s end date to a date in

the past.• Ignore it if it’s a Temporary Edit (if it’s only for one day or

time period) Deleting the program isn’t recommend because you will

lose the playlists associated with that program.

About Conflicts

Creating and Managing Playlists

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Creating & Managing Playlists

Playlists are available on your site on the Program Page for each program that you create in Core Publisher.

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Creating & Managing Playlists

Playlists are available on your site on the Program Page for each program that you create in Core Publisher.

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Playlist Wizard – Controls how your playlists will appear on your site (for non-Core Publisher Sites only)

Create/Edit a Playlist – Where you will be adding and editing your program playlists

Manage Commerce Links – Option to add links for listeners to buy songs from your playlists

Export Playlist Data/ Generate Reports – Reporting tool

Creating & Managing Your Playlists

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Before you can add playlists in Composer Pro, you must turn playlists on. To do so:

Step One: Select the Playlist Wizard option.

Creating & Managing Your Playlists

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Before you can add playlists in Composer Pro, you must turn playlists on. To do so:

Step Two: Make sure that the Yes radio button is selected, then hit Next.

Creating & Managing Your Playlists

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Before you can add playlists in Composer Pro, you must turn playlists on. To do so:

Step Three: Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Make Live button.

Creating & Managing Your Playlists

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In the Create/Edit A Playlist Menu, you can:• Import a day of playlists, or one playlist for a show• Delete and Edit existing playlists• Choose a different syndicated playlist (if you play syndicated

programming)• View the playlists for a selected week

Create/Edit A Playlist

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Step One: Select the green + to add a playlist for a specific instance of a program.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Step Two: Confirm that you have the correct program date. Then, hit the Next button.

Make sure that you have the correct program date.

You can add Show Notes for each playlist. However, they will not display in Core Publisher.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Step Three: There are three ways to add a song to your playlist:Add Song Manually: For adding new songs to your station song database.Search Our Songs: Use if you are adding a song to your playlist that you have added before.Search Full Database: Not recommended. Searches database of all songs ever entered by a station using Composer.

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Adding a song manually:Make sure to fill out all required fields and hit “Add Song”

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

To search for a song from your list of pre-added songs:Enter the artist and song name and hit the “Search” button.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

To search for a song from your list of pre-added songs:Confirm the start time for the song and hit either the Use This Song or Use Song & Time button.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Step Three: Each new song you add will show up under Playlist Songs. Use dropdowns and Update Display Order button to change the order of songs in your playlist.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Step Four: Once you have added all songs, hit the Make Live button to save.

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Create/Edit A Playlist

You also have the option to import a list of songs to a playlist.

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Adding a new playlist to a program:

Create/Edit A Playlist

Once you have saved your playlist, you will see a edit (pencil) and delete (x) icon in that time slot.

Creating Host Accounts

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Allows you to have multiple users with limited accounts who can edit and add playlists for specific shows

Each host/staff should have their own host account.

Manage Host Accounts

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Manage Host Accounts

To add a host account:Click on the Add Host Account button, fill out all fields and hit the Add User button.

Managing Commerce Links

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Establishing an affiliation with online music providers ArkivMusic, iTunes and/or Amazon, you can provide links for your listeners to purchase the music that you play on-air.

Manage Commerce Links

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If you have an affiliation with • Amazon • ArkivMusic • iTunes

the system can generate links next to song entries in your playlist.

Manage Commerce Links

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Manage Commerce Links

Commerce links appear as Purchase links in your playlist.

Exporting Playlist Data for Reporting

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You can export playlist data for a specific data range, which can be used for internal use or reporting purposes.

Exporting Playlist Data

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For reporting purposes, you can export playlist data for a specific time period.

Exporting Playlist Data

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Check the Composer User Guide

http://digitalservices.npr.org/media/pdfs/Composer_Userguide.pdf

Visit our Tech Support Page

http://info.ds.npr.org//support.html

Contact your Station Support Manager

For more assistance…