Assets And Categories
Power Studio works best when audio is not treated as loose files, but as broadcast material with usable metadata.
Assets
An asset combines an audio file with the information Power Studio needs during search, scheduling and playout.
Typical information includes:
- artist and title;
- content type;
- category;
- timing markers such as start, intro, fade and end points;
- rating, tempo, mood or other scheduler criteria where the station uses them;
- status information that determines whether the item can be used.
Good metadata makes later workflows simpler. Poor metadata usually appears later as missing search results, scheduling problems or awkward transitions.
Categories
Categories describe how the station wants to use an asset. They are often used by the scheduler and Format Planner.
Use categories to express programming decisions, not only file storage. For example, a station might separate current hits, recurrents, gold tracks, imaging, promos and seasonal content because those groups behave differently in Clock Formats.
Practical Rule
If a presenter, music director or scheduler needs to make a decision based on a property, capture that property consistently in metadata.