Scheduling a Music Filter Set on a Gen 3 Jukebox
The details for the scheduled event appear in the TuneCentral Schedule page.
Note: The next step permanently removes a scheduled event from the TuneCentral schedule.
Ensure that the event you want to delete appears in the TuneCentral Schedule page before continuing.
4. On the TuneCentral Schedule page, click Remove Period.
The Advanced Features & Schedules page reappears, confirming that the event is removed from the TuneCentral schedule.
Scheduling a Music Filter Set on a Gen 3 Jukebox
Can I schedule my music filters using the TouchTunes
Dashboard?
You can schedule when a filter set (a single group of music filters) are applied to a Gen 3 jukebox.
Scheduling filter sets gives you flexibility to accommodate locations with rules about when certain music (such as explicit music or music in a particular genre) should be available on their jukebox.
For example, assume that one of your jukeboxes is installed in a location with connected bar and restaurant sections. The location owner asks you to set up their jukebox using the following rules:
• From 12 - 8 PM, explicit and edited music should not be available on the jukebox, since this is the time when families with children are usually in the restaurant.
• From 8 - 10 PM, edited music can be available on the jukebox, since families with children are less likely to be in the restaurant.
• From 10 PM onwards, explicit music can be available on the jukebox, since it is unlikely that families with children will be in the restaurant.
To do this, you first create a separate filter set for each time period with the appropriate settings for the explicit and edited music filters. Once these filter sets are created, you schedule the time period when each set is active according to the schedule set by the location owner.
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Managing Music Filters for a Jukebox in the TouchTunes Dashboard
To schedule a music filter set:
1. View the music filters on a jukebox. See “Viewing Music Filters on a Jukebox using the
TouchTunes Dashboard” on page 153.
2. Select any filter set from the Choose a Filter Set list and then click Schedule This Setting.
The Music Filters Scheduling View page appears. You use this page to set when a filter set is active on a jukebox.
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Figure 32 Music Filters Scheduling View page
3. Do one of the following to set the schedule for a filter set:
• Click Add Scheduling Event.
• Click any future time slot in the schedule (below the red line) that is open.
Scheduling a Music Filter Set on a Gen 3 Jukebox
The Scheduling window appears. You use this window to define when a filter set is active on the jukebox.
Figure 33 Scheduling window
4. In the Step 1: Choose a Recurrence area, select one of the following options to set whether and how often a filter set repeats:
Option:
Does not repeat
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
Result: Use Case:
The filter set is applied to the jukebox only once.
The filter set repeats on the specified day(s) of the week.
Use this option when you want to apply a filter set for certain occasions that do not repeat on a regular basis, such as an office party or wedding reception.
Use this option when you want to reapply a filter set on the same day each week, such as to restrict explicit music from being played between 5 and 9 PM each day except for weekends.
The filter set repeats on the same day each month.
Use this option when you want to reapply a filter set each month, such as to accommodate special theme-based days on the 5th, 15th and 25th of each month.
The filter set repeats on the day each year.
Use this option to reapply a filter set on a certain day each year, such as to allow
Christmas music to be available only on
December 25th each year.
The controls in the Set Time and Specify Action(s) areas change depending on what option you choose. Next, use these controls to define when and for how long a filter set will be active on a jukebox.
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Managing Music Filters for a Jukebox in the TouchTunes Dashboard
5. In the Set Time area, do the following to set the day(s) and time when a filter set is applied:
• From the Setting Value At list, select the starting time when the filter set is active on the jukebox. The filter set is active on the jukebox from this time until the next scheduled filter set event.
• Set the day(s) of the week, month or year that the filter set is active.
• (Optional) For weekly filters, set the duration (in months) over which the filter is active.
Figure 34 Set Time area showing a music filter that is repeated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week
6. In the Specify Action(s) area, select the filter from the Music Filters list that is to be active on the jukebox at the time and date specified in the previous step.
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Scheduling a Music Filter Set on a Gen 3 Jukebox
7. (Optional) Click Add Scheduling Event Template and then repeat the previous two steps to either extend the time period for the filter set and/or schedule other music filters for the jukebox.
Figure 35 Scheduling window showing extension of the No_ExplicitEdited Music filter duration
You should be aware of the following when using the Scheduling window:
• You can remove any additional scheduled event by clicking Remove Scheduled Event
Template. Because the Dashboard does not confirm this action, be sure that you are removing the correct event before clicking this button. Otherwise, you must re-create the event.
• There is no limit as to how many filter set events can be set up in the Scheduling window. A good rule-of-thumb is to set the schedule for a single filter set before scheduling other filter sets on the same jukebox. Otherwise, you may become confused between schedules for different filter sets.
• There is no limit on how long a filter set can be active on a jukebox. However, consider making a filter set the default filter set for the jukebox if you want to apply a music filter set for several hours on a regular basis. Otherwise, the filter set schedule may become so congested that adding or modifying scheduling events becomes nearly impossible.
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Managing Music Filters for a Jukebox in the TouchTunes Dashboard
8. Once you complete the schedule for your music filter sets, click Save Schedule in the Step 3:
Accept or Discard Changes area.
The Music Filters Scheduling View page reappears, showing the filter set(s) that you scheduled. Each filter set event scheduled in the jukebox appears in its time period.
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Figure 36 Dashboard schedule showing a weekly filter set event
Recurring events in the schedule are identified by a icon with the letter following the icon indicating whether the event recurs weekly (w), monthly (m) or yearly (y).
Figure 37 Recurring weekly event
Once you schedule a filter set event in the TouchTunes Dashboard, you can add additional events, as well as modify or delete existing filter set events.
9. (Optional) Do any of the following:
Scheduling a Music Filter Set on a Gen 3 Jukebox
• Schedule another filter set event by clicking Add Scheduled Event and then repeating steps 4 to 8.
• Modify an event for a filter set by clicking Edit in the time period for the event and then modifying the details for the filter set in the Scheduling window that appears. Note that modifying one instance of a repeating filter set event changes all instances of this event. For example, if you move the starting time for one weekly filter set event from 5 PM to 5:15 PM, all other events are also moved to 5:15 PM.
• Delete a scheduled event for a filter set by clicking Remove in the time period for the event and then confirming the action. Note that when you delete one instance of a repeating filter set event, all instances of the events are deleted. You cannot delete a single filter set event from a series of recurring events.
10.Return to the Dashboard by clicking Close at the top of the Music Filters Scheduling View page.
The Music Filters page reappears to confirm that the jukebox schedule is updated.
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Managing Music Filters for a Jukebox in the TouchTunes Dashboard
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